Campus and state correspondence, 1921-1947 (bulk 1924-1947).

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. 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...

University of Florida. College of Agriculture

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Newell, Wilmon, 1878-1943

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Wilmon Newell was born March 4, 1878, in Hull, Iowa. He was educated in Iowa and received his B.S. and M.S. from Iowa State University in 1897 and 1899 respectively. He served briefly at experiment stations before being appointed State Entomologist of Georgia in 1903. In 1905, he was appointed Entomologist of the Louisiana Experiment Station and Entomologist and Secretary of the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission. It was at Louisiana that Newell made important contributions in the control of the Cot...