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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Agricultural Statistics of the Colony, 1870 to 1880

"… 1873 grass - 400 acres horses - 22 oxen - 14 cows/calves - 100/40 sheep - 33 pigs - 125 domestic fowl - uncounted 1880 horses - 164 oxen - 92…"

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Historic Hallowell - The Blizzard - Works Cited

"Remal Gary. “Holy Cow Didn't it Snow!” Kennebec Journal. Augusta, ME: 2002 “Science Daily.” 1995. http://www.sciencedaily.com/ (accessed Apr."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"They had five cows and two horses. Her mother tended the chickens and they ate the eggs for breakfast. They also sold many of the eggs."

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Historic Hallowell - The Union Fire Club of Hallowell, Musters, & Carnivals

"… Musters, & Carnivals Nicole Bodge, Josh Cowing, Haley Houdlette, Signe Lynch, Quinton Stebbins Masquerade Ball, Fire Assocation, Hallowell…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2

"Dairy Farms Memories Holstein dairy cow, New Sweden, ca. 1922Nylander Museum Albert’s father worked many jobs."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"- Pause - Marion: Like I said cows and chickens. Anna: Cows and chickens, so you used them for food? Marion: Yes."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"… terrible storm, lighting hit in the middle of a cow pasture killing the whole herd of cows. One story Jeremiah told me was about an apple, an…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… Consigli Construction, CWS Architects, East Brown Cow, The Knickerbocker Group, and Simons Architects, MHS converted the Microsoft access database…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hall-Dale 7th Grade Team 2011

"… Grant Bowen Patrick Boyd Brittany Briggs Joshua Cowing Jacob Crockett Joshua Crockett Tylor Dubois Toni Fletcher Nicole Freese Tayler Gagnon…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"He saved it from a gale, but later a cow came into his yard and damaged the tree. He wrote under the illustration, "My cone cedar tree transplanted…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"… Wadsworth (1748-1826) "What will you do for a cow? If Charles cannot provide a milk cow you must buy one, for the family cannot do without." -…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview

"… Wright-Ryan Construction, as well as Consigli Construction, CWS Architects, East Brown Cow, The Knickerbocker Group, and Simons Architects."

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Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"… leather belt (depending on the color of the cow hide that was used.) Their shoes were often leather with metal clasps."

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Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"… of Gilray's image of vaccination! X The Cow Pock James Gillray's 1802 depiction of the horrific results of administering cowpox vaccine."

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3

"They charge $50 to kill a cow either way. Pig processing costs 45 cents per pound dressed; federal pigs cost 70 cents per pound dressed; $35 to kill…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… 50 houses, 8 mills, 6 stores, 95 oxen, 178 cows, 58 hogs, and 5 horses. Shipbuilding and Seafaring ."

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"Our Brigadier General has got A cow and out of 17 men about his headquarters, not one of them could milk and he had to get one of our company to milk…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… at the location, made from milk from their own cows. Hamilton Place Library closed after Lura's death in 1932."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… of collecting the milk, and even faced a lack of cows to produce milk. Little is known about what happened to the company after it closed in 1882."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

"… boy traveled with them and drove their three cows. They had just reached the last home in Readfield, belonging to Constant Norton, when a blizzard…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… Society meetings, they brought their prize horse, cow, sheep and perhaps a pig to show off to the other farmers."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"He also had one purebred cow and one pig, but there is no record of him ever owning any horses. It is believed that the townspeople at the time…"

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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… of Maine officials and housed in Nowick’s old cow barn converted for the special guests. Surry Opera Company & Leningrad Amateur Opera…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… and 11, to look after the property and tend the cow. They returned in March of the following year, the boys having survived the winter on cow’s…"