Agriculture

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The twenty-four items presented here are just a sampling of resources relevant to agriculture available in Connecticut History Illustrated. To search for more, click on the Topics links in the item record. You can also click on the “Search CHI Digital Archive” link in the top menu of this page and enter terms, such “farms” or “farming” or particular types of agriculture (for example, dairy, tobacco) into the search box. Use the Topics or Places links in the left menu of the search results page to refine your search.

Noted stud horse favorite, New London and Groton, 1797	Catalogue of fruit trees for sale, Middletown, 1825	Directions for growing white mulberry trees, 1834	Shaker garden seeds, Enfield, 1840s
Composition to destroy peach tree grubs, East Hartford, 1842	Farmer’s Gazette, New Haven, 1840	Merino sheep in Derby, 1849	Perkins’ corn husker saves time and labor, East Killingly, 1856
Greenwoods annual cattle show, Winsted, 1859	Farmhouse with rock and stone puller, Mystic area, 1875	Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance Co., Canaan, 1881	General Putnam and other strawberry varieties, G.H. & J.H. Hale, Glastonbury, 1890s
Connecticut Agricultural Station spraying calendar, ca. 1890s	Loading hay into ox-drawn wagon, Mystic area, ca. 1900	Men husking corn, Mystic area, ca. 1900	Auction, estate of Thomas McLaughlin, Hampton, 1906
Dairy cattle at Connecticut fair, Charter Oak Park, West Hartford, 1908	Some of the buildings at Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, ca. 1910	Advice to farmers to test corn before planting, 1910s	Spraying fruit trees, Storrs, 1912
Maple sap boiling, Storrs, 1942	4-H dairy judging, Storrs, 1944	Tobacco drying, East Windsor, 1948	Tractor, Mountain Spring Farm, Avon, 1952