United States. Department of Agriculture

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:22:00 USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Lifecycle of the mormon cricket, growth stages, habitat, crop damage, physical and chemical control measures

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:14:00 Introductory remarks by Dr. Leland Ossian Howard, Chief, Bureau of Entomology 1894-1931 United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Entomology and Quarantine. Shows the species of mosquito that causes malaria and yellow fever; the development of larvae and pupae into full grown mosquitoes; breeding places, and methods of control.

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Color - Silent - 16 mm - 00:19:00 2 reels with combined running time Reel 1 - Zoological Division - Bureau of Animal Industry / shots of old buildings, animal enclosures, animals in fields, loading for move to new location. Reel 2 - Move to the Animal Disease Station, ongoing construction of new building and animal enclosures

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:28:00 USDA Forest Service presentation - Presents adoption and management strategies of horses and burros to curtail overpopulation in the wild; Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act 1971; Bureau of Land Management Horse Adoption Program 1976; economic and environmental stability; range conditions; forage competition; wild horse rescue efforts. Animal welfare

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:00:30 Forest Service PSA 82FS-3C

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:07:00 A film by the Farmers Home Administration of USDA documenting the improvements to health care services made by providing upgrades to the Family Health Center "Nueva Esperanza" in Los Baños, California. Narrated by Phil Villalobos.

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:02:30 A rural areas development film, visualizing the problems of providing better economic opportunities for rural youth.

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:20:00 Research focused on developing new uses for farm products has resulted in this unusual report to the nation form U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists. The film highlights instant mashed potatoes, improved cotton fabrics, scorch-proof cottons, research on cereal starches for industrial use and better plastics. This motion picture was filmed at the USDA Research Center in Beltsville, MD., and in four regional USDA Utilization Research and Development...

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:11:00 Reel of 11 different Forest Service PSA's supporting the "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" initiative.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:21:30 Tells how tuberculosis was found in a slaughtered animal at a packing-plant and how the animal was traced to the owner, leading to the discovery of the disease in other animals and herds. Explains the State-Federal Cooperative TB Eradication program to eliminate tuberculosis from livestock, particularly cattle.