Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Records
UA.16.36

“Analysis of Federal Funds for Agricultural Research and Extension Authorized under the Hope-Flanagan Act of Congress” circa 1951 

Approved Practices – Potato Enterprise 1944 

300 Bushel Potato Club Annual Report  1941 – 1948 

Crops and Acres of Each Grown Form Undated 

Farm Crops Extension School Lesson Undated 

Field Day September 1971 

 February 1972 

“Field Tests on Potatoes of Spray and Dust Fungicide and Insecticide Materials for 1946” 1946  

Memos from H. C. Moore 1944 – 1945 

Michigan Artificial Breeders Cooperative , Inc. Correspondence January 1946  

Michigan Hay and Grazier Newsletter 1996 

Michigan Soil Fertility Train (with photographs and clippings) 1926  

“Minimum Tillage and the Environment” by Ray L. Cook 1971 

MSTAT User News 1985 – 1987 

Northern Michigan Turfgrass Field Day September 1966 

Plant and Soil Sciences Building Dedication September 1986 

Potato Late Blight Control Undated 

The Production of Forage Crop Mixtures Under Different Systems of Management, the Consequent Effect on Corn Yields and the Reestablishment of Alfalfa by C.M. Harrison, H.M. Brown, and H.C. Rather 1947 

Seed Production and Marketing Short Course 1930 

Spragg Memorial Lectures in Plant Breeding 1937 – 1938, 1942  

Weeklies (Bulletins) 1940 -1946, Undated 

Nutrient Management Information Sheet 2003 

Soil Fertility Research and Demonstration Trials MECP Fertilizer Management Team 1990 

Weed Control results in Field Crops 2007 

Turfgrass Program Appendices March 2007 

"Fifty-five years as Agronomist, Organic Soil and Vegetable Specialist" by Robert E. Lucas July 1994 

Articles and a Letter by Spragg 1918-1924; 1945; 1961 

Crop Improvement Work- Farm Crops Department 1915-1926 

Publications Related to Spragg's Work 1910-1913 

Spragg Memorial Lectures 1930-1942 

Wheat Research 1912-1924 

Photographs- Michigan State University collection 

Crop and Soil Science. Classes 

Crop and Soil Science Department. Canning plant on campus 

Alfalfa 1941,1942,1943,1944 

Barley 1944 

Beet Cultures and Experiments 

Broom Grass 

Burning Bean Crops September 27,1944 

Chopping and Cattle Feed (Dexter, Stephen) 

Copper Plant Experiment 

Cucumber 1943-1944 

Drainage 

Fence Hay with Weight Receipts (Dexter, Stephen) June 1941 

Fertilizer Placement 

Greenhouse Studies 

Jim Tyrn Explains Soil Samples to Mr. Ester August 23, 1944 

Lake Water Samples 

Miscellaneous Crops and People 

Miscellaneous Groups of People 1952 

Natution Farm 

Oats 

Peas 

Ploughing Fields 1941,1942, 1944 

Pressure Methods with Negatives (Dexter, Stephen) 

Quack Grass with Negative 1932 

Silage and Forage with Captions 

Silage with Correspondence (Dexter, Stephen) 

Soy Beans 

Spreading Lime 

Steere's Stock (Dexter, Stephen) 

Sudan Grass 

Sugar Beet Experiment 

Tomatoes 1944-1945 

Alfalfa Silage 

Silage Unloader 

Weeds 

Marl and Lime - spreading and use in fields 

Manure and Fertilizer 

Switzerland 

Negatives 

Group Portrait of Soils Department 1937 

Glass Negatives and Photographs 

Prints of Glass Negatives (3 1/4 x 5 1/2) 

Glass Negatives 

#259 Soybeans Kalamazoo Co. Farm undated 

#51 A man with a comparison of a plate with "lime" and one "no lime" undated 

#202 View of a crop field and a farm undated 

#538 Corn and Apples Antrim County 1922 1922 

#801 Manure spread in piles east of Saginaw undated 

#1004 Man standing in grain field undated 

#1006 A man standing in an oat field undated 

#1008 2 measuring sticks in an oat field undated 

#1924 Potatoes near Elmira 1922 

#1957 A picture of 3 plants numbered 1-3 no.1 with smallest roots and no. 3 with largest roots undated 

