Farm Crops Department Photographs 1919-1960

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Farm Crops Department Photographs 1919-1960

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The Farm Crops Department Photographs illustrate research activities on crops, such as grasses, and the use of agricultural machinery.

0.1 cubic foot, including 43 photographs; 1 box

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Oregon State University Libraries University Archives

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Oregon State College. Dept. of Farm Crops.

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Organized in 1916, the Farm Crops Department was established to coordinate research efforts in crop experimentation at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. Prior to 1916, Experiment Station research had been directed by the Department of Agronomy, which was established in 1907. Among the projects undertaken by the Farm Crops Department was the management of the Seed Testing Laboratory, cereal investigation, cooperative extension work with farmers, and research in chemical weed control. Ma...

Oregon Agricultural College. Dept. of Farm Crops.

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Oregon State College. Agricultural Experiment Station

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The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was established under the provisions of the federal Hatch Act of 1887, which provided grants of $15,000 to each U.S. state and territory for experimentation in the "principles and applications of agricultural science." Agricultural experimentation began at Oregon Agricultural College in 1888 under Edgar Grimm, the Station's first director, and in 1889 state legislation was approved formally establishing the Experiment Station. That year, the Station pub...

Cowan, J. Ritchie (John Ritchie)

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Oregon Agricultural College. Experiment Station

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Schoth, H. A. (Harry August), b. 1891

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Schoth was born in Hannah, Wyoming on May 24, 1891. He came to Oregon Agricultural College as a student in 1909, and received the B.S. in 1914 and the M.S. in 1917. Schoth worked as a Fellow at OAC from 1914-1916 and became an instructor (courtesy) in Farm Crops in 1924. He went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1917 as a Scientific Assistant. During his USDA career he was an Assistant Agronomist in Forage Crop Investigations, Associate Agronomist and Senior Agronomi...