meteorology); conservation of natural resources pertaining to agriculture; beekeeping;

exclusions: wood products, paper industry and wood technology; plant biology; botany;
natural history; entomology; ecology; geology veterinary research; energy resources;
water power; limnology; veterinary practice; livestock show records and breeding
records; water power development; canals and railroads, except where specifically
treating relationship to agriculture.

2. Rural economy: Agricultural economics; farm organization and management;
production economics; food distribution; state food supply; statistical data; agricultural
prices; marketing of agricultural products; agricultural and food policies (state level
only); cooperatives; agricultural finance; land economics and land use; land tenure;
migratory labor; rural industry and business connected with the processing and
marketing of agricultural products; rural economy other than farm economy; food
imports;

exclusions: econometrics (methods); international trade in agricultural products;
accounting and business management; agricultural and business law; taxation and public
finance; farm labor organizations; NY cotton exchange; NY cocoa and sugar exchange; NY
mercantile exchange; land transfer and registration records;

3. Rural society: family farming; the farm home and family; rural communities;
standard of living in rural communities; rural organizations, e.g. agricultural societies,
Grange, Farm and Home Bureau, 4-H, and similar organizations, church, improvement
societies (in general, materials dealing with organizations operating on a smaller scale
than the county level will be excluded); rural political organizations and farmers'
movements; farm demographics; rural communications: rural radio programming, the
rural press, rural libraries; rural urban migration; the rural school;
centralization/consolidation of schools; nature study movement; country life movement;
rural play and recreation activities; county and local fairs; cooperative extension
service; farm people's attitudes and opinions; development of rural leadership; selected
mail order catalogs of interest to farm families; role of women in farm life and rural
communities; RFD; automobiles and rural life; rural architecture; rural health and
medical care; rural social services, welfare and social security; rural art; rural water
supply and wastewater treatment; rural land use and planning;

exclusions: television; local government law and proceedings; rural poverty;
industrialization; home economics as an academic discipline; local government; taxation
(except as it relates specifically to farm land and products); county histories; state
associations of towns and school boards; suffrage;