#N/A A woman in a flower field undated 

#3 View of a man in a field undated 

#32 View of a field undated 

#34 Cass Co. Farm Alfalfa Lime alone Fox Sandy Loam 1923 

#42b 2 shocks of plants undated 

#48 Man standing in a field undated 

#201 Row crops undated 

#250 View of a field undated 

#252 Soy Beans 1926 Growtham Fox Sandy Loam Cass Co. Farm N.P.K. series undated 

#255 Soy Beans Barry Co. Farm Fox Sandy Loam 1924 1924 

#256b Barry Co. Farm Soy Beans Fox Sandy Loam No Treatment 1924 

#258 Soy Beans 1925 Kalamazoo County Farm Fox Sandy Loam Complete Fert. N P K undated 

#302 A crop field undated 

#450 Red Clover undated 

#500 A girl standing in a cornfield Corn Cass Co. Farm undated 

#502 Corn Cass Co. Farm undated 

#1923 Cass Co. Farm Wheat 1924 Lime alone undated 

#1925 Cass Co. farm Wheat 1924 Complete fertilizer NPK undated 

#1927 Wheat Kalamazoo Co. Miami Silt Loam 1919 Center - no fert. Sides - 2-12-6 175 undated 

#1929 Wheat Cass Co. Farm 1924 (year) No treatment Fox Sandy Loam 1924 

#1931 Wheat 1923 (year) Cass Co. Farm Lime alone 1923 

#1940a Wheat three separate schocks undated 

#1941 Wheat Cass Co. Farm? undated 

#1943 Wheat Cass Co. Farm 1919 Fox Sandy Loam Check undated 

#1945 Wheat Cass Co. Farm undated 

#1950 Wheat 5 Separate Schocks undated 

#904 a land cut undated 

#118 Barley 61,62,63,+64 film neg. undated 

#120 Barley 65,66,67,+68 film neg. undated 

#700 1.4 A man with a horse drawn seeder undated 

#802 A man in a corn stubble field undated 

#1009 View of an orchard undated 

#1017 Kalamazoo Co. Farm Coloma Sandy Loam Farm of Jud. Rix 1920 Oats Unfertilized on the left Fertilized on Right 100N 200P 100K undated 

#1023 2.1 V306 Man in a field undated 

#1400 A wheat? field undated 

#1604 Sweet clover field undated 

#1606 S. Clover Lime P K undated 

#1608 Sweet Clover undated 

#1610 A field of sweet clover undated 

#1613 A field undated 

#1623 A field of Barley? undated 

#1701 A crop field undated 

#1908 a crop field undated 

#1909b Wheat 1923 G.M.G Warsaw Silt Loam Kalamazoo Geo. Stewart undated 

#1910b Wheat undated 

#1922a Wheat undated 

Accumulation of Humus in Soil Under Sod Slide 

Causes for Increase in Crop Yields Last 60 Years Slide 

Comparative Effect of Sod-Farming and Non-Sod-Farming Slide 

Humus Content of Prairie Timbered Soils Slide 

Yields of Several Crops in Michigan for 60 Years Slide 

Yields per Acre of Several Crops in the Central West for 60 Years Slide 

Cattle Grazing in Pasture 

Close Up of Plant 2 

Close Up of Plant 4 

Close Up of Plant in Soil 2 

Crop Measurement in Soil 2 

Crop Root Measurements 

Effect of Fertilizer Placement and Rate of Application on the Yields and Stand of Sugar Beets Table 1 

Effect of Fertilizer Placement and Rate of Application on the Yields and Stand of Sugar Beets Table 3 

Effect of Fertilizer Placement and Rate of Application on the Yields and Stand of Sugar Beets Table 5 

