These typed reports document the demonstrations Graeber gave in individual North Carolina counties about Farm Forest Management. He was primarily concerned with demonstrating thinning of Loblolly, Shortleaf, and Virginia Pines to farmers, but also frequently demonstrated timber stand improvement. The reports record the type of demonstration performed, the county and cooperating County Agent, the owner of the timber, type of soil ("character of the site"), purpose of the demonstration, data on the demonstration, reports from the owner about his wood harvest, including monetary values, specifics of the standing crop, and the farmer's income from wood harvest. Occasionally, Graeber worked with a local 4-H clubs in giving his demonstrations, and these occasions are noted in the reports.

Graeber filed weekly reports to the Chief and Director of the Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics entitled, "Specialist's Weekly Report." This series contains his copies of the triplicate forms, and identifies the location and description of the work Graeber performed each day of the week, including number of letters written, office consultations, and miles traveled by automobile and railroad. The "General Remarks" sections of these reports allowed Graeber to elaborate on his activities, and he often included anecdotes and descriptions of his encounters with individual farmers he met while performing forestry demonstrations. In 1934 Graeber also began to file a more generalized monthly report, called the "Monthly Certificate of Service," which basically summarized his weekly reports.

The monthly reports are arranged at the end of the weekly reports, similar to Graeber's filing system. Occasionally, Graeber also filed his annual report drafts with these weekly and monthly reports.

As the state's Extension Forester, Graeber stimulated forestry activities in the counties by sending circular letters and informational materials to County Agents about current forest topics. These typed letters and materials address forest fires, timber income, tree plantings, seedlings, deforestation, 4-H Club involvement in forestry practices, and timber uses in the second world war effort, among other topics often reflected in Graeber's news articles and clippings.

The first subseries contains Graeber's typed news articles, 1925-1949, that he submitted to North Carolina, Southern, and national publications, including editor Clarence Poe's editor F. H. Jeter's (Tennessee), (Florida), and (Chicago, Illinois). Topics typically addressed the forests of specific North Carolina counties, 4-H club involvement in forestry activities, forestry meetings, and special forestry events in North Carolina. A list of titles and first lines for each year follows the container list.

The second subseries is Graeber's "Outline of Study to be made by R. W. Graeber as a Graduate Student" for Forestry 402, "Problems in Research," n.d.. This study of the growth "of Even-Aged Shortleaf Pine in Relation of Soil Type and Stand Density to Determine Age or Period at which Trimming (artificial) should Begin" probably was submitted during Graeber's Forestry study at North Carolina State College from 1929 to 1930, when he graduated with a B.S. in Forestry.

This series consists of negatives and photographs from Graeber's work as a dairy extension specialist in Pitt County, a county agricultural agent in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, and during his tenure as extension forester. From circa 1913 to circa 1917, photographs record the Mecklenburg County Pig and Poultry clubs. The 1920 to 1925 negatives and photographs circa this period depict Graeber's activities in Iredell County, North Carolina, particularly bee-keeping demonstrations, cattle and chicken shows, damaged corn fields, and peach trees. The negatives from this period are cellulose nitrate film and will need preservation attention in the future. The photographs from 1926 to 1938 depict North Carolina forests and forestry demonstrations. Many of these photographs were taken by United States Forest Service photographer, W. R. Mattoon, and are numbered in the lower right-hand corner. This numbering system correlates to the order in which the pictures were taken and when possible, have been filed in "chronological" order. Graeber also took photographs from 1931 to 1938, and while these are numbered by a different system than Mattoon's, they also correlate to chronological order. Occasionally letters or identifying keys accompanied the photos, and these documents have been separated from the photos and housed with the rest of the manuscript collection under the photographs series. Photographs and negatives are arranged in the container list by chronological arrangement, but housed according to size. Negatives are labeled "NEG," and when possible, follow the print they produced.