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Library of Congress Classification System

SAgriculture (General).
SBPlant Culture.
SDForestry.
SFAnimal Culture.
SHAquaculture.
SKHunting.


S1-954Agriculture (General)
1-19Periodicals and Societies
21-400Documents and Other Collections
401Congresses
403Agricultural Missions, Voyages, etc.
405-407Collected Works
411Encyclopedias
413Tables
414Calendars (Yearbooks), Almanacs
415-417Biography
419-471History
484-485Agriculture Departments
491-523General Works
530-559Agricultural Education
531-539Schools, Study and Teaching
539.5-542Research, Experimentation
544-545Agricultural Extension Work
548-548.6Historic Farms
550-559Expositions, Fairs, etc.
560-572Farm Economics, Farm Management
583-587.5Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Chemicals
589-589.6Agricultural Physics (including radioisotopes in agriculture)
589.7Agricultural Ecology (General)
589.75-589.76Agricultural Pollution
589.8-589.85Plant Growing Medica, Potting Soils
590-599.9Soils (including soil surveys, soil chemistry, soil structure, soil-plant relationships)
600-600.7Agricultural Meteorology, Crops and Climate
602.5-604.37Methods and Systems of Culture, Cropping Systems (including fallowing, rotation of crops, plowing)
604.5-604.64Agricultural Conservation
604.8-621.5Melioration: Improvement, Reclamation, Fertilization, Irrigation, etc., of Lands
605.5Organic Farming, Organoculture
606-621Special Classes of Lands and Reclamation Methods (including woodlands, burning of lands, deserts, saline environments, moors)
622-627Soil Conservation
631-667Fertilizers and Soil Improvement
671-760Farm Machinery and Engineering
770-790.3Agricultural Structures, Farm Buildings
900-954Conservation of Natural Resources (including land conservation)
SB1-668Plant Culture
39Horticultural Voyages, etc.
107-109Economic Botany
110-111Methods for Special Areas (including dry farming, tropical agriculture)
112Irrigation Farming
113.2-118.45Seeds
118.5-118.75Nurseries, Nursery Industry
119-124Propagation (including breeding, selection, grafting, air layering)
125Training and Pruning
126Artificial Light Gardening
126.5Soilless Agriculture, Hydroponics
127Forcing
128Growth Regulators
129Harvesting, Curing, Storage
170-171Tree Crops
175-177Food Crops
183-317Field Crops (including cereals, forage crops, grasses, legumes, root crops, sugar plants, textile plants, alkaloidal plants, medicinal plants)
317.5-450.87Horticulture, Horticultural Crops
320-353.5Vegetables
354-402Fruit Culture and Orchard Care
381-386Berries and Small Fruits
387-399Grape Culture, Viticulture
401Nuts
403-450.87Flowers and Flower Culture, Ornamental Plants
406.7-406.83Plant Propagation
409-413Culture of Individual Plants
414Forcing
414.6-417Greenhouses and Greenhouse Culture
418-418.4Container Gardening
419-419.3Indoor Gardening and Houseplants
419.5Roof Gardening, Balcony Gardening
421-439.8Classes of Plants (including annuals, climbers, ferns, lawns, perennials, shrubs)
441-441.75Flower Shows, Exhibitions
442.5Care and Preparation of Cut Flowers and Ornamental Plants for Market
442.8-443.4Marketing, Cut Flower Industry
444-446.6Horticultural Service Industry
447Preservation and Reproduction of Flowers, Fruits, etc.
447.5Bonkei, Tray Landscapes
449-450.87Flower Arrangement and Decoration
450.9-467Gardens and Gardening
469-476Landscape Gardening, Landscape Architecture
481-485Parks and Public Reservations (including works on theory, management, history)
599-990.5Pests and Diseases
608Individual or Types of Plants or Trees
610-615Weeds, Parasitic Plants, etc.
617-618Poisonous Plants
621-795Plant Pathology
818-945Economic Entomology
950-989Pest Control and Treatment of Diseases, Plant Protection
950.9-970.4Pesticides
