[NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History
John Henderson
jhenderson at ithaca.edu
Tue Jun 9 16:52:45 EDT 2009
You can find a wealth of information from the old reports and
bulletins of the state agricultural experiment stations and
horticultural commissions. Many of them are available online through
Google Books: http://books.google.com/ . When you limit your search
to the "full view only" sources, you commonly get the materials that
are no longer protected by copyright, so that should include
materials that are a century old. I've found quite a lot from New
York State. I haven't tried California.
Try some different combinations of terms such as:
fruit apples grapes [other fruits you are interested in]
san francisco california
experiment station bulletin
John Henderson
Sage Hen Farm
Lodi, NY
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From: Spidra Webster <spidra at speakeasy.net>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 2:01:51 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Researching Agricultural History
Once upon a time the SF Bay Area grew loads & loads of fruit. I'm
interested in finding out what varieties used to be grown here but I
really don't know how to go about such research. I assume such
records aren't just laying around at the public library. Should I be
trying to see if there are any century-old nurseries around that
still have records? Should I be talking to folks at UC Davis and
other ag departments? I'm not even sure I have the time to do
obscure research like this but I think it would be really interesting
to find out. I
Megan Lynch
Berkeley, CA
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