Mass. Aggie student contemplating
her chicken, ca.1920s
Research and instruction in agriculture has been part of the mission of the University of Massachusetts since its founding and the library has followed suit in building its collections. The following volumes are an eclectic sampling of works on the history of agriculture and horticulture from SCUA's collections. All files are made available in pdf format.
- Bard, Samuel
A Guide For Young Shepherds; Or Facts and Observations on the Character and Value of Merino Sheep...
New York: Collins and Co., 1811.
- Cobb, J. H.
A Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, With Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk, In Three Parts
Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831.
- Coburn, F. D. and Camillus Phillips
How to Make Money With Hogs, A Text Book for the Hog Raise and Producer of Hog Products
Philadelphia: Enterprise Manufacturing Co., 1915.
- Hokkaido Teikoku Daigaku. Nogakubu
A Historical Sketch of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University; What America Has Done for a Japanese Government College
Sapporo, Japan: s.n., 1915.
- International Harvester Corporation Trade Catalogs
Corn and Grain Equipment
Dairy equipment
Feed Grinders
Fertilizer
Haying Equipment
Threshers
Tillers, Harrows, and Plows
- Cotton King disk harrow, ca.1910-1915
- Dixie Wonder and Handy Andy [cultivators], ca.1910-1915
- Flying Dutchman engine gang plows, ca.1910-1915
- International tractor disk harrow, ca.1910-1915
- Keystone tillage implements, ca.1910-1915
- McCormick tillage implements, ca.1910-1915
- New Southern disk harrow , ca.1910-1915
- Osborne tillage implements, ca.1910-1911
- Osborne tillage implements, ca.1910-1915
- P&O traction engine plows, ca.1910-1915
Tractors, Engines, Farm Vehicles
- International auto buggies and auto wagons, ca.1910-1915
- International gasoline tractors, ca.1910-1915
- International gasoline tractors, ca.1910-1915
- IHC Mogul gasoline tractor, ca.1910-1915
- IHC Titan gasoline tractor, ca.1910-1915
- IHC Victor and Famous gas and gasoline engines, ca.1910-1915
- Mogul 8-16 H.P. oil tractor, ca.1910-1915
- Mogul oil engines, ca.1910-1915
- Mogul oil tractors, ca.1916
- Titan oil engines, ca.1910-1915
- Titan oil tractors, ca.1910-1915
Other Catalogues
Periodicals:
- Fruit Notes
The pomological newsletter
Fruit Notes (later
Fruit Notes of New England) has been published by the Cooperative Extension Service and Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, since 1935. The earliest issues were home grown things, issued as typed carbon copies, and prior to 1972, most lacked volume numbers.
- The Natural Farmer, newspaper of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.