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Fourth Edition
AGRICULTURE
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AGRICULTURE
GROUP 1 CROPS Cotton
The Story of Cotton (2) Its growth and manufacture. (XXX) ***The Land of Cotton (2) A complete story of cotton with emphasis given to milling and weaving of cloth. Well done for instructional purposes. (X) Cotton — Dixie's Greatest Crop (1) Soil preparation, planting, cultivating, picking, delivery to gin. Boll weevil and other problems of modern production. , (144) Cotton — Planting and Cultivation (2) Methods of cotton growing. (144) Cotton — Ginning and Marketing (2) Various types of cotton and bales.
(144)
Cotton Handling (1) In the largest cotton warehouse in the world,* (63) Co-operative Marketing — Cotton (2) Activities of the co-operative cotton marketing associations of the South, showing progress of grower's bale from gin to mill, or to seaboard for export shipment. (144)
(See also Groups 12, 45, 77)
GROUP 2 Sugar
Cane Sugar (1) Depicting the cultivation of cane and the extracting of sugar from the plant. (151)
Sugar Cane (1) Complete descriptive study of the manufacture of sugar from planting of cane to finished product. For sale only. (58)
Sugar Cane and Cane Sugar (1) Culture and harvesting of sugar cane in South; hauling cane to factory; various stages in manufacture and refinement of cane sugar from crushing of cane to finished product. (144)
Raw Sugar Production in Cuba (1) Cultivation of cane and fine scenics of Cuba. (83) * Cuba, the Island of Sugar (2) World's largest achievement in raising, sugar cane — forest transformed into modern plantation, largest sugar mill in world built and put into operation. (X) ***Cane Sugar Refining (1) Sugar from planting in Cuba to preparation for market. Special emphasis upon refining processes. Splendidly adapted for classroom use. (9, 83)
Sunny South (1) Scenes in the South. Emphasis on manufacture of sugar. (18)
From Tree to Sugar (y2) Interesting story of a product that makes a sweetmeat, and the necessary embellishment of the popular "flapjack."
(I, 156)
Making Maple Sugar (1) From tapping the trees to the marketing — oldfashioned and modern methods. F'or sale only. (58)
Beets from Seed to Sugar Bowl (1) Self-explanatory. (144) ***The Sugar Trail (1) Beet sugar industry as developed from the wild beet. (X)
(See also Groups 55-6, 78, 102)
GROUP 3 Wheat
***Our Daily Bread (1) Development of methods for harvesting, milling, and baking from primitive to modern times. (X) ***The Staff of Life (1) The growing of wheat, harvesting, threshing and milling, told logically and interestingly. (42, 49, 111A, 151)
The Wheat Industry (%) Production of wheat in the Red River Valley — ploughing, drilling, harvesting, threshing, etc. (XII)
The Romance of a Grain of Wheat (1) Animation and photography showing wheat production. (64) ***Wheat and Flour (1) Study of wheat raising from the time it is planted until the flour is ready for mixing. For sale only. (58)
How California Harvests Wheat (1) Tractor Harvesters at work in the San Joaquin Valley. A visit to Hopi House at the Grand Canyon. (67) ***Wheat Harvest in the Pacific Northwest (1) Binding, heading, thresing, etc. (144)
Wheat or Weeds? (1) Story of wheat cleaning and the operation of wheat cleaning machines at the thresher; what clean wheat means to the farmer. (144) * Wheat — Bulk Handling (1) Method of shipping grain. (144)