Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 16/1/0/4
Iowa State University

Extension and Outreach
Publications, circa 1914-2011, undated

Descriptive summary

creator:	Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach
title:	Publications
dates:	circa 1914-2011, undated
extent:	2.52 linear feet (6 document boxes)
collection number:	RS 16/1/0/4
repository:	University Archives, Special Collections and University Archives Department, Iowa State University.
language:	English

Administrative information

access:	Open for research
publication rights:	Consult Head, Special Collections and University Archives Department
preferred citation:	Extension and Outreach Publications, RS 16/1/0/4, Special Collections and University Archives Department, Iowa State University Library.

Access points

People, Families, and Corporate Bodies:	Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach
Places:
Subjects:	Agricultural extension work -- Iowa Home economics extension work -- Iowa
Genres:	Publications (document genre)

Abstract

The Department of Extension was founded in 1906 with funding from the Iowa General Assembly with Perry G. Holden serving as its first superintendent. In 1914, the U.S. Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, creating a nationwide system of cooperative extension services that provide outreach activities through land-grant universities, and the Department of Extension became the Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics. In 1966, University Extension was established by merging the short courses service group, farm demonstrations service group, engineering extension service group, and Center for Industrial Research and Service into a single administrative unit. In 2006, University Extension became Extension and Outreach. The purpose of University Extension is to engage citizens through research‐based educational programs in order to extend the resources of Iowa State University across the state. This collection contains various individual publications of University Extension that were not part of a publication series. Included are staff directories, Biographical Briefs of campus and area office staff, resource directories, handbooks, and reports.

Historical note

In 1906, the Iowa General Assembly appropriated funds to establish a Department of Extension at Iowa State College (University). Extension work in Iowa began earlier through the pioneering efforts of several people. Mary B. Welch, wife of Iowa State College’s first president, Adonijah Welch, gave six lectures on home economics to a group of sixty women in Des Moines around 1882-1883 and lectured throughout the state. Later, home economics became a regular feature of short courses alongside agriculture. James Wilson, appointed Professor of Agriculture and Director of the ISC Experiment Station in 1891, wished to broaden the reach of the college and requested to establish a short course in agriculture and a dairy school. Perry Holden later popularized and extended the agricultural short courses. Holden was initially contracted to teach a trial segment on corn as part of an agriculture short course in 1902. His charismatic personality and engaging teaching style brought high demand from the farmers taking the short course for more time devoted to corn, and he was soon hired on a permanent basis by the College as a professor of agronomy.

In 1903, Holden attended a farmer’s institute in Sioux County, speaking about the selection and cultivation of seed corn. Holden began his famous "Seed Corn Gospel Trains" in April 1904. These trains functioned as traveling exhibits that featured lectures and demonstrations that he and others delivered inside the train cars. Holden was appointed the first superintendent of Extension at Iowa State from 1906 to 1912. He focused on three branches of Extension work: demonstration farms, short courses, and education trains.

In 1914, the U.S. Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, creating a nationwide system of cooperative extension services that provide outreach activities through land-grant universities. The Act brought together funding at the national, state, and county levels to support the work of these cooperative extension services, and the program was administered through the United States Department of Agriculture. At ISU, the Department of Extension became Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics.

In 1966, Cooperative Extension Service became University Extension through the merging of the short courses service group, farm demonstrations service group, engineering extension service group, and Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS, established in 1962). In 2006, University Extension became Extension and Outreach.

Sources

Bliss, Ralph K. History of Cooperative Agriculture and Home Economics Extension in Iowa--The First Fifty Years. Ames, IA: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 1960.

Schwieder, Dorothy. 75 Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Collection description

This collection (circa 1914-2011, undated) contains various individual publications of University Extension that were not part of a publication series. Included are staff directories, Biographical Briefs of campus and area office staff, resource directories, handbooks, and reports.

Related materials

Related collections in the Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library include:

Other collections in the Extension Record Series (RS 16)

Organization

The files are arranged alphabetically.

