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Beef Production in the South

Description: Report giving an overview of methods for raising cattle in the southern United States. There are special discussions of cattle feed, methods for fattening cattle, and the different breeds of cattle adapted to the region.
Date: 1914
Creator: Ward, W. F. (William Francis) & Gray, Dan T. (Daniel Thomas), 1878-
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Bees

Description: Report discussing the basics of beekeeping and bee behavior for farmers interested in the cultivation of bees for either pleasure or profit. Topics discussed include necessary equipment, hive management, and honey and wax production.
Date: 1911
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951
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Bees

Description: Report discussing techniques for the proper management of bees by beekeepers. Topics discussed include equipment for keeping and maintaining hives, bee behavior, swarm management, honey production, wax production, and common disease and enemies of bees.
Date: 1910
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951
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Benefits of Improved Roads

Description: "The paper presents in condensed form the chief advantages resulting from better roads. It has been prepared to meet a popular demand for information on this subject, and its publication should be of service in stimulating road improvement throughout the country." -- p. 2. Topics discussed include both the economic and social advantages of sound road construction.
Date: 1912
Creator: United States. Office of Public Roads.
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Bermuda Grass

Description: Bermuda grass is the most important perennial grass in the Southern States. It was introduced into the United States at least as early as 1806. Besides the common Bermuda grass, there are several varieties, the most important of which are the Giant, characterized by a very large growth, and St. Lucie grass, similar to ordinary Bermuda grass, but lacking underground rootstocks. Bermuda grass grows well mixed with lespedeza for a summer crop. Bur clover, black medic, and hairy vetch as winter cro… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
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The Best Two Sweet Sorghums for Forage

Description: "At this time the several different sorghum varieties are grown promiscuously over the entire region adapted to this crop. This bulletin is prepared with a view to helping the farmer find the variety [of sorghum] best suited to his region and to grow and improve this variety so as to obtain better yields of forage." -- p. 2.
Date: 1911
Creator: Conner, A. B.
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Better Grain-Sorghum Crops

Description: "This paper presents the best-known methods of improving the grain-sorghum crops on the farms where they are grown. These methods are simple and inexpensive of time or money, and are therefore within the reach of all farmers. More attention to the bettering of the quality and yields will be repaid as fully in these crops as in other cereals." -- p. 2. Sorghum crops can be improved for drought resistance, earliness, stature, productivity, and adaptability to machine techniques.
Date: 1911
Creator: Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958
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Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances, 1915

Description: From Introduction: "This bibliography, which is intended to be the first of a yearly series, has been compiled by the petroleum division of the Bureau of Mines with a view to satisfying this need. The references include only the more noteworthy writings that appeared during the year 1915 in both the United States and foreign countries. The references are arranged according to the subject classification on pages 3 to 11."
Date: 1918
Creator: Burroughs, E. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Bibliography of Petroleum and Allied Substances in 1916

Description: From Introduction: " This bibliography follows the same general scheme as the bibliography of petroleum and allied substances for 1915. References to articles in these journals have been taken from such sources as were available and credit has been given to those sources. American and foreign patents have been entered by title, without abstracts. A few minor changes have been made in the scheme of classification, which is, on the whole, the same is given in the 1915 bibliography."
Date: 1919
Creator: Burroughs, E. H.
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Bird Houses and How to Build Them

Description: "A few years ago only four species were commonly regarded as house birds -- the house wren, the bluebird, the tree swallow, and the martin. Since the movement to protect birds and make neighbors of them began, however, their natures and needs have become better understood, and it is now known that many other species will avail themselves of houses constructed for them by their human friends. The practice of erecting bird houses in this country, while now nation-wide, is not so common and unifor… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Dearborn, Ned, 1865-
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Black Damp in Mines

Description: From Introduction: "This report presents the results of one phase of this study and shows how atmospheric air, after entering a coal mine, loses oxygen and gains carbon dioxide with resulting formation of so-called black damp."
Date: 1916
Creator: Burrell, G. A.; Robertson, I. W. & Oberfell, G. G.
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Blackberry Culture

Description: Report discussing best practices for cultivating blackberries. Includes information about protecting blackberries in the winter and a list of blackberry varieties.
Date: 1915
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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The Boll-Weevil Problem, with Special Reference to Means of Reducing Damage

Description: "This bulletin contains a general account of the boll-weevil problem. It deals with the history of the insect in the United States, the damage it has done in different regions, and the reasons for local variations in damage, the indications for the future, the habits of the weevil in so far as they are connected with control measures, and the means of reducing the injury it causes by methods which have been tested in many experimental fields and by large numbers of practical planters." -- p. 2
Date: 1917
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
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The Bollworm or Corn Earworm

Description: "Cotton bollworm, corn earworm, tomato fruitworm, and false budworm of tobacco are common names applied to one and the same insect when it is found attacking these various crops. In fact the insect is a very general feeder, attacking many wild plants as well as garden vegetables, alfalfa, cowpeas, and the crops indicated above. The bollworm, or corn earworm as it is most widely known, occurs as a pest in practically all parts of the United States." -- p. 3. This bulletin discusses the life cycl… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970
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Boys' Pig Clubs, With Special Reference to Their Organization in the South

Description: Bulletin discussing the formation of pig-raising clubs for school-age boys, especially in the southern United States, where pork is heavily consumed but there are few pig farms. Topics discussed include organization of the clubs, club rules, and general information about swine that participants should learn in the clubs.
Date: 1913
Creator: Ward, W. F.
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Bread and Bread Making in the Home

Description: "This bulletin attempts to describe in simple terms the general principles on which bread making is based and suggests an easy standard method for making yeast-raised wheat bread in the ordinary household. It also indicates how this standard recipe may be modified to make different types of yeast-raised bread, and gives a few other recipes for breads made from other cereals than wheat or raised by other means than yeast." -- p. 2
Date: 1917
Creator: Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927 & Wessling, Hannah L.
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Bread and Break Making

Description: "Perhaps no topic connected with the subject of human food is of more general interest than bread, and no crops are more important to the farmer than the bread-yielding cereals. This bulletin, which summarizes the most recent information on the use of cereals for bread making, is believed to be useful and timely." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Atwater, Helen W.
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