Agriculture and insecticides general files, 1925-1980.

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Agriculture and insecticides general files, 1925-1980.

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The records document Consumers' Research's interest in animals and animal feed, farm conditions, gardening, and the use of insecticides or pesticides and their effect on farm products. Included are correspondence of Consumers' Research staff, technical experts and subscribers, magazine and newspaper clippings, technical articles, publications, and product information. Subjects included are animal feed and medicine, dairy equipment, domestic animals and livestock, animal feed, poultry, agricultural economics, fertilizers and soil fertility, seeds, soil conditioners, gardening, weed killers, grass culture, seeds, floriculture, landscape gardening, preservation of cut flowers, trees and forestry, vegetable/fruit/berry growing, insecticides, government standards and protection for insecticides and pesticides, defense of pesticides, recommended spraying methods, spray residue, stupidity of horticulturalists and farmers, official tolerance of spray residue, toxicity of DDT, and types of insecticide.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...