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The Choice of Crops for Alkali Land

Description: "The object of this bulletin is to bring to the attention of owners of alkali land the crop plants which are most likely to give satisfactory results. It can not be too emphatically stated that crop production on such soils is at best precarious. For this reason and because the alkali resistance of plants depends upon many varying conditions, it is impossible to offer more than suggestions as to what crops are best worth trying." -- p. 5-6. Topics discussed include the effects of alkali upon pl… more
Date: 1911
Creator: Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rabies or Hydrophobia

Description: Report discussing the disease known as rabies or hydrophobia, including its causes, symptoms, and methods for prevention.
Date: 1911
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Facts About Malaria

Description: Report giving general facts about the disease malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes. Topics discussed include the causes of malaria, its symptoms, and methods of prevention.
Date: 1911
Creator: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capons and Caponizing

Description: Report discussing capons, which are castrated male chickens, and the castration process known as "caponizing." Topics discussed include breed selection, instruments and equipment, the castration operation, post-operative care, and kiling and preparing the capons for market.
Date: 1911
Creator: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Successful New York Farm

Description: Report discussing a farm in Monroe County, New York, which became successful due to excellent and systematic farm management in spite of the lack of beneficial political and economic circumstances for farmers at the time. The farm under discussion grew wheat, clover, potatoes, fruit (in orchards) and livestock, and its methods for cultivating these crops are detailed.
Date: 1911
Creator: Burritt, M. C. (Maurice Chase)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Our Grosbeaks and Their Value to Agriculture

Description: "Like many other native species the grosbeaks inflict some damage to crops, but the good they do by the destruction of noxious insects far outbalances the harm. The present bulletin aims to make these birds known to the farmer and to explain the nature of their services, so that he may appreciate them at their full worth and protect them." -- p. 3. Topics discussed include the food habits of the grosbeak, possible means of protecting crops, and ways of protecting the grosbreak.
Date: 1911
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Frames as a Factor in Truck Growing

Description: Report discussing the use of frames in growing the crops lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, parsley, eggplant, peppers, beets, and beans. Topics discussed include types of frames, soils and fertilizers, and control of insects and diseases.
Date: 1911
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Concrete on the Farm

Description: "In view of the need of securing a cheap and permanent building material, this bulletin seeks to offer elementary suggestions for the manufacture of concrete where it is most needed." -- p. 2. The selection of cement, sand, gravel, and water for mixing concrete and the equipment and methods necessary for producing high-quality concrete are discussed.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. Office of Public Roads.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Sanitary Privy

Description: "Among the worst conditions ever to be found about any home is a soil that has become polluted with excrement from the human body. A number of widely prevalent diseases have been spread by means of such polluted soil, simply because the facts have not been generally known. This bulletin treats of such soil pollution and certain simple plans for avoiding it." -- p. 3. These unsanitary conditions can be largely eliminated through the installation of different kinds of privies. In addition to a di… more
Date: 1911
Creator: Stiles, Charles Wardell, 1867-1941 & Lumsden, L. L. (Leslie Leon), 1875-1946
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Eradication of Quack-Grass

Description: Report discussing methods for destroying quack grass, which is also known as witch grass.
Date: 1911
Creator: Cates, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Winter Emmer

Description: "In recent years [the] cultivation [of emmer] has greatly increased.... There are both spring and winter varieties, but the emmer crop of the United States heretofore has been almost entirely spring sown. This paper treats of winter emmer and the importance of using winter varieties for certain conditions and in certain districts. The general description of emmer, its history, etc., are applