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United States. Department of Agriculture

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Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

Soil Conservation Public Service TV Spots

 Item
Scope and Contents

16 mm Several TV spots on one reel, for the Soil Conservation Service, USDA P-4755-1

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Solar Attic House

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:09 Lessening home heating costs through the use of a specially designed solar attic P-12700-9

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Solar Heated Miling Parlor

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:24 Beltsville - A solar hot water system is used in different operational aspects of a dairy farm P-12650-42

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Starch Product Cleans Water

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:21 Research results in a starch product which effectively removes heavy metals from the water supply. P-B78-3-13

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Stem Rust: Airborne enemy of grain, 1950

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:30 This is the story of stem rust, a fungus disease that destroys wheat, oats, barley, and rye, and its control. It show how barberry bushes spread the disease to grain crops, the importance of these crops and dependent industries in the Nation's economy, the nature of the disease and how it damages the grain. Covered in detail is the story of ridding grain areas of barberry bushes which spread the disease.

Dates: 1950

Subsurface Trickler

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:22 Demonstrates subsurface trickle irrigation. Research Report News Film. 82ARS-32

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Suburban Soil Problems

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:03:09 Soil Conservation and improvement methods for the Suburban home owner are discussed P-11788

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Sun Power for Farms

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:11:00 Use of solar power in agriculture. Heating greenhouses, heat exchange, solar ponds, heating milking parlors and poultry houses, swine building ventilation, solar drying of peanuts and grains, moisture reduction, heat storage. P-12691

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Supermarket Frolic (4 and 1)

 Item
Scope and Contents

Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:00 60-338

Dates: Majority of material found within 1925 - 1986

Swimming: Part II, Getting Afloat. USDA in collaboration with the Red Cross, 1939

 Item
Scope and Contents

B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:05:00 Short version of LEARN TO SWIM, condensed for school use. How to move along in the water using primary strokes. The film demonstrates the dog paddle, beginner's crawl, and finning.

Dates: 1939