A small collection of memos and letters. Examples are: A letter (12/27/61) from Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman to Congressman Wilson and an attached copy of the Dept.'s "The Role of Research in Managed Abundance" (12 pp.); a packet of letters (Dec. 1961-Mar. 1962) re/ Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act; a letter (4/19/62) from Secretary Freeman to Wilson re/ support for President Kennedy's Food and Agricultural Program; letters (Mar.-May 1962) from Wilson, the Dept. of Agriculture, the California Bakery Employers Assn. re/ "The wholesale baking industry . . . on the entire Pacific Coast, is extremely concerned with the present policies of the Department of Agriculture as they relate to support prices and acreage restrictions of wheat;" letters (Mar.-Ap. 1962) from Lakeside constituent Roy Schelat, Wilson & John P. Duncan, Jr. (Dept. of Agriculture) re/ the food storage program and potential spoilage; letters (July-Aug. 1962) from Sunnyside constituent Mrs. Laura Tallian, Congressman Wilson and R.A. Hollis (Office of Information, Dept. of Agriculture) re/ "the latest research methods of insect control without the use of poisons;" a copy of a letter (8/28/62) from Secretary Orville Freeman to Governor Edmund G. Brown re/ "congratulations to you and all those responsible for California becoming a Modified Certified Brucellosis State;" a letter (9/1/62) from the Calif. Creamery Operators Assn. to Congressman Wilson and attached photocopy of "A Tight Squeeze on U.S. Butter," (AP., nd.) regarding federal government lack of cold storage space for surplus butter; "Memorandum To: Maggie From: Cathy" (9/17/62) re/ typewriter skipping problem and call from Hugh Johnson of the Agricultural Dept. needed informatin for the 1963 Yearbook on San Diego schools program on nature study; letters (Aug.-Sept. 1962) from Spring Valley constituent Mrs. Irene A. Johnson, Congressman Wilson, M.R. Clarkson (Acting Administrator, Dept. of Agriculture), his enclosed "Comments on Rachel Carson's Articles in the New Yorker" & copy of "Chemical Spurs Growth" (AP., nd.) re/ the topic of pesticide use in agriculture; four more letters from constituents regarding "male sterilization techniques to control insects;" surplus food products; "inquiry concerning . . . obtaining surplus milk for distribution to needy people in San Felipe, Mexico;" & "distribution of surplus food to needy Mexicans."