Ohio State University, Agricultural Extension Service, Fruit Spray Service Records 1930-1962

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The Ohio State University, Agricultural Extension Service, Fruit Spray Service Records contain maps of Ohio with various notes written on them indicating fruit crop spraying, stages of growth, and diseases. The collection also contains reports and telegram correspondence. Around the 1930's, a centralized spray program was developed by Extension's plant pathologists to collect recommendations for fruit spraying schedules for farmers across Ohio. Various versions of this program were in operation until the 1960's.

[identification of item], Ohio State University, Agricultural Extension Service, Fruit Spray Service Records, RG 22.I.1, Ohio State University Archives, Ohio State University

The majority of the materials in the Ohio State University, Department of Horticulture, Fruit Spray Service Records are maps of Ohio with various notes written on them indicating fruit crop spraying, stages of growth, and diseases. The collection also contains reports filled out by plant pathologists on spray services performed in specific geographic areas, some notes on field crops, and telegram correspondence.

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Accession Number UA.1982.0097: Agriculture and Home Economics, unknown date

RG 22.K.1: Ohio State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Research Project Records

In the early 1920's, Ohio State University's Agricultural Extension Service began research on apple blotch control. Later, a centralized spray program was developed by Extension's plant pathologists, known as the Ohio Spray Service. This was an informational service that collected recommendations from different parts of the state, assembled them, and distributed them through the radio and mail. This allowed farmers to time their sprays according to information gathered about pests, weather and other conditions. The service, along with various new research endeavors in fruit sprays, were carried out by the Agricultural Extension Service until the 1960's.

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Finding aid written by Karen Glenn, 2017 May

Finding aid prepared by Karen Glenn