Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 11
Agricultural Experiment Station Reports
Includes reports on Nevada agricultural economics and management, including topics dealing with range and forest management in Nevada and northeastern California flood control irrigation the Carson, Truckee, Muddy, and Colorado Rivers grazing, the state Planning Board Water Facilities Act and the Purnell Act.
Farm Business Survey of Pahranagat Valley
Report co-authored with Tyr V. Johnson as part of an economic survey of Lincoln County, Nevada covers the topics of water supply, soils, farming activity, size of farms and net worths, farm business earnings in 1935, family living costs, crop yields, labor supply, and possibilities of establishing a creamery or alfalfa mill in the Pahranagat Valley.
Report of the I.C.A. Sponsored Libyan Tour of Nevada
Report of tour taken by ten agricultural leaders and officials from Libya to study the business, social, and educational aspects of Nevada agriculture.
Narrative highlights, Nevada Indian Agency
The Nevada Indian Agency was a federal agency which oversees U.S. Indian tribes and reservations. Narrative report about conditions at the Nevada Indian Agency discusses land use planning, soil stabilization and improvement, operation and maintenance of irrigation systems, miscellaneous projects, and recreation (1964-1966).
National Defense and Rural Life in Nevada, a Discussion Handbook
Report on the effect of the growth of military activities in Nevada on economic and social forces in agriculture and mitigating steps to cushion adverse effects. The collection contains material from 1941 created by Land-Grant College-Bureau of Agricultural Economics Committee.
Pastures in the Lovelock Valley: a Pasture Handbook
Contains handbook by Hodgson, a range management specialist, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Nevada; A.J. Reed, County Agent, Nevada Agricultural Extension Service; and Howard G. Mason, Assistant in Irrigation, Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station; provides information on the soils, plant species, and management of pastures in the Lovelock Valley region of Nevada from September 1942.
The place of irrigated pastures in Nevada agriculture
Presentation by Forrest M. Willhite discusses crop rotation, the relation of water availability to the number of livestock which can be supported, economics, establishment of pasture rotation, grass types, rotation grazing, maintenance of soil fertility, and pasture productivity as related to Nevada agriculture (1938). Wilhite was superintendent of the Newlands Field Station in Fallon, Nevada.
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada Records
Programs for Reno Conferences
Programs for state and regional conferences held in Reno in 1926, 1929 and 1938. Some programs include schedule of speakers, others provide a full report of proceedings or resolutions. The collection contains material from 1926-1938 created by the Nevada Farm Bureau.
Byrd Fanita Wall Sawyer Papers
Manuscript and notes on the history of Nevada, including women teachers; Sparks and Churchill County, Nevada; and Paiute Indians. Also included are curriculum materials on Nevada history; correspondence about Sawyer's research, statistics on land ownership and use in Nevada, turkey production in the Fallon area, and copies of presidential executive orders establishing wildlife refuges in Nevada.
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Agriculture -- Nevada 6
- Irrigation -- Nevada 2
- Agriculture -- Nevada -- Churchill County 1
- Agriculture -- Nevada -- Lincoln County 1
- Agriculture -- Nevada -- Lovelock 1
- Agriculture -- Nevada -- Pyramid Lake 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
- Carson River Valley (Nev.) 1
- Churchill County (Nev.) -- History 1
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Elko County (Nev.) 1
- Fishing -- Nevada -- Pyramid Lake 1
- Flood control -- Nevada 1
- Forage plants -- Nevada 1
- Forage plants -- Nevada -- Lovelock 1
- Forest management -- California 1
- Forest management -- Nevada 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Indian reservations -- Nevada 1
- Indians of North America -- Agriculture -- Nevada 1
- Indians of North America -- Nevada -- Statistics 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Legal instruments 1
- Lincoln County (Nev.) 1
- Local histories 1
- Lovelock (Nev.) 1
- Lyon County (Nev.) 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Moapa Valley (Nev.) 1
- Muddy River (Nev.) 1
- Nevada -- Economic conditions 1
- Nevada -- History -- 20th century 1
- Pahranagat Valley (Nev.) 1
- Paiute Indians 1
- Paiute Indians -- History 1
- Pastures -- Nevada -- Lovelock 1
- Photographs 1
- Purnell Act, 1925 1
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.) 1
- Range management -- California 1
- Range management -- Nevada 1
- Soil conservation -- Nevada 1
- Sparks (Nev.) -- History 1
- State universities and colleges -- Nevada 1
- Teachers -- Nevada -- Biography 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Turkeys 1
- Water rights -- Nevada 1
- Water-supply -- Nevada 1
- Water-supply -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Women -- West (U.S.) 1
- Women authors -- 20th century 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Allen, Edward Weber, 1885-1976 1
- Clawson, Marion, 1905-1998 1
- Colorado River Commission of Nevada 1
- Dodson, W. R. (William Rufus), 1867-1951 1
- Fox, Henry G. 1
- Hardman, George 1
- Hodgson, C. W. (Charles Worth), 1910- 1
- Johnson, Tyr V. 1
- King and Malone Engineers 1
- Land-Grant College-Bureau of Agricultural Economics Committee 1
- Livingston, Penn (Penn Poore), 1899- 1
- Mason, Howard G. 1
- Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
- Nevada Farm Bureau 1
- Nevada Turkey Growers' Association 1
- Nevada. Moapa Soil Conservation District 1
- Nevada. State Planning Board 1
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council 1
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
- Reed, A. J. (Agricultural extension worker) 1
- Roth, Arthur H. 1
- Roumage, Fred W. 1
- Sawyer, Byrd Fanita Wall 1
- Shaeffer, Gary 1
- Shamberger, Hugh A. 1
- United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Phoenix Area Office 1
- United States. Forest Service 1
- Venstrom, Cruz 1
- Willhite, Forrest M. 1
- Wood, Garland Perry, 1922- 1 ∧ less