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The following files are in Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" format. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view these files. Versions are available for the DOS, Macintosh, Unix, and Windows operating systems.

These publications, and additional photos, are available on a set of four CD-ROMs, "Harvest of Knowledge," which is available from orderpub@oznet.ksu.edu, or by contacting Production Services, Kansas State University, 24 Umberger Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-3402.

CAUTION: Recommendations in these publications may be obsolete and even in violation of present laws regulating the use of pesticides. They are included here as a matter of historical interest. The Agricultural Experiment Station published hundreds of circulars, bulletins, and other publications (for a total of more than 24,000 pages) before 1946.

List of Publications of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station--1888 to 2006, EP30.PDF, 166K

This rare color plate (of sorghum blight) is from p. 68 of 73 in Part E of the Annual Report for 1888

Annual Reports 1888-1920

Biennial Reports, 1922-Current

Bulletins 1888-Current

Circulars 1910-1977

Inspection Circulars, 1915-1922

Press Bulletins 1898-1911

Technical Bulletins, 1916-1945, 1965

Reports of Progress, 1957-1999

Description of video on Kansas extension history

Kansas Cooperative Extension Service 1914-1989

History of Communications up to 1992, of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Kansas Cooperative Extension Service

From Desert to Breadbasket: Developing Kansas's Land Resources Centennial Publication (1976)

K-State Agronomy Centennial 1906-2006:
 A Century Remembered 5 MB
This large file is also available by sections:
Intro., Teaching, Ext., Crop Breeding, Soil, Exp. Fields, Service

From Desert to Breadbasket Color version, 6.2M

A few historical photos online

Soil maps

The Extension Worker's Code, Bulletin 33, 1922
Extension travel history

Sampling and Testing Procedures for the Fungal Endophyte of Tall Fescue, 1985, AF139

Historical Perspective on Cooperative Extension

Farming Systems Research Paper Series

United States Agricultural Dust Explosion Information

Climate of Kansas, 1948, plus related historical weather photos and video

Cornell University's file of "The Grape in Kansas: How to Grow and Use" from Kansas State Horticultural Society, 1901

Michigan State's publication archive of historical Extension publications,
1916-1960.

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