Inventory of the Joint Interim Committee on Agriculture and Livestock Problems Records, 1945-58/Senate Fact-Finding Committee
on Agriculture Records, 1959-66
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Inventory of the Joint Interim Committee on Agriculture and Livestock Problems Records, 1945-58/Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Agriculture Records, 1959-66
Inventory: LP179
California State Archives
Office of the Secretary of State
Sacramento, California
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- 1020 "O" Street
- Sacramento, California 95814
- Phone: (916) 653-2246
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- URL: http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Joint Interim Committee on Agriculture and Livestock Problems Records, /Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Agriculture Records,
Date: 1945-58
Date: 1959-66
Inventory: LP179
Creator:
Joint Interim Committee on Agriculture and Livestock Problems
Creator/Collector:
Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Agriculture
Repository:
California State Archives
Language:
English.
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Records, LP179, California State Archives.
Contents
The subject files of the above two committees relate directly and indirectly to the various hearings held by the committees
during their respective periods of activity. Where possible subject files have been placed with the specific hearing or hearings
to which they directly relate. The remainder, as described below, are more general files, which because of the diversity of
content and span of years covered, are best described separately.
File contents include letters received and copies of letters sent; memoranda; Committee Executive Secretary's correspondence,
notes; summaries, and reports; reports; background studies; Legislative Counsel and legal opinions; minutes; newsletters;
newspaper clippings; press releases; resolutions; speeches and addresses; and various publications and other printed materials
consituting background information and data for Committee use. File contents vary widely depending on subject matter.
Folder LP179:95.
1. AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT. 1948-56.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Proceedings and recommendations of the State-Wide Conference on Agricultural Use of Aircraft, Feb. 8-9, 1949; regulation of
crop dusters and operations of aircraft used in agriculture.
Folder LP179:96-99.
2. AGRICULTURAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION. 1954-63.
Physical Description: 4 f.
Scope and Content Note
Information Bulletins and other records of the Association related to compliance with Department of Agriculture regulations
with respect to handling and application of agricultural chemicals, aircraft safety training and general operations of aircraft
used in agriculture.
Folder LP179:100.
3. AGRICULTURAL INSPECTORS. 1956.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Shortage of County Agricultural Inspectors due, in part, to low salaries.
Folder LP179:101.
4. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH STUDY COMMISSION, GOVERNOR'S. 1946-49.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
First through Third Reports and summary of presentations, resolutions and recommendations made at Commission hearings from
growers, processors and distributing agencies with respect to needed or more concentrated research on agricultural problems.
Folder LP179:102.
5. ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION. 1951-54.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Necessity to regulate and/or license artificial inseminators.
Folder LP179:103
6. BEET LEAF HOPPER (Curly Top Virus). 1950-60.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Progress and other reports on operations of control program, budgetary projections, and periodic outbreaks in the San Joaquin
and Imperial valleys.
Folder LP179:104.
7. CONTAINERS. 1960-63.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Industry Container Standardization Committee - appointments to and legislative proposals amending Agricultural Code with respect
to container sizes, pack, markings, etc., for fruits, nuts and vegetables, and to transfer to the Department of Agriculture
authority for regulation of standards.
Folder LP179:105-109.
8. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS. 1947-62.
Physical Description: 5 f.
Scope and Content Note
Committee and Executive Secretary's correspondence regarding hearing schedules and subject matter thereof; committee appointments
and resignations; constituents views on subjects which should be heard by the committee, on proposed/pending legislation;
and views on various agricultural matters; and misc. chairman's speeches (ca. 1960-62).
Folder LP179:110.
9. DRUG AND OIL PLANT DEVELOPMENT. 1946, 48.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Restoration of budget to facilitate ongoing research.
Folder LP179:111-112.
10. FARM LABOR. 1948-53, 56-58, 62.
Physical Description: 2 f.
Scope and Content Note
Proposed legislation to dispose of Federal labor camps to public or semipublic agencies and opposition of Farm Labor Camp
Association and farmer's organizations to State purchase; farm labor housing survey; proposed creation of a Farm Labor Placement
agency; proposed extension of unemployment benefit insurance benefits to agricultural laborers; farm labor supply; licensing
and regulation of farm labor contractors; migratory labor; wate rates; and Strangers in Our Fields, a study of the Mexican
Contract Labor Program.
Folder LP179:113.
11. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 1951-54.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
U.S.D.A. and misc. other agency press releases and information on disease outbreaks and Federal research activities.
Folder LP179:114.
12. FOREIGN COLD STORAGE MEAT. 1955-57.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous legislative proposals to amend State Act and concerns of commodity groups that legislation could create trade
barriers.
Folder LP179:115-116
13. GRAZING CONCESSIONS IN STATE PARKS. 1951-57.
Physical Description: 2 f.
Scope and Content Note
Complaints against State Division of Beaches and Parks for terminating grazing concessions, particularly in Cuyamaca and Anza
Desert State Parks, and Comm. investigation of issues involved under SR 174 and SCR 128. Includes studies of damage caused
by cattle.
Folder LP179:117.
14. HIDE AND BRAND REGULATIONS. 1952-53.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Committee report Need For Strengthening State Laws Relating to Hide and Brand Regulations, and proposed additions and changes
to Agricultural Code.
Folder LP179:118.
15. INJUROUS PEST CONTROL MATERIALS. 1955-57.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Department of Agriculture press releases and staff speeches on regulations governing use, handling and application of pesticides.
Folder LPL79:119.
16. IRRIGATION DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA. 1958-61.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Proposed soil and water research facility at University of California, Davis.
Folder LP179:120
17. KHARPAEBEETLE. 1955.
Physical Description: 1f.
Scope and Content Note
Eradication and experimental research reports and budget augmentation proposal for research.
Folder LP179:121.
18. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL. 1948-56.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous opinions.
Folder LP179:122.
19. MARKET NEWS SERVICE. 1952-57.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Proposals to expand program into other cities and FCC ruling cancelling State's authority to continue operating a radiotelegraph
network for dissemination of market news information.
Folder LP179:123.
20. MEXICAN FRUIT FLY. 1954-56.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Selected correspondence with California Congressmen concerning requests for additional Federal funding for research and control
programs due to infestations in Baja, California.
Folder LP179:124-127.
21. MILK. 1948-61, 65.
Physical Description: 4 f.
Scope and Content Note
Pricing of fluid milk, authority of the Department of Agriculture to set and regulate milk prices, marketing plans, California
Milk Control Law, dairy products, operations of the Bureau of Milk Control.
Folder LP179:128.
22. ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY. 1948-52, 60.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Control program.
Folder LP179:129.
23. PEST CONTROL OPERATORS. 1947-53.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Licensing and regulation of operators.
Folder LP179:130
24. POULTRY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION. 1950-53.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Scope and Content Note
Operations of Commission, Pullorum control research and proposals to reduce Commission programs through budget reduction.
Folder LP179:131
25. TUBERCULOSIS INVESTIGATION. 1949.
Physical Description: 1 f.
Folder LP179:132-133.
26. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 1945, 49, 53.
Physical Description: 2 f.
Scope and Content Note
The Agricultural Extension Service, A Postwar Appraisal, 1945; Research Programs of the College of Agriculture..., Index of
Projects, 1948-49.