Theodore A. Kiesselbach, Agronomy
Papers
Title: Theodore A.
Kiesselbach, Agronomy Papers
Creator: Kiesselbach, Theodore A., 1884-1964
Dates: 1909-1999
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Collection Number: RG 08-08-10
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Biography:
Theodore "Mr. Corn" Kiesselbach (1884-1964), University of Nebraska Professor of
Agronomy, is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in corn crossbreeding,
corn hybrids, and crop improvement.
Theodore Alexander Kiesselbach was born March 14, 1884 to Alexander and Caroline
Bayrhoffer Kiesselbach on a farm near Shelby, Polk County, Nebraska. Tragedy struck
in 1888, with the sudden deaths of his father, brother, and grandfather from
illness. Wanting a new start, Kiesselbach's mother leased out the family farm and
moved with her five children to Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1895, after a drought
severely reduced their income, the family returned to Custer County, Nebraska to
help their bachelor uncle, Theodore Bayrhoffer, on his farm. In 1896, the
Kiesselbachs returned home to the "Kiesselbach Brothers Farm" in Shelby, Nebraska,
to raise hogs. Four years later, the family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, so the
Kiesselbach sisters could attend the University of Nebraska (UN). Caroline died in
1901 and left 160 acres of farmland to each of her children with money to fund their
college educations.
Intending to become a farmer, Kiesselbach graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Science in agriculture from UN in 1907 and 1908, and received his
Masters and PhD in agriculture in 1912 and 1918. He married high school friend and
UN alumna Hazel Hortense Hyde, on June 30, 1909. They had four children, Theodore J.
(1910), Max (1912), Katherine (1922), and Helen (1923). After finishing his degree,
Kiesselbach had planned to return to his inherited farmland. He took a job in
Lincoln after being told by Hazel's father that farm life would not suit her.
Deciding to stay in Lincoln, Kiesselbach accepted a graduate assistant position with
E.G. Montgomery, head of the UN Department of Field Crops, on a project making
thousands of plant growth measurements for corn experiments. Later, he worked as a
field crops instructor and Agricultural Experiment Station assistant (1908),
assistant in experimental agronomy (1909), professor of experimental agronomy
(1912), and professor of agronomy (1917-1952).
In 1909, he attended the National Corn Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, where he saw
Connecticut scientists G.A. Schull and Edward East lecture on hybrid corn, seen at
that time as dangerous. Kiesselbach and E.G. Montgomery initiated work on
crossbreeding corn and in 1913, became the first scientists to develop corn hybrids
west of Connecticut. After several devastating droughts, Kiesselbach's hybrid became
popular in the 1930s, and by 1949, accounted for $42 million of Nebraska's crop
income.
Kiesselbach published more than 140 publications on crop research including corn
hybrids, alfalfa and wheat breeding, and chemical bindweed control. Plant scientists
around the world continue to reference his article, "The Structure and Reproduction
of Corn"(1949) published as a Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin. In 1980, the University of Nebraska Press republished the article as a
book and printed another edition in 1999 for its 50th anniversary.
Kiesselbach received the Hoblitzell National Award in Agricultural Sciences in 1951
and Nebraska Crop Improvement Association Agronomy Award in 1952. In addition, he
served as a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and held memberships in the
Nebraska Corn Improvers Association, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, American Society
of Agronomy, Nebraska Academy of Science, and many other organizations. He died on
December 27, 1964. The University of Nebraska dedicated the Kiesselbach Crops
Research Laboratory in his honor in 1969.
Scope and Content:
The Kiesselbach Agronomy Papers include biographical materials and publications by
Kiesselbach on the topics related to his corn and crop research and experiments at
the University of Nebraska. Significant materials include Kiesselbach's
autobiography, What's in a Life (Box 4, folders 7-8),
where he describes his experiences growing up on a farm in Custer and Polk Counties,
Nebraska, his life as an early 1900s student at the University of Nebraska (UN), and
William Jennings Bryan's Sunday school classes. The autobiography includes a history
of the UN Agriculture College and details on Kiesselbach's research and career.
