In 1884, The New England Homestead, a magazine published in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1969, conducted a contest in which farmers submitted small notebooks recording their farm accounts for a one year period, April 1, 1883 to March 31, 1884. The collection includes bound and unbound farm accounts submitted as to that contest.
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In 1884, The New England Homestead, a magazine published in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1969, conducted a contest in 1884 to which farmers submitted small notebooks recording their farm accounts for a one year period, April 1, 1883 to March 31, 1884.
Bound and unbound farm accounts submitted as entries to the New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest. The whereabouts of other volumes is unknown, as are the criteria used to judge the contest. Entrants are arranged by surname and then by volume.
The collection is open for research.
Literary rights in the unpublished writings in these papers have not been dedicated to the public.
Processed by Linda Seidman and Valerie Gibson, May 1986.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Literary rights in the unpublished writings in these papers have not been dedicated to the public.
Cite as: New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries (MS 113). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
