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finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities.
Historical Note
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. Many of these projects were
joint cooperative arrangements with the USDA. In 1971, the Department was
renamed Agronomic Crop Science and again, in 1977, to Crop Sciences. In 1990,
the Crop Science and Soil Science Departments merged to form the Department of
Crop and Soil Science.
Content Description
This collection consists of photographs from the Farm Crops Department.
Most of the photographs are identified and half are dated. Six of the images
listed on the original inventory are missing and noted in the updated
inventory. The images primarily depict plants such as barnyard grass seedlings,
phorium, and fescue undergoing experimentation and land under cultivation by
both horse drawn and mechanical farm equipment at the Oregon Experiment
Station. Department staff, such as Ritchie Cowan, H.A. Schoth and Dr. Frakes,
are also depicted in these photographs.
All of the photographs are black and white prints and there are three
negatives.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation :
Farm Crops Department Photographs (P 130), Oregon State University
Archives, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The photographs are numbered P130:01-P130:47.
Related Materials :
OSU's status as Oregon's designated land grant college has placed
agricultural research as a primary focus for the university. In addition to the
photographs and records of the Crop Science Department (RG 95), materials
relating to OSU's role in agricultural research include the records and
photographs of the Agricultural Experiment Station (RG 25, P 29), College of
Agricultural Sciences (RG 158, P 36), and the Bioresource Engineering
Department (RG 1, P 106).
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box
1
P130:01-P130:02: Barnyard grass seedlings; Jean
Dawson's file, circa
1955
1
P130:03-P130:04: Phorium plants, circa
1960
Brief article on phormium cultivation on the Oregon Coast taped
to the back of P130:3
1
P130:05: Barn and hay loading, circa
1960
1
P130:06: Grass seed plants, circa
1960
1
P130:07: Harvesting; harvesters; grass
seed, circa
1960
1
P130:08: Irrigation, circa
1960
1
P130:09: Grass seed packaged, circa
1960
1
P130:12: Field with grass
seedlings, circa
1960
1
P130:13: Bull eating alta
fescue, circa
1960
Graffiti on front of photo in pen: that is a lot of bull
1
P130:14: Apparatus used for exposure of
seedlings to EPTC vapors consisting of a ring jelly mold, 1 quart oil can, and
a plastic bag, circa
1955
1
P130:15: Barnyard grass seedlings
germinated on the surface of firmly packed soil under sealed plastic
bag, circa
1955
1
P130:16: Representative 7-day-old
seedlings germinated in rolled paper towels moistened with water, indicated ppm
EPTC, circa
1955
1
P130:17: Seventeen day old barnyard grass
seedlings with emerged from soil having 3-6 ppm of EPTC, circa
1955
1
P130:18: Set-up used to germinate barnyard
grass seeds in solution containing EPTC, circa
1955
1
P130:19: Twin flat fan spray and single
flat fan spray, circa
1955
Illustration
1
P130:20: Quentin Zielinski, Bob Storm, Tex
Fraser, Huge Kruger, Lyle Calvin, Wilson Foote, Ernst Doernfeldt, Jerry Li,
J.R. Cowan, Paul Bernier, and Ralph Bogart, circa
1960
Another print of this image, labeled P130:20cn, was made from a
copy negative of the original print
1
P130:21: Oregon Experiment
Station, 1923
field scales.
1
P130:22: Mr. H.A. Schoth standing in the
original planting of alta fescue on the West Farm, Oregon State College,
Corvallis, Oregon, 1955
Another print with this number, labeled P130:22, Tall fescue:
showing bagging and tagging procedures by J. R. Cowan in controlled breeding
experiment.
1
P130:23: Dr. J.R. Cowan examining nine
days regrowth on culture 237. Picture taken January 11,1955. Plant was clipped
on January 2
1
P130:24: Cutting Vetch, June 4, 1919
horse drawn equipment
1
P130:25: Vetch, 1919
horse drawn equipment
1
P130:27: Horse drawn equipment, 1922
1
P130:28: Coos County 1925, home-made
machine (horse drawn equipment)
1
P130:29: Coos County 1925, home-made
machine (horse drawn equipment)
1
P130:31: Horse drawn flatbed
wagon, 1926
1
P130:32: Horse drawn equipment, 1926
1
P130:33: Mower equipped with swather and
buncher, 1927
horse drawn equipment
1
P130:34: Horse drawn equipment and
tractor, 1927
1
P130:35: Horse drawn equipment and
tractor, 1927
1
P130:36: Horse drawn equipment, 1929
1
P130:37: Artichoke digger, 1929
horse drawn equipment
1
P130:39: Horse drawn equipment, 1944
1
P130:41: Farm machinery for
haying, 1929
1
P130:42: Combine, 1929
1
P130:43: Precision seeder banding
fertilizer and sowing seed above the fertilizer bands, June 1960
photo mounted with corner tabs with
caption
Negative no. S-236-6-60
1
P130:44: Close-up of seeding and
fertilizer banding units of precision seeder as set up to seed in two
36-inchrows, June 1960
photo mounted with corner tabs with
caption
Negative No. S-237-6-60
1
P130:45-P130:47: Dr. Frakes, circa
1955
negatives only
Frakes in laboratory and green house
Subjects
Personal Names :
Cowan, J. Ritchie (John Ritchie)
Schoth, H.
A. (Harry August), b. 1891
Corporate Names :
Oregon
Agricultural College. Experiment Station
Oregon
State College. Agricultural Experiment Station
