Correspondence with federal agencies, 1921-1948.

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Correspondence with federal agencies, 1921-1948.

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Subseries 30b contains the correspondence of the University of Florida's Agricultural Experiment Station and the Florida Cooperative Extension Service with agencies of the federal government, primarily the United States Department of Agriculture. The principal USDA bureaus represented here are Agricultural Economics, Animal Industry, Entomology and Plant Quarantine, and Plant Industry.

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United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

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United States. Bureau of Plant Industry

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United States. Division of Entomology

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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...

United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics

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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...