Agriculture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1798-1902
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates:
1694; 1783-1878; 1926
West Virginia Census of Agriculture and Manufacturing
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0228
Overview
A census for agriculture and manufacturers conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the counties now a part of West Virginia. The two earlier census contain no surveys of manufacturing (see related materials note in this record). The two later schedules contain one reel for each survey on manufacturing. The 1880 census contains twice the number of reels of the 1870 census. Each type of survey has a printed form questionnaire. For agriculture, enumerations are requested for land acreage, type...
Dates:
1850-80
West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Office Files
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1499
Overview
Office files and correspondence of James Blaine McLaughlin (1884-1955), commissioner of agriculture from 1933 to 1955. Correspondents include Clinton Anderson, William Blizzard, Robert C. Byrd, John J. Cornwell, James A. Farley, Rush D. Holt, Harley M. Kilgore, Okey L. Patteson, Chapman Revercomb, and Harley O. Staggers.
Dates:
1934, 1945-1953
West Virginia Country Life Movement Survey
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3050
Scope and Contents
Completed questionnaire score sheets, alphabetized by community, of the West Virginia Country Life Movement. The score cards provided a survey format to evaluate a set of categories, including health, community spirit, schools, churches, agriculture, business, and recreation, used to facilitate improvement of the state's rural communities. Also includes programs, news clippings, and correspondence primarily about water project improvements in some of the communities.
Dates:
1919-1927
West Virginia Elfac Farm Record Program, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1208
Overview
A compilation of West Virginia farm business records and year end analyses. This electronic service was provided for cooperating farmers by ELFAC (an acronym for Easy, Low Cost, Flexible, Accurate, Complete) sponsored in cooperation with land grant institutions by the (USDA) U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. The program's purpose is to help a farmer determine his tax status, credit rating and generally to facilitate farm management decisions through the analysis of costs for labor, feed,...
Dates:
1966
West Virginia Farm Supply Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3029
Overview
The minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters, by-laws and membership lists of a trade association composed of dealers in feed, seed, fertilizer, agricultural implements and other farm supplies. The Association is active in lobbying the legislature and advising state agencies in the establishment of rules and regulations concerning commerce in agricultural goods. Its conventions, newsletters and series of publications contains articles and presentations on relevant topics by experts in...
Dates:
1958-1974
West Virginia Four-H Clubs, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2286
Overview
Correspondence, scrapbook, photographs, newsletters, manuals, handbooks, bulletins, and other materials relating to the history and activities of the West Virginia 4-H Clubs. There are three volumes containing newsletters (1. 1926, 2. 1927, 3. 1928-1956); and one scrapbook from 1922 containing mostly photographs and a few clippings.
Dates:
ca. 1922-1969
West Virginia Rural Surveys
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0194
Overview
Surveys of rural residents conducted by WVU Agricultural Experiment Station. Inquiries about farm land conditions, size of operations, profitability and the respondents opinions about the local community and its economic prospects. The 1924 survey was taken only in the Easton-Avery section of Monongalia County and contains an accompanying map with individual family farms number coded. The 1958 survey, a selection from around the state, is more indicative of demographics especially of out...
Dates:
1924-1958
West Virginia University, Agricultural Experiment Station, Manuscripts and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1938
Overview
One folder of manuscript correspondence found in file of WVU Publications Office, titled "Correspondence of Early Years," 55 Items, Letters, Telegram and announcements, 1888-1913. Subjects mentioned are Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, WVU Board of Regents, Controversial DA articles and good roads movement. Correspondents include A. B. Fleming, Clarence L. Smith, John A. Myers, J. H. Stewart, Luther Haymond, Earl H. Smith, Thomas E. Hodges, E.D. Sanderson, J. F. Marsh, C. L....
Dates:
1888-1913