Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

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Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

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Records of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, including correspondence, financial records, membership and trustee records, committee reports, petitions for premiums, records of awards, 150th anniversary materials, records of charitable contributions, Middlesex Agricultural Society papers (1819-73), and Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers papers (1819-50). The MSPA, incorporated 1792, introduced new breeds of stock, sponsored research in animal diseases and pest eradication; supported 4-H Club activities, Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University, the Botanic Garden (Cambridge, Mass.), and other horticultural stations; worked with other Mass. agricultural societies; ran the Brighton Cattle Show (1816-35) and participated in many other exhibitions and fairs. (cont) They offered prizes to farmers for farms, machinery, products, animals, inventions, experiments, domestic manufactures, orchards, salt-marsh reclamation, and horticultural produce. Among the many correspondents are Francis H. Appleton, Peter C. Brooks, Edward Everett, Benjamin Guild, Levi Lincoln, Thomas Motley Jr., Elias Phinney, William Prescott, James R. Reynolds, and George S. West.

32 boxes, 6 narrow boxes and 3 oversize boxes.

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Reynolds, James Robbins, 1901-

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Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1767-1849

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Motley, Thomas

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Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868

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