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Layne R. Beaty Papers
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President Harry Truman with the Radio Farm Directors at a While House conference held on May 2, 1949. Frank Atwood of Radio Station WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut, with President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary Ezra Taft Benson at the 1955 Spring meeting of the National Association of Television and Radio Farm Directors. NAFB Past Presidents (L-Fr) Layne Beaty, Roy Battles, John McDonald, Jack Timmons, Bob Mill. (L-Bk) Wally Erickson, Maynard Speece, George Menard, Orion Samuelson, George Stephens, Bob Nance. Photographed in November 1967. Farm director Wayne Lilies of KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, interviews Honeymoon, the Grand Champion Steer at the International, which was given to the Oklahoma 4-H Clubs by Arthur Godfrey. The 4-H Clubs presented Honeymoon to the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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Edith Swing, Layne Beaty, and Jules Renaud, in 1961, taping the USDA TV show Across the Fence. The show's name was later changed to A Better Way. With the station's pig farm in the background, WNCT Greenville, North Carolina Farm Director Dick Stokes conducts his daily farm program, which strives to show farmers how their farm income can be upped through means of swine production. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture (right) and Morse Salisbury, USDA broadcaster, doing a program for the National Farm and Home Hour, circa 1939. In the past, farm families relied on the radio as a vital link in keeping abreast of world events and current agricultural information.
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Charlie Slate, Farm Service Director of the Carolina Radio Network, interviews a local farmer in the spring of 1962. Everett Mitchell, the emcee of National Farm and Home Hour. Farm Broadcaster John Baker photographed in 1945. Baker was the author of the book Farm Broadcasting: The First 60 Years, which was published in 1981.  
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Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H
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4-Her sitting on prize corn yield (1912) Canning Club Powell Counties (1915) Dairy judging practice (1920) NY 4-H delegation on Capitol steps
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Gladys Bull w/ Gertrude Warren (1928) Home Demonstration Agents A Century of Progress Arcturus candlelighting (1933) 3 boys and their baby beef (1933)
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Keys to 4-H ambulance given to Red Cross 4-H station wagon ambulance given to Red Cross 4-H Tractor Program Junior Leadership Camp flag raising ceremony
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4-H Clubs Need You in 1946 Learn to live in a changing world (1947) Better Homes…More Responsible Citizenship (1948) Better Living for a Better World March 5-13 (1949)
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Better Living for a Better World March 4-12 (1950) Serving as Loyal Citizens through 4-H (1952) Working Together for World Understanding (1954) Make the Best Better (1955)
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Improving Family and Community Living March 3-11 (1956) Improving Family and Community Living March 2-9 (1957) 4-H Salute to Parents (1958) Improving Family and Community Living Feb. 28-March 7 (1959)
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learn, live, serve, through 4-H March 5-12 (1960) learn, live, serve through 4-H March 4-11 (1961) learn, live, serve through 4-H March 3-10 (1962) learn, live, serve through 4-H March 2-9 (1963)
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4-H . . . learning for living (1964) Learning for living (1965) 4-H LEARNING FOR LIVING (1966) A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY (1967)
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Learning to serve (1968) Opportunity for All (1969) 4-H is For Us! (1970) 4-H BRIDGES THE GAP (1971)
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a new day-a new way (1972) 4H GETS IT ALL TOGETHER (1973) WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN (1974) 4H-'76/spirit of tomorrow (1975)
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ROOM TO GROW (1976) FREEDOM TO BE… (1977-78) LIBERTAD PARA LA SUPERACION 1-7 oct. 1978 EXPANDING HORIZONS (1979-80)
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PATHWAYS TO THE FUTURE (1981-82) 4-H FOR YOUTH FOR AMERICA    
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Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H
Box 4, Folder 52
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Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics
Published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date: 1916-1917

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Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural Exploration Expedition Collection
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Pinus bergiana [thunbergiana?]. White Bark Pine. Near [Hsiang Shau?], Hunting Park. Western Hills, [Chihli?], China. [August] 10, 1930. Photograph #45529. Soja ussuriensis. Wild soy bean. View [of] the wild soy bean plants growing along road side on [the] outskirts of Heijo, [Chosen]. These plants appear different from wild soy bean found in Manchuria and Japan. The leaves are larger and somewhat different[ly] shape[d]. The plants, however, are very hairy and are now just about past full bloom. Photograph #45649. Pinus bergiana [thunbergiana?]. White barked pine. [Tau Chou Ssu?]. View of a very fine specimen of the white barked pine (Trunk and larger branches) that we yet have seen. Seed was secured and given our field number #7312. Photograph #45933. The handles and frame of these umbrellas are bamboo. Photograph #162.
