National Program for the Preservation of Agricultural and Rural Literature 1820-1945

SCOPE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA BIBLIOGRAPHY

TYPES OF PUBLICATONS: Published books and periodicals; North Dakota State publications pertinent to agriculture or rural life (including theses, Extension and Experiment publications, and other state publications pertinent to agriculture and rural life).  Pamphlets and broadsides are included in the bibliography, but not included in the microfilming project.

Exclusions: Personal manuscripts, papers, correspondence, collections and other archival non-published materials; directories and catalogs (except where specified below); atlases and maps; audit reports; corporate papers and records; newspapers (unless agricultural, or surmised to be significantly agricultural in content); almanacs; state legislative and census documents; compilations of laws, court cases and judicial hearings; official publications below the county level; country histories; church histories; federal publications.

POLITICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC AREAS:  North Dakota, Dakota Territory (except where exclusively South Dakota), Red River Valley (ND), Red River of the North, Missouri River Valley (when applicable to North Dakota), Red River Trail, Dakota (when applicable to North Dakota).

GENERAL SUBJECT AREAS

Rural Economy:  Agricultural economics, farm economy and rural economy; farm organization and management; rural banks and banking; production economics; food distribution; state food supply; statistical data; agricultural prices; marketing of agricultural products; small scale home production and marketing of agricultural products (e.g., garden produce, orchards, poultry and eggs); agricultural and food policies (state level only); cooperatives; agricultural finance; land economics and land use; land tenure; rural industry and business connected with the processing and marketing of agricultural products; seed catalogs from state enterprises; food imports; farm labor and farm labor organizations; rural and farm political organizations; land company publications.

Exclusions: Econometric methods; international trade in agricultural products; accounting and business management; agricultural and business law; taxation and public finance; commercial commodity exchanges; land transfer and registration records.

Agriculture:  Farms, farming, food and nonfood agricultural products; major, minor and experimental crops; horticultural crops; agronomic techniques, including plant breeding; livestock, dairy, and poultry; animal science and animal diseases; ranching; brand books; forestry; crop insects and diseases and their control; agricultural engineering, farm equipment, farm structures and agricultural technology; irrigation; soils, water, and climate as pertinent to agriculture or rural life; conservation of natural resources pertaining to agriculture; beekeeping.

Exclusions: Paper industry, non-agricultural plant biology, botany, natural history, entomology, ecology, geology; veterinary practice; water power; limnology; livestock show and breeding records.

Rural Society:  Family farming; rural communities; rural organization (e.g. agricultural societies, Grange, Farm and Home Bureau, 4-H, church, improvement societies); rural political organizations and farmers’ movements; farm demographics; rural transportation; rural communication; rural libraries and schools; rural urban migration; country life; rural play and recreation activities; fairs; cooperative extension service; farm people’s attitudes and opinions; rural leadership; mail order catalogs (North Dakota only);  women on the farm and rural communities; automobiles; rural architecture; rural health and medical care; rural social services, welfare and social security; rural art; rural water supply and waste treatment; immigrant communities.

Exclusions:  Television; industrialization; local government; taxation (except as it relates to farm land and products); county history; individual church histories; state associations of towns and schools boards; North American Indians (except as pertaining to farm, or agricultural endeavors); rail roads, except where specifically treating relationship to rural life or agriculture

Home Economics:  The farm home; the farm family; home economics; domestic employees on the farm; cookery; home gardens; home food processing and preservation; boys and girls clubs; cottage industries; rural and farm nutrition, diet and food preparation; electrification; food science; farm and rural women.

            Exclusions:  Cookbooks

SPECIFIC SUBJECTS AND KEYWORDS