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Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Winstead, Joe Everett, 1938-2019 - Collector (Sc 1690), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1690. Correspondence between Western Kentucky University students and members of Kentucky's congressional delegation related to air pollution and its potential effects on the state's agricultural economy.


Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Independent Strawberry Growers' Association - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1640. Minutes, membership lists, financial reports and sundry forms from the Independent Strawberry Growers Association, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes picking card with agreement to pick for season on back. Two related photographs from the Kentucky Library & Museum Collection are included as additional files.


Ua37/7 Faculty Personal Papers Hayward Brown, Wku Archives Jan 2008

Ua37/7 Faculty Personal Papers Hayward Brown, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

The bulk of the series consists of syllabi and workbooks for agricultural courses. There is also a folder of Hayward Brown's notes on religion. The series housed in a box along with Series 8.


Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2007

Barker, S. & D. W. Middleton - Farm Ledger, 1872-1885 (Sc 1522), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1522. Farm ledger kept by S. Barker and Daniel Wilcoxson Middleton of Warren County, Kentucky. The farm was located approximately five miles east of Bowling Green on the Louisville Road (Highway 31-W). Records expenses and wages for farm laborers.


Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2007

Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1490. Letter written in 1839 by Fox & Still of Dover, Kentucky, in Mason County, to Mr. Adam Beatty in Frankfort regarding sericulture in Kentucky. Beatty wrote extensively about Kentucky agriculture. The letter discusses the processes involved in sericulture and particularly the feeding of silkworms.


Garland, Robert F. (Sc 1478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2007

Garland, Robert F. (Sc 1478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1478. Letter from Robert F. Garland to Rubin Morris of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which he discusses family matters and farming in Wilson County, Tennessee.


Cox Family Collection, 1919-1945 (Mss 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2007

Cox Family Collection, 1919-1945 (Mss 161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 161. Correspondence, legal papers, and farm records of the Cox family of Hart County, Kentucky. Consists chiefly of letters sent to John Howard Cox, Sr. from his children and in-laws. Includes World War II letters from John Howard Cox, Jr. to immediate family members.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2000

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1318. Journal (111 p.), kept by Elder John Rees Cooper and others, detailing the daily activities at South Union, Kentucky, 1872-1878. Correspondence regarding the journal and its provenance is included. Pagination refers to the original journal.


Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1997

Butram, Almon V., 1910-1993 (Mss 109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 109. Includes correspondence, legal and financial papers of Almon V. Butram, who operated a farm in northern Warren County, Kentucky.


Interview With Tommy Paschall Regarding Dark Fire Tobacco Barns And Processing (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1993

Interview With Tommy Paschall Regarding Dark Fire Tobacco Barns And Processing (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Tommy Paschall conducted by John Morgan for an oral history project about dark fire tobacco barns. Paschall discusses tobacco cultivation, processing, and trade. Paschall lived near Hazel, a small town in Calloway County, Kentucky.


Interview With Tommy Paschall Regarding Dark Fire Tobacco Barns And Processing (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 1992

Interview With Tommy Paschall Regarding Dark Fire Tobacco Barns And Processing (Fa 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of an interview with Tommy Paschall conducted by John Morgan for an oral history project about dark fire tobacco barns. Paschall discusses tobacco cultivation and the building of dark fire tobacco barns in western Kentucky, specifically Calloway County, Kentucky.


Can Extra Fat Make Healthier Hogs?, Anne Elise Clark Apr 1992

Can Extra Fat Make Healthier Hogs?, Anne Elise Clark

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Based on research by Fritsche (1991), Kelley (1988), and Caruso and Jeska (1990), it has been postulated that the addition of omega-3 fatty acids to the diet enhances the immune response of several species. This study was an attempt to ascertain the effects of addition of dietary omega-3 fatty acids in the form of ground flax contained in Omega Gold on the immune response of swine. The goal of this study was twofold: to determine the effects of ground flax on the humoral immunity of young pigs, and to differentiate between effects gained from enhancement of passive and active immunity. …


Ua11/2 Wku Agriculture Department Wins Award, Wku Public Affairs Jun 1988

Ua11/2 Wku Agriculture Department Wins Award, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Press release regarding WKU Agriculture Department award.


Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 1983

Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 16 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.


Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 1983

Interview With Acie Carroll (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 7 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.


Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 1983

Interview With Acie Carroll, D. 1989 (Fa 197), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Acie Carroll conducted by Ricky L. Carroll on 2 February 1983. From folk studies student project concerning Carroll, a farmer of Bee Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky and his life experiences.


Ua11/2 Wku Holsteins Are National Leaders In Milk & Butterfat Production, Wku Public Affairs Nov 1978

Ua11/2 Wku Holsteins Are National Leaders In Milk & Butterfat Production, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Press release regarding the WKU holstein herd.


Ua11/2 Wku Livestock Judging Team Takes Top Honors At Competition, Wku Public Affairs Apr 1977

Ua11/2 Wku Livestock Judging Team Takes Top Honors At Competition, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Press release regarding the WKU livestock judging team.


Ua11/2 Ag Outlook Optimistic For Kentucky, Wku Public Affairs Feb 1974

Ua11/2 Ag Outlook Optimistic For Kentucky, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Press release regarding agriculture conference held at WKU with participants Will Erwin, Clarence Palmby, Charles French and Robert Rudd.


Survey Of Agriculture In Fulton County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections Dec 1953

Survey Of Agriculture In Fulton County, Kentucky, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Report by the Fulton and Hickman County Chamber of Commerce by Hiram A. Morgan and produced by the Kentucky Utilities Company with agricultural data, including farmland values, farm characteristics, land use, labor, crops, livestock and products, and major sources of income.