The collection consists of 131 postcards received at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) from 1895 to 1904. The postcards are addressed to professors and other people such as H. W. Mumford, L. R. Taft, Clinton D. Smith, R. H. Petit, J. D. Towar, Arthur Bird, D. W. Trine, as well as to the Agricultural Experiment Station. The postcards contain requests for information about crops or fruit, subscriptions for the Farm Home Reading Circle, inspections for certification and other topics.

Also included in the folder is a summary of the collection written by the donor, Edward Ross, which includes the locations from where the postcards were sent and some arranged by topic and year. Ross also made transcripts of some of the postcards. In the letter, Edward mentions that his grandfather, Charles K. Ross, would have benefited from the "Home Farm Readings" that were distributed by the Agricultural Experiment Station.