Tarrant County, AgriLife Extension Collection

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Historical Note

The Tarrant County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service was established in 1914 to offer information and education in agriculture, environmental stewardship, youth and adult life skills, leadership, and community development. The extension works cooperatively with public and private universities, agencies, and organizations to serve the educational needs of Tarrant County.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is an educational agency with a statewide network of educators, volunteers, and county offices. Learn more about the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service for Tarrant County. by visiting their website.

 

Scope and Contents

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office of Tarrant County donated materials covering the history of the organization from 1914 to 2014, as well as a library of publications from various sources including the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Materials include scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, publications, maps, and drawings.

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This collection includes the following materials:

  • Five scrapbooks covering the history of the organization from 1914 to 2014. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, and materials relate to Women's Home Demonstration Clubs in Tarrant County.
  • Newspaper clippings and documents about the Tarrant County Extension office, activities, and various Home Demonstration clubs in the county.
  • Various photographs and copies of photographs showing club members, officers, events, etc., c. 1940s
  • Four Centennial Garden drawings, c. 2014

1938 Women's Home Demonstration Clubs yearbook for Tarrant County District 4 

Maps

  • General Soil Map, Tarrant County, June 1972
  • General Highway Map Tarrant County, Texas, Texas State Highway Department, 1963, highways revised to July 1, 1967
  • Tarrant County Soil Map, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1920

Publications:

The majority of U.S. Department of Agriculture publications in this collection are organized by title and issue number. Date ranges are included here, but all issues published within those date ranges are not present within the collection. Please contact the Archives to see if a specific issue is available.

  • Home and Garden Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1951-1990 - A pdf index of all issues of the Home and Garden Bulletins was created by Ellen K. Miller. The Archives does not have every issue.
    • topics include: canning, consumer guides for food purchases, financial budgeting, food safety, food storage, gardening (floral and vegetable), homemaking, housekeeping, nutrition, recipes, sewing, tailoring clothing
  • Farmers' Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1924-1978 - Many of these publications have been digitized by UNT's Government Documents Library and are available on the UNT Digital Library.
    • topics include: angora goats, apples, beans, beef, blackberries, broccoli, care of livestock, cauliflower, corn, cattle branding, dairy cows, dairy goats, dewberry farm building construction and maintenance, fences, fish, fish ponds, pork, food storage, gardening (floral, herb, and vegetable), grapes, grasses, greenhouses, legumes, peaches, peanuts, pests and diseases (crops and livestock), raspberries, rye, sheep, strawberries, swine
  • Other publication topics include: alfalfa, barley, bees, beets, bermuda grass, canning, carrots, cherries, chicory, child development, consumer guides, corn, cotton, dental health, diets, disaster preparedness, electricity, endive, exercise, farm design, farm equipment, fertilizer, financial guides, flame resistant fabrics, flood recovery, food safety, fruit trees, furniture repair, gardening (floral and vegetable), garlic, grapes, herbs, hens, hogs, homemaking, horseradish, house maintenance, lambs, laws (state and federal), livestock diseases, meat packing, minks, nutrition, parsnips, party planning, peaches, pears, peanuts, personality development, pesticides, plums, poverty, rabbits, radishes, recipes, retirement, sewing, sewing machines, soil conservation, sorgum, sour cream, sugar cane, sunflowers, sweet potatoes,  tomatoes, trout, turkeys, upholstery, walnuts, water conservation, wheat