case files of regional rural rehabilitation divisions, 1937-46; and case files for paid rural rehabilitation loans made in 134 selected counties, 1934-44. CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1934-40. 69 items. Cartographic records, 1935-40 (26 items), consist of maps of the United States, including those of areas in the South and Southwest showing land use and ownership, irrigation, drainage, reclamation, and homestead projects. Audiovisual records consist of motion pictures, 1936-37 (11 reels), including two films directed by Pare Lorentz and produced by the Documentary Film Section of the Division of Information, "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River." Also films concerning migratory labor camps; agricultural and industrial cooperatives in Russia, England, Sweden, Finland, and Scotland; and the construction of typical houses and barns. Sound recordings, 1934 and 1936 (32 items), include radio programs that emphasize the role of the Resettlement Administration in introducing scientific farming methods and giving financial assistance to farmers; a dramatization of the sinking of the Lusitania, with a commentary on attempts to salvage her cargo; and a discussion of extortion practices in the United States. See Stanley W. Brown and Virgil E. Baugh, comps., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Farmers Home Administration, PI 118 (1959). RECORDS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (RECORD GROUP 310) The Agricultural Research Administration (ARA) was established in the Department of Agriculture by an Executive order of February 23, 1942, to coordinate the functions of several longestablished scientific bureaus. Its activities were chiefly administrative, with the bureaus continuing to function as before, and on November 2, 1953, the ARA and the bureaus were consolidated by the Secretary of Agriculture as the Agricultural Research Service. The Service plans, administers, and conducts research and related regulatory programs. The records of the ARA were inherited by the Service. There are 224 cubic feet of records dated between 1918 and 1953 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION. 1918-53. 315 lin. ft. These consist of general correspondence of the Office of the Administrator, 1942-53; records relating to research and administration, 1938-48; memorandums, 1942-43 and 1949-53; correspondence and reports, 1946-53, concerning the administration of the Research and Marketing Act of 1946; records of staff assistants, 1946-53; two maps published by the ARA, showing land assignments at the Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., to Department of Agriculture offices; blueprints for buildings and equipment of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 1918-42; and motion pictures, 1933-49 (11 reels), illustrating methods of cultivating and harvesting sugar beets. RECORDS OF THE FARMER COOPERATIVE SERVICE (RECORD GROUP 314) The Farmer Cooperative Service was established in the Department of Agriculture under the Secretary's Memorandum 1320 of November 2, 1953. The Service was to continue work authorized by the Cooperative Marketing Act of July 2, 1926, and performed by the Cooperative Research and Service Division of the Farm Credit Administration. When the Administration was made independent of the Department in August 1953, the functions of its Cooperative Research and Service Division were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture. The Service performs educational and advisory work to improve the organization and effectiveness of marketing, farm supply, and related cooperatives; conducts and publishes studies on prob lems of cooperative financing, organiza. tion, merchandising, product quality, costs, efficiency, and membership; and works with cooperatives, State agencies, colleges, extension services, and other educational agencies to disseminate information about cooperative principles and practices and to improve the efficiency of farmer cooperatives. There is less than 1 cubic foot of records dated between 1948 and 1951 in this record group. RECORDS. 1948-51. 4 items. Photocopied and published maps of the Cooperative Research and Service Division, with related textual records, showing the locations of cooperatives that handled farm supplies. RECORDS OF THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE (RECORD GROUP 354) The Economic Research Service (ERS) was established by the Secretary of Agriculture on April 3, 1961, to consolidate research in domestic and foreign agricultural economics and marketing previously conducted by the Agricultural Research Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Foreign Agricultural Service. Domestic research by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics was divided between the Agricultural Research Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service when the Bureau was abolished in 1953. ERS activities relate to seven major areas: economic and statistical analysis, marketing economics, farm production economics, natural resource economics, economic development, foreign regional analysis, and foreign development and trade. There are 3 cubic feet of records (in WNRC) dated between 1934 and 1964 in this record group. RECORDS. 1934-64. 4 lin. ft. These consist of minutes, correspondence, tabulations, reports, publications, and other records of the Production Resources Branch of the Farm Production Economics Division, ERS, and predecessors in the Agricultural Research Service, and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, concerning participation in the Northeast Production Advisory Group, 1939-53, Northeast Farm Management Research Committee, 1951-64, and New England Research Council on Marketing and Food Supply, 1934-55. There are also office files of an official of the Agricultural Research Service, 1954-60. Discontinued Agencies RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY The Bureau of Animal Industry was established in May 1884 to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and eradicate contagious diseases among domestic animals. It replaced the Veterinary Division, created by the Commissioner of Agriculture in 1883. The Bureau conducted scientific investigations and administered statutes and regulations to protect the public from infected or diseased meat products, eradicate animal diseases, and improve the livestock of the country. It enforced such regulatory measures as the Meat Inspection Act of 1891, under which it inspected meat processing; the Diseased Animal Transportation Act of 1903, under which it used quarantines to prevent interstate and foreign commerce in diseased animals; the Virus Serum Act of 1913, under which it supervised the preparation, sale, import, export, and interstate shipment of veterinary biological products; and the Twenty-Eight Hour Act of 1873, which required that animals in interstate transit be unloaded, fed, and watered every 28 hours. From 1927 to 1939 it also enforced the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. In 1953 the Bureau was abolished, and its functions were divided among the Branches of Animal Disease and Parasite Research, Animal and Poultry Husbandry Research, Animal Disease Eradication, Animal Inspection and Quarantine, and Meat Inspection of the Agricultural Research Service. Some records relating to the enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards and Meat Inspection Acts and to the Bureau's dairy cattle work are, respectively, among the records of the Agricultural Marketing Service (see RG 136) and the records of the Bureau of Dairy Industry (see RG 152). There are 693 cubic feet of records (in WNRC except for one map) dated between 1874 and 1950 in this record group. RECORDS. 