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Growing Root Crops for Livestock.

Description: Describes varieties of root crops to grow for livestock feed, and provides methods for efficient cultivation and production.
Date: 1939
Creator: Westover, H. L. (Harvey Leroy); Schoth, H. A. (Harry August), b. 1891 & Semple, Arthur T. (Arthur Truman), 1895-
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Permanent fruit and vegetable gardens.

Description: Provides instructions for planning a permanent garden that yields both annual and perennial vegetables, as well as small fruits; lists the best plants to use.
Date: August 1937
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870 & Close, C. P. (Charles Phillip), 1868-1940
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Gullies: How to Control and Reclaim Them.

Description: Outlines the importance of gullies and their function as a method of irrigation; details methods of controlling and maintaining gullies. Also outlines the potential negative effects that poorly maintained gullies can have on highways and grazing lands.
Date: January 1935
Creator: Ramser, C. E. (Charles Ernest), b. 1885
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The Velvetbean.

Description: A guide to velvet-bean culture, including a discussion of its uses as food for livestock and humans.
Date: May 1938
Creator: Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926 & Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
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Slash Pine.

Description: Describes the characteristics of slash pine and the benefits of using it for turpentine gum.
Date: 1938
Creator: Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941
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Adjusting Corn Belt Farming to Meet Corn-Borer Conditions

Description: "The European corn borer is recognized as a dangerous enemy of the corn crop.... Its eradication is considered economically impossible but it is believed that the injury may be kept at a point so low that little commercial damage will occur during normal seasons. This can be done by using control measures and practices that have proved to be effective.... On some farms some changes in the crops grown and in their sequence will aid materially in controlling the borer and may prove profitable eveā€¦ more
Date: 1932
Creator: Myres, Kenneth Hayes, 1898-
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