Tarrant County, AgriLife Extension Collection

This collection consists of the following materials:

• Five scrapbooks covering the history of the organization from 1914 to 2014. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, programs, yearbooks, and materials related to Women's Home Demonstration Clubs in Tarrant County.
• Various photographs, copies of photographs, and digital images of Tarrant County AgriLife staff and volunteers, club members and officers, events, Nash Hardware building renovation, etc., 1940s-2021, undated
• Over 4000 slides showing Tarrant County AgriLife events, educational presentations, television broadcasted demonstrations, agricultural / gardening techniques, tree maintenance, and plant damage identification
• Four Centennial Garden drawings, c. 2014
• Tarrant County 4-H Club yearbooks, photographs, and documents related to the club's programs, 1930s-2010, undated
• Tarrant County AgriLife office reports, correspondence, awards, newspaper clippings
• Tarrant County Extension Affirmative Action Plan Implementation documents, 1970-1980
• Texas Agricultural Extension Service Fact Sheets, distributed by Texas A&M University System, 1977
• Texas Agricultural Extension Service Master Repairman Program class itineraries and guides for instructors, 1986
• General consumer product literature, 1985-1989
• American Association of Housing Educators documents, 1985-1986
• American Home Economics Association documents, 1977-1985

Agriculture 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, sorghum, sour cream, sugar cane, sunflowers, sweet potatoes,  tomatoes, trout, turkeys, upholstery, walnuts, water conservation, wheat

General Publications

• AHEA Action, American Home Economics Association, Washington, D. C., 1981-1982
• Extension Outreach newsletter, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, College Station, Texas, Spring 2001
• The Extensioner, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, 1947
• Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Alexandria, Virginia, 1999-2001
• Know Your County, by League of Women Voters of Fort Worth, September 1, 1954
• Tarrant County Extension Today: Information and Education for Better Living, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, College Station, Texas, 1999-2001
• Tarrant County Homemakers Association Handbook, 1991
• Your Region, by North Central Texas Council of Governments, April 1986

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