United States. Department of Agriculture

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:22:00 Extension Service Home Agents instruct in methods of home canning, drying fruits and vegetables, sewing, basketweaving, home budgeting, food and nutrition. Meetings are held to 'teach the teachers' - Southern states: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee…. [silent - no subtitles]

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:22:00 Extension Service Home Agents instruct in methods of home canning, drying fruits and vegetables, sewing, basketweaving, home budgeting, food and nutrition. Meetings are held to 'teach the teachers' - western states: Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, California, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, Montana.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:02:52 Meat and poultry buying tips. Storage and handling guidelines. P-11479

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:00:30 PSA on the benefits and procedures of home freezing of vegetables. 1 reel contains 5 sequential copies of the same PSA, the other 2 copies are on separate reels. P-12680

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:22:00 Bob and Helen by a small farm but are daunted by the amount of work needed to refurbish their new home. USDA Farmer's Bulletins 1452 and 1087 provide Bob the information he needs to affect home improvements. (Bureau of Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, and Extension Service)

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:09:00 A picture that shows the range country busy at its big job of providing meat. Emphasizes improvements made through the Government's range program; the picturesque and practical realities of properly located waterholes, windmills and watering tanks; deferred grazing and contour furrows. A fast-action roundup follows, with brief scenes of branding and vaccine injection. The result—good lean grass stock to supply a part of the meat to feed America. (released 1942,...

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:10:00 United States Department of Agriculture Educational Film Service with contribution from the Bureau of Animal Industry. Directed by Edward Kelly and J.O. Williams. Photographed by George R. Goergens and Eugene Tucker

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Sound - 16 mm - 00:23:00 A training film designed for new Forest Service employees whose work puts them in the saddle; safe handling and proper care of horses are stressed. AWARDS: National Committee on Films for Safety, 1953; Golden Reel Film Festival, 1954

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:09:00 Short version of IN THE BEGINNING, p. 34 condensed for school use. Shows how life begins. A rabbit is used to show ovulation, fertilization, and early development of the mammalian egg.

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:07:00 USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, A 'time-lapse machine' is demonstrated and used to record the development of germinating seeds