Clair Elman Terrill : collection, 1912-1978.

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Clair Elman Terrill : collection, 1912-1978.

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The Clair Elman Terrill Collection contains proofs and photographs for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletins and circulations, sheep and goat registry and breeding records, a card catalog of rabbit publications, and black and white photographs of rabbits and related subjects. There are papers related to the U.S. Rabbit Experiment Station in Fontana, California, and the U.S. Fur Experiment Station in Ithaca, New York. Also included are photographs, glass and acetate negatives, equipment, and wool samples used in Hardy's work for the U.S. Animal Husbandry Experiment Station (part of the USDA Division of Animal Husbandry) and his Thin Cross-section Device. There are records of the Sheep and Fur Animal Research Branch, Animal Husbandry Division, Agricultural Research Service. Additionally, the collection contain over 200 wool samples from 1950-1960 labeled with sheep identification number, location, and date. Samples were taken from Beltsville, Maryland. and other locations within and United States.

76.25 Linear feet (37 boxes)

National Agricultural Library, NAL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7902989

National Agricultural Library, NAL

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Terrill, Clair Elman, 1910-

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Clair Elman Terrill (1910-2001), a worldwide leader in sheep production research, was the chief of USDA's Sheep and Fur Animal Research Branch. Animal Husbandry Division, Agricultural Research Service, from 1955-1972. He developed a three-pronged strategy for increasing efficiency of meat production from sheep without increasing feed demands: genetically increase the lamb crop, remove low-producing adults at an early age, and reduce lamb mortality. From the description of Clair Elman...