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An Address Delivered at The Annual Fair of the Addison County Agricultural Society October 1st, 1844 The last college assignment I handed in was my Vermont farm paper, where we studied farming in mid-19th century Vermont using census manuscript data from the University of Vermont. As a part of that research, I read through some of the records from the Addison County Agricultural Society (front page). The speaker and then Governor of Vermont Silas H. Jennison gave an address overviewing the history of agrilcultre in Vermont. He talked about how the Wars in Europe meant a high prices, leading to "a time peculiarly favorable to the prosperity of the farms of Addison County" (pg.8) He talked about how tariffs helped protect wool production in the state against "imported fabric, produced by the cheaper labor, greater skill and more perfect machinery of foreign countries" (p.13). It's good stuff. A late 19th century recipe book from Maine with handwritten recipes and recipes taken from newsp

Tim Hua Personal Website I have a thing for old books and libraries. Cool books and where I found them : Click on the hyperlinks to see photos! Listed in reverse chronological order based on when I first encountered them An Address Delivered at The Annual Fair of the Addison County Agricultural Society October 1st, 1844 The last college assignment I handed in was my Vermont farm paper, where we studied farming in mid-19th century Vermont using census manuscript data from the University of Vermont. As a part of that research, I read through some of the records from the Addison County Agricultur

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