Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Archives 412
State College of Washington. Agricultural Experiment Station
State College of Washington Agricultural Experiment Station Publications
1891-1966
8 Linear feet of shelf space
8 Boxes
Reports of the Washington State University Agricultural
Experiment Stations, from 1891 to 1966, specifically in Pullman and at the Tree
Fruit Research Center in Wenatchee. The Circulars provide practical information of
immediate use; the Bulletins and Reports tend to be more scientific in
nature.
Collection materials are in English
Through the Agricultural Experiment Stations Act of 1887, the federal government
supplied each new state with funds towards establishing and maintaining agricultural
experiment stations under direction of the land-grant universities, and this became
part of the function of Washington State University when initially authorized by the
state in 1889 and 1890. The role of the Experiment Stations is to conduct research
towards the improvement of crops, and the crop-growing industry.
Among the WSU Experiment Stations is the Tree Fruit Branch Experiment Station,
located outside Wenatchee. It was established in 1937 by the state legislature, and
is just one several such Extension Stations in the state.
The collection consists of several series of Experiment Station publications, dating
from 1891 (before WSU offered its first classes) up through 1966. The Bulletins and
Reports tend to be full research papers, offering intensive details into the
methodology, results, and usefulness of Experiment Station research. The Circulars
and Newspaper Bulletins tend to be of more practical nature, offering immediate
resources intending to aid in day-today agriculture, or to provide outreach and
information on the works of the Stations.
It should be noted that many items are published without dates. As the copies in this
collection were collected by various libraries, many have library date stamps on
them, but those are not the date of publication.
The series in the collection are arranged alphabetically. Within each series,
materials are arranged by item or volume numbers, which are loosely chronological.
An exception is the Bulletins, in which most, though not all, of the Director’s
Annual Reports were broken out separately and place at the end of the series. As
many of the publications are later updated and republished, those revised editions
will appear out of chronological order.
The individual items in this collection (as well as others in these series and
others) should all be individually cataloged and available on line in the WSU
institutional repository, Research Exchange.
They can also be found through the library catalog, SearchIt.
Additionally, some issues, digitized elsewhere, can often be found online via Google
Books or similar tools.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright has not been individually evaluated; anything published with a copyright
notice and having the copyright subsequently renewed remains in copyright until 95
years after publication; otherwise materials are likely in the public domain.
[Item description]
State College of Washington Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1891-1966 (Archives 412)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
In 2021, WSU’s Owen Science and Engineering Library removed duplicate copies of WSU
Extension and WSU Experiment Station publications, and transferred these materials
to the WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). Under a
CERES grant, MASC students digitized all the materials which had not been previously
digitized, placed them online, and the materials were archived.
University Archivist Mark O’English and student Jean Baker processed the physical materials in 2023, after preliminary work by Anne-Marie Greggs.
The materials originating with the Agricultural Extension Service were processed separately as Archives 411.
WSU MASC retains parallel and overlapping sets of these series in their WSU
Publications collection. Specific items not present here may well be present there.
In theory individual items can also be found in the WSU Library stacks proper.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
State College of Washington. Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science of the State of Washington. Agricultural Experiment Station
Washington State University. College of Agriculture. Research Center
Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science of the State of Washington. Agricultural Experiment Station
Washington State University. College of Agriculture. Research Center
Agricultural experiment stations -- Research -- Washington (State)
Agriculture -- Experimentation
Agriculture
Washington (State)
Series 1: Bulletin.
1891-1957
1
1
n. 1 - n. 16.
1891-1894
1
2
n. 17 - n. 29.
1895-1897
1
3
n. 30 - n. 39.
1897-1899
1
4
n. 40 - n. 49.
1899-1901
1
5
n. 50 - n. 59.
1902-1903
1
6
n. 60 - n. 70.
1904-1905
1
7
n. 71 - n. 84.
1905-1907
1
8
n. 85 - n. 94.
1908-1910
1
9
n. 95 - n. 104.
1910-1911
1
10
n. 105 - n. 114.
1912-1914
1
11
n. 115 - n. 124.
1914-1916
1
12
n. 125 - n. 134.
1915-1917
1
13
n. 135 - n. 142.
1917
1
14
n. 143 - n. 148.
1917
1
15
n. 149 - n. 157.
1918-1920
1
16
n. 158 - n. 172.
1920-1922
1
17
n. 173 - n. 180.
1922-1923
1
18
n. 181 - n. 187.
1924
1
19
n. 188 - n. 192.
1925
1
20
n. 192 - n. 200.
1925-1926
1
21
n. 201 - n. 208.
1926
1
22
n. 209 - n. 213.
