Educational film guide ()

631.4-632.4 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE TOPSOI L — Continued which we depend for most of our food, clothes and other necessities of life. Shows why and how both city and rural people are dependent upon the topsoil of productive farmlands. Explains how topsoil was made by nature thru the centuries and how it may be destroyed in a few years by improper farming methods. Distinguishes between productive topsoil and the less fertile subsoil, and ends on the theme that topsoil can be conserved while still being used for msiximum production UNDER WESTERN SKIES. IntHarvester 1946 28min sd color loan 631.4 Jh-sh-c-ad Shows modern dry and irrigation farming practices and soil conservation methods in the western states WHAT IS SOIL? Films 1948 lOmin sd (Ele ♦ mentary physical science ser) $40 631.4 p-el-Jh-sh-ad Emphasizes that while soil is essential to all living things, they In turn, after their life is done, contribute to the formation of soil Bobby decides to find out if he can grow beans in soil he makes himself. He finds that he can. But while he waits for his beans to grow he learns, on the hillside behind his house as well as in his kitchen, how soil is really formed over the millions of years and how all living things depend on soil and contribute to its formation "This first of a series of natural science Alms for the elementary grades is intelligently conceived and artistically directed for its age group. Sequences flow logically and smoothly; continuous sprightly background music serves as an integrral part of the film content, accentuating action and commentary. Bobby, elementary school boy, gives a natural first performance in his own home setting." Library journal WINDBREAKS ON THE PRAIRIES. CanNFB 1945 21min sd color $150, rent $5 631.4 sh-c-ad-forum Eager to get the utmost out of their land, prairie farmers of Canada often cut down every tree that stood in the way of their ploughs. Then drought and winds ruined the land, blowing away the top soil. Much can be done by planting trees to break the wind and hold the moisture; acres of young trees are specially grown for this purpose and distributed to western farmers WISE LAND USE PAYS. Castle 1939 19min sd $25.69 631.4 sh-c-ad Produced by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service from whose regional offices it may be borrowed Discusses the principles of soli conservation by the use of contour cropping, and reforestation of land unsuited to crops or pasture "Pictorial charts explain desirable practices for maintaining the land and getting the most from it when of various grades of slope. "Photographic sequences Illustrate recovery of gullied land, checking of erosion by diversion ditches, terracing, strip-cropping. Use of ETrasses, bird clover, soybeans, etc. for seeding. "Advantage of large power equipment In program of erosion control. Return of land to timber or to pasture where suitable. Better Income derived by farmers who follow good practices." Collaborator 631.5 Farm operations BILL BAILEY AND THE FOUR PILLARS. ♦ NuArt 1947 ISmin sd $75, rent $5 631.5 Jh-sh-c-ad-forum Sponsored by American Bankers Association. Adapted from the Reader's Digest A progressive bank president in Clarksville, Tennessee, becomes the benefactor of the entire area by changing the local industry from unprofitable tobacco raising to rotating crops of sheep, wheat, cattle and tobacco. Balanced over the four seasons, these four pillars of income revived the area financially which then proved the key to happiness for all the bank's depositors. This is a demonstration based on fact of private enterprise working with the government to promote civil welfare 631.6 Drainage FEN LANDS. BIS 18min sd (Pattern of Britain) $44, rent $2.50 631.6 el-Jh-sh-c-ad Curving inland on the coast of East Anglia, this part of England, once shunned for its evil fevers and fogs, was in reality a wa.steland of ruin. Nearly 300 years ago the people of the Fenlands began a perpetual battle with the waters. The intricate drainage system which developed has changed the desolation Into rich agricultural country The undaunted tenacity of the Fen people has paid dividends in full, for the land is so rich that it often yields two crops a year LAND BUILDERS. FON ISmin sd $44, rent $3 631.6 Jh-sh-c-ad A peacetime story of the island of Walcheren in Zeeland province in the southern part of Holland, telling the unending struggle of the inhabitants to protect the dikes against the sea. The cultivation of reclaimed land is depicted. The riches of the fertile soil, the harvest, the cattle, the houses, the harbors and the fishermen, products all of an island reclaimed from the sea. On this Island the unusual Dutch traditional costume is worn by most of the inhabitants, while working, going to church or market and when participating in archery or ring-tilting contests LAND FROIVI THE SEA. CanNFB 1946 llmin sd color $75, rent $2.50 631.6 sh-tr-ad Pictures land reclamation measures in Nova Scotia — dykes and the building and operation of sluices WETLANDS. Castle 1944 llmin sd $14.97 631.6 Jh-sh-c-ad A USDA production Shows where our 120 million acres of wetland are located. Points out that seventy-eight million of these acres will serve us best If left in their natural state for the production of timber and the preservation of wildlife Thirty-one million acres are shown to be suited to farming if properly drained A section of the film illustrates briefly the principal types of water control and methods of land drainage 63 1 .8 Ferf iiizers LIVING ROCK. GaAgExt 1944 SOmin sd color loan 631.8 sh-c-ad A poor farm is built up into a good farm, producing bumper crops by the use of lime and phosphate 632.4 Injurious fungi BLISTER RUST— ENEMY OF THE PINES. Castle 1948 13min sd color $82.70 632.4 Jh-sh-tr-ad Produced by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture The story of white pine blister rust, aspects of that disease and methods of control 480