Agricultural Engineering Department motion picture films 1947-1968.

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Agricultural Engineering Department motion picture films 1947-1968.

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The Agricultural Engineering Department Motion Picture Films document strawberry harvesting in Oregon in the 1960s, especially the development of mechanical harvesting equipment by Oregon State University researchers, and the growing and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley in the 1940s. The fiber flax film was co-produced by the Cooperative Research Project of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Oregon State College Agricultural Experiment Station.

6 film reels.

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

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