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The Transformation Of Farming In Maine, 1940-1985, Richard Wescott, David Vail Sep 1988

The Transformation Of Farming In Maine, 1940-1985, Richard Wescott, David Vail

Maine History

Stone walls running incongruously through deep woods; fields and pastures becoming overgrown with brush; broken-backed barns tum bling in upon themselves; clusters of day lilies and lilacs guarding empty cellar holes — the remains of thousands of farms are scattered across the Maine landscape, relics of another age when farming was the lifeblood of hundreds of rural communities from the Piscataqua to the St. John.


B655: Maine Egg Marketing: A Structural Study, Chung-Jeh Yeh Nov 1967

B655: Maine Egg Marketing: A Structural Study, Chung-Jeh Yeh

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This study, from 1967, was designed to provide basic information concerning the movement of table eggs through the major marketing firms located in Maine. The primary purpose of the report was to aid in better understanding the structure of the present egg marketing systems in Maine in order that: (1) efficient alternatives to the present egg marketing systems could be developed, and (2) Maine's competitive position in out-of-state markets could be improved.