Yorkers DBQs - Dairy Farming

Document-Based Question: Dairy Farming: A Growing Industry

Teacher Guide
page III

Description: Students develop an awareness and an appreciation for local records and primary source documents related to the dairy industry, and learn how new technology helped the dairy farmer to increase production.

Publication date: July 2000

Number of pages: 19 total (cover page – 1; teacher guide – 5; student DBQ – 6; primary source documents – 7)

PDF files available for download:

Teacher Guide and Student DBQ (144 kB)
Primary Source Documents
– Document 1 (544 kB)
– Document 2 (377 kB)
– Document 3 (566 kB)
– Document 4 (958 kB)
– Document 5 (304 kB)
– Document 6 (598 kB)
– Document 7 (916 kB)

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