Fertilizer Information Slide 

Farming Equipment 

Field of Wilted Plants 

Green Plants 

Horse Drawn Plough 

Leaf Stalks 

Men Digging Ditch for Pipe 

Open Field 1 

Open Planted Field 

Plant Root System 

Plants in Vase 

Root measurement in Soil 1 

Root Measurements in Soil 3 

Soil Profile 1 

Soil Profile Measurements 

Soil Root System Measurements 

Two Cows in Fields 

Two Men in Field 

Two Men in Field with Horse Team 1 

Two Potted Plants 

Two Potted Plants Experiment 1 

Bales of hay in field Undated 

Horses pulling hay carts Undated 

Man standing in field Undated 

Peppermint still scene at barn August 2 

Alfalfa plantings June 4, 1910 

Alfalfa yield before cutting (1 of 2) June 16, 1909 

Bales of plants in field Undated 

Carts loaded with plant bales outside barn Undated 

Farm building interior mechanism Undated 

Farm workers load hay cart at barn (slide is chipped) Undated 

Farm workers with hay cart, silhouetted by barn Undated 

Large wooden barrel mechanisms in barn Undated 

Men standing in barn entrance Undated 

Outdoor brick and wooden farm mechanism Undated 

Plant material piled in field Undated 

Rows of crops Undated 

Tubercles on alfalfa May, 1905 

Tubing on farm building exterior, possible gutters or drainage Undated 

Animals grazing in a field (1 of 2) Undated 

Animals grazing near lean-tos Undated 

Crop scenes with baled plants and barn Undated 

Field milking unit near Stratford-on-Avon Circa 1937 

H.C. Rather's European trip, crop and farm machinery Circa 1937 

H.C. Rather's European trip, grazing animals contact sheet and negatives Circa 1937 

H.C. Rather's European trip, men and children in crops Circa 1937 

Herd of Shorthorn-Ayrshire cross heifers, near Stratford-on-Avon Circa 1937 

Lord Astor Estate, England Circa 1937 

Potato harvest scenes June 

Ranging poultry on grassland near Stratford-on-Avon Circa 1937 

Two men on farm fence rail, labelled "Bolsheviks" Cirva 1937 

Chart of alfalfa and grass returns 1932 

Scenes from Hardanger fjord, Norway Circa 1937 

Crop and barn scenes Undated 

H.C. Rather's European trip, crops and grazing animals Circa 1937 

Main building in Svalov and Westland horses, Norway Circa 1937 

Old Sarum ruins in Salisbury, and tethered cows in Sweden Circa 1937 

Road near Voss, Germany and the R.A.C. Cirencester Circa 1937 

Scenes in English lake country Circa 1937 

Sheep and milking in Sweden Circa 1937 

Swedish farmyard and sheep picked up at Oxford Circa 1937 

Vineyards on the Rhine and the Berlin Zoo Undated 

Prints from glass negatives #216-390 4 folders 

#216 Alfalfa on farm of George Tanner Camden (clay loam soil) June 12, 1913 

#218 Alfalfa field and barns on farm of D.C. Miner (Madina Lenawee Co., clay loam soil) June 13, 1913 

#220 1911 and 1912 alfalfa variety series looking south undated 

#222 Portion 1911 and 1912 alfalfa variety series June 18, 1913 

#224 Looking east into wheat series showing five plots of winter barley June 20, 1913 

#225A The effect of wheat improvement (duplicate) June 20, 1913 

#227 New Dairy Building under construction from window of 209 Agriculture Building June 27, 1913 

#230 1909 progeny alfalfa nursery plants after two ice sheets July 2, 1913 

#232 Portions of 1909 and 1911 alfalfa nursery and 1912 clover nursery showing 1913 alfalfa bed between July 2, 1913 

#234 Timothy clover variety series July 2, 1913 

#236 1911 Alfalfa nursery from north rows 36-62 July 2, 1913 

#238 Looking east in wheat series July 2, 1913 

#239B See #239A July 2, 1913 

#241A 1913 wheat variety series, showing effect good and poor seed bed July 3, 1913 

#242 1909 alfalfa variety nursery, plants tied ready to cut July 4, 1913 

#244 West end of variety oats 1913 July 15, 1913 

#246A Worthy oats 72704 growing in field #7 in 1913 July 28, 1913 

#247 Pollen tubes for corn July 30, 1913 

#248B Early and late oat centegenens 1913 July 30, 1913 

#249A Early and late plants in heterozygous centgeners July 30, 1913 

#250A Green and ripe oats opposite sides. Centerners 1913 August 1, 1913 

#251 Bean variety series growing 1913 August 1, 1913 

#253A Strips of alfalfa between where oats had grown August 20, 1913 

#254 Alfalfa plot June 16, 1909 

#256A An alfalfa individual from nursery 1914. Plant stems more than five feet long June 26, 1914 

