A Guide to the Records of the University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Branch Stations, Field Laboratories, Research and Education Centers, and other Field Units
Finding aid created by Dept. Staff
University of Florida Smathers Libraries - Special and Area Studies Collections
September 2010
Descriptive Summary |
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| Creator: | University of Florida. Agricultural Experiment Station. | |
| Title: | Records of the University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Branch Stations, Field Laboratories, Research and Education Centers, and other Field Units | |
| Dates: | 1917-1971 | |
| Abstract: | Series 95 contains official and personal records, primarily correspondence, from many of the twenty or more branch units affiliated with the University of Florida's agricultural program. | |
| Extent: | 30 microfilm reels. | |
| Identification: | Series 95 | |
| Language(s): | English | |
Biographical/Historical Note
The branch units of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Science and its predecessors have been given many different designations over the years. The first branch units were known as sub-stations and were located at DeFuniak Springs and Ft. Myers. Later, field units were called Branch Stations and Field Laboratories and, most recently, Research and Education Centers.
Scope and Content
This series contains official and personal records, primarily correspondence, from many of the twenty or more branch units affiliated with the University of Florida's agricultural program. This material documents the struggle to establish research stations in all parts of Florida, each specializing in experimentation in one or two classes of crops or livestock raised commercially in its area of the state. Additionally, these records reveal the growth and development or, in some instances, the transformation or abandonment of these branch stations as the state reacted to changes in the agricultural economy.
This material provides information respecting the actual experiments conducted in the various stations and thus serves as a general indicator of the major problems of the agricultural industries for the years in question as well as a window on past methodologies in science. The series provides a record of the relative importance of the various commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables grown and the principal breeds of livestock raised throughout the period. It also documents the field units' more recent role as centers of local agricultural education.
The series consists of records which were assembled by the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and microfilmed. Reels 1-15 contain the records of individual stations from the inception of each station through 1949. (Each reel contains records for only one station.) Reels 16-27 contain the same types of records for all the stations combined from 1950 through 1971. Reels 28-30 contain records from what had been termed Field Laboratories at the time the records were filmed.
Correspondence dates are not necessarily inclusive and should be used as an earliest date guide only.
Access or Use Restrictions
Access
The collection is open for research.
Related or Separated Material
See also Series 84 for records related to the Welaka Research and Education Center, Series 109, Hastings Potato Investigation Laboratory, and Series 107, Chipley Dairy Unit.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Records of the University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Branch Stations, Field Laboratories, Research and Education Centers, and other Field Units, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Processing Notes
The original reel numbers have been changed to #1-30. Reels 1-23 were originally numbered "9.1C" through "9.23C." Reel 24 was numbered "9.24A." Reel 25 was numbered "9.24B." Reel 26 was numbered "9.24C." Reel 27 was numbered "9.24D." Reels 28-30 were originally numbered "9.1E" through "9.3E."
Contents List
| Reel | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station (citrus) - Act establishing Citrus Station. 1917 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station (citrus) - Correspondence. 1933-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1925-1942 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1943-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1921-1931 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1923-1935 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1926-1940 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1941-1947 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1947-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | North Florida Experiment Station at Quincy - Act Establishing Station. 1921 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | North Florida Experiment Station at Quincy - Correspondence. 1927-1936 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | North Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1937-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Gulf Coast Experiment Station at Bradenton - Correspondence. 1933-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Sub-Tropical Experiment Station at Homestead - Act Establishing Station. 1929 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Sub-Tropical Experiment Station at Homestead - Correspondence. 1936-1949 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | West Central Florida Experiment Station at Brooksville (Chinsegut Hill) - Memo of Understanding, F.A.E.S. and USDA. 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | West Central Florida Experiment Station at Brooksville (Chinsegut Hill) - Suggested Work at Brooksville. 1936 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | West Central Florida Experiment Station at Brooksville (Chinsegut Hill) - Correspondence. 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Central Florida Experiment Station at Sanford - Act Establishing Station. 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Central Florida Experiment Station at Sanford - Correspondence. 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Central Florida Experiment Station at Sanford - Appendix: Pages missed in original filming. | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Range Cattle Experiment Station at Ona and West Florida Experiment Station at Milton - Act Establishing Range Cattle Station. 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Range Cattle Experiment Station at Ona and West Florida Experiment Station at Milton - Correspondence. 1944 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Range Cattle Experiment Station at Ona and West Florida Experiment Station at Milton - Act Establishing West Florida Experiment Station. 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Range Cattle Experiment Station at Ona and West Florida Experiment Station at Milton - Correspondence. 1949 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Range Cattle Experiment Station at Ona and West Florida Experiment Station at Milton - Appendix: Pages missed in original filming. | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Central Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Range Cattle Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1951 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service - Monthly Hydrologic Data. | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Various Branch Stations and U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service - Appendix: Second pages of letters missed in original film. | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Gulf Coast Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1951-1952 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Sub-Tropical Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1952 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1953 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Gulf Coast Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1953 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Suwannee Valley Experiment Station at Live Oak Station Information Series - Correspondence. 1953 | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Central Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1954 | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1955 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Central Florida Experiment Station- Correspondence. 1956 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Gulf Coast Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1956 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | West Central Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence (1957 at end of reel). 1956-1957 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1957 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | West Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1957 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence (1959 at end of reel). 1958-1959 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | Central Florida Experiment Station- Correspondence. 1959 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | Appendix: North Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1958 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Everglades Experiment Station - Correspondence (near end of reel). 1959, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Central Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1959 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | North Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1960 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | West Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Central Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1962 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Gulf Coast Experiment Station - Annual Summary of Step Trials. 1962 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1963 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | West Florida Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1963 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Appendix: Suwannee Valley Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1963 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | Belle Glade (Everglades) Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964-1971 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | Bradenton (Gulf Coast) Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964-1970 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | Brooksville (West Central Florida or Chinsegut Hill) Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Fort Pierce Tomato Disease Lab - Correspondence. 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Homestead Sub-Tropical Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Lake Alfred Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Live Oak (Suwannee Valley) Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Monticello Experiment Station (Pecan Lab) - Correspondence. 1961 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Sanford (Central Florida) Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1964 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Welaka Forest Preserve - Correspondence. 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 26 | Apopka Foliage Unit - Correspondence. 1971 | ||||||||||||
| 26 | Homestead Sub-Tropical Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1971 | ||||||||||||
| 26 | Live Oak Experiment Station - Correspondence. 1970 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Fort Lauderdale Lab - Correspondence. 1967 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Immokalee Vegetable Unit - Correspondence. 1968 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Welaka Forest Preserve - Correspondence. 1971 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | Chipley Dairy Unit - Correspondence. 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Cocoa Lab (Plant Pathology) - Correspondence. 1933, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Watermelon and Grape Lab at Leesburg - Correspondence. 1933 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Potato Investigation Lab at Hastings - Correspondence. 1937 | ||||||||||||
| 28 | Weather Station at Lakeland - Capital Expenditure Report. 1940 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | Watermelon and Grape Lab - Correspondence. 1943 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | Pecan Lab at Monticello - Correspondence. 1947 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | Weather Station - Correspondence. 1949, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Cocoa Lab (Indian River Field Lab) - Correspondence. 1952-1954 | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Poultry Disease Lab - Correspondence. 1955 | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Weather Station - Correspondence. 1957-1960 | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Field Labs and Weather Station - Appendix. | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Indian River. | ||||||||||||
| 30 | Houston, Texas Gas and Oil. 1959 | ||||||||||||
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