Item is a photograph of a sledge pulled by a team of horses, likely including members of the Baker family at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, on their way to manually spread manure in winter, taken in 1914 or 1915.
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The file consists of four booklets titled "Prize Lists for the Richmond County Agricultural Society Annual Fair", dated respectively 1960, 1964, 1966, 1967; prize cards, from 1893-1914, of the Danville Union Agricultural Society, the Richmond County Agricultural Society and the Eastern Townships Agriculture Society; a souvenir programme from the Sherbrooke Fair from 1945; and a poster of the 62nd Annual Farmers' Exhibition, organized by the Stanstead County Agricultural Society in Ayer's Cliff, from 28 to 29 August 1907. The file provides information on the setting up of agricultural fairs. It contains the names of the Richmond County Agricultural Society's members, the departmental committees and the rules and regulations and judging programmes of the fairs. It also a prize book for Canada's Great Eastern Exhibition (Sherbrooke, Que.) from 1894 and architectural drawings for a multifunctional building for the Exposition Sherbrooke Fair, dated 23 March 1983.
The item contains information on the Baker family's personal lives. It is a farm scene depicting two unidentified young people, with a young man pushing a young woman seated on a wheelbarrow, possibly in the area of Danville.
The item is a photograph of Silas Baker on a plow (plough) pulled by a team of horses at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
The item is a photograph of Silas Baker on a hay cutter pulled by a team of horses at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
Item is a photograph of the barn at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville as hay is being hoisted into the hay mow, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
The item is a photograph of a team of horses pulling a wagon loaded with hay, with Ruth Baker driving, at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, likely taken in 1914 or 1915.
The item is a photograph of a team hauling a log on a sledge (sled) in winter, likely including members of the Baker family at the Edwin G. Baker farm on Haslett Road at Danville, taken in 1914 or 1915. Also visible is the load binder - the bent stick. The log would be chained to the sled, the load binder attached to the chain, bent over and hooked, thereby applying tension to the chain to hold the log in place.