#258 Acre of alfalfa being cut June 8, 1914 

#260 Timothy plot, Rosen rye in background June 26, 1914 

#263 Beans (See #261) October 8, 1914 

#265 Bean variety series before pulling October 8, 1914 

#267 Corn Selfing August 4, 1914 

#270 Strains of American banner and best from several varieties April 15, 1914 

#271B Oat variety series 1914, early and late oats August 1, 1914 

#273 Winter Barley June 26, 1914 

#274B Winter barley results, 1914-1915 and 1915-1916 ca. 1916 

#277 Rye plot #328 July 1913 

#278B 1914 Wheat variety series from the South June 30, 1914 

#279B 1914 Wheat variety series from the South June 30, 1914 

#280B 1914 Wheat variety from the South June 30, 1914 

#281B 1914 Wheat varieties seen from the North June 30, 1914 

#283 Seed room January 1908 

#285 Versatility of Michigan's agriculture undated 

#286B Unidentified field undated 

#287B Livert clover plant May 19, 1914 

#289 Sand vetch undated 

#291 Sand vetch undated 

#293 Corn cut down September 1907 

#296 Beet field undated 

#297B Loose (smut?) of wheat undated 

#299A Loose smuts of oats and barley undated 

#300 Aftermath on clonal rows of timothy undated 

#301B Aftermath in clonal rows of Timothy November 5, 1913 

#303 Varieties of corn 1914 

#305 Beans variety after pulling October 10, 1914 

#307 Winter barley in field 12 July 16, 1915 

#309 Winter barley in shock. Field 12 at MAC July 16, 1915 

#311 Soil samples taken north end of lower class July 15, 1915 

#313 Alfalfa June 1, 1911 

#315 Unknown plant undated 

#317 Michigan farmer award for best ear of corn undated 

#319 Farm crops July 6, 1914 

#321 Variety of corn next to Mr. Bogus? July 1914 

#323 Plot 205-206 July 6, 1914 

#324 Shragg's alfalfa plots north of poultry house. Shows stalks growing from the roots June 16, 1914 

#326 Advertisement signs in field (J.W. Knapp & Co. and Bates College Boots) undated 

#328 Sweet clover, east of Cowley May 19, 1914 

#331 Sweet clover roots, east of Cowley May 19, 1914 

#311 Oats and peas on farm of Christ Sorenson, Holton, MI July 9, 1914 

#334 Vetch and rye on farm of Dr. B.F. Black, Holton, MI July 9, 1914 

#336 Vetch and rye, H. Wagner, Muskegon July 9, 1914 

#338 1915 Corn show undated 

#340 Size of ear undated 

#342 Corn showing lack of uniformity undated 

#344 Germination test of corn farm crops undated 

#346 Exhibit January 1915 

#348 Manure exhibit January 1915 

#350 Exhibit - Dependence of July rainfall on cornfield January 1915 

#352 Wheat exhibit January 1915 

#354 Weighing clover hay on exhtl plats July 1916 

#356 Corn racks and other handing of corn in storage January 1917 

#358 Oat exhibit January 1918 

#360 Trade mark of Michigan Crop Improvement Association October 1917 

#362 Storing seed corn, post of station price, Messers Cawood, Latter, Sims September 1917 

#364B Beans September 29, 1917 

#366 Progeny beans September 29, 1917 

#368 Progeny beans September 11, 1917 

#369B Progeny beans September 1, 1917 

#371 Progeny beans September 11, 1917 

#373 Progeny beans September 11, 1917 

#375 Farm buildings and field undated 

#377A North side of 1916 alfalfa nursery September 19, 1917 

#378 General views of the 1916 alfalfa nursery before cutting seed crop September 11, 1917 

#380B Selected Timothies surrounded by rye July 22, 1918 

#381B East edge of wheat variety series July 22, 1918 

#382B Portion of 1918 wheat variety series July 22, 1918 

#383B West edge of 1918 wheat variety series July 22, 1918 

#384B Studies in cousin unions in the after generations January 1918 

#386A The Thales calculating machine January 1918 

#387 Two men in a wheat field undated 

#389 Men standing in a rye field undated 

Glass negative - Field of Timothy and Clover Showing Lime vs. No Lime use. 