973-973.5Soil Disinfection
974-989Organic Plant Protection, Biological Control
992-998Economic Zoology Applied to Crops, Agricultural Zoology (including animals injurious and beneficial to plants)
SD1-668Forestry
119Voyages
338Forestry Machinery and Engineering
388.5Tools and Implements
389Forest Roads
390-390.3Forest Soils
390.5-390.7Forest Meteorology, Forest Microclimatology
391-409.5Sylviculture
411-428Conservation and Protection (including forest influences, damage by elements, fires, forest reserves)
430-557Exploitation and Utilization (including timber trees, fuelwood, logging, transportation, valuation)
561-668Forest Policy and Administration
SF1-1100Animal Culture
84-84.45Economic Zoology
84.82-85.6Stock Ranges, Range Management
87Acclimatization
89Transportation
91Housing and Environmental Control
92Equipment and Supplies
95-99Feeds and Feeding, Animal Nutrition
101-103.5Brands and Branding, and Other Means of Identifying
105-109Breeding
111-113Cost, Yield, and Profit, Accounting
114-121Exhibitions, Judging, Stock Shows
170-180Working Animals
191-275Cattle
221-250Dairying
250.5-275Dairy Processing, Dairy Products
277-360.3Horses
294.2-297Horse Sports, Horse Shows
305-307Driving
308.5-310.5Horsemanship, Riding
311-312Draft Horses
315-315.5Ponies
318Care of Stables
321-359.7Racing
361Donkeys
362Mules
371-379Sheep, Wool
380-388Goats
391-397.83Swine
402-405Fur-Bearing Animals
405.5-407Laboratory Animals
409Small Animal Culture
411-459Pets
421-440.2Dogs
441-450Cats
451-455Rabbits and Hares
456-458.83Fishes, Aquariums
459Other Animals
461-473Birds
481-507Poultry, Eggs
508-510Game Birds
511Ostrich
512-513Ornamental Birds
518Insect Rearing
521-539Bee Culture
541-560Sericulture, Silk Culture
561Lac-Insects
600-1100Veterinary Medicine
756.5-769.5Special Preclinical Sciences (including veterinary genetics, ethology, anatomy, physiology, embryology)
780.2-780.7Veterinary Microbiology
780.9Veterinary Epidemiology, Epizootiology
781-809Communicable Diseases of Animals (General)
810Veterinary Parasitology
810.5-810.7Predatory Animals and Their Control
811-909Veterinary Medicine of Special Organs, Regions, and Systems
910Other Diseases and Conditions
910.5Veterinary Orthopedics
911-914Veterinary Surgery
914.3-914.4Veterinary Traumatology, Veterinary Emergencies
914.5Veterinary Acupuncture
915-919.5Veterinary Pharmacology
925Veterinary Physical Medicine
951-997.5Diseases of Special Classes of Animals
SH1-691Aquaculture, Fisheries, Angling
20.5-191Aquaculture
138Mariculture
151-179Fish Culture
171-179Diseases and Adverse Factors
185-191Frogs, Leeches, etc.
201-399Fisheries
327.5-327.7Fishery Resources, Fishery Conservation
328-329Fishery Management, Fishery Policy
334.5-334.7Fishery Technology
334.9-336.5Fishery Processing
337Packing, Transportation and Storage
337.5Fishing Port Facilities
343.2-343.3Fishery Oceanography, Fishery Meteorology
343.4Fishery Research Vessels
343.5Exploratory Fishing
343.8Navigation
343.9Safety Measures
344-344.8Methods and Gear, Catching of Fish
346-351Fishery for Individual Species
360-363Seal Fisheries, Fur Sealing
364Sea Otter
365-380.92Shellfish Fisheries, Shellfish Culture
381-385Whaling
387Porpoises, Dolphins
389-391.5Algae Culture, Seaweed
393Seagrasses
396Sponge Fisheries
400-400.8Seafood Gathering
401-691Angling (including tackle, casting, methods of angling, angling for special kinds of fish)
SK1-579Hunting
37-39.5Shooting
281-293Special Methods and Types of Hunting (including bolos, game calling, tracking, trapping, dressing)
284-287Fox Hunting
291-292Coursing
293Ferreting
295-305Big Game
311-335Bird Hunting
336Varmint Hunting (General)
341Other Game
351-579Wildlife Management, Game Protection


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