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- Cleanup week : don't give fire a place to start.
- Describes steps to take for spring cleaning to prevent fires and accidents in the home.
- Culture of sorgo.
- Discusses sorgo culture and syrup manufacturing. Provides information on characteristics and varieties, diseases, and insects affecting stored sorgo.
- Pea diseases and their control.
- Describes pea diseases, how they spread, and how to control them.
- Price programs.
- Provides detailed descriptions of several price support programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A large appendix includes information about federal agencies which administer price programs.
- Producing and harvesting grass seed in the Great Plains.
- Discusses best practices for selecting, growing, and harvesting grass seed in the Great Plains states: Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, north Dakota, and South Dakota.
- Pruning hardy fruit plants.
- Provides instructions for pruning several types of fruit trees, grapevines, and small fruit plants.
- U.S. Grades for Beef.
- A consumer guide to U.S. federal meat grades. Includes examples of the stamps used to mark meat, a chart of beef cuts, and a suggested cooking guide for meat cuts and grades.
- Beef Cattle for Breeding Purposes.
- Describes how to select and manage beef cattle that will be used for breeding.
- Sudan grass.
- Describes the varieties, characteristics, and uses of Sudan grass. Includes instructions for control of diseases and pests.
- Nematode disease of wheat and rye.
- This document describes the nematode disease of wheat and rye, including: symptoms, cause, geographic distribution, and methods of control of the disease.
- Grasshoppers : a new look at an ancient enemy.
- Describes the damage grasshoppers cause to crops, how to identify different species, how they develop, and where and how they live. With this information as a background, the final section describes how to control them.
- Pear growing in the Pacific Coast states.
- Describes pear varieties of the Pacific Coast states, and how to grow them.
- Tung production.
- Discusses planting, cultivating, and harvesting tung trees for oil production. Describes insect enemies and diseases.
- Know Your Watersheds.
- Describes the necessity of water in everyday life, the water cycle, and provides suggestions for the management of watersheds.
- Managing the small forest
- A guide to the basic principles of forest management, for use by small forest owners.
- Snap beans for marketing, canning, and freezing.
- Discusses the importance of snap beans as a crop, its adaptability and varieties, its planting and care, as well as its disease and insect enemies and how to control them.
- Growing the transplant onion crop.
- Discusses onion-growing by the transplant method. Provides suggestions for soils, transplanting, irrigation, weed control, insect and disease control, harvesting, and storage.
- Barberry eradication in stem rust control: wheat, oats, barley, rye.
- Discusses the spread of stem rust in wheat, oats, barley, and rye due to the presence of certain species of barberry bushes; discusses eradication of these barberry bushes to control stem rust.
- Indicators of Southwestern range conditions.
- A guide to evaluating range conditions. Discusses range indicators and range deterioration.
- Marketing Eggs.
- Describes the benefits of the egg market, the process for producing quality eggs, and the steps for grading, packaging, transporting, and selling eggs.