Horace Rouse Caffey oral history interview, 1994-1995.

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Horace Rouse Caffey oral history interview, 1994-1995.

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Caffey discusses his personal and family backgound, cotton farming in Mississippi, his education, and his research with rice. He extensively discusses rice cultivation in Louisiana, Mississippi, other American states, and Asia. Caffey talks about faculty members of the LSU College of Agriculture, Dr. J. Norman Efferson, Dr. A.C. Harper, Prentiss Schilling, and agricultural research at LSU. He discusses the Rice Experiment Station in Crowley, oil drilling near the station, and Edwin Edwards' work for the station and rice farmers. Caffey also discusses university and Louisiana politics and politicians, the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, the Louisiana Farm Bureau, LSU-Alexandria, and other state universities in Louisiana.

10 sound cassettes (15 hours);Transcript (587 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8043339

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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