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Alfalfa.

Description: A guide to growing and using alfalfa on the farm. Includes recommendations for different regions of the United States.
Date: 1921
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
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Beautifying the Farmstead

Description: Revised edition. Report giving practical ways for families to beautify farmsteads. Contains sections on design, locations of buildings, walkways, driveways, lawns, trees and other plants.
Date: 1921
Creator: Mulford, Furman Lloyd, b. 1869
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Community Bird Refuges

Description: Report explaining how communities may establish bird refuges. Because birds eat injurious insects and provide aesthetic value to communities, it is desirable to increase their numbers in most communities. Bird refuges may be established on farms, at roadsides, in parks and fairgrounds, at schools and colleges, in cemeteries, and at reservoirs.
Date: 1921
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
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The Corn Earworm As an Enemy of Vetch

Description: "Vetch, which has become an important forage crop throughout the Southeastern States, needs protection from the same insect that works such havoc on corn and cotton. This corn earworm, or cotton bollworm, is the most serious pest that growers of vetch have to combat. The caterpillars eat both the foliage and the seed pods, and, if the infestation is heavy, make the crop practically worthless. Vetch intended for a hay crop generally escapes serious injury, as it is cut before the caterpillars ar… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Luginbill, Philip & Beyer, A. H. (Adolph Harvey), b. 1882
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Cotton Diseases and Their Control

Description: "The principal cotton diseases which cause damage in the Southern States are described and illustrated in the following pages and the best-known methods of controlling them are described." -- p. 3. Diseases discussed include wilt, root knot, anthracnose, bacterial blight, shedding of bolls, rust, Texas root rot, and other minor diseases.
Date: 1921
Creator: Gilbert, William W. (William Williams), b. 1880
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Diseases of Sheep

Description: "Infectious and noninfectious diseases and common ailments of sheep in America are considered in this bulletin. It does not deal with diseases caused by animal parasites, such as gid, grub in the head, stomach, lung, and intestinal-worm affections, liver rot, scabies, etc., nor with plant poisoning. These diseases are described in other publications of the Department of Agriculture. The aim has been to give only the more important of characteristic symptoms which would be of value in distinguis… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Gallagher, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), b. 1880
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Dodder

Description: Report discussing the weed commonly known as dodder or love vine and methods for controlling it. If procedures are properly followed, eradication of the weed in the United States is possible. Topics include varieties of dodder and plants that susceptible to attack by it, its life cycle, and ways it is unintentionally introduced to farms.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hansen, A. A.
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An Improved Method of Making Sugar-Beet Sirup

Description: "This bulletin tells how to grow sugar beets in the garden and describes a simple process of making from them a palatable and nutritious table sirup with a pleasant flavor. A patent for the process of making the sirup has been issued for the benefit of the public, so that anyone is free to use it. Tests have proved the process to be practicable. Sugar beets may be grown in any locality which has tillable soil that is capable of producing good crops of vegetables. A small piece of ground is suff… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Townsend, C. O. & Sherwood, S. F.
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Insects Injurious to Deciduous Shade Trees and Their Control

Description: "Practical ways of controlling most of the injurious shade-tree insects are known. This bulletin discusses the more important insects affecting deciduous shade trees in the western two-thirds of the United States with the exception of the gispy moth and the brown-tail moth and gives the remedies for them." -- p. 2. Methods discussed include spraying with insecticides, pruning, tree banding, and fertilizers.
Date: 1921
Creator: Kotinsky, Jacob
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The Making and Feeding of Silage

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing the use of silos for storing feed for livestock, with special attention to silage for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, and sheep. Topics discussed include crops for silage, preparing crops for storage, and storage practices.
Date: 1921
Creator: Woodward, T. E. (Thompson Elwyn); Rommel, George M. (George McCullough); Sheets, E. W.; McNulty, J. B. & Marshall, F. R.
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Muscadine Grape Paste

Description: Revised edition. "Muscadine grape paste is an economical, appetizing, and nutritious sugar-saving substitute for candy and other confections. It is excellent in combination with cheese, and especially with cottage cheese, as a substitute for the salad course or for a dessert. It may be made from the fresh fruit or preferably from the pulp of pomace left from grape juice and jelly making. It may be made with grape sirup or corn sirup instead of sugar. The pulp may be canned and the paste made at… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Dearing, Charles
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Pineapple Culture in Florida

