Maine Memory Network

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

"… winter wheat - 20 acres planted 1871 wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, beans, and potatoes - 166 acres planted apples - 19 trees 1873 grass - 400…"

Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm

"… 140 bushels of apples, 175 bushels oats and barley, quite an amount of corn, beans, &c., also 1200 pounds pork and 500 pounds beef."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - 1840 U.S. Census Questions

"How many bushels of wheat did you grow in 1839? Barley? Oats? Rye? Indian corn? Buck wheat? Potatoes? 5. How many pounds of wool? Hops? Wax? 6."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair

"Crops exhibited and judged, included: wheat, barley, corn and flax, along with hives of bees, pumpkins, apples and clover seed."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits

"… expanded to include clover for cattle feed, flax, barley, hay, pumpkins and beans. Plums and pears were added to the orchards."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills. At the same time, many East Surry men, along with other Mainers, were…"