USDA Sugar Crops Section records, 1926-1960.

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USDA Sugar Crops Section records, 1926-1960.

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The USDA Sugar Crops Section records include data sheets, reports, and manuscripts written by various employees; slides, negatives and photographs of sugar beets; correspondence of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart; and other research files related to sugar beets. The materials are primarily from the administrations of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart. Coons was the principal pathologist of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry during the 1930s and 1940s. Stewart was the head of the Sugar Beet Section, Agricultural Research Service during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Stewart, Dewey.

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Dewey Stewart was a sugar beet expert with the USDA Division of Sugar Beet Investigations. From the description of Dewey Stewart oral history, 1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934457 ...

United States. Agricultural Research Service. Sugar Crops Section

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Research to improve sugar production began in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology during the 1890's. By 1926 the section was named the Office of Sugar Plants, Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI). Other name changes and office redesignations consist of the following: the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, BPI, in 1931; divisional component of the Field Crops Divisions, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering (BPISAE) in 1946; F...

Coons, George Herbert

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