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File contains several newspaper articles concerning cattle breeding and health in the Quinte region. Also contains information regarding the finances and selection of officers of the Quinte District Cattle Breeding Association, 1960-1962.

The file contains brochures for: 1. The Belleville Scout/Guide Museum,; 2. North Hastings Heritage Museum (Bancroft); 3. Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage (Stirling); 4. Quinte Education Museum & Archieves

File contains a newspaper article from the Ontario Intelligencer, 28 September 1961, concerning the operations of the Ontario Hog Producers' marketing yards in Ontario.

File contains a newspaper article from The Intelligencer, 8 September 1961 concerning the Charles Parm Steer Raising Ranch, which operated within the city limits of Belleville. The article describes cattle drives which occurred in the central area of the city in 1913.

File contains printed promotional material for the 1961 International Plowing Match including an official programme of events, and a programme for a banquet held at the Belleville Armouries, 6 October 1961. Also present are three photocopied pages of programmes, badges and entry passes; a silk ribbon bearing the inscription “International Plowing Match, City of Belleville, County of Hastings"; and a silk ribbon badge for International Plowing Match official, T.G. Wrightmeyer.

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

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

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings County Farm Federation for 1961. Also contains a newspaper clipping concerning extension courses offered to farmers in Bancroft in 1968.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers of the Hastings County Federation of Agriculture for 1969.

File contains a newspaper clipping regarding the election of officers to the Hastings County Hog Producers' Association in January, 1957.

File contains a newspaper article concerning the annual awards banquet of the Hastings County Holstein Breeders Club, October 7, 1966.

File contains a newspaper clipping about the Hastings County Vegetable Growers Annual Banquet in 1959.

File contains several newspaper articles concerning Bobby Hull's career in the National Hockey League and his farming activities in Prince Edward County with his brother Dennis, also of the NHL.

File contains a printed copy of the Canadian Agriculturalist, July 1852. Includes a Report on the State of Agriculture in Hastings County by William Hutton, with information on the extent and types of agriculture practised in Hastings County, and crop production in 1852.

File contains manuscript probate documents relating to the estate of Henry Le Vesiconte [Levisconte], Captain in the Royal Navy and later gentleman farmer, and a manuscript last will and testament of Sarah Le Vesiconte, widow of Henry Le Vesiconte, 1856. Also contains a typescript excerpts from the Diary of Captain Le Visconte recounting his voyage to Belleville from England and describing conditions in Belleville upon his arrival in 1835.