Subjects:
Kiesselbach, Theodore A., 1884-1964
Alfalfa--Breeding
Bindweeds
Corn--Breeding
Corn--hybrids
Wheat--Breeding
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Department of
Agronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Agricultural Experiment
Station
Series Description:
Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1904-1999The Kiesselbach biographical materials include newspaper and magazine
articles, biographies, interview, obituaries, and articles, programs,
correspondence from the 1952 Kiesselbach Recognition Dinner, and materials
related to the 1969 dedication of the Kiesselbach Crops Research lab. These
items are arranged chronologically.
Series 2: Publications and Drawings, 1912-1980This series contains publications authored, co-authored, and edited by
Kiesselbach on corn hybrids, alfalfa and wheat breeding, chemical bindweed
control, and other forms of pioneering crop research, arranged
chronologically by publication date. Also included are oversized figure
proofs from Kiesselbach's "The Structure and
Reproduction of Corn."
Series 3: Photographs, 1907-1952, undatedPhotographs include Kiesselbach studio portraits, UN Agricultural Experiment
Station exhibits, corn shows, Kiesselbach Crops Lab dedication, and group
photos, which are arranged chronologically.
Container List:
Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1904-1999Box 1. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1904-1954
Box 1. Folder 2. Publication, "Publication, "Selecting
Show Corn," E.G. Montgomery," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Special Bulletin, 1907[?]
Box 1. Folder 3. Publication, "History of the School of
Agriculture," Agriculture 7, no.
11, 1909, Jan.
Box 1. Folder 4. Publications, on Kiesselbach, 1909-1955
Box 1. Folder 5. Exam and registration bulletins, programs, Seed and Soil newsletter, University of Nebraska
(UN), 1912-1930, 1955
Box 1. Folder 6. Newspaper articles, on Kiesselbach, 1912-1989, undated
Box 1. Folder 7. Publications, referencing Kiesselbach, 1925-1952
Box 1. Folder 8. Publication,"Dr. Theodore A Kiesselbach," E. Hale Sinnett, Cornhusker Countryman 6, no., 1927, Apr. (see oversized materials, map case 17, drawer
5)
Box 1. Folder 8. Publication, "A Man Who Didn't Know What to Do," E. Hale Art
Kozelka, Cornhusker Countryman 10, no.
5, 1931, Feb. (see oversized materials, map case 17, drawer
5)
Box 1. Folder 9. Program, Farm and Home Week, Kansas State Agriculture
College, 1928, July 10
Box 1. Folder 10. Programs, Sigma XI initiation, University of Nebraska chapter, 1933-1935, 1962
Box 1. Folder 11. Newspaper articles, recipes, Jerusalem artichokes, 1936-1937
Box 1. Folder 12. Biographical data, obituaries, 1945, 1964, undated
Box 1. Folder 13. Publications, University of Nebraska
Research Report, 1949-1951
Box 1. Folder 13. Publications, Nebraska Experiment Station
Quarterly, 1952-1953
Box 1. Folder 14. Certificate of Appreciation, University of Nebraska, 1950, Sept. 26
Box 1. Folder 15. Program, article, Nebraska Crop Improvement Association Agronomy
Award, 1952, Jan. 28 (see also photos box 3, folder 8)
Box 2. Folder 1. Correspondence, Kiesselbach recognition dinner, 1952, Feb.-June
Box 2. Folder 2. Programs, newspaper articles, tickets, Kiesselbach recognition
dinner, 1952, Mar. 12
Box 2. Folder 3. Interview, "Farm Facts and Fun,"
George Round, 1952, Mar. 12
Box 2. Folder 4. Annotated draft, "Theodore Alexander
Kiesselbach: Versatile, Prolific, Research Agronomist," Harvey
O. Werner, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 1967
Box 2. Folder 5. Program, L.C. Newell speech, Kiesselbach Crops Lab
Dedication, 1969, Apr. 21
Box 2. Folder 6. Press release, "Highly Regarded UN Ag
