File contains an 1862 letter regarding immigration and a notice from the Government Immigration Office discussing the increased number of immigrants from the United Kingdom and the United States, proposing farmers hire new immigrants for farm labour and on large farms build a log cabin for a family to stay in.

File contains a bylaw from 1862 to prevent hogs and pigs “from running at large and doing damage to the public roads”.

File contains documents from Hastings County, including a request from the Bureau of Agriculture & Statistics and a census table from 1856 to record information such as occupied land acreage, number of horses, number of carriages, etc.

File contains documents from the County of Hastings from 1864-1865, including a 1865 Seed Bill to encourage agriculture and manufactures in order to create a system of agriculture adapted to the soil and climate and does not exclusively grow grain.

File contains a copy of a letter regarding the home of Frank Hodgen, 8th Concession Lot 24 in Thurlow, which was originally the Graham farm.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the operations of the Bronk Cheese Manufacturing Company Ltd., Gilead over the period 1949-1959.

File contains a Letters Patent, recorded in 1838, authorizing a fair in Frankford.

File contains a newspaper clipping concerning price supports, farm credit and related issues at a January, 1959 meeting of the Farmers' Union of Roslin, Ontario Also contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of Harold Murphy as Hastings County Director of the Ontario Farmers' Union, 1960.

File contains a brief photocopied, printed essay on farming in the early nineteenth century.

File contains a newspaper advertisement published in 1858 for the sale of farm lands in Belleville.

File contains:

• Program for the Quinte Exhibition annual banquet, 1984
• Song sheet (probably for the Trentones Quartet sing-song part of the Quinte Exhibition banquet in 1984)
• 'Life on the Farm' publication celebrating agriculture in Ontario, produced by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture in 1984

File contains a bill from H.S. Clapp, Veterinary Surgeon in Belleville.

File contains a one page clipping from the Canadian Doctor, December, 1966 concerning financial operations of "The Front of Sidney" Cheese Factory ca. 19th century.

File contains a newspaper article on the history of cheese-making in Hastings County particularly the Shamrock Cheese Factory, Sidney Township.

File contains a two-page typescript photocopy entitled "History of the Cheese Industry in the Belleville and Quinte Area [ca. 1864-1964].

File contains a newspaper clipping about auctioneer, Cameron Bunnett (born 1914) taking over as President of the Belleville Agricultural Society and becoming in charge of the fair.

File contains c.1967 newspaper clip featuring an image of the Belleville market c.1900's, and a c.1962 clip on the history of the Belleville market place.

File contains newspaper clips on the c.1922 decline in turkey sales, c.1959 clip on prices of livestock, and Belleville Livestock Sales Co. Ltd. statement and letterhead.