17. Agriculture & Insecticides,, 1925-1980

Summary: Documents CR's interest in animals and animal feed, farm conditions, gardening and mostly the use of insecticides or pesticides and their effect on farm products. Includes correspondence of CR staff and subscribers or technical experts, magazine and newspaper clippings, technical articles, publications, product information and other material. Subjects include animal feed and medicine, dairy equipment, domestic animals & livestock, animal feed, poultry, agricultural economics, fertilizers and soil fertility, seeds, soil conditioners; gardening, weed killers, grass culture, seeds, floriculture, landscape gardening, preservation of cut flowers, trees & forestry, vegetable, fruit and berry growing, insecticides, government standards and protection for insecticides and pesticides, defense of pesticides, recommended spraying methods, spray residue, stupidity of horticulturists and farmers, official tolerance of spray residue, toxicity of DDT, and types of insecticides.