Published reports of alfalfa variety experiments at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station are available for 1897-2007 with some gaps and overlap:
|
Years |
Series & Number |
Call number & Location |
|
1896 |
“Crop Report.” Bulletin (Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station) - no. 34. Includes alfalfa and several other crops. |
S542 Io9b – Archives, Library Storage Building, and Media Center (on microfilm) |
|
1910-1916 |
Hughes, H.D. “Varieties of Alfalfa Seed.” The Iowa Agriculturist, v. 18, no. 4, July 1917, pp. 163-165. |
S1 Io83 – Archives, Library Storage Building, and Media Center (on microfilm) |
|
1916-1938 |
Thurman, Floyd. Field Crop Tests on Iowa Farms. M.S. thesis, Iowa State College, 1940. |
SB186 T425f - Storage Building and C O 1940 Thurman - Archives |
|
1926-1929 |
Croft, J. Calvin. Alfalfa Varieties and Seed Sources. M.S. thesis. Iowa State College, 1932. |
SB205 .A3 C874a - Library Storage Building |
|
1939-1959 |
Agron. series? |
Unable to locate/verify |
|
1940-1955 |
Some results were published in a series of articles written by C.P. Wilsie in Farm Science Reporter and Iowa Farm Science. |
|
|
1960-2007 |
AG series, no. 84-* * = last digit of the year the report was issued – e.g., AG-84-5 was used for trials for 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, etc. |
S451 I8 A4x - Archives |
The test name varies: Iowa Alfalfa Yield Test Report, Iowa Crop Performance Test – Alfalfa, Iowa Crop Performance Test – Alfalfa and Other Forages.
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