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USDA National Commission on Small Farms Records
The USDA National Commission on Small Farms Records include administrative files; transcripts (paper, tape, and disk) of public hearings; letters from farmers; executive correspondence; memoranda; drafts and a final copy of "Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms: A Time to Act"; letterhead and design for final report; email requests for copies of the NCSF report; computer disks containing small farm documents; NCSF committee reports; and miscellaneous resource documents.
USDA Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Records
The USDA Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Records consist of letters, memoranda, correspondence, reports, newspapers, newsletters, and publications.
USDA Office of the Appointment Clerk Records
The USDA Office of the Appointment Clerk Records is a bound volume containing copies of charges of misconduct letters written to USDA employees and signed by Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston, for the period October 27, 1915, through April 12, 1918.
USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection
The USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection consists of 517 bound volumes containing materials related to U.S. federal laws pertaining to agriculture. The volumes are arranged by congressional session number, then by public law number. Within each public law section, the documents are ordered by date. The collection is not exhaustive but includes major pieces of legislative history related to federal agricultural laws.
USDA Office of the Secretary Memoranda
The USDA Office of the Secretary Memoranda consist of memoranda and circulars (1918-1979), general orders (1897-1913), plant and operations memoranda (1936-1937), special orders (1927-1934, 1939), technical advisory board circulars (1938-1940), USDA Defense and Agriculture Series (1940-1941), and USDA Defense Exercise memoranda (1960-1970s).
USDA Official Standards of the United States for Grades of Wool
The USDA Official Standards of the United States for Grades of Wool contains wool samples that document the 12 wool grade standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 1920s, and the 13 standards for the 1940s. The standards are based on the fineness or diameter of the wool fiber. Samples show the maximum diameter or fineness of fiber for each of the grades. The collection includes wool standards for 1926, 1928, 1940, and 1966.
USDA Pear Psylla Control Investigations Lantern Slide Collection
The USDA Pear Psylla Control Investigations Lantern Slide Collection contains color lantern slides produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Fruit Insect Investigations, Pear Psylla Control. There are 13 slides of pears infected with pear psylla, 3 slides of maps, and a slide showing a chart of spraying operations in counties of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon in 1941.
USDA Pink Bollworm Project Photograph Collection
USDA Plant Genetics Resources Unit Records
USDA Plant Introduction Station (Chico, California) Photograph Collection
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