Description: "This bulletin discusses the history of pineapple growing in Florida, the usual methods of culture, the causes for the recent decline of the industry, and the most promising methods for its restoration. This once thriving industry has rapidly declined in recent years.... As a practical method of restoring abandoned fields, it is recommended that Natal grass be sown and allowed to grow on the impoverished soil for two years or longer.... Whenever pineapples begin to show a decrease in production… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Vosbury, E. D. (Edward David), b. 1887 & Winston, John R. (John Robinson), b. 1890
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The Potato Leafhoper and Its Control

Description: "The potato leafhopper is a serious and costly enemy of potato, bean, sugar beet, and other crops in the North Central and Northeastern States. It is a very small green insect which often occurs in vast numbers. It injures potato by feeding on the foliage and causes a diseased condition called "hopperburn" which may, under conditions favorable to its spread, ruin an entire crop in one or two weeks. This leafhopper can be controlled and the "hopperburn" held in check by the proper and timely app… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Dudley, J. E.
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The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania

Description: Revised edition. Report describing the production of tobacco in Pennsylvania, specifically cigar-leaf tobacco. Topics discussed include soil requirements, different planting methods, harvesting practices, curing and handling processes, and diseases and insect enemies of the tobacco plant.
Date: 1921
Creator: Frear, William, 1860-1922 & Hibshman, E. K.
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Raising Sheep on Temporary Pastures

Description: "A system of temporary pastures for sheep raising permits the use of lands of low fertility and at the same time insures a revenue from them without an expensive outlay for commercial fertilizer. Only lime, phosphorus, and inoculating materials are necessary to enable poor soils to produce legumes. This bulletin explains the advantages and methods of using temporary pastures for sheep and gives results of experiments conducted at the Bureau of Animal Industry experiment farm, Beltsville, Md." -… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Marshall, F. R. & Potts, C. G.
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The Southern Pine Beetle: A Menace to the Pine Timber of the Southern States

Description: Report discussing the destructive effects of the Southern pine beetle on pine forests in the southern United States. To prevent spread of the disease, infested trees should be located between November and March and destroyed. Methods for locating infested trees and destroying them are explained in detail.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hopkins, A. D. (Andrew Delmar), 1857-1948
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Standard Varieties of Chickens: III. The Asiatic, English, and French Classes

Description: Revised edition. "The breeds of chickens included in the Asiatic, English, and French classes are in the main of a relatively large size, and have been developed primarily as meat breeds. They are not so commonly kept in this country [the United States] as either the general-purpose or the egg breeds. The best-known meat breeds in the United States are those of the Asiatic class. However, the breeds of the English and French classes, while averaging somewhat smaller in size than those of the As… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944
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Swarm Control

Description: "The tendency [of bees] to swarm can be reduced by the introduction of superior stock by the use of well-arranged hives and good combs, and by management which prevents a congestion of bees in the brood nest. Swarming, therefore, can be prevented to a large extent by proper equipment and management. The conditions which reduce the congestion in the brood-nest (preventive measures) are at the same time the conditions which induce the bees to work with the greatest energy in gathering nectar. Whe… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
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Take-All of Wheat and Its Control

Description: This bulletin discusses take-all, a fungal disease of wheat, and methods for controlling it. It also describes the distribution, symptoms, and causes of take-all.
Date: 1921
Creator: Humphrey, H. B. (Harry Baker), 1873-1955; Johnson, Aaron G. & McKinney, Harold H.
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Tuberculosis of Fowls

Description: "Tuberculosis of fowls is widely distributed over the United States. It is especially destructive to flocks in the North and West. The course of the disease is slow, symptoms are apparent only in the late stages, and the mortality is high. Characteristic lesions are found in the internal organs of affected fowls, and are easily recognized. Treatment of affected fowls is useless, but the disease may be stamped out by methods which" include utilization of the tuberculin test, partial or total ext… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Gallagher, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), b. 1880
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Wheat Scab and Its Control

Description: This bulletin discusses wheat scab, a fungal disease of wheat, rye, barley, and oats that is caused by a parasite. It describes the appearance of afflicted crops as well as the parasite's life cycle and proposes a variety of control measures.
Date: 1921
Creator: Johnson, Aaron G. & Dickson, James G. (James Geere), b. 1891
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
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