Container list

Box	Folder	Title	Dates
5	1	4-H publications	1968-1993
3	21	"1871-1971 A Century of Home Economics at Iowa State," information sheet	1971
3	22	"Addendum to Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables, H&G 8," information sheet	1982
1	1	The Aging Persons of Linn County, Iowa	1960-1963
5	2	Agronomy publications	1940-1961, undated
1	2	An Appraisal of Agriculture Productive Capacity in Iowa	1952
1	3	Background of... Cooperative Extension Work in Iowa and Provisions of the County Agricultural Extension Law	1987
1	4	The Beginnings in Marketing Extension at Iowa State College	1931
1	5	Best Management Practices to Improve Groundwater Quality in Iowa	1990 circa
1	6	A Better Iowa Through Research: A Special Report of the Iowa Home Economics Experiment Station	undated
1	7	Bibliography on Extension Research	1936
1	8	Biographical Briefs: A Directory of Extension Personnel on Campus and Area Office Assignments	1969
5	3	Biographical Briefs: A Directory of Extension Personnel on Campus and Area Office Assignments	1972
1	9	Biographical Briefs: A Directory of Extension Personnel on Campus and Area Office Assignments	1978
1	10	Biographical Briefs: A Directory of Extension Personnel on Campus and Area Office Assignments	1981
1	11	Biographies of State and Area Specialists	1990
3	23	Bluffs Experimental Fruit Farm: 20-Year Summary	1966
3	25	Botany Circular 19: Spring Flowers and Other Plants Marked Along the Nature Trails in Some State Parks	after 1914
1	12	The Challenge to Democracy series	1941
4	1	Clothing publications	1950-1968
1	13	Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics circulars	1923-1930
3	26	Cooperative Extension Work in Iowa and Provisions of the County Extension Law	1991
5	4	Cooperative livestock shipping associations-related publications	1923, 1926
5	5-6	Country Correspondent	1959-1963
1	14	County Extension map of staff	1960-1961
5	7	Crop production demonstration manual	1956
1	15	Dairy feed planning chart/"Feed arms dairymen for defense"	undated
5	8	Dairy publications	1959, 1969
5	9	Decisions for Feedlot Producers	1996
1	16	Developing Iowa’s Economy: Seminars from ISU	1986
2	1	Disaster Recovery: Managing Immature Crops for Grain or Silage	2008
2	2	Education, Occupational and Residential Patterns of Iowa Farm-Reared Youth	1983
5	10	Engaging Community Planners and Local Elected Officials with Local Food Systems Producers to Integrate Local Food Systems into Community Plans and Policies	2011
5	11	Entomology and wildlife publications	1955 circa
4	2	Equipment publications	1952-1967
5	12	Evaluating Nursing Home Insurance	undated
2	3	Event calendar, monthly	1969-1974
2	4	The Extension and Special Services of Iowa State University of Science and Technology to the People of Iowa	1965
6	1	Extension Projects and Plans 1924: Group E - Junior Clubs	1924
2	5	The Extent and Nature of Iowa Crop Production Practices, 1989	1991
4	3	Family Development publications	1962-1969
6	2	Farm and Home Development	1955-1957
2	6	Farmland Leasing 2002, presentation (includes floppy disk)	2002
6	3	Field Agent memorandum book	undated
2	7	Focus on Iowa: Focus Group Interviews with Iowa Residents	1991
4	4	Food and Nutrition publications	1952-1969
4	5	General Extension publications	1965
6	4	Give the Pigs a Chance	1930
2	8	Group Member Roles for Group Effectiveness and Worksheet for Group Member Roles	1962-1963
2	9	Growing out of Middle Childhood – Nine- to Twelve-Year Olds	1984
3	24	Half Hour Studies from Famous Operas	1938
2	10	Handbook on Land Management for Agricultural Conservation Performance	1936
6	5	Hog building plans	1942-1943
2	11	Home Economics staff biographical information	1970 circa
4	6	Home Furnishings publications	1951-1968
2	12	"How Much Can We Produce...?" reprints from Iowa Farm Science	1951-1952
6	6	How-To's for Barbecues	1963
6	7	Information from Experiments in Progress: Small Grains Summary	1944
6	24	"Integration and Contract Farming" pamphlet	1958
2	13	The Iowa Cooperative Extension Service...Today ...Its Scope and Responsibility	1960
3	27	Iowa Horse Judges Directory	1992
3	28	Iowa's Animal Health Needs	1978
2	14	Iowa’s People: A Resource for Extension Educators	1989
6	8	Life Enhancement in Iowa's Future	1973
2	15	Lists of publications in various series	1938-1955
4	7	Management publications	1962-1969
6	9	Mr. Farmer: This Is Your War Emergency Livestock and Feed Budget!	1942
2	16	Music pamphlets	1935-1941
6	10	"New Materials from ISU Extension" flyer	1993, 1997
6	11	Nutrition Picture-Stories	undated
6	12	Picture Page	1970-1973
2	17	Population data handbooks	1955-1965
Map	case	Posters	undated
6	13	Posters	1962-1968, undated
6	14	Publication catalog	1995-1996
6	15	Publication list	1972-1974
2	18	Resource Directory: Issue and Base	1991
3	1	Resource Directory: Issue and Base	1993
3	2	"Scope and Responsibility" statements	1958-1960
6	23	Self-help groups leader guide discussion material	1987
6	16	Short course class notes	1911-1912, undated
6	17	Soil conservation	1940
6	18	Staff directory	1948-1968
3	3-16	Staff directory	1950-1991
6	19	Staff directory	1985
3	17	Staff directory: administrative	1991, undated
6	20	State Park Nature Notes	1939-1940
3	18	Summary of Four Opinion Surveys about Iowa State University...Extension: For the Future Directions Task Force	1985
3	19	"Summer Shelter": plans for open-roosting shed	undated
3	20	"Sweet Clover": information sheets	1930s circa
6	21	They Told It Like It Is: A Summary - the Iowa Youth Seminars	1968
6	22	Tractor Plow Adjustment and Operation	1946