HYMAN PETCHERS COLLECTION, 1940-1954

Summary: Miscellaneous items collected by Hyman Petchers, a farmer living in Freehold between 1947 and 1954, who was a member of the Farmingdale Jewish Community Center. This series includes letters received about the mortgage on his farm, cards from FARMCO (1948-1949) giving prices, announcing meetings, and informing him of the amount of bonus credit he received, and circulars from the Central New Jersey Farmer's Cooperative Association, Rutgers University Cooperative Extension and the F.L.F. Farmers' Union Cooperative Association. This series also includes four order books, dated 1949 to 1954 recording shipments of eggs, and one notebook recording feed purchases, receipts (1940-1952) for stocks, feed brought from the Central Jersey Farmer's Cooperative Association, fuel, fertilizers, Hebrew school fees, building materials, farm machinery, purchase of chickens, sales of eggs, and a contribution to the Jewish National Workers Alliance. There are a number of miscellaneous documents including undated broadsides advertising eggs and giving directions for attaching "spectacles" for chickens, membership cards and a ration book for gasoline (1944). Finally there is a corduroy Future Farmers of America jacket belonging to Norman Petchers, presumably Hyman's son.