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Split bamboo baskets. Stilts or tom-walkers made of bamboo. Bamboo baskets and the fishermen (comorants) who fill them. Making bamboo baskets for protecting riverbanks and controlling river flow or river erosion.
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An attractive bamboo gate. Bamboo grove and umbrella. Fencing with bamboo and bamboo guards. Looking aft. at storm at sea.
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Repairing a blowout on Mr. Stensham's car. Photograph #43372. Ready for planting. Dorsett tries the [waterwheel]. Photograph #44067. Nelumbium sp. [Nelumbo sp.] A nearby view of a fine large full open bloom - of a beautiful pink color - Lotus in the lake at the Summer Palace some 15 miles or so outside of Peiping. [August] 5, 1930. Photograph #45475.
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Moon Gate. Jade Fountain. Near Peiping, China. One of the moon gates near the entrance to the Jade Fountain enclosure. Such a gate is unique and interesting. Photograph #45489. Landscape near [Ching Lung Chiao, Chihli?], China. View of the Great Wall of China which shows a portion of this wonder of the world from a position just above the watch tower to the west, a [portion] of which is shown here. The view also shows very well the general character and appearance of the country here. The wall is reported to be 1500 miles in length. Photograph #45623. Architectural Ming Tombs, China. Interior View of a portion of the Ancestral Hall at Chang Ling Yung Lo's tomb. The 3rd Ming Emporor of China. At the tombs, to the northwest of Peiping. This picture was taken about 5 p.m. from the west side of the room & looking to the east end. Across the room north and south there are 5 of the large pillars 25' on center and a smaller one in each row in the front and back is all. East and west there are ten pillars 25' on centers. The wooden pillars 124 1/2" in circumference & something like 40' in height to first cross turben. A portion of the Dorsett-Morse agricultural expedition crossing the Hun river.
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Landscape from the trail above the temple Tan Chou Ssu while en route from China to Mintouksu. At the extreme right is our donkey caravan. The tree area is the temple grounds and shows pretty conclusively that the rugged rough mountains could be reforested. Zea Maiz Corn, [Makatou?], Manchuria. Corn is grown quite extensively in the [Kuan Tung?] leased territory and generally with other crops such as Mung beans or soybeans, after harvesting the corn is kept in bins or cribs made of Kaoliang stocks. Photograph #45991. Near Pa La Chu western hills, west of Peiping, China. A.H. Dorsett and his Chinese interpreter Aiten Liu on the trail. Photograph # 46197a. A panoramic view of the south side of the [Ushijima wisteria] vine and arbor. The length of the arbor is about 100 feet. We were near the center of the distance and 20 to 50 feet away from the vine. Photograph #43638.
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Brassica sp. Chinese cabbage. [Rilsuri?], Chosen. View of a Chinese cabbage garden in trucking section. This cabbage is used in making a Korean native relish called Kimchi. Photograph #45826. A panoramic view from [P. H.] Dorsett's window in his headquarters at the Chosen Hotel. In the foreground is the Temple of Heaven, beyond, a portion of the city and the mountains in the background. [Kujo?], Chosen. Photograph #44410. Gossypium sp. Cotton. Heijo, Chosen. Native cotton [for] sale on Korean Market day. Photograph #45753. Astragalus sp. A nearby view of a well seeded plant in the grounds of the Temple of Heaven. A nice lot of seed of this species was secured and sent in under our #7172. It looks promising. Photograph #45880.
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Lespedeza sp. Temple of Heaven grounds, Peiping, China. A tall growing, free flowering species of Lespedeza found in considerable quantity near the Alter of the Temple of Heaven. [Number 7172 is handwritten in pencil near the caption]. Photograph #45550. Hemerocallis (perhaps Citrina). Near [Chiu shan An?], China. A nearby view of a few flowering plants gathered from the mountain side where they are growing in abundance. See Herbarium sp. #7047. [August] 19, 1930. Photograph #45568. Melilotus sp. Summer Palace, Peiping. To the north of the marble boat beyond a tall gate tower we found this species of white flowered Melilotus in considerab[le] quantity. Photograph #45480. Along the trail enroute from [Chilh Tai Ssu?] to [Tau Chou Ssu?]. A portion of [Dorsett-Morse Agricultural Expedition]. Photograph #45915.
