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Michigan Muck Farmers' Association records
Collection
Identifier: 00249
Scope and Content
This collection consists of several Reports of the Proceedings of the Conventions of the Michigan Muck Farmers' Associations and two Michigan Muck Crops Show programs.
Dates:
1925-1947, 1968
Milo Tesar collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.326
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twenty-nine black and white glass slides of scenes at Michigan Agricultural College and farm scenes in Michigan.
Dates:
undated
Paul M. Harmer collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-17.366
Scope and Content
The Paul Harmer collection contains articles written by Harmer which are predominantly about muck farming.
There is also a WKAR radio programs schedule. Although Harmer is not listed as a radio program presenter, there are some programs about muck farming, and it is inferred that he was involved.
Dates:
1921 - 1955
Plant Pathology Extension Mimeograph UA 16.21 & UA 16.34
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00569
Dates:
1949 - 1953
Plant Pathology Newsletter UA 16.34 & UA 16.21
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-00570
Dates:
1972, 1975
Quarterly Bulletin - Agricultural Experiment Station UA 16.7
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Serial-00590
Dates:
1918 - 1968
SAPMA [Status and Potential of Michigan Agriculture Project] Report UA 16.150
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Serial-01105
Dates:
1996 - 1998
Slafter family papers
Collection
Identifier: 00037
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence among Slafter family relatives and their close friends make up the bulk of this collection. Early letters, dated 1858, tell of the scarcity of money and suggests that barley should be planted because it is the most profitable crop. Family news and town gossip are also prominent items in the letters. A June 17, 1858 letter from another brother to William tells of killing one elk and capturing another. March 12, 1863 letter mentions the sacrifice of soldiers...
Dates:
1855 - 1891
Stephen Torrey Dexter papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.68
Scope and Contents
The Stephen T. Dexter papers consist of originals and reprints of scientific articles written by Stephen Torrey Dexter, former professor of crop science, and his associates and assistants. Of note, is the correspondence from Dexter to the University Archives as well as the "Nutrition of Plants, Animals, and Man". The correspondence provides anecdotal and autobiographical information about the research and how Dexter differentiated between important and unimportant information to send to the...
Dates:
1927 - 1972
Sylvan H. Wittwer papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.154
Scope and Contents
The collection contains articles written by Sylvan Wittwer including "Effective Management of Human and Physical Resources for International Agricultural Research," "Improving Storage Qualities of Crops by Treatment with Maleic Hydrazide," "Plasticulture," "Protected Cultivation of Horticulture Crops Worldwide," and "The Greenhouse Effect." Also included is a letter from Hubert H. Humphrey thanking Wittwer for his service on the Office of Technology Assessment's advisory panel on basic...
Dates:
1976 - 1995