Farmers -- Maryland -- Education -- History -- Sources
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
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Farmers' Institutes records
Collection
0005-UA
Abstract
The records of the Farmers' Institutes, a Department of the Maryland Agricultural College, cover the years 1896 to 1910. Document types include correspondence, news clippings, inventories, a scrapbook of programs, broadsides, and syllabi, and a history of the Institutes. The Farmers' Institutes were created by state legislation in 1896 in order to provide agricultural education to farmers throughout the state. Instruction took place in the form of meetings held in each county, with national...