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A nearby view of fruiting branches of a vine secured in a flower shop for this purpose and for the seed. Seed sent in under #1503. The outer husk and seed capsule break into three parts. It is a very showy ornamental and used here alot in flower arrangements. Euonymus sp. Photograph #44356. View showing the entrance to and a portion of a lovely small Japanese garden at the home of Mr. J. Kimuro, owner of the 730 year old cherry tree. This like all the other pictures made [today], was made from under a Japanese Kasa or umbrella in the rain. Photograph #43877. Green Manure, [Tai Ping Chuang?]. Chinese farmer digging chopped green manure into the soil in a low place. Photograph # 45626. A fairly nearby view of rather dark purple iris, another large leaved water plant. The stone[s] in the background are flag stones or stepping stones for crossing the lake. See picture #43707. [Location of picture #43707 is unknown]. Photograph #43706.
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Abutilon avicinnoe.[Corchorus sp.] American jute. Near Yang Tsun, China. View of one side of a piece of a nice rick of good looking Ching Ma fiber drying in the sun. This Ching Ma fiber plant is said to produce 80 cathis, about 100 pounds, of fiber per acre. The long fiber sells at 14.00 local dollars per 120 cathis and 13.00 per the short fiber. Photograph #45580. Showing a small portion of a small lake or lily pond in the Botanical Garden, [and] also something of the contour of the land in that section of the garden as well as the arrangement and plantings. Photograph #43431. Nelumbium sp. [Nelumbo sp.] Lotus. Peiping, China. View from under the trees from the east shore across a wonderful display of lotus flowers to the viewing gallery and the hill capped with the Winter Palace and White Dagoba. Photograph #45463. A fairly nearby display of vegetables at a market dealers place on the main street of a small village in Tokyo [Japan] suburbs. Photograph #43655.
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This surely is the land of kudzu for one finds it almost everywhere. This picture was taken near [Gatunba?], Japan. Photograph #44113. This (lily) is fully 8 or more feet in height as can be seen by comparing it with Mr. Morse who is standing by with his hand up. There are 17 flower buds on this plant, but no open flowers. We are told the flowers are white. We sent in bulbs of this species of lily under our #910. Photograph #44038. Andropogon sorghum. Kaoling, Chin Chow, Manchuria. Our interpreter, Mr. Suyitaki, trying to measure up to a field of Kaoling about 12 feet high in [a] region north of Chin Chow. About 10% of the heads of this field had smut. Photograph #45560. A close up view of handful of plants from which seed was secured and sent to Washington under 1632. This looks to us like an extremely promising Lespedeza for pasture or hay. Photograph #44425.
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Panoramic view from a second story window of the Nara Hotel, showing a good portion of a small lake near the Hotel. Nara, Japan. Photograph #43759. View of a portion of the [fascinating] Japanese garden at the inn at which we stayed [in] Okitsu, Japan. Photograph #43250. Ornamental clump of bamboo. Photograph #478. Turning soybeans under. Photograph #44008.
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Medicago sativa. Alfalfa. [Hsuing Yao Cheng?], Manchuria. Flailing out alfalfa seed on the South Manchurian Railway Experiment Station. Photograph #45412. Meditating at a bamboo gate barrier to a bridge across a portion of a small lake in Oushi Park. 4/28/1929. Photograph #43466. Sophora japonica var pendula. Peiping, China. A nearby picture of single specimen tree. Nearby is a large marble lion. Photograph #45782. Near Pa La Chu western hills, west of Peiping, China. A.H. Dorsett and his Chinese interpreter Aiten Liu on the trail.
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Pagoda. Summer Palace. Peiping[, China]. Another view, but slightly different from the above [A beautiful bell topped pagoda among ruins on the north hills slope of the Summer Palace]. In the distan[t] background is a portion of a large agricultural valley. Photograph #45484. Threashing barley, Atsuki. Photograph #43940. Pyrus Japanese pear, Prunus [muni?], [Diospyrus KoKi?] and Prunus sp [serrulata] flowering cherry, scions packed in [Daikons?] Japanese radish. These came to us from the Tokyo-fu Agricultural Experiment Station Tashikawa. Tokyo-fu, Japan. February 14, 1930. Photographed February 16, 1930. Photograph #44933. View from the south side of one of the large circles in the north end of Hibiya Park, where there is a good display of tulips in full bloom. Photograph #43501.
