USDA Sugar Crops Section records, 1926-1960

USDA Sugar Crops Section records, 1926-1960

1926-1960

The USDA Sugar Crops Section Records include data sheets, reports, and manuscripts written by various employees; slides, negatives, and photographs of sugar beets; correspondence of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart; and other research files related to sugar beets. The materials are primarily from the administrations of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart. Coons was the principal pathologist of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry during the 1930s and 1940s. Stewart was the head of the Sugar Beet Section, Agricultural Research Service during the 1950s and 1960s.

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history research sugar crops

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Other Subjects

United states

Language

English

Note

USDA Sugar Crops Section Records. Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.

Research to improve sugar production began in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology during the 1890s. By 1926, the section was named the Office of Sugar Plants, Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI). Other name changes and office re-designations occurred as follows: the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, BPI, in 1931; divisional component of the Field Crops Divisions, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering (BPISAE), in 1946; Field Crops Group, BPSIAE, in 1951; and Sugar Crops Section, Field Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in 1953. This unit was re-designated the Crops Research Division during the 1950s. In 1970, it became the Plant Science Research Division, and in 1972 the research was divided into units located in the regional laboratories of the ARS.

Type

Mixed Material; Monographic

Corporate Author

United States. Agricultural Research Service. Sugar Crops Section.

In AGRIS since: 2024-02-27

Modification date: 2025-04-22

Format: MODS

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https://archivesspace.nal.usda.gov/repositories/4/resources/705/