Author: U. S. Agricultural Research Service

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-08

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780366968046

Excerpt from A Summary of Current Program 7/1/65 and Preliminary Report of Progress for 7/1/64 to 6/30/65: Western Utilization Research and Development Division of the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture and Related Work of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations The farm commodities dealt with in this report are the cereal grains, wheat, rice, and barley; alfalfa and other forage crops; wool and mohair; citrus, apples, other fruits, and tree nuts; potatoes and other vegetables and dry beans and peas; castor and safflower; sugar beets; new and replacement crops; and poultry and eggs. Some phases of research on certain of these commod ities are pursued in other Utilization Research Divisions than the Western Division: Research on industrial uses of wheat and on milling technology is carried on in the Northern Division; certain areas of research on deciduous fruits and on potatoes and other vegetables are handled by the Eastern Division; particular lines of research on rice, vegetables, and fruits are carried on in the Southern Division. Research on new and replacement crops is carried on in all four Utilization Divisions. Pharmacological research for all four of the Utilization Research Divisions is conducted at the Albany laboratory of the Western Division, and is described in this report. The group of commodities discussed here provides the nation with more than half of its food, either directly (cereal grains, fruits and vegetables, poultry meat and eggs, and beet sugar) or indirectly through feeding of meat animals (forage crops, wheat, barley). The other commodities in the group supply us with our most important animal fibers (wool and mohair) and offer opportunities of development into numberless industrial products (castor, safflower, and other oilseeds). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.