United States. Department of Agriculture

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:27:00 The wisdom in nature's design, timber wolves, extinction, endangered species, changing wildlife populations, conservation, habitat management, California Condor, American Bison, Prairie Dogs, American Osprey, Black-footed ferret

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:09:45 A simple story of a ranger explaining what his district is "for" to two Boy Scouts. Scenes of all national forest activities. Filmed in the northern lake States.

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:19:00 [Racial Bias] Three counties in SE Georgia join with the State and U.S. Public Health Service in setting up a demonstration project for the control of syphilis. Systematic efforts are made to find cases of syphilis and bring them to treatment at one of the city or community clinics. Mobile clinics reach individuals in rural areas. Show how communities, mobilized with weapons of medicine and modern public health, can stamp out this disease. Delicate treatment...

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:05 A more frost and nematode resistant strain of Tifway© is developed from studying the mutations of irradiated seed. 82ARS-16

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:10:00 Southeast Alaska, land of timber and totem poles, has much to offer Americans, toady and for hundreds of years to come. Here on the Tongass National Forest there is timber waiting to be felled and hauled to the mills—vast acreages of Sitka spruce, western hemlock and graceful cedar. Here, too, totem poles tell of the legends of the land in ancient carvings. Native Alaskan Indians, in ceremonial garb, are shown restoring and copying their totem poles. Shows...

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:06:30 An animated film, based on nationwide survey of America's timber resources. It presents, in colorful fashion, some of the major highlights of the extensive survey… factual material which concerns every American. "TRR" shows where we stand today and also takes a "look ahead" at our future timber needs.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:23 The use of two wasp species in the biological control of blackfly. 24000625

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:00:54 PSA - picking appropriate quality fruit for canning, contact Cooperative Extension for more information P-12627 - 1

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:11:00 One of a series of four films prepared especially for school use. This film tells the story of one of America's richest treasures—the thin layer of topsoil on which we depend for most of our food, clothes, and other necessities of life. It shows why and how both city and rural people depend on the topsoil of productive farmlands. It explains how topsoil was made by nature through the centuries and how it may be destroyed in a few years by improper farming...

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:00 Outlines the basic steps involved in the use of a uniform back-tagging system as a means of identifying and tracing to the herds of origin bucellosis-infected cattle detected through blood testing on the way to or at slaughter. Shows the advantages of the system to beef producers, including possible use of tracing procedures to detect and eliminate other livestock diseases. Of primary interest to beef cattle producers in range and semirange areas. AWARDS:...