United States. Department of Agriculture

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:15 The Khapra Beetle is the world's worst pest of stored grain, and its damage in elevators and warehouses in affected areas of California, Arizona, and New Mexico is forcefully portrayed in this film. The striking scenes of control measures make this an unusual and vivid picture; huge elevators and warehouses are covered with giant plastic tarpaulins and fumigated with methyl bromide gas to kill these insects. Produced in cooperation with the California...

Scope and Contents B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:05:00 One of a series of four films prepared especially for school use. This film tells the story of manmade soil erosion and what it has done to our productive land. It distinguishes between natural erosion and manmade erosion. It depicts sheet and gully erosion by water and erosion by wind and explains the destructive force of each. It ends by showing that destructive erosion is not necessary if conservation farming methods are used. Simple narration and...

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:10:00 An insect pest, the European corn borer first made its appearance in the United States in 1917. Since then the corn borers have multiplied in great numbers and are estimated to cause losses of 50 million bushels of corn each year. With the aid of the close-up camera, we see in interesting detail the life cycle of the corn borer—from egg to borer, to moth, and back again to egg. The film discusses control measures, tells the farmer how to recognize and...

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:15:30 A case history of a "hidden brucellosis shedder" and how this cow was located in a brucellosis problem herd. Show a battery of tests available for detection of the disease…efficient tests that seek out and find brucellosis no matter where it is hidden. The film is a case history of cooperation among livestock owners, practicing veterinarians and veterinarians specially trained as brucellosis epidemiologists, the kind of cooperation that means the entire...

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:13:30 The national forests make an important contribution to the Nation's economy aside from their production of timber. The picture portrays the sources of products not usually linked with the forests, such as stuffing for furniture, candy cascara, and many other products. National forests in every part of the United States make their own extra contributions to the Nation's welfare, happiness, and prosperity. Here is shown how wise use and protection of our forest...

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:23:45 Prepared to provide information on radioactive fallout and its movement through the atmosphere resulting in exposure of radiation to man, animals and the contamination of agricultural commodities. Discusses and illustrates the radioactive elements of concern to agriculture and means of protection against radiation, minimizing the contamination of soil, crops and other foods.

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B/W - Sound - 16 mm - 00:02:45 A continuous supply of water is a problem that faces farm families. Shows an electronic survey being made of water use on a farm.

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Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:01:30 Use of electron microscopy to identify unique plants characteristics. 3rd copy is combined with the "Lateral travelling trickle Irrigation" reel. 82ARS-15

Scope and Contents Color - Sound - 16 mm - 00:28:15 Dramatic photomicrography and animation combine to tell the serious story of the imported fire ant. In their constant search for food and shelter, fire ants are shown as they interfere with farm machinery operations and construction crews, and menace workers in the fields and children at play. Shows underground honeycomb of chambers inside an ant colony, where ants lay eggs, and develop into larvae and pupae, and reveals the four major adult forms of the...