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Growing rye.

Description: Discusses the adaptation of rye, types and varieties of rye, and the practical uses of rye.
Date: December 1959
Creator: Briggle, L. W. (Leland Wilson), 1920-
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Culture of oats in the western states.

Description: Describes the different areas of the United States where oats are grown, how to prepare the soil, and how to effectively plant and harvest oats.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Coffman, Franklin A. (Franklin Arthur), 1892-; Stevens, Harland, 1907- & Stanton, T. R. (Thomas Ray), b. 1885
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Sweetpotato Diseases

Description: Revised edition. There are two classes of sweet potato diseases, 1) field troubles (which are either root and stem diseases or leaf diseases), and 2) storage rots. Root and stem diseases include stem-rot, black-rot, foot-rot, scurf, and root-rot; and leaf disease, leaf-blight, white-rust, and leaf-spot. There are many methods of control for field diseases which are discussed. Control of the five storage rots described hinges on careful storage-house management.
Date: 1959
Creator: Hildebrand, E. M. (Earl Martin), 1902- & Cook, Harold T. (Harold Thurston), 1903-
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Onion Diseases and Their Control

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing diseases which affect onions in both the field and in storage, and methods for their control. Diseases discussed include smut, downy mildew, leaf mold, fusarium rot, pink root, root knot, neck rot, bacterial soft rot, black mold, smudge, rust, white rot, dodder, damping-off, purple blotch, yellow dwarf, aster yellows, eelworm rot, diplodia rot, blue mold rot, and aspergillus rot.
Date: 1959
Creator: Walker, J. C. (John Charles), 1893-
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