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Homemade bread, cake, and pastry.

Description: A guide to baking a variety of yeast breads, quick breads, pastry, cakes, cookies, and doughnuts. In addition to numerous recipes, this pamphlet includes detailed descriptions of various flours, and instructions for making home-grown yeasts.
Date: 1940
Creator: King, Florance Beeson, 1889- & Freeman, Adelle B. (Adelle Blachly), 1884-
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Irrigation practices in growing alfalfa.

Description: Describes different methods for irrigating alfalfa, depending on the type of soil, the climate, farm size, and other factors.
Date: 1940
Creator: Fortier, Samuel.; Blaney, Harry French, 1892-; Bowen, Leslie.; Ewing, Paul A.; Lewis, M. R. (Mortimer Reed), 1886-; Marr, James C. et al.
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Is the Public Market a Good Civic Investment?

Description: Discusses how to determine the likelihood of establishing a successful public market in towns without one. Considers the type of market desired, population size, consumer habits, location, and most importantly the support of farmers.
Date: 1940
Creator: Sherman, Caroline B. (Caroline Baldwin)
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Knocking in an Internal-Combustion Engine

Description: The question remains open of the relation between the phenomena of knocking in the engine and the explosion wave. The solution of this problem is the object of this paper. The tests were conducted on an aircraft engine with a pyrex glass window in the cylinder head. Photographs were then taken of various combinations of fuels and conditions.
Date: January 1940
Creator: Sokolik, A. & Voinov, A.
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Mechanical Concentration of Gases

Description: From Introduction: "This bulletin deals with a new mechanical means of attacking the problem of separation. Although it is improbable that any one type of separation could hope to find universal application, the method described is to be regarded as an alternative to conventional means that has attractive possibilities in certain instances."
Date: 1940
Creator: Maier, C. G.
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Mechanical Properties of Flush-Riveted Joints

Description: Report discusses the strength of several types of flush-riveted joints, including single-shearing, double-shearing, and tensile specimens. The stress at failure, type of failure, and d/t ratio are provided. Dimpled joints were found to be the strongest, but their strength was heavily influenced by the details of their construction.
Date: January 1940
Creator: Bruggeman, William C. & Roop, Frederick C.
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Mechanical Shoveling in Underground Metal Mines

Description: From Scope of Bulletin: "The object of the current bulletin is to present recent data on mechanical shoveling in underground metal mines and in selected nonmetal mines. This bulletin supplements the 1924 edition, but the main discussion covers mechanical shoveling only, because most of the new material relates to equipment recently developed, to improved technique in loading, and ti changes in loading practice in certain mining districts."
Date: 1940
Creator: Mosier, McHenry & Steinmesch, J. H.
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Mineral Industries Survey of the United States, California: Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, Mother Lode District (South). Mines of the Southern Mother Lode Region, Part 2 -- Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over mining operations in the southern Mother Lode Region of California. A review of this area is presented, and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1940
Creator: Julihn, C. E. & Horton, F. W.

Minimum standards for employment of women in industry.

Description: Checkerboard chart of alternating white and shaded boxes. Each box contains text indicating various standards which should be met in workplaces for women, some with line drawings. In the middle of the poster is the seal of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau. Centered on the lower half of the chart is an orange box containing text describing the mission of the Women's Bureau.
Date: 1940
Creator: United States. Women's Bureau.
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Peach brown rot and scab.

Description: Describes the characteristics of two peach diseases, brown rot and scab; also describes the damage they cause and methods of control.
Date: 1940
Creator: Roberts, John W. (John William), 1882-1957. & Dunegan, John C. (John Clymer), 1898-
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Peanut growing.

Description: Describes the steps farmers should take when growing peanuts, including preparing the soil, planting, cultivating, and harvesting.
Date: 1940
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870 & Beattie, James H. (James Herbert), b. 1882
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Poison Ivy and Poison Sumac and Their Eradication.

Description: Describes the characteristics of poison ivy and poison sumac, the damage they cause, and methods of control and eradication; also provides remedies for ivy poisoning.
Date: 1940
Creator: Grant, C. V. (Charles Vincent), b. 1880; Coville, Frederick V. (Frederick Vernon), 1867-1937; Hansen, A. A.; Sievers, A. F. (Arthur Frederick), b. 1885 & Talbot, M. W. (Murrell Williams), b. 1889
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