Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Nicole Hancock, Student Assistant and Kira A. Dietz, Archivist
Permission to publish material from Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions, Ms2013-077, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions was acquired by Special Collections prior to 2006.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions was completed in September 2013.
Burnett's Wheat Fan Instructions was printed in Salem, Virginia in September 1851, and it contains directions on how to use C.M. Burnett's patent beveled wheat fan. The document is a one page sheet of directions for using the wheat fan. The directions are split out by crop type and are for wheat, oats, corn, clover, flax, and timothy seed.