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The Farm

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
June 14 and 15, 1986

CONTENTS

SECTION I: DIARY-BASED STUDIES OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL SOCIETY

Farm Family Mutuality: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Maine Farm Neighborhood
Thomas C. Hubka

Maurice Almon Harlow’s Nineteenth Year: Farming in Nova Scotia, 1877–1884
James H. Morrison

“The lowing of the cows and the sound of the whistle”: Old Meets New on the Goodale Farm, Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1819–1858
Gail E. Nessell

The Journals of Josua Whitman, Turner, Maine, 1809–1846
Marcie Cohen

SECTION II: THE FARM IMPROVEMENT MOVEMENT

Gentlemen Farmers and Inland Merchants: The Williams Family and Commercial Agriculture in Pre-Revolutionary Western Massachusetts
Kevin M. Sweeney

The Agricultural Press: “To Improve the Soil and the Mind”
Brenda Bullion

Farmers’ Adaptations to Markets in Early-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
Andrew H. Baker and Holly Izard Paterson

SECTION III: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Domestic Livestock of Massachusetts Bay, 1625–1725
Peter W. Cook

SECTION IV: THE RURAL LANDSCAPE

Views of Rural New England 1790–1865 Selected from “The Landscape of Change”
Jay E. Cantor and Andrew H. Baker

SECTION V: NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Selected List of Agricultural Titles Available in Eastern Massachusetts, 1789–1826
Charles A. Hammond

Selected Bibliography of New England Farm Studies
Ross W. Beales, Jr.

Bibliography of Farm Diaries and Account Books
Lecture Program, 14 and 15 June 1986
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Notes on Contributors
Photo and Illustration Credits