Pennsylvania agricultural cooperative extension records, 1892-2004.

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Pennsylvania agricultural cooperative extension records, 1892-2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36319045

The bulk of this collection contains the county extension agents' narrative and statistical annual reports of their activities, 1912-1988. Also includes financial records, 1917-1950; plans of work for the extension service; USDA publications; correspondence; photographs; Neighborhood Youth Corps records, 1965-1970; Extension bulletins; compiled historical information about the program; and 1 carousel of slides, 6 ledgers, 7 audiocassettes, 3 moving image recordings, and 6 framed prints.

204.94 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7378820

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University. Agricultural Extension Service.

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In 1911 Pennsylvania State College president Edwin E. Sparks requested money from the state legislature to begin a system of county agricultural agents to act as conduits of information between the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station and practicing farmers. Not until 1913 did the General Assembly allocate $18,000 for agricultural extension which provided agents in Bradford, Chester, and Lancaster counties, to start. By 1921 sixty-two of the sixty-seven counties ...