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Undetermined. Ming Tomb, China. [August] 23, 1930. These plants were collected outside of the tomb (Yung Lo's) along the side of a ravine among the rocks and were arranged on the stone steps of one of the towers in the tomb compound. The flowers very much resemble violets both in shape and color. This plant should be good for rockeries in shady moist situations. Seed and herbarium specimens #7032. Photograph #45641. In addition to showing a portion of the entrance walk, a small lantern on the left and a large torii in the background, [this photograph] gives an idea of the natural planting on each side of the walk. The ground covering to the sides of the walk is a wharf bamboo. This [is] really a good ground cover for such [a] situation. Photograph #43603. Euonymus sp. Ming Tombs, China. [August] 22, 1930. A very interesting Euonymus growing naturally in one of the numerous corners made by the steps and three [promenade] walks about the building. This is extremely ornamental and attractive. This is at Chang Ling, Yung Lo's [Yongle's] Tomb, the 1st [ 3rd] Ming emperor. Photograph #45638.  
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Beverly Thomas Galloway Papers
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Galloway Photograph Album
Text transcribed from the album

Dr. B.T. Galloway, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
A few of the scattered photographs which are still in existence and which illustrate the early activities of the Section of Plant Pathology, or the personalities of those together with Dr. Galloway built it up into a Division.

Presented on the occasion of his leaving the Department of Agriculture. May they remind him of the esteem and affection for him which is felt by those who were associated with him in the early days.

Washington, D.C.
Presented May 16, 1914
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Dr. Galloway as Chief of the Section of Vegetable Pathology in 1887. Erwin F. Smith, Agent, Appointed 1886. Merton B. Waite, Special Agent, Appointed 1888. Newton B. Pierce, Special Agent, Appointed, 1890.
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David Fairchild, Assistant, Appointed 1889. Walter T. Swingle, Special Agent, Appointed 1891. Albert F. Woods, Assistant Pathologist and Assistant Chief, Appointed 1893. Mr. Galloway in his office in the attic of the old building, 1893. In those days, he stamped all the letters himself and still used the microscope. His papers he carried in the brown satchel.
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Mr. Swingle as he used to look when he was studying citrus disease, 1893. Merton B. Waite in his laboratory in the attic of the old building, 1893, at a time when he was investigating the pollination of the pear. Walter T. Swingle in the attic of the old building in 1893. Just back from the citrus region of Florida. Theodore Holm in the attic of the old building about the time he was drawing the pear flower for Waite.
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Three fourths of the clerical force of the Section of Vegetable Pathology in 1890. Miss Caitlin, Miss Miller, Miss Moore. Miss Moore's day on the balcony. Dr. Galloway and 6 of the 9 who composed the Old Guard of the Section of Vegetable Pathology in 1893. Erwin F. Smith, Effie Southward, and Newton B. Pierce were in the field. Back row, from left to right: Joseph James, Theo Holm, Merton B. Waite, P.H. Dorsett. Front row: David Fairchild, Beverly T. Galloway, Walter T. Swingle. The first trial of the first All-American knapsack sprayer; Mr. Galloway operating it in the vineyard back of the Department in 1891. See Journal Mycol. V. VII, 1894, p 39. The first American knapsack sprayer designed by Mr. Galloway, assisted by Mr. Fairchild, who is operating it in the old Bell Photographic Studio on the Avenue.
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Dorsett spraying grape vines on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture for powdery mildew. A little east of the present West Wing. "Pat" at the pump; Dorsett at the nozzle. The evolution of the barrel pump for field use. One of the earliest experiments designed by Mr. Galloway. "Last stage of Peach Yellows." Erwin F. Smith. Mr. Waite testing the validity of pear blight germs by inoculation, Department grounds, July, 1893.
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Pear-blight. Pot experiments in control of pear blight by fertilizers and chemicals. Tow of the six trees shown were inoculated and blighted. Dept. grounds, Washington, September, 1894. Pear-scab. From scabbing Bartlett pears from Dr. Maxwell's place, Still Pond, Md., where some early experiments were carried on by Dr. Galloway, assisted by Fairchild, Dorsett, and others. July 1894. Electric transpiration apparatus, set up by Woods. "Soy bean. Two inoculated plants on the right, two uninoculated plants on the left. This is the first example of artificial inoculation of legumes done in the Bureau of Plant Industry, September 1897. Japanese soy bean soil was imported by Mr. D.G. Fairchild and sown in drills of newly cleared, sandy pine land at Woodwardville, Md. by M.B. Waite with checks untreated. Inoculated plants averaged 25 tubercles per plant, uninoculated one to two tubercles." Waite.