1874-1950. 865 lin. ft. The Bureau operated through an extensive field service supervised by several headquarters divisions. The following divisions were chiefly responsible for the creation of the records described below: Meat Inspection, Field Inspection, Tuberculosis Eradication, Biochemic, Pathological, Zoological, Field Inspection and Quarantine, Tick Eradication, Hog Cholera Control, Virus-Serum Control, and Animal Husbandry. Included are central correspondence, 1895-1939; general correspondence of the Division of Animal Husbandry, 1901-14; miscellaneous letters sent, 1911-18; letters sent to the Department of State, 1892-97, and to the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, 191318; letters sent concerning the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, 1912-18, and the control of viruses and serums used in treating animals, 1913-18; deeds and other title records, including records transferred from the Department of the Army, that relate to land acquired for Bureau fieldwork, 1874-1950; reports; personnel records; orders; circular letters; project statements; an office file of George M. Rommel, Chief of the Division of Animal Husbandry, concerning the Agricultural Commission to Europe, 1918, and the Committee on Live Stock Drouth Relief, 1919; and letters and reports of the Baltimore field station, 1887-1918. Also included is an undated map of the United States, showing locations of Bureau field stations. See Harold T. Pinkett, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Bureau of Animal Industry, PI 106 (1958). RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS (RECORD GROUP 164) The Office of Experiment Stations was established in the Department of Agriculture on October 1, 1888, to popularize the results of agricultural experiments and to disseminate scientific information among experiment stations created under the Hatch Act of 1887. Subsequent legislation increased the control of the Office over the finances and work of the stations. The Office also promoted agricultural education, administered experiment stations in Alaska and the insular possessions, and conducted investigations concerning irrigation, nutrition, and drainage. In 1915 the Office was combined with other offices carrying out extension and home economics work to form the States Relations Service. When that Service was abolished in 1923, the Office of Experiment Stations resumed its separate identity. The Office administered funds provided by the Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935 for the support of research in agriculture and rural life by experiment stations and Federal agencies, and coordinated agricultural research. From 1936 to 1941 the head of the Office also served as research director for the Department of Agriculture. The Office was under the supervision of the Agricultural Research Administration from December 1941 to November 1953; it was abolished on November 2, 1953, and its functions were transferred to the Agricultural Research Service. There are 467 cubic feet of records dated between 1888 and 1960 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 1888-1960. 418 lin. ft. Included are administrative records, 1894-1937; correspondence of Alfred Charles True, head of the Office, 18931929, of the assistant head of the Office, 1910-29, and of Robert W. Trullinger, agricultural engineer, 1913-27; correspondence with bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, Federal agencies, State and insular experiment stations, and agricultural colleges, 1888-1943; departmental rulings, 1923-37; records concerning State, Soil Conservation Service, and Civil Works Administration. projects, 1927-37, and appeals for regional research laboratories, 1937-39; completed registration forms concerning the Agricultural Science Register, 190426; annual financial reports of the Office, 1889-1928, and of stations, 1907-46; and agenda of meetings of the Committee on Experiment Station Organization, concerning the policy of land-grant colleges and universities, 1940-46. Records relating to publications include a "card index of Experiment Station literature," material used to prepare State Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1930-60, and notes of Alfred Charles True, 1923-29, for a History of Agricultural Experimentation and Research in the United States and for a History of Agricultural Education in the United States. RECORDS OF EXPERIMENT Records of headquarters in Alaska for experiment stations include administrative records, 1898-1932, including appropriation ledgers and accounts of expenditures, 1898-1914; letters received, 19001927, and sent, 1898-1927; and personal letters of Charles C. Georgeson, chief of experiment station work in Alaska, 1900-1920. Also included are administrative records and correspondence for the I substations of Fairbanks, 1906-32, 1907-31, Kenai, 1899-1908, Kodiak, Records of the experiment station at Guam include annual reports, 1917-32, and correspondence, 1908-32; those of the station at Mayaguez, P.R., include correspondence, 1901-38. CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. Maps prepared by State agricultural experiment stations in Maryland, n.d., West Virginia, 1937, and Nevada, 194041, relating to soils, slope, vegetation, and land classification; and maps relating to drainage and flood control projects in several States, 1908-15. RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRY The Bureau of Dairy Industry originated in the Department of Agriculture in 1895 as the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry, in 1924 became the Bureau of Dairying, and was renamed the Bureau of Dairy Industry by an act of May 11, 1926. The Bureau conducted research in dairy products and byproducts, dairy industry market practices, and the breeding, nutrition, and management of dairy cattle. The Secretary of Agriculture's Memorandum 1320 of November 2, 1953, abolished the Bureau and transferred its functions to the Agricultural Research Service. There are 103 cubic feet of records. (in WNRC) dated between 1907 and 1939 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE DAIRY Included are reports, agenda, memorandums, and correspondence relating to international dairy congresses, intraagency projects, assistance given individuals and institutions purchasing cattle, special projects, and experimentation, 1907-22; and to appropriations, patents on employees' findings, experiment stations, the 1923 World Dairy Congress held in the United States, Government regulations on milk, breeding experiments, milk surveys and inspections, supply purchases, and personnel matters, 1922-24. RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF Included are correspondence concerning annual appropriations, organization, personnel, publications, exhibits, meetings and congresses, cost studies, dairy and breeding experiments, investigations, and milk products; and a reading file, with an index. RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING The Office of Experiment Stations of the Department of Agriculture began irrigation investigations in 1898 and drainage investigations in 1903. In 1915 this work, the farm architecture and machinery work of the Office of Farm Management, and the functions of the Office of Public Roads were consolidated |