Fort Vancouver Cultural Landscape Report

1) chaff cutting machines-"English Chaff Cutter" and "Irons for Chaff Cutting Machines";

2) dibbling irons, long handled iron tipped tool for planting seeds;

3) hand barrows, two man wooden carrying platforms;

4) harrows-"Angular Sided Harrows", "Common Country Made Harrows", and "Iron or Finless Harrows";

5) garden hoes;

6) pea hooks, for harvesting pea pods.

7) pitch forks, 2 and 3 prong;

8) plow parts for many different types of plows, supplied by Jukes Coulson & Co.; Crowley, Millington & Co.; and Samuel Morton;

9) scythe parts-"Hay Scythes"-40 and 48 inch from Benjamin T. Fenton, "Reaping Cradles" were attached to scythe handles to catch and stack cut stalks;

10) seeders"-Brood [Broad] Cast Seed Machine with extra seed boxes and English Seed Drill";

11) sickels-"Sickels with teeth, No. 4", from Benjamin T. Fenton;

12) threshing machines-"English Thrashing Machines" from Robert Maynard;

13) "English Turnip Cutter"; and

14) winnowing machines.

3. Ross, Lester A., Fort Vancuver, 1829-1860: A Historical Archeological Investigation of the Goods Imported and Manufactured by the Hudson's Bay Company, USDI, NPS, Part IV, pp. 109-1103, June 1976.

1844 INVENTORY OF "ARTICLES IN USE" AT FORT VANCOUVER FARM

From: John Hussey, "Fort Vancouver Farm", prepared for the National Park Service, (Typewritten), n.d. pp. 179-180.

Farm Utensils &c

The inventory made in the spring of 1848 differs somewhat from that of 1844, but its main contribution is the following list of articles in use in the garden:

-- Gardners [sic] Tools --