Writings and speeches, 1892-1920.

Rolfs, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1865-1944

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Peter Henry Rolfs was born April 17, 1865 in Le Claire, Iowa. He received his B. S. from Iowa State College of Agriculture in 1889 and a M. S. from Iowa Agricultural College in 1891. He began his career at the Agricultural Experiment Station at the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City as a researcher and instructor in Botany and Horticulture. He remained at Lake City from 1892 to 1899. From 1899 to 1901, he served as a botanist and bacteriologist at the Clemson Agricultural Col...

Florida Cooperative Extension Service

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Home Demonstration was administered by the Home Economics Program of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service (originally the Florida Agricultural Extension Service). The Home Demonstration program was originally administered through the Florida State College for Women in conjunction with the College's Department of Home Economics. The purpose of Home Demonstration is to transmit information pertaining to home improvement, gardening, food preservation and preparation, sewing, and related skills...

University of Florida. Herbarium

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University of Florida. Agricultural Experiment Station

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The branch units of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors have been given many different designations over the years. The first branch units were established in 1891 and were known as sub-stations but were terminated after only a few years. The first permanent "branch station" was created in 1917 at Lake Alfred. Other branch stations and "field laboratories" followed. In the 1970s, all branch units were redesignated Research and Education Ce...