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agricultural scientists on the UC Davis campus in 1994, which included
extensive discussion of issues related to extension work and the UC's
obligations as a land-grant university system.
My attempts to collect historical documents relevant to Cooperative
Extension both California-wide and for Monterey County garnered mixed
results. The University of California archives at the Bancroft Library in
Berkeley are very limited in their scope, confi ned mostly to the higher
echelons of university administration, especially the president's offi ce.
Archival resources at UC Davis were disappointing as well—it appears that
very few resources related to Cooperative Extension were saved or consoli-
dated at the UC campuses. One important exception to this trend was
several years of reports compiled by B. H. Crocheron in the fi rst two
decades of UC Cooperative Extension, copies of which I found at the
Natural Resources Library on the UC Berkeley campus; these reports form
an important part of my analysis in chapter 2.
I also found the documents saved locally, in the offi ces of Cooperative
Extension in Monterey County, very spotty. Although some materials were
useful, it was hard to build even the most basic history of the county's
extension work, including the staff, their projects, and their clientele over
the years. I was fortunate, however, to piece together smaller parts of the
history from diverse sources. One of the best resources was the retired
advisors and growers who shared their memories with me in interviews.
In addition, the Monterey County Farm Bureau had saved the minutes
from meetings of its board of directors for the period from approximately
1935 to the present, and the secretary of the organization was kind enough
to allow me access to these records. Another important source of data came
from records given by the Spreckels Sugar Company to the Monterey
County Department of Parks. These records form the bulk of the data used
for chapter 4, along with the La Follette Committee's investigations into
labor unionism and its repression by industrialists during the 1930s (U.S.
Senate 1940).
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