Research Bulletin on Corn Reprinted 50 Years Later," Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UN, 1999
Series 2: Publications, 1912-1980Box 2. Folder 7. Publication lists, 1912-1953
Box 2. Folder 8. Publications, 1912-1915Item 1.Editor, Nebraska Corn Improvers'
Association Third Annual Report, 1912, Jan. 15-16
Item 2."The Germination Test for Seed
Corn," University of Nebraska
Agricultural Experiment Station Extension Bulletin
3, 1912, Feb. 12
Item 3."The Germination Test for Seed
Corn," Independent Farmer, 1912, Mar. 14
Item 4."Safe and Sane Seed
Corn," The Nebraska
Farmer, 1913, Jan. 31
Item 5."Sweet Clover in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Extension Bulletin 22, 1914, Apr. 1
Item 6. Nebraska Corn Improvers' Association
Sixth Annual Report, 1915, Jan. 18-19
Item 7."Soybeans and Cowpeas," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 150, 1915, Apr. 6
Box 2. Folder 9. Publications, 1916Item 1.Editor. Nebraska Corn Improvers'
Association Seventh Annual Report, 1916, Jan. 18-19
Item 2."The Use of Water by
Corn," Agriculture 15, no.
6, 1916, Mar.
Item 3."Transpiration as a Factor in Crop
Production," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Research Bulletin 6, 1916, June 20
Item 4."International Soil Products
Exposition," Agriculture, 16
no.3, 1916, Dec.
Box 2. Folder 10. Publications, 1917Item 1.With J.A. Ratcliff, "Oats
Investigations," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin 160, 1917, Nov. 15
Item 2.With C.A. Helm, "Relation of Size
and Seed and Sprout Value to the Yield of Small Grain
Crops," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Research Bulletin 11, 1917, Dec. 1
Item 3."Studies Concerning the Elimination
of Experimental Error in Comparative Crop Tests a
Thesis," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Research Bulletin 13, 1917, Dec.
Box 2. Folder 12. Publications, 1918-1919Item 1.Editor. Nebraska Corn Improvers'
Association Ninth Annual Report, 1918, Jan. 15-16
Item 2."Freezing Injury of Seed
Corn," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin 163, 1918, Apr. 15
Item 3."Soybeans," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 166, 1918, May 1
Item 4."Studies Concerning the Elimination
of Experimental Error in Comparative Crop Tests," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin 13, 1918, June 15
Item 5."Forage Crops," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 169, 1918, Dec.
Item 6."Production of an Early Variety of
Early Oats," Agriculture 8,
no. 3, 1919, Jan.
Item 7."Experimental Error in Field
Trails" Journal of the American
Society of Agronomy 11, no. 6, 1919
Box 2. Folder 13. Publications 1920-1922Item 1.With J.A. Ratcliff, "Freezing
Injury of Seed Corn," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Research Bulletin16, 1920, June
Item 2."Improvement of Small
Grains," Nebraska Corn Improvers'
Association Twelfth Annual Report, 1921, Jan. 4-5
Item 3.With F.D. Keim, "The Regional
Adaption of Corn in Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin
19, 1921, Apr. 1
Item 4."Corn Investigations," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 20, 1922, June
Item 5."Ear-type Selection and Yield of
Dent Corn," Journal of American
Society of Agronomy 14, no. 1-2, 1922
Box 2. Folder 14. Publications, 1923-1925Item 1."Productive Seed Corn," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin 188, 1923, Apr.
Item 2."Competition as a Source of Error
in Comparative Corn Yields," Journal
of American Society of Agronomy 15, no. 5, 1923, May
Item 3."Nebraska Soils and
Crops," Farm
Journal, 1923, Oct.
Item 4.With G.C. Cook, " The Relative
Effects of Foreign Pollen upon the Kernel Weight of Commercial
Varieties and Selfed Strains of Corn," Journal of American Society of Agronomy
16, no. 1, 1924, Jan.