1926-1927
1
23
n. 214 - n. 220.
1927
2
1
n. 221 - n. 225.
1927-1928
2
2
n. 226 - n. 231.
1928-1929
2
3
n. 232 - n. 236.
1929
2
4
n. 261 - n. 270.
1932
2
5
n. 271 - n. 280.
1932-1933
2
6
n. 281 - n. 290.
1933
2
7
n. 291 - n. 300.
1934
2
8
n. 301 - n. 310.
1934-1935
2
9
n. 300.
1932
2
10
n. 311 - n. 317.
1935
2
11
n. 318 - n. 324.
1935-1936
2
12
n. 325 - n. 330.
1935-1936
2
13
n. 331 - n. 340.
1936
2
14
n. 341 - n. 350.
1936-1937
2
15
n. 351 - n. 365.
1937-1938
2
16
n. 366 - n. 375.
1938-1939
2
17
n. 376 - n. 383.
1939
2
18
n. 384 - n. 392.
1940
2
19
n. 393 - n. 400.
1940-1941
3
1
n. 401 - n. 409.
1941
3
2
n. 410 - n. 417.
1941-1942
3
3
n. 418 - n. 425.
1942
3
4
n. 426 - n. 437.
1942-1944
3
5
n. 438 - n. 450.
1944
3
6
n. 451 - n. 457.
1945-1946
3
7
n. 459 - n. 469.
1945
3
8
n. 470 - n. 475.
1945-1946
3
9
n. 476 - n. 488.
1946-1947
3
10
n. 489 - n. 497.
1947
3
11
n. 498 - n. 507.
1947-1949
3
12
n. 508 - n. 517.
1948-1950
3
13
n. 518 - n. 524.
1949-1951
3
14
n. 525 - n. 534.
1951-1952
3
15
n. 535 - n. 544.
1952-1953
3
16
n. 545 - n. 555.
1953-1954
3
17
n. 556 - n. 565.
1954-1956
3
18
n. 567 - n. 577.
1956-1957
Subseries 1.1: Bulletin (Director's Annual
Report).
1912-1942
4
1
n. 109 - n. 136.
1912-1917
4
2
n. 152 - n. 229.
1918-1927
4
3
n. 237 - n. 305.
1929-1934
4
4
n. 325 - n. 384.
1935-1939
4
5
n. 394 - n. 425.
1940-1942
Series 2: Circular.
1943-1954
4
6
n. 1 - n. 26.
1943-1945
4
7
n. 27 - n. 46.
1945-1947
4
8
n. 49 - n. 55.
1947-1948
4
9
n. 57 - n. 63.
1947-1948
4
10
n. 64 - n. 65.
1948-1950
4
11
n. 66 - n. 78.
1948-1950
4
12
n. 79 - n. 89.
1948-1950
4
13
n. 89 - n. 101.
1948-1950
4
14
n. 102 - n. 106.
1948-1950
4
15
n. 109 - n. 127.
1950
4
16
n. 127 - n. 128.
1950-1964
4
17
n. 129 - n. 138.
1951
4
18
n. 139 - n. 151.
1951
4
19
n. 151 - n. 165.
1951-1954
Series 3: Newspaper Bulletin
1911-1916
4
20
Newspaper Bulletin. n. 1 - n.
182.
1911-1916
Series 4: Report of the Tree Fruit Branch
Experiment Station.
1938-1966
5
1
Vol. 1, n. 1.
1938
5
2
Vol. 1, n. 2.
1938
5
3-4
Vol. 2.
1939
5
5-6
Vol. 3.
1940
5
7-9
Vol. 4.
1941
5
10-12
Vol. 5.
1942
5
13-14
Vol. 6.
1943
5
15-16
Vol. 7.
1944
5
17-18
Vol. 8.
1945
5
19-20
Vol. 9.
1946
6
1-2
Vol. 10.
1947
6
3-4
Vol. 11.
1948
6
5-6
Vol. 12.
1949
6
7-9
Vol. 13.
1950
6
10-11
Vol. 14.
1951
6
12-14
Vol. 15.
1952
6
15-18
Vol. 16.
1953
6
19-21
Vol. 17.
1954
7
1-4
Vol. 18.
1955
7
5-7
Vol. 19.
1956
7
8-10
Vol. 20.
1957
7
11-12
Vol. 21.
1958
7
13-16
Vol. 22.
1959
7
17-21
Vol. 23.
1960
8
1-2
Vol. 24.
1961
8
3-4
Vol. 25.
1962
8
5-6
Vol. 26.
1963
8
7-10
Vol. 27.
1964
8
11-12
Vol. 28.
1965
8
13-14
Vol. 29.
1966