Agricultural Experiment Station Records (RG 25)
Inventory - Subgroup 3, Series V: Cooperative Agreements
V. Research Projects Records, 1907-1984:
Cooperative Agreements (REGJ, projects by departments):
(box 8/3/5/20)
Agricultural Economics Dept.:
Cooperative research (memo of understanding with Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, 1949
Cooperative associations - wool, 1928
Farm & ranch organizations, 1936
Farmers' elevators, 1935
Marketing Pacific Northwest wheat, 1948
Agricultural Engineering Dept.:
Farmhouses & other farm buildings (Housing Act of
1949), 1949-1951
Hay drying, Bonneville Power Administration, 1945-1946
Animal Husbandry Dept.:
Improvement of sheep, 1940
Range livestock management, 1937-1940
Wool grading & baling, 1942
Animal Industries Division:
Sun dried potatoes (War Food Administration), 1944-1945
Bacteriology Dept.:
Cooperative agreements, misc., ca. 1917-1950
Study of the effectiveness of anionis & nonionic
surface active agents in potentiating germicidal
action of hypochlorites, 1949
Dairy Husbandry Dept.:
Creamery butter investigations, 1927-1928
Use of proved sires, 1914 & 1931-1932
Entomology Dept.:
Alfalfa weevil, 1919-1940
Controlling the cattle grub, 1953
Honey & pollen flora, 1935-1953
Insecticides & fungicides (Research & Marketing Act),
1948-1950
Insects of fruits & nuts (rev. of prune thrips), 1949
Pea aphis & weevil (Agricultural Adjustment
Administration), reports only, 1940-1942 & 1951
Pea insects (formerly pea weevil), 1930-1954
Prune thrips, 1935-1947
Thermal generated insecticides, 1946-1953
Utilization of pollen, 1945-1947
Western Cooperative spray project, 1925-1953:
Correspondence & memos, 1927-1953
"Tolerances for Poisonous or Deleterious Residues
on or in Fresh Fruits & Fresh Vegetables,"
testimony before the Federal Security Agency,
Leroy Childs, 1950
Annual meeting minutes & reports, 1925-1952
Farm Crops Dept.:
Cooperative agreements, misc., 1916-1933
Cereal investigations, 1909-1941
Grass breeding, 1935-1938
Hay standardization & inspection, 1932
Jerusalem artichoke, 1930-1944
Kok-saghyz (Russian dandelion):
Bureau of Plant Industries, 1942-1955
U.S. Navy, 1944-1949
New plants (new crops, project W-6), 1947-1953
Potato breeding, 1937-1949
Seed potatoes, 1918-1929
Nematode problem (bent grass), 1927-1940
Turf for airfields, highways & other intensive use
areas, 1943
West Coast Beet Seed Co., 1942-1943
Vegetable seed production, 1942-1950
Farm Management Dept.:
Farm management field studies, Salem Board of Trade,
1912
Economic study of irrigation possibilities in the
Willamette Valley, 1944-1945 (see also Purnell #120)
Bulk handling of grain, 1926-1932 (see also Purnell
#36)
Farm labor requirements, 1942-1943 (see also Purnell
#106)
Honey costs, 1931-1934
Land use in Benton County, 1939-1941
Land use planning, 1937-1941
Types of farming, 1931-1936
Vale & Owyhee settlers, 1938-1941
Willamette Valley farm organizations, 1938-1941
Fish & Game Dept., fish-cultural investigations, 1945
Food Technology Dept.:
Dehydrated berries & cherries (War Dept.):
Correspondence, outlines, progress reports,
1943-1946
Annual reports, 1944-1945
(box 8/3/5/30) Pectin deterioration in relation to the rehydration &
storage life of dehydrated fruit & vegetable products
(War Dept.), 1947-1948
Potatoes for dehydration (War Dept.), 1945
Utilization of fruit wastes by conversion to foods or
feeds by the use of yeasts, 1945-1946
Home Economics Dept., investigations on home economics,
1945-1946
Horticulture Dept.:
General agreements, fruits, 1926-1928
Boron application, 1938-1944
Chrysanthemum seedlings, 1946
Dehydration of fruits & vegetables (SB 205), 1920-1924
Culture & testing of perfume roses (drug oil),
1920-1932
Plant Industries Dept:
Western Regional Research Lab:
Correspondence, meeting agendas & minutes, memos
of understanding, & reports, 1938-1952 (2 fldrs)
Report of conference of 11 experiment station
directors for the development of the research
program, Western Regional Lab, June 1940
Project outlines (not included in above report),
1940
Regional Research Labs activity reports, 1945-1948
& 1951
National cooperative project, Conservation of
Nutritive Value of Foods (Fincke projects),
1942-1947
Plant Pathology Dept.:
General agreements, 1916-1950
Brown rot & stripe rust, 1916-1920
Downy mildew of hops:
Correspondence, 1930-1948
Report, "Comparison of Spray Nozzles for Effective
Spraying of Hops for Downy Mildew," G.R.
Hoerner, 1937
Hop disease investigations (reports only):
Annual reports, 1931-1932
"Cooperative Contributions of the Hop Disease
Investigations Project, 1931-1938"
Foot rot (wheat diseases), 1921-1938
Grain diseases (reports & reprints only), 1931-1938
Insecticides & fungicides, 1929-1950
Nut disease investigations, 1930-1938
Diseases of ornamental plants, 1929-1949
Plant disease survey, 1943-1951
Virus diseases of potatoes, 1925-1936
White pine blister rust, 1927-1931
Poultry Dept.:
National Poultry Improvement Plan:
Correspondence & reports, 1928-1939
Memorandum on pullorum testing & poultry
improvement work in Oregon since 1935 with
status & recommendations, June 1944
Soils Dept.:
General agreements, 1917-1949
Ground water investigations:
Correspondence, memos of understanding, reports,
1927-1953 (2 folders)
Published reports (USGS & Experiment Station) on
ground water levels & resources, including The
Dalles, Willamette Valley, & Harney Basin,
1932-1941
(box 8/3/5/40) County soil surveys (USDA reports only):
Yamhill Co., 1920
Clackamas Co., 1926
Marion Co., 1927
Irrigation & drainage, 1907-1939
Regional soil management, 1946-1947
Soil conservation (Soil Conservation Service):
Correspondence, work plans, memos of understanding
& agreement, reports, 1929-1953 (4 folders)
Reports, 1939-1948:
"The Effect of Soil Erosion on Wheat Yields
in Eastern Oregon," Dec. 1939
"Summer Fallow Studies, Moro, Oregon," 1939-
1940 & 1942-1943
"Economics of Soil Conservation," annual
report, 1939
"Effects of Seeding Grass," progress reports,
1940-1941
"Methods of Disposal of Crop Residues for
Growing Wheat After Fallow in Eastern
Oregon," April 1941
"Soil Management & Irrigation Investigations
in the Columbia River Basin," Jan. 1, 1948
Proceedings, Annual Technical Conference & Field
Day, Pullman Nursery Unit, Soil Conservation
Service, June 11-12, 1946
Soil, fertilizer, & irrigation, 1948
Salinity of irrigation water:
Correspondence, meeting reports, & memos of
agreement, 1937-1950
Reports to collaborators, 1941, 1943, 1946-1949,
1951, 1953-1954
"Report of Progress, 1938-1953," U.S. Salinity
Lab, July 1953
Hydrologic data, Newberg, Oregon, from Oct. 1938-April
1942, 1943
Veterinary Medicine Dept.:
Infectious abortion, 1929-1946
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