extension programs

Content Description The Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H contains materials relating to early cooperative extension work, largely compiled by Extension specialists and program leaders over Carper's many years of employment as a clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Subject areas include Cooperative Extension history, early history of Extension home economics, the Extension Homemaker's Organization, early history of the National Association of Extension...

Content Description The Paul W. Rose Collection includes materials collected by Rose when he was stationed in post-war Japan to further agricultural and vocational training projects like the the First National Extension Youth Specialists Training School and the Yatsugatake Central Training Farm. Also included are letters to Rose from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as reference materials like an annotated copy of "A Rural Guide for...

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Proceedings from the semi-annual Rice Technical Working Group Meetings prepared for distribution. Contains over 20 bound hard copies for 1951 through 2000. Meetings from 2002 through 2016 exist on compact discs (data CDs). A USB drive contains digital PDF copies of proceedings from the years 1950 thru 2018. Items typically cover a summary of committee business, abstracts of papers presented, and the latest agricultural survey data.