Finding Aid for Crop Breeding Research Materials, 1896-1959 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Crop Breeding Research Materials, 1896-1959

ID: 8/6/5

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Crop Sciences

Extent: 5.7 cubic feet

Arrangement: Chronological

Subjects: Corn, Corn, Reid's Yellow Dent, Corn Borer, Corn Breeding, Corn Production, Plant Breeding, Plant Diseases, Soil Fertility, Soils, Soybeans

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Crop Breeding Research Materials (1896-1959), including record books and research data relating to alfalfa, clover, corn, cowpeas, hay, Jerusalem artichokes, oats, potatoes, sugar beets, and wheat, and including research data on yields, weather, soil type, pests and diseases, organized into: Analytical Records; Farm Crops Records; Field Record Books; Soil Bacteriology Records; and Department of Agronomy Notebooks.  The series includes R. W. Jugenheimer's Annual Project Reports of Illinois Corn Research (1951-59).

The Agronomy Department was established in 1899 as a division of the College of Agriculture.¹ The department is concerned with the utilizing of fertile soils to their fullest advantage, and with bettering the social and economic position of the owner and tiller of the soil.²

On May 11, 1995, the Board of Trustees approved the renaming and reorganization of the College. It was renamed the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and several changes were made in the organization of departments and divisions.³ The Department of Agronomy, except for soil scientists, was combined with the Department of Plant Pathology to create the Department of Crop Sciences.⁴ The Department's areas of study are plant breeding and genetics, biotechnology and genetic engineering, crop evaluation, crop protection, plant pathology, design of field experiments, weeds and their control, and production and pathology of cereals, corn, soybeans, and forage crops.⁵ Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees are available through graduate study and course work.⁶

1. Richard G. Moores, Fields of Rich Toil, (Urbana: 1970), p. 235. n. 33 and p. 222. Board of Trustees Transactions, 20th Report, August 16, 1899, p. 140. See also Through the Years with the Department of Agronomy, Special Publication No. 1, University of Illinois College of Agriculture, May, 1960, p. 6.

2. Through the Years with the Department with the Department of Agronomy, p. 7.

3. Board of Trustees Transactions, 68th Report, May 11, 1995, p. 277-8.

4. University of Illinois, Faculty and Student Senate, Urbana-Champaign Senate, meeting minutes, March 27, 1995, EP 94.33, p. 35.

5. Programs of Study 2001-2003, p. 46.

6. Ibid., p. 221.

Corn
Corn, Reid's Yellow Dent
Corn Borer
Corn Breeding
Corn Production
Plant Breeding
Plant Diseases
Soil Fertility
Soils
Soybeans

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 5/4/2004

Other Note: 5 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0806005.pdf

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