United States. Department of Agriculture

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:30 Exchange of cherry tree cuttings to help repopulate Japan with varieties the have become increasingly rare. 24001015

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:03:45 Sharing with our less fortunate foreign friends helps solve food problems and provide adequate diets.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:00 A food safety musical PSA P-237004

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:00:30

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Color - Silent - 16 mm - 00:06:00 Mechanical seed sorting using vibration, vacuum, and spinning drum methods. Seed quality inspection.

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:10:00 Carelessness with cigarettes and camp fires causes forest fires; prevention tips, fire safety

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:25 A member of a volunteer fire crew tells a story designed to point out the damage resulting from man-caused fires in the hill country of Ohio. Typical causes of fires and the ways in which fires can lower the general prosperity of the community are shown. Can be used to advantage in similar rural communities.

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:10:00 Shows how the U.S. Forest Service has developed its own airborne squadron—smokejumpers, or parachute firefighters—to combat forest fires in the remote, roadless areas of our great north country and the Southwest. Smokejumping is a fast efficient way of getting firefighters where they are needed in such country. Every jump is a hazardous operation, but the film show that the jumper is given maximum protection by reason of well-planned equipment and grueling...

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:24:00 A beautiful motion picture which describes the important and hazardous activity of making snow surveys in the high mountains of the West. It is rich with winter scenery "rarely looked upon by man" yet shows the techniques of measuring snow to forecast irrigation and other water supplies in enough detail to satisfy even scientific viewers. A film that practically all audiences will enjoy.

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:09:00 One of a series of four films prepared especially for school use. This film show briefly how conservation farming methods may prevent further destruction of the Nation's soil and water resources. It emphasizes proper land use as the basis for conservation farming. It shows how several of the most common conservation practices can be applied to the land, such as contouring, terracing, strip-cropping, covercropping, rotation, tree and grass planting and so on....