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Ancestry.com - Gloucestershire, Hulbert Farm Day Books, 1894-1950 $

Original source: Farm Day Book: Hulbert, J 1894-1950 Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wife

Josephine Jordan was a potato farmer's wife in Aroostook County, Maine.

Digital Library of Georgia - Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm records

George Mason University Library - Guide to the Northern Virginia farmer's diary, 1867

Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Google Books)

Massachusetts Historical Society - William P. Wharton Diaries

This collection consists of 30 diaries of farmer and conservationist William P. Wharton, kept primarily at his farm (Fiveoaks Farm) in Groton, Mass., each year from 1910-1939.

Michigan State University Libraries - Orson Ingalls diary

This collection contains a farm diary of Orson Ingalls of Almont, Lapeer County, Michigan, giving prices of stock and produce. The diary also contains personal notes about daily agricultural activities, weather conditions, health, church attendance, visits to friends and attendance at funerals.

New York State Library - Bouton Family Diaries, 1862-1913

Online Archive of California - George McCamley Farm Diaries Collection

Smithsonian - Guide to the Maryland Farm Diary

Some Sources for Northwest History Minnesota Farmers' Diaries

Thomas Jefferson Papers: Farm Book

From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

UC Davis Library - Farmer Family. Diaries.

University of Melbourne - Dookie Farm Diaries 1886

University of New Hampshire - Guide to the New Hampshire Diary Collection, 1856-1951

University of North Carolina - Farm Diaries, 1821; 1889-1905

Wheeler, Christopher A. Diaries, 1870-1878 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections