Library of Congress Classification:Class S -- Agriculture

Class S: Agriculture is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system. This page outlines the sub-classes of Class S.^[1]

Subclass S - Agriculture (general)

• S21-400.5 Documents and other collections
• S403 Agricultural missions, voyages, etc.
• S419-482 History
• S530-559 Agricultural education
  • S539.5-542.3 Research. Experimentation
  • S544-545.53 Agricultural extension work
  • S548-548.6 Historic farms
  • S550-559 Exhibitions. Fairs
• S560-571.5 Farm economics. Farm management. Agricultural mathematics. Including production standards, record keeping, farmwork rates, marketing
• S583-587.73 Agricultural chemistry. Agricultural chemicals
• S588.4-589.6 Agricultural physics. Including radioisotopes in agriculture
• S589.7 Agricultural ecology (General)
• S589.75-589.76 Agriculture and the environment
• S589.8-589.87 Plant growing media. Potting soils
• S590-599.9 Soils. Soil science. Including soil surveys, soil chemistry, soil structure, soil-plant relationships
• S600-600.7 Agricultural meteorology. Crops and climate
• S602.5-604.37 Methods and systems of culture. Cropping systems. Including fallowing, rotation of crops, plowing
• S604.5-604.64 Agricultural conservation
• S604.8-621.5 Melioration: Improvement, reclamation, fertilization, irrigation, etc., of lands
  • S605.5 Organic farming. Organiculture
  • S606-621.5 Special classes of lands and reclamation methods. Including woodlands, burning of lands, deserts, saline environments, moors
• S622-627 Soil conservation and protection
• S631-667 Fertilizers and improvement of the soil
• S671-760.5 Farm machinery and farm engineering
• S770-790.3 Agricultural structures. Farm buildings
• S900-(972) Conservation of natural resources. Including land conservation

Subclass SB - Plant culture

• SB39 Horticultural voyages, etc.
• SB71-87 History
• SB107-109 Economic botany
• SB109.7-111 Methods for special areas. Including cold regions, dry farming, tropical agriculture
• SB112 Irrigation farming
• SB113.2-118.46 Seeds. Seed technology
• SB118.48-118.75 Nurseries. Nursery industry
• SB119-124 Propagation. Including breeding, selection, grafting, air layering
• SB125 Training and pruning
• SB126 Artificial light gardening
• SB126.5-126.57 Hydroponics. Soilless agriculture
• SB127 Forcing
• SB128 Growth regulators
• SB129-130 Harvesting, curing, storage
• SB169-172.5 Tree crops
• SB175-177 Food crops
• SB183-317 Field crops. Including cereals, forage crops, grasses, legumes, root crops, sugar plants, textile plants, alkaloidal plants, medicinal plants
• SB317.5-319.864 Horticulture. Horticultural crops
• SB320-353.5 Vegetables
• SB354-402 Fruit and fruit culture
  • SB381-386 Berries and small fruits
  • SB387-399 Grape culture. Viticulture
  • SB401 Nuts
• SB403-450.87 Flowers and flower culture. Ornamental plants
  • SB406.7-406.83 Plant propagation
  • SB409-413 Culture of individual plants
  • SB414 Forcing
  • SB414.6-417 Greenhouses and greenhouse culture
  • SB418-418.4 Container gardening
  • SB419-419.3 Indoor gardening and houseplants
  • SB419.5 Roof gardening. Balcony gardening
  • SB421-439.8 Classes of plants. Including annuals, climbers, ferns, lawns, perennials, shrubs
  • SB441-441.75 Flower shows. Exhibitions
  • SB442.5 Care and preparation of cut flowers and ornamental plants for market
  • SB442.8-443.4 Marketing. Cut flower industry. Florists
  • SB446-446.6 Horticultural service industry
  • SB447 Preservation and reproduction of flowers, fruits, etc.
  • SB447.5 Bonkei. Tray landscapes
  • SB449-450.87 Flower arrangement and decoration
• SB450.9-467.8 Gardens and gardening
• SB469-(476.4) Landscape gardening. Landscape architecture
• SB481-486 Parks and public reservations. Including theory, management, history
• SB599-990.5 Pests and diseases
  • SB608 Individual or types of plants or trees
  • SB610-615 Weeds, parasitic plants, etc.
  • SB617-618 Poisonous plants
  • SB621-795 Plant pathology
  • SB818-945 Economic entomology
  • SB950-990.5 Pest control and treatment of diseases. Plant protection
    • SB950.9-970.4 Pesticides
    • SB973-973.5 Soil disinfection
    • SB974-978 Organic plant protection. Biological control
    • SB979.5-985 Inspection. Quarantine
• SB992-998 Economic zoology applied to crops. Agricultural zoology. Including animals injurious and beneficial to plants

Subclass SD - Forestry

• SD11-115 Documents
• SD119 Voyages, etc.
• SD131-247.5 History of forestry. Forest conditions
• SD250-363.3 Forestry education
• SD388 Forestry machinery and engineering
• SD388.5 Tools and implements
• SD389 Forest roads
• SD390-390.43 Forest soils
• SD390.5-390.7 Forest meteorology. Forest microclimatology
• SD391-410.9 Sylviculture
• SD411-428 Conservation and protection. Including forest influences, damage by elements, fires, forest reserves
• SD430-(559) Exploitation and utilization. Including timber trees, fuelwood, logging, transportation, valuation
• SD561-669.5 Administration. Policy

Subclass SF - Animal culture

• SF41-55 History
• SF84-84.64 Economic zoology
• SF84.82-85.6 Rangelands. Range management. Grazing
• SF87 Acclimatization
• SF89 Transportation
• SF91 Housing and environmental control
• SF92 Equipment and supplies
• SF94.5-99 Feeds and feeding. Animal nutrition
• SF101-103.5 Brands and branding, and other means of identifying
• SF105-109 Breeding and breeds
• SF111-113 Cost, yield, and profit. Accounting
• SF114-121 Exhibitions
• SF170-180 Working animals
• SF191-275 Cattle
  • SF221-250 Dairying
  • SF250.5-275 Dairy processing. Dairy products
• SF277-360.4 Horses
  • SF294.2-297 Horse sports. Horse shows
  • SF304.5-307 Driving
  • SF308.5-310.5 Horsemanship. Riding
  • SF311-312 Draft horses
  • SF315-315.5 Ponies
  • SF321-359.7 Racing
  • SF360-360.4 Feral horses. Wild horses
• SF361-361.73 Donkeys
• SF362 Mules
• SF371-379 Sheep. Wool
• SF380-388 Goats
• SF391-397.83 Swine
• SF402-405 Fur-bearing animals
• SF405.5-407 Laboratory animals
• SF408-408.6 Zoo animals
• SF409 Small animal culture
• SF411-459 Pets
  • SF421-440.2 Dogs. Dog racing
  • SF441-450 Cats
  • SF451-455 Rabbits and hares
  • SF456-458.83 Fishes. Aquariums
  • SF459 Other animals
• SF461-473 Birds. Cage birds
• SF481-507 Poultry. Eggs
• SF508-(510.6) Game birds
• SF511-511.5 Ostrich
• SF512-513 Ornamental birds
• SF515-515.5 Reptiles
• SF518 Insect rearing
• SF521-539.8 Bee culture
• SF541-560 Sericulture. Silk culture
• SF561 Lac-insects
• SF600-1100 Veterinary medicine
  • SF756.5-769.5 Special preclinical sciences. Including veterinary genetics, ethology, anatomy, physiology, embryology, pathology
  • SF780.2-780.7 Veterinary microbiology, bacteriology, virology, mycology
  • SF780.9 Veterinary epidemiology. Epizootiology
  • SF781-809 Communicable diseases of animals (General)
  • SF810 Veterinary parasitology
  • SF810.5-810.7 Predatory animals and their control
  • SF811-909 Veterinary medicine of special organs, regions, and systems
  • SF910 Other diseases and conditions
  • SF910.5 Veterinary orthopedics
  • SF911-914.4 Veterinary surgery
    • SF914.3-914.4 Veterinary traumatology. Veterinary emergencies
  • SF914.5 Veterinary acupuncture
  • SF915-919.5 Veterinary pharmacology
  • SF925 Veterinary physical medicine
  • SF951-997.5 Diseases of special classes of animals

Subclass SH - Aquaculture. Fishery. Angling

• SH20.3-191 Aquaculture
  • SH33-134.6 By region or country
  • SH138 Mariculture
  • SH151-179 Fish culture
    • SH171-179 Diseases and adverse factors
  • SH185-191 Frogs, leeches, etc.
• SH201-399 Fisheries
  • SH213-216.55 By oceans and seas
  • SH219-321 By region or country
  • SH327.5-327.7 Fishery resources. Fishery conservation
  • SH328-329 Fishery management. Fishery policy
  • SH334 Economic aspects. Finance
  • SH334.5-334.7 Fishery technology
  • SH334.9-336.5 Fishery processing
  • SH337 Packing, transportation, and storage
  • SH337.5 Fishing port facilities
  • SH343.2-343.3 Fishery oceanography. Fishery meteorology
  • SH343.4 Fishery research vessels
  • SH343.5 Exploratory fishing
  • SH343.8 Navigation
  • SH343.9 Safety measures
  • SH344-344.8 Methods and gear. Catching of fish
  • SH346-351 Fishery for individual species
  • SH360-363 Seal fisheries. Fur sealing
  • SH364 Sea otter
  • SH365-380.92 Shellfish fisheries. Shellfish culture
  • SH381-385 Whaling
  • SH387 Porpoises. Dolphins
  • SH388.7-391.5 Algae culture
  • SH393 Seagrasses
  • SH396 Sponge fisheries
• SH400-400.8 Seafood gathering
• SH401-691 Angling. Including tackle, casting, methods of angling, angling for special kinds of fish

Subclass SK - Hunting sports

• SK37-39.5 Shooting
• SK40-268 By country
• SK281-293 Special methods and types of hunting. Including bolos, game calling, tracking, trapping, dressing
  • SK284-287 Fox hunting
  • SK291-292 Coursing
  • SK293 Ferreting
• SK295-305 Big game
• SK311-335 Bird hunting. Fowling
• SK336 Varmint hunting (General)
• SK337 Predator hunting
• SK341 Other game
• SK351-579 Wildlife management. Game protection. Including annual reports of game commissioners
• SK590-593 Wild animal trade
• SK650-664 Wildlife-related recreation

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