Item 5."Relation of Seed Size to the Yield
of Small Grain Crops," Journal of
American Society of Agronomy 16, no. 10, 1924, Oct.
Item 6.With W.E. Lyness, "Spring Small
Grains," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin 201, 1924, Nov.
Item 7.With N.F. Petersen, "The Chromosome
Number of Maize," Genetics
10, 1925, Jan.
Item 8.With N.F. Petersen "The Occurrence
of Starch and Erythrodextrin in Maize and their Segregation in
the Pollen of Hybrids" Genetics 10, 1925, Jan.
Item 9.With Arthur Anderson, "Annual
Forage Crops," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin 206, 1925, Apr.
Item 10.With Arthur Anderson, "Hardy
Alfalfa for Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Circular 32, 1925, Aug.
Item 11."Winter Wheat
Investigations," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Research Bulletin, 31, 1925, Nov.
Box 3. Folder 1. Publications, 1926Item 1."Abnormalities in
Maize," American Journal of
Botany, 13, no. 1, 1926, Jan.
Item 2.With H.G. Sprague, "Relation of the
Development of the Wheat Spike to Environmental
Factors," Journal of American Society
of Agronomy,18, no. 1, 1926, Jan.
Item 3."The Comparative Water Economy of
Selfed Lines of Corn and their Hybrids," Journal of American Society of Agronomy,
18, no. 4, 1926, Apr.
Item 4.With Arthur Anderson, "Alfalfa
Investigations," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Research Bulletin36, 1926, June
Item 5.With Arthur Anderson, "Hardy
Alfalfa for Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Extension Circular130, 1926, July
Item 6."The Relation of Seeding Practices
to Crop Quality," Journal of American
Society of Agronomy18, no. 8, 1926, Aug.
Item 7.With George L. Peltier, "The
Differential Reaction of Strains within a Variety of Wheat to
Physiologic Forms of Puccinia Graminis Trictci," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin39, 1926, Dec.
Item 8."The Immediate Effect of Gametic
Relationship and of Parental Type upon the Kernel Weight of
Corn" UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Research Bulletin33, 1926, Dec.
Box 3. Folder 2. Publications 1927Item 1."The Principles of Curing Alfalfa
Hay," Nebraska Corn Improvers'
Association Ninth Annual Report, 1927, Jan. 4-5
Item 2.With Arthur Anderson, "Curing
Alfalfa Hay," Journal of American
Society of Agronomy19, no. 2, 1927, Feb.
Item 3."Field Experiments with Seed Corn
Treatments and Crop Stimulants," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin20, 1927, May
Item 4.With Arthur Anderson, "Alfalfa in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin222, 1927, July
Item 5.With Arthur Anderson and W.W. Burr, "The Seedbed Factor in Winter Wheat
Production," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin223, 1927, July
Box 3. Folder 3. Publications, 1928-1929Item 1."The Improvement, Distribution, and
Maintenance of Farm Crops as Discussed from the Experiment
Station Viewpoint," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy20, no. 1, 1928, Jan.
Item 2."The Mechanical Procedure of Field
Experimentation," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy20, no. 5, 1928, May
Item 3.With Arthur Anderson and W.E. Lyness, "Tillage Practices in Relation to Corn
Production," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin,232, 1928, Dec.
Item 4."The Latest Developments of Seed
Corn Treatments," Nebraska Crop
Growers Association Twentieth Annual Report, 1929, Jan. 8-9
Item 5.With J.C. Russell and Arthur Anderson, "The Significance of Subsoil Moisture in
Alfalfa Production," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy21, no. 3 1929, Mar.
Item 6.With Arthur Anderson, "Cultural
Tests with the Jerusalem Artichoke," Journal of the American Society of Agronomy21, no.
10, 1929, Oct.
