Title	[Campus dairy farm]
Date	1922
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Teachers UNCG College Farm
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Cows in the snow at the on-campus dairy farm, circa 1922.
Type	Image
Original format	Photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series/grouping	3: Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder	64: College Farm
Folder description	In 1897, first president of the school, Charles Duncan McIver, bought the land which would become the first campus farm. The original College Farm, also used as a dairy, was located near the current Quadrangle. It included a barn and supplied the school with milk, pork, and produce. The Farm also served as a horticulture teaching laboratory. Additional land outside of the city of Greensboro was used as a farm during the years surrounding World War I. This land was managed by ten students, called “Farmerettes”, who performed all farm duties except the heaviest labor. In 1923, the farm moved to a 250-acre site located in Friendship Township, in western Guilford County, and was used primarily as a Dairy Farm. Holstein cows provided milk for the students and extra milk was sold to local dairies. During World War II, the farm used German Prisoners of War for labor. The College kept the farm until 1945 when it was auctioned off because of the difficulty of getting labor and the high cost of animal feed.
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Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	ua104.3.064.011
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	872131337

[Campus dairy farm]

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