These links to information about agriculture provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We try to check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

Fairs

• Michigan State Fair (Michigan Department of Agriculture)
• Centennial 1876 (Smithsonian Institution)
• Fairs and Expositions in Michigan (Archives Circulars, State of Michigan Archives)
• Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition (By Bruce Schulman)
• The Michigan State Fair (Detroit News article)

>Farming

• Agriculture in the Classroom (United States Department of Agriculture)
• The Barn at Walker Tavern
• A Condensed History of American Agriculture 1776-1999 (Poster from the U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• History of the American Seed and Nursery Industry and Their Trade Catalogs (Bibliography and Web links) (Smithsonian Institution)
• Michigan Department of Agriculture
• National Agriculture Day (Agriculture Council of America)
• Kids Korner (Michigan Department of Agriculture)
• Michigan Farm Bureau (see link to "Agricultural Education-Teachers Lounge")

>Foods

• Korn for Kids (National Corn Growers Association)
• Mitten of Plenty, Michigan Agriculture Commodities Map (Michigan Department of Agriculture)

>Other

• 4-H (Michigan State University)
• Act of 1862 Donating Lands for Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (First Morrill Act) (Ohio Agricultural Research And Development Center)
• ARS Science for Kids (USDA, Agricultural Research Service)
• Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire (National Archives and Records Administration Lesson, Teaching With Documents)
• History and Formation of the Cooperative Extension (University of California)
• The International Museum of the Horse
• Make a Model of a Windmill
• Michigan 4-H Children's Garden
• What is the Grange? (The Grange Connection)

Updated 10/04/2005

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