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Finding Aid for  UGA 03-044 J. Frank McGill Peanut Extension Papers  1954-1979

RG 5.6  Cooperative Extension
14  Linear Feet : 14 Banker's Boxes

Scope and Contents

J. Frank McGill was the Cooperative Extension peanut agronomist stationed at the University of Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, Georgia from 1954 until 1980.  This collection chiefly consists of bound volumes of his correspondence and various reports relating to the development of the post-war peanut industry in Georgia.  The collection also contains Mr. McGill's history of his work in Georgia and around the world, From the Mule to the Moon:  a Fifty-Year Collection of Human Interest Experiences About Peanuts, People and Places Across Five Continents.   In recognition of his major contributions to agriculture,  J. Frank McGill was inducted into the University of Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1996.

Because the collection reflects daily activities so thoroughly, it provides a unique view of the operations of Mr. McGill's service during an important phase in agricultural modernization in the state.   Through its pages one can see how the agricultural work of the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, as documented in the book The UGA Coastal Plain Experiment Station...The First 75 Years by Max Bass, was carried to practicing farmers and the peanut industry.  

Box  Inventory

Box

1	Correspondence and reports, 1954-1956 and From the Mule to the Moon
2	Correspondence and reports, 1956-1957
3	Correspondence and reports, 1958-1959
4	Correspondence and reports, 1959-1961
5	Correspondence and reports, 1961-1963
6	Correspondence and reports, 1963-1964
7	Correspondence and reports, 1965-1966
8	Correspondence and reports,  1966-1967
9	Correspondence and reports,  1968-1969
10	Correspondence and reports,  1969-1970
11	Correspondence and reports,  1970-1971
12	Correspondence and reports,  1972-1974
13	Correspondence and reports,  1975, 1977-1978
14	Correspondence and reports,  1978-1980

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