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Box 0006

 Container

Contains 58 Results:

Machinery shed (2 sections built by USDA), farm barn and residence to the left

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0363
Identifier: MS0242-009033
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Looking west from main road – barn and superintendent’s residence (stated owned)

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0364
Identifier: MS0242-009034
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Potato field – another view of the seedlings from no.1

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0365
Identifier: MS0242-009035
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Large tractor pulling cultivating equipment

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0366
Identifier: MS0242-009036
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Covering potatoes planted by hand

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0367
Identifier: MS0242-009037
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Seed tuber unit

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0368
Identifier: MS0242-009038
Scope and Contents

Cut with sterilized knife, each unit placed in a 1-pound bag and planted with chain marker

Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Making crosses in potato breeding plot. Robert V. Akeley, agent

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0369
Identifier: MS0242-009039
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Spraying outfit

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0370
Identifier: MS0242-009040
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Potato-insect cages for use in pathological studies

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0371
Identifier: MS0242-009041
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine

Field of Sebago (left), Erlanie increase plot (right)

 File — Box: 0006, Folder: 0372
Identifier: MS0242-009042
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records / Series VI. Aroostook Farm, Presque Isle, Maine