States Relation Service - Office of Extension Work in the South - Singleton, F. E., 1919

This subseries contains correspondence of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Florida Cooperative Extension Service, written during the period that Peter Henry Rolfs directed both, with bureaus of the United States Department of Agriculture. (The subseries also contains a few files of correspondence with other federal agencies on matters related to wartime agricultural issues and land fraud schemes.) The principal USDA bureaus represented here are Animal Industry, Plant Industry, and the States Relation Service. The files include substantive letters and telegrams of the Station's and Service's director and the various department heads on issues of state and regional concern, but also contains trivial communication on administrative and insignificant matters from other staff members. There are no subject divisions and little attempt has been made to remove unimportant documents.

A large portion of the subseries consists of correspondence with the States Relation Service. The files titled "Office of Extension Work in the South" document the early development of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service and reveal many agricultural and rural issues germane to the southern states.

Correspondence is arranged by name of agency and then chronologically.