Lantern Slides 

Alfalfa 

Winter kill of alfalfa Summer 1912 

Effects of ice 1911 

Inerease - Alfalfa field 1920 

Nursery Sample 1907 

Weighing plants in field (duplicate) 1910 

Weighing plants 1918 

Field exhibitng nursery varieties 1912 

Root systems undated 

Alfalfa nursery Summer 1909 

Alfalfa nursery and plant weighing 1919 

Two plant samples undated 

An alfalfa field undated 

Nursery crop field undated 

View of nursery crop undated 

Mature field undated 

Nursery undated 

A closeup of an alfalfa plant undated 

Partial field undated 

Barley and wheat June 30, 1913 

Harvesting Barley undated 

Increases of barley strains 1914 

Spartan barley crop 1930 

Variety series barley 1920 

Beans 

Bean series 1914 

Bean variety series 1920 

Comparing varieties of beans 192 

Alternating plants 1917 

Threshing beans ca. 1917 

Comparing families, corn, and beans September 11, 1917 

Bean plant row 1909 

Clover rods 1911 

Sweet clover isolation 1923 

Hubam increase 1920 

Threshing the new hughes animal white sweet clover 1920 

Corn 

Corn isolation for crossing 1922 

Corn ear row test 1922 

Close-up of a corn stalk undated 

Corn increase 1919 

Corn selfing 1921 

Corn ear row test (duplicate) 1922 

Ear row corn test 1922 

Corn ear row piles 1922 

Corn silks, lengths 1921 

Comparing varieties of flax 1919 

Individual hemp nursery 1920 

Hemp plant study 1920 

Lecture Aid chart - Genetic Expections, no selection undated 

Apparatus for crossing alfalfa and clover (duplicate) 1911 

Exhibit of cereal crops 1913 

Lecture Aid chart - Genetic Cousing Unions undated 

Lecture Aid chart - Cousin unions table undated 

Oats 

Oat varietal series 1914 

Yield of the best strain of oats table undated 

Oats ca. 1907 

Oat variety series July 21, 1915 

Oat selection plats undated 

Man in field of variety oats at M.A.C. undated 

Oats series - Lodging effect prominent Summer 1912 

Individual oat nursery 1910 

Worthy oats - 75 bushel to the acre 1912 

Pea and alfalfa nurseries undated 

Rye 

Rye isolations in wheat Spring 1921 

Date of seeding rye 1920 

Field of rosen rye 1917 

Rye selfing 1919 

Date of seeding rye 1920 

Sugar Beets 

Sugar beets selfing 1921 

Sugar beet types, diseased core 1922 

Sugar beets types 1920 

Beet series 1922 

Individual mother beet in seed 1921 

Sugar beet varietal series 1923 

Close-up of sugar beet types 1920 

Sugar beet washer showing method of dumbing beets 1923 

Sugar beet washer, view of cutter attachments with table removed 1923 

Sugar beet selfing 1921 

Beet series 1921 

Field of sugar beet selfing 1920 

Sugar beet types 1920 

Annual beet in progeny test 1922 

Timothy field undated 

Timothy types 1909 

Timothy nursery 1908-1909 

Other Timothy types 1909 

Timothy types, adjalent plants 1909 

Timothy types, adjalent hills 1909 

Timothy types 1909 

Timothy types, adjalent hills 1909 

Variation in Timothy undated 

Wheat 

Method of drilling the wheat series. Two men working a tractor 1923 

Red rock foreground in spring Spring 1912 

Wheat heads undated 

Red rock after winter (duplicate) June 20, 1912 

Comparing varieties of rye and wheat 1913 

Wheat field undated 

Flour machines undated 

Increasing new wheats for distribution 1920 

Wheat rows undated 

Wheat planting undated 

Relation of yield to time of seeding wheat 1920 

Berkely rock strain June 1919 

Birthplace of red rock strain 1909 

Use of tractor in drilling 1920 

#231: Crop News Notes 

Published in State Board Reports 

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