Item 7."Varietal, Cultural, and Seasonal
Effects upon the Water Requirement of Crops," Proceedings of the International Congress of
Plant Sciences, 1929
Box 3. Folder 4. Publications, 1930-1931Item 1."What about Hybrid
Corn," Nebraska Crop Growers
Association Twenty-First Annual Report, 1930, Jan. 7
Item 2."Field Tests with Treat Seed
Corn," Journal of Agricultural
Research40, no. 2, 1930, Jan. 13
Item 3."The Use of Advanced-Generation
Hybrids as Parents of Double Cross Seed Corn," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy22, no. 7, 1930, July
Item 4.With Arthur Anderson, "Breeding
Winter Wheat for Resistance to Stinking Smut," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin51, 1930, Dec.
Item 5."Progress Report on Hybrid
Corn," Nebraska Crop Growers
Association Twenty-Second Annual Report, 1931, Jan. 6-7
Item 6.With W.E. Lyness, "Variety Tests of
Oats, Barley, and Spring Wheat," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin253 1931, Mar.
Item 7.With Arthur Anderson "Quality of
Alfalfa Hay in Relation to Curing Practice," USDA Technical Bulletin235 1931, Apr.
Item 8.With J.O. Culbertson, "An Analysis
of the Effects of Diplodia Infection and Treatment of Seed
Corn," Journal of Agricultural
Research42, no. 11, 1931, June 1
Item 9.With T.H. Goodding, "The Adaption
of Corn to Upland and Bottom Land Soils," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy23, no. 11, 1931, Nov.
Box 2. Folder 5. Publications, 1932-1933Item 1."Corn Question Box," Nebraska Crop Growers Association Twenty-Third
Annual Report, 1932, Jan. 5-6
Item 2.With Warren H Leonard, "The Effect
of Pollen Source upon the Grain Yield of Corn," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy24, no. 7, 1932, July
Item 3.With Warren H Leonard, "The Effect
of the Removal of Tassels on the Yield of Corn," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy24, no. 7 1932, July
Item 4."Producing Hybrid Seed Corn on the
Farm," Nebraska Crop Growers
Association Twenty-Fourth Annual Report, 1933, Jan. 3-4
Item 5."Corn in Nebraska," UN Agricultural Extension
Circular136, 1933, Apr.
Item 6.With W.E. Lyness, "Seed Preparation
and Planting Methods for Spring Small Grains," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin273, 1933, July
Item 7.With Arthur Anderson and C.A. Suneson, "Winter Wheat Varieties in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin283, 1933, July
Item 8.With Ralph M. Weihing, "Effect of
Stand Irregularities upon the Acre Yield and Plant Variability
of Corn," Journal of Agricultural
Research47, no. 6 1933, Sept. 15
Item 9.With Arthur Anderson, "Selection
within Burt Oats," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy25, no. 10 1933, Oct.
Item 10."What is the New Thing in
Corn," National
Cornhusker, 1933, Nov. 9
Item 11."The Possibilities of Modern Corn
Breeding," Proceedings of the World's
Grain Exhibit and Conference11 1933
Box 3. Folder 6. Publications, 1934-1935Item 1."What is Ahead in the Way of
Improved Crops and Certified Seed? Corn," Nebraska Crop Growers Association Twenty-Fifth
Annual Report, 1934, Jan. 2-3
Item 2.With Arthur Anderson, "Studies on
the Technic of Control Hardiness Tests with Winter
Wheat," Journal of the American
Society of Agronomy26, no.1, 1934, Jan.
Item 3.With Arthur Anderson and W.E. Lyness, "Cultural Practices in Winter Wheat
Production," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin286 1934, Apr.
Item 4."Furrow Versus Surface Planting
Winter Wheat," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy26, no. 4, 1934, Apr.
Item 5.With N.F. Petersen and W.W. Burr, "Bindweeds and their Control," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin287 1934, May
Item 6.With Arthur Anderson and J.C. Russel, "Subsoil Moisture and Crop Sequence in
Relation to Alfalfa Production," Journal of the American Society of Agronomy26, no.
5, 1934, May
Item 7."Inducing Early Fruiting in Winter
Wheat by Seed Activation," Journal of
the American Society of Agronomy26, no. 6, 1934, June
Item 8.With G.L. Peltier,"The Comparative
Cold Resistance of Spring Small Grains," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy26, no. 8, 1934, Aug.
