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Title:

Dr. Melhus [videorecording] ; Agriculture at Iowa State / Iowa State University.

Format:

[videorecording] ;

Publisher:

Iowa State University,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (13 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Iowa State University--Agriculture.
Agriculture--Ames.--Ames.
Horses--Judging--Ames.--Ames.
Cattle--Judging--Ames.--Ames.
Cattle--Showing--Ames.--Ames.
Cattle--Feeding and feeds--Ames.--Ames.
Tractors--Performance--Ames.--Ames.
Poultry--Judging--Ames.--Ames.
Animal marking--Ames.--Ames.
Poultry--Incubation--Incubation--Ames.--Ames.
Poultry--Breeding--Ames.--Ames.
Trees--Grafting--Ames.--Ames.
Trees--Propagation--Ames.--Ames.
Flower arrangement--Ames.--Ames.

Other Authors:

Melhus, Irving E., 1881-1969
Melhus, Elizabeth M.
Kildee, Henry Herbert, 1884-

Other Titles:

Agriculture at Iowa State.

Notes:

"Master copy"--Disc label. "4-7597"--Disc label. "4-7703"--Disc label. Information on Irving E. Melhus and his papers available in RS 13/4/14. Irving E. Melhus, Elizabeth M. Melhus, Henry H. Kildee. Videodisc release of 16mm films, Dr. Melhus ca. 1935; Agricultre at Iowa State, ca. 1955.

Summary:

First film (30 sec.) shows Dr. Irving Melhus sitting on a bench in his yard at 407 Pearson, in Ames, Iowa, with his dog at his feet. Also shows his wife sitting in a chair in the yard with the dog. Second film shows Dean Kildee examining some of the trophies won by Iowa State agriculture students. Shows draft horse judging outside the horse barns on campus, cattle feed experiments, live and carcass cattle judging, brood sow observation, and preparing animals for show. Also shows dairy husbandry students, poultry husbandry students numbering eggs and banding chicks, agricultural engineering tractor operation study, and horticulture students doing tree grafting, peony and iris production, and pruning.

Series:

[Campus films]

OCLC:

(OCoLC)163578819

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)