Guide to the Agricultural Experiment Station Oral Histories,1962-1965.
Agricultural Experiment Station Oral Histories,1962-1965.
Agricultural Experiment Station oral histories, 1962-1965.
Tape recordings and 1389 pages of transcript.
Audio tapes and transcripts of interviews.
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York is a unit of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University,Ithaca, New York.
These interviews cover the research, administration, and public service contributions of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Scientists, administrators, support staff, and other Geneva residents were interviewed. Topics include: relationships of Geneva faculty and staff with their Ithaca campus counterparts, including coordination of research and administration on the 2 campuses, and with New York State farmers and agricultural organizations, especially the food processing industry; relationships of Geneva station with other American agricultural experiment stations; and research by Geneva scientists in entomology (including the use of pesticides and biological control), vegetable crops, viticulture, pomology, bacteriology, food science, and dairy science (including the transfer to dairy research to the Ithaca campus).
Also, development of Geneva physical facilities, especially after WWII and during the 1960's; Geneva publications; administration of substations in the Hudson Valley and Fredonia; procurement of funds; hiring and promotion of staff and administrators; conducting seed investigations in coordination with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets; influence of personality on Cornell's agricultural research and teaching; assessment of Cornell administrators; participation by Geneva staff in community activities. Personal histories are also included.
Breed, Robert S. (Robert Stanley), 1877-1956.
Lehman, Herbert H., (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
Agricultural Research Planning and Coordination.
Cornell University. Office of Vice President for Land Grant Affairs.
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Agricultural Research Coordination.
New York (State). Pesticide Control Board.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Entomology.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Food Science and Technology.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Pomology and Viticulture.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Seed and Vegetable Sciences.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Plant Pathology.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Publications.
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Buildings and Properties.
New York State Canners and Freezers Association.
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- Administration.
Western New York Cherry Growers Association.
Agricultural chemicals -- Law and legislation.
Community and college -- New York (State) -- Geneva.
Geneva (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Oral Histories, #13-6-944. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Related collection: New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Historical Documentation Program Oral Histories, #13-6-2082. Donald W. Barton, tr., trsc. 4912-4917, trsc. 5246-5248; Robert F. Becker, tr., trsc. 3852; Roscoe E. Krauss, trsc. 5325; Edward H. Smith tr., trsc. 4906-4911.
Related collection: New York State Food Processing Industry Oral History Project, #2378. Walter D. Enzie, trsc. 1210.
Related collection: Charles B. Sayre Seminar Transcript, # 22-1-m.1061.
Related collection: Richard Wellington Papers, #22-2-3558.
Some of the 1962-1965 tapes have been erased; only 5 minute excerpts remain.
Childhood botanical interest; graduate study and work with Spray Information Service at Cornell; experiences as an entomologist, 1930-1965, and as head of Dept. of Entomology, Geneva, 1948-1965, esp. work at Hudson Valley substation; selection of research projects; research methods; spray residue control problems; biological controls; relationships of department with other departments at the Station; relations of Station with Cornell, NY State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets, USDA, growers, the Geneva community, industry; administration of dept., esp. selection of personnel; comments concerning faculty status, esp. tenure, sabbatic leave; recollections concerning Cyrus Crosby, P. J. Parrott, L. M. Massey, D. M. Daniels, A. J. Heinicke, Alvin Hoefer, George McNew, Harold Tukey.
Development of the work in dairy chemistry at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; descriptions of major research projects; reflections concerning George A. Smith, R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, and G. P. Hedrick; removal of dairy work to Ithaca.
Participation of staff on Geneva in political and social organizations in Geneva, NY.
Agriculture in the St. Louis area, c. 1900; high school education; experiences at the University of Missouri; impressions of J. W. Connaway, J. C. Whitten, C. H. Eckles, W. H. Chandler, others; facilities for research, research methods and objectives in Dept. of Pomology at Cornell, c. 1914; relationships between research in orchard soils, spraying practice, pruning practices, and apple varieties; relation of work in pomology at Cornell to that of New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1942-1960; comment concerning Geneva including appointment as director, postwar building program, elimination of dairy herd, beginning of Dept. of Food Science and Technology, establishment of systematic budget procedures, methods for coordinating work with NYS College of Agriculture; impressions of Herbert Lehman, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott.
Work in bacteriology at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; reminiscences and reflections concerning Directors W. H. Jordan, R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke, and Professors R. S. Breed, F. C. Stewart, D. W. Carpenter, George Smith, L. L. Van Slyke, Rudolph Anderson, H. B. Tukey, J. D. Luckett, A. W. Hofer, also A. R. Mann and H. E. Babcock; Station procedures; relationships of the staff to administration and to the Geneva community; development of Dept. of Food Science and Technology; establishment of Food Research, relationship of Station to canning and freezing industry. 8.
Development of extension work at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; reminiscences concerning the Station staff, esp. W. H. Jordan, R. W. Thatcher, U. P. Hedrick, A. J. Heinicke.
Development of work in bacteriology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; reminiscences concerning R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, R. S. Breed, Donald Tressler; relationship of Station staff to food industry and to Geneva community.
Work in vegetable crops at Geneva; major research projects; recollections concerning Frank Hall, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke, 1925-1960.
Recollections concerning the administrative procedures and staff at New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva; Directors W. H. Jordan, R. W. Thatcher, F. B. Morrison, U. P. Hedrick, P. J. Parrott, and A. J. Heinicke, and Professors L. L. Van Slyke, F. C. Stewart, J. D. Luckett, Frank Hall.
High school and college education; utilization of food processing by-products; association with Clarence Birdseye; establishment of food freezing work at Geneva; analysis of food freezing industry prior to 1930; Birdseye's innovations in packing and promoting frozen foods; development of work in food freezing at Geneva, esp. physical facilities, relationships between staff, graduate assistants, selection of research problems, research grants, administrative methods; New York State interest in food freezing; development of Food Research.
Development of the work in pomology at Geneva; organization and activities of the New York State Fruit Testing Association; administration of the Station, esp. under W. H. Jordan and U. P. Hedrick, 1906-1960.