Item 9.With Arthur Anderson and W.E. Lyness, "Cultural Practices in Corn
Production," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin293 1935, Jan.
Item 10.With P.H. Steward and D.L. Gross, "Bindweed Eradication," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Circular50 1935, Feb.
Item 11.With W.E. Lyness, "Annual Fodder
and Silage Crops for Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Circular52 1935, Mar.
Item 12.With Ralph M. Weihing, "The
Comparative Root Development of Selfed Lines of Corn and their
F1 and F2 Hybrids," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy27, no. 7, 1935, June
Box 3. Folder 7. Publications, 1937Item 1."Hybrid Corn Production-Principles
and Practices," Nebraska Crop Growers
Association Twenty-Eighth Annual Report, 1937, Jan. 5-7
Item 2."Effects of Age, Size, and Source
of Seed on the Corn Crop," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin305 1937, Mar.
Item 3."New Crops for Old," Spragg Memorial Lectures on Plant Breeding,
Michigan State College Department of Farm
Crops, 1937
Box 3. Folder 8. Publications, 1937-1939Item 1.With R.L. Cushing and E.F. Frolik, "Grain and Forage Sorghums in Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin316 1938, Apr.
Item 2.With H.M. Tysdal, "Alfalfa Nursery
Technic," Journal of the American
Society of Agronomy31, no. 2, 1939, Feb.
Item 3.With W.E. Lyness, "The Effects of
Stinking Smut (Bunt) and Seed Treatment upon the Yield of Winter
Wheat," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Research Bulletin110 1939, Apr.
Item 4."Effect of Artificial Drying Upon
the Germination of Seed Corn," Journal of the American Society of Agronomy31, no.
6, 1939, June
Item 5.With H.M. Tysdal, "The Differential
Response of Alfalfa Varieties to Time of Cutting," Journal of the American Society of
Agronomy31, no. 6, 1939, June
Item 6.With W.E. Lyness, "Soybeans in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin322, 1939, Oct.
Box 3. Folder 9. Publications, 1940-1941Item 1.With K.S. Quisenberry and O.J. Webster, "Varieties of Winter Wheat in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin326, 1940, May
Item 2.With K.S. Quisenberry and O.J. Webster, "Varieties of Oats, Barley, and Spring Wheat
in Nebraska," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin328, 1940, June
Item 3.With R.L. Cushing and O.J. Webster, "Sorghum Production in Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin329, 1940, June
Item 4."The Farm Significance of Cleaning
and Grading Seed," Nebraska Crop
Growers Association Thirty-Second Annual
Report, 1940, Nov. 27-28
Item 5.With H.M. Tysdal, "Alfalfa in
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin331 1941, May
Box 3. Folder 10. Publications, 1942Item 1."Soybeans as a Crop in
1942," Nebraska Crop Growers
Association Thirty-Third Annual Report, 1942, Feb. 4-5
Item 2."Nebraska Official Corn Yield
Tests," UN Extension Service
Circular,103 1942, Feb.
Item 3.With W.E. Lyness, "Soybean
Production in Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin339 1942, Apr.
Item 4.With H.M. Tysdal and H.L. Westover, "Alfalfa Breeding," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin,124 1942, June
Box 3. Folder 11. Publications, 1943-1945Item 1."Soybeans in Nebraska," Nebraska History14, no. 1, 1943, Jan.-Mar.
Item 2.With L.M. Camp and E.F. Frolik, "1942 Nebraska Official Corn Yield Tests," UN Extension Service
Circular103 1943, Mar.
Item 3."Crop Response to Hormone Seed
Treatments," Journal of the American
Society of Agronomy35, no. 4, 1943, Apr.
Item 4.With S. Garver and J.M. Slatensek, "Sweetclover in Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin377, 1943, Dec.
Item 5.With J.M. Slatensek, "Edible
Soybeans in Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin356, 1944, Mar.