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Soy bean experiments (continued) "On the left bundle weighs 15 pounds, represents plants from half row (2 rods) of inoculated plants. Bundle on the right weighs 8 pounds, represents the remaining half row of (2 rods) of uninoculated check plants." Waite. Spraying experiments on Bartlett Pear orchard at Chestnut Farm, Scotland, Va., Oct. 1893. Sprayed trees on left, unsprayed on the right. Also, the orchard in which Waite made first discoveries of self-sterililty of pears and made extensive pollination tests. Untreated almond tree in California defoliated by Cercospora, 1892. Almond tree protected from Cercospora disease by spraying of Eau Celeste made by Newton B. Pierce.
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The Garrett Park lettuce house which Mr. Galloway and Mr. Dorsett built for their first experiments. This was in 1893, before the section had any greenhouse of its own. Woods studying culture of Bermuda lily disease. Waite making transfer of pear-blight germ. Apple-pollination experiments. Baldwin apple, Geneva, N.Y., hand pollinated with Bellflower by D.G. Fairchild, Autumn, 1892.
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Pear-pollination. Buffman pears. Four on the left hand cross-pollinated, two self-pollinated next, and two insect pollinated on the right. Geneva, N.Y. 1892. Waite and Fairchild. Pear-pollination. Bartlett. Seeds from hand, self, land cross-pollinated Bartlett pears. Those at the top, nearly seedless, are self-pollinated; the remainder, with 6 to 10 perfect seeds, are cross-pollinated. "Apple-Baldwin. Hand, self-pollinated by Fairchild, Geneva, N.Y. 1892." Waite. Mark A. Carleton, (appointed Special Agent, 1894), crossing wheats at Garrett Park, Md., in 1894. This was before he introduced the Durum Wheats.
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Woods at the microscope in the building on 13th Street, 1894. Smith making sections of wilted watermelon. Resting at Laguna Beach, Cal., after ten years of hard work. Miss McDouth, stenographer in 1893.
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Miss Sallie Miller, appointed clerk in 1889(?). One of the women who helped start the Section of Vegetable Pathology. Mrs. Nellie E. Fealy, appointed clerk in 1894. One of the efficient and conscientious members of the staff who handled the correspondence in the early days. W.E. Taylor, appointed messenger in 1893. He was known as "Billy" Taylor, and his conscientious work did much to lighten the clerical burdens of the chief. Botanical Exploration in Florida. Lake Norris, near Eustis. Swingle and Rath in boat among cypress trees. May, 1897.
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Orange Grove at Citra, Fla. before the Big Freeze, October, 1894. Orange Grove at Citra, Fla. after the "Big Freeze", May 23, 1895. David Fairchild in Sisal Plantation at Coconut Grove, Florida. Photo by H.J. Webber. Pear-pollination. Bartlett. Hand self-pollinated Bartlett pear on the left. Hand cross-pollinated Bartlett pear on the right. From the Rochester series by Waite, 1892. One of the first natural size fruit photographs taken in the Department, a pioneer in the art which has done so much for agriculture.
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Sub-Tropical Laboratory, Eustis, Fla. The first field laboratory for plant diseases and plant breeding. Occupied 5 years (1893-1897) by Swingle and Webber. H.J. Webber in the Sub-Tropical Laboratory at Eustis, Fla., at work with microtome. June, 1895. Pear Orchard-Keiffer. Parry's Nursery, Parry, N.J. 1893. This is the first Keiffer pear orchard. It was planted by Wm. Parry from buds obtained by the original tree, 14 miles north of Philadelphia. Pollination experiments by Waite in this orchard in 1893. Woods and Dorsett fertilizer experiments in a commercial greenhouse near Washington.
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Smith sections on the microtome, in the 13th Street building. The home of the Superintendent of Mrs. Platt's orange grove in Florida marks the beginning of the filed studies of citrus diseases. Smith and Swingle first landed here in 1891, July. Herbert J. Webber under a carob tree near Coconut Grove, Fla., about this time the Sub-Tropical Laboratory was started by Swingle and Webber. The Sub-Tropical Laboratory at Miami, 1898. About this time Webber wrote to Mr. Flagler's agent that one room was to be for Swingle, one for Fairchild, and one for himself.
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