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2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


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 Butterfly Farm

 Saylesville, R.I.

 Records, 1906-1925

 Size: 3.5 ft.

 Catalog number: MSS 6 sg 6

 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, Jr. August 1977


©Rhode Island Historical Society

Manuscripts Division

 


Historical note:


            These records do not reveal the precise location or the history of the Butterfly Farm. The name and general location suggest some connection with the famous Butterfly Mill, located on the Moshassuck River in Lincoln. Although the farm produced and sold all of the predictable products of agriculture, their principle product seems to have been their registered dairy herd. At some point in the existence of the farm it came under the ownership or control of Sayles Finishing Plants or of Frank A. Sayles. After the sale of the dairy herd, which signaled the demise of the farm as it had been constituted, its remaining assets were turned over to the TARSCO Corporation.



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Scope and content:


            This collection consists of farm operation, production and employment records, sales of ice, hay, brick, stone, puppies, poultry, eggs and ensilage.



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Provenance:


            This collection was a gift from the Sayles Finishing Plants on 25 December 1971.


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Processing note:



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Inventory:


 

Item 1.            Superintendent's File (Accounts) Book A                  1917

Item 2.            Superintendent's File (Accounts) Book B                  1918, 1919

Item 3.            Correspondence -  W.W. Carpenter                           1921-1925 

Item 4.            Journal                                                                        May 1906 - Mar 1918

Item 5.            Journal - including inventories                                   Nov 1915 - Dec 1916

Item 6.            Journal - including production records                       Jan 1917 - Mar 1924

Item 7.            Journal                                                                        Jul 1921 - Dec 1923 

Item 8.            Ledger, General                                                          Mar 1917 - Sep 1929 

Item 9.            Voucher Registers                                                      Feb 1917 - Dec 1919 

Item 10.          Voucher Registers                                                      Jan 1920 - Jan 1923 

Item 11.          Balance Sheet                                                             Feb 1918 - Feb 1921 

Item 12.          Cash Reports                                                              Apr 1921 - Dec 1925 

Item 13.          Purchase Orders                                                         1921 - 1925 

Item 14.          Distributon of Costs and Stores                                  Jul 1921 - Jan 1925 

Item 15.          Delivery Records                                                        1916 - 1924 

Item 16.          Cow Herd Record - enumeration by breed, color,      1918

                           breeding record date of birth, etc.

Item 17.          Inventories                                                                  1917 - 1925 

Item 18.          Licenses to Sell Milk - Providence                             1917, 1924, 1925 

                        Licenses to Sell Milk - Pawtucket                              1925 

Item 19.          Auction Catalog - Dispersal of dairy herd                  July 9, 1925 

Item 20.          Egg Report - production                                             May 1922 - Aug 1924

Item 21.          Daily Report of Dairy - production                            Jun 1924 - May 1925

Item 22.          Pay Rolls                                                                    Jan 1923 - Sep 1925 



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Subjects:


Agricultural prices - Rhode Island.

Agriculture - Rhode Island - Saylesville.

Business records - Rhode Island - Saylesville.

Carpenter, W. W.

Dairy cattle - Rhode Island - Saylesville.

Dairy plants - Rhode Island - Saylesville.

Dairy products - Rhode Island - Saylesville.

Sayles Finishing Plants.

TARSCO Corporation, Pawtucket Branch.


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