Item 6.With H.O. Werner and R.W. Goss, "Dry-Land Crop Rotation Experiments with Potatoes in
Northwestern Nebraska," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin363, 1944, July
Item 7."Character, Field Performance, and
Commercial Production of Waxy Corn," Journal of the American Society of Agronomy36, no.
8, 1944, Aug.
Item 8.With K.S. Quisenberry and O.J. Webster, "Varieties of Winter Wheat for
Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin356, 1944, Aug.
Item 9.With K.S. Quisenberry and O.J. Webster, "Varieties of Oats for Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin375, 1945, Feb.
Item 10.With C.E. Claassen, "Experiments
with Safflower in Western Nebraska," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin376, 1945, Mar.
Item 11.With W.E. Lyness, "Simulated Hail
Injury of Corn," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin377, 1945, June
Item 12."The Detasseling Hazard of Hybrid
Seed Corn Production," Journal of the
American Society of Agronomy37, no. 10, 1945, Oct.
Box 4. Folder 1. Publications, 1947-1949Item 1.With Samuel Garver, "Growing and
Harvesting the Sweetclover Seed Crop," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin387, 1947, Dec.
Item 2."Endosperm Type as a Physiologic
Factor in Corn Yields," ournal of the
American Society of Agronomy40, no. 3, 1948, Mar.
Item 3.With W.E. Lyness, "Growing the
Winter Wheat Crops," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin389, 1948, Aug.
Item 4.With C.W. Smith and W.E. Lyness, "
Factors Affecting the Efficiency of the Mechanical Corn
Picker," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin394, 1949, Sept.
Item 5."The Structure and Reproduction of
Corn," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Research Bulletin161, 1949, Nov. (see also figure proofs, map case 17, drawer 5
and glass slides box 5, folder 7)
Item 6."Cultural Practices for More Corn
with less Effort," Progress in Corn
Production,American Seed Trade Association, 1949
Box 4. Folder 2. Publications, 1950Item 1."A Half Century of Crops
Research," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station 63rd Annual Report 1950, May
Item 2."Progressive Development and
Seasonal Variations of the Corn Crop," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin166, 1950, Dec.
Box 4. Folder 3. Publications, 1951Item 1.With W.E. Lyness, "Seedbed
Preparation for Winter Wheat in Relation to Soil
Fertility," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station 64th Annual ReportN 1951, May
Item 2."Do Crop Varieties Run
Out?" Certified Seed Handbook and
42nd Annual Report,Nebraska Crop Improvement
Association, 1951, May 1
Item 3."A Half-Century of Corn
Research," American
Scientist39, no. 4, 1951, Oct.
Item 4.With W.E. Lyness, "Production
Practices for Spring Small Grains," UN Agricultural Experiment Station
Bulletin406, 1951, Dec.
Box 4. Folder 4. Publications, 1952-1954Item 1.With I.L. Hathaway and F.D. Yung, "
The Effect of Drying Temperature upon the Nutritive Value and
Commercial Grade of Corn," Journal of
Animal Science11, no. 2, 1952, May
Item 2.With Elda R. Walker, " Structure of
Certain Specialized Tissues in the Kernel of Corn," American Journal of Botany29, no.
8, 1952, Oct.
Item 3.With W.E. Lyness, " Crop Rotation
Experiments," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin416, 1952, Dec.
Item 4."Legume and Manure Relations in the
Western Corn Belt," Better Crops with
Plant Food37, no. 2 1953, Feb.
Item 5."Fertilizers Move West," Better Crops with Plant Food, 1953, May
Item 6.With W.E. Lyness, "Growing the
Winter Wheat Crop," UN Agricultural
Experiment Station Bulletin 389 1954, Dec.
Box 4. Folder 5. Publications, 1960-1963Item 1."The Significance of Xenia Effects
on the Kernel Weigh of Corn," UN
Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin191, 1960, June
Item 2."Performance of Advanced Generation
Corn Hybrids," Agronomy
Journal52, 1960
Item 3."The Use of Water by Crop
Plants," UN Agricultural Experiment
Station Special Report 11, 1963, Nov.
Box 4. Folder 6. The Structure and Reproduction of
Corn, University of Nebraska Press, 1980
Box 4. Folder 7. Unpublished manuscript, What's in a Life:
Autobiography of T.A. Kiesselbach, pages 1-96, 1964
Box 4. Folder 8. Unpublished manuscript, What's in a Life:
Autobiography of T.A. Kiesselbach, pages 97-347, 1964
Series 3: Photographs, 1907-1952, undatedBox 4. Folder 9. Photos, Kiesselbach portrait, UN graduation, 1907
Box 5. Folder 1. Photos, Kiesselbach portraits, 1910s
Box 5. Folder 2. Photos, UN Agricultural Experiment Station exhibits, corn shows,
Dry Farm Congress, 1911-1912, 1936, undated
Box 6. Folder 3. Photos, 1925-1936, undatedItem 1.Photo, Wheat Conference, 1925
Item 2.Photo, Corn Group, Indiana, 1935, Oct.
Item 3.Photo, UN Agronomy Department, 1936, Dec. 12
Item 4.Photo, UN Agriculture College group photo, undated
Box 5. Folder 4. Photos, Kiesselbach portraits, 1929
Box 5. Folder 5. Photos, Kiesselbach portraits, Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace, Governor Robert Cochran visits, 1930, undated
Box 5. Folder 6. Photos, Kiesselbach portraits, 1931-1952, undated
Box 5. Folder 7. Glass slides, "Structure and Reproduction of Corn" figures, UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin161 1949
Box 5. Folder 8. Photo, Nebraska Crop Improvement Association Agronomy
Award (see also box 1, folder 7),1952, Jan. 29
Box 5. Folder 9. Photo, Kiesselbach Crops Lab dedication, 1969
Box 5. Folder 10. Glass negatives (FRAGILE), undatedItem 1.Glass negative, man and woman on porch, undated
Item 2.Glass negative, parlor interior shot, undated
Item 3.Glass negative, man in garden near house, undated
Box 5. Folder 11. Glass negatives (FRAGILE), undatedItem 1.Glass negative, man sitting in office with UN
regalia, undated
Item 2-3.Glass negative, baby (Theodore Kiesselbach, Jr.?) in stroller
with UN pennant flag, 1910?
Box Map case 17, Drawer 5. Folder 6. Oversized materialsItem 1. Figure proofs, "The Structure
and Reproduction of Corn," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin 161, 1949
Item 2. Publication, Theodore Kiesselbach, "The Evolution of the Agricultural
College," Cornhusker Countryman 2, no.
4, 1923, Jan.
Item 3. Publication, E. Hale Sinnett, "Dr. Theodore A Kiesselbach," Cornhusker Countryman 6, no.
8, 1927, Apr.
Item 4. Publication, E. Hale Art Kozelka, "A Man Who Didn't Know What to Do," Cornhusker Countryman 10, no.
5, 1931, Feb.
Box Map case 17, Drawer 5. Folder 7. Figure proofs, "The Structure and
Reproduction of Corn," UN Agricultural Experiment Station Research
Bulletin 161, 1949
Related Material and Resources: For more information relating to Theodore Kiesselbach's personal life, see also
Kiesselbach Family Papers (MS 0398).Information for Kiesselbach's biography was taken from his autobiography, What's in a Life: Autobiography of T.A. Kiesselbach (box
4, folders 7-8),"Mister Corn: A Report on Dr. T.A.
Kiesselbach, Whose Research Career Spans Agriculture's Period of Greatest
Achievement,"University of Nebraska Research Report, 1950 (box 1,
folder 4), " Highly Regarded NU Ag Research Bulletin on
Corn Reprinted 50 Years later," UN Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources press release, 1999 (see box 2, folder 6), and "Theodore Alexander Kiesselbach: Versatile, Prolific, Research
Agronomist," Harvey O. Werner, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 1967 (box 2,
folder 5). |