Reports and legislation briefs, policy agendas, reports, and briefs. Subjects include women's issues, family farms, tax reform, community energy planning, local food, plant closings, cooperatives, South African divestment, toxic chemicals, and health care.

Biannual conversations with adults and children eight and older, individually and in family groups, in a panel of thirty-three New York and Iowa farm families concerning how the occupation of farming is organized and conducted.

Four farm account books, 1855-1913; a notice of appointment as Overseer of Highways, 1858; lease, 1907 with extensions to 1917; and a stock certificate, 1899, of George W. and Jane E. Iden of Sherwood, N.Y.

Includes biographical information, course material, correspondence, student papers of the Poultry Judging School in the Department of Poultry Husbandry and farm records pertaining to Egan's apple farm in Claverack, New York in Columbia County.