United States. Department of Agriculture

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:05:00 Short version of LEARN TO SWIM, condensed for school use. Demonstrates advanced strokes and kicks. Shows how to do frog kick, scissors kick, and flutter kick; crawl stroke, breast stroke, and overhand stroke.

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:05:00 Short version of LEARN TO SWIM, condensed for school use. Primary steps in swimming. How to breathe properly, the kick, how to float.

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B/W - Silent - 16 mm - 00:12:00 A Bureau of Dairy Industry film. An animated cartoon dealing with advantages in following the practices of the better-sires movement. Brown's dairy farm is transformed through his memebership in a bull association.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:18:00 The story of rural development through the combined efforts of Government agencies and Nevada ranchers.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:25:30 Recreational opportunities in the National Forests in the Northcentral States are portrayed. These include camping, swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, riding, canoeing, and appreciation of wildlife and conservation. AWARDS: Michigan Outdoor-Travel Film Festival, 1964

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:00 Teschen disease is a contagious virus disease of swine, attacking the brain and nervous system. The film shows characteristic symptoms of the disease from its earliest manifestations, through convulsions and final paralysis. Although no cases have been reported in the United States, it is widespread over most of Europe and causes serious economic losses. In this age of heavy world travel, the introduction of Teschen disease to this country is a constant threat....

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Color - Sound - 16 mm Division of Fire Control, Northern Region, U.S. Forest Service; Good axmanship is discussed, tools, proper chopping motion, preparing the work area, limbing trees, ax sharpening, tool care

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm USDA in cooperation with Univ. of Wisc. - Visit with Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock on the 40th Anniversary of his having developed a test for determining the amount of butterfat in milk; sulphuric acid, Agricultural History, Arthur M. Hyde Secy of Ag.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:20 Potential benefits of research on this melon are discussed. Shelf-life, bioenergy 24000622

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:08:00 The crop that never fails is plenty of savings for hard times. The picture points to the bounteous harvests of recent years but warns that good seasons are largely responsible. Floods and drought, dust, disease, and grasshoppers, inflation and depression of not so long ago are starkly recalled. The lesson is driven home that regular purchase of U.S. savings bonds is excellent armor against future calamity. For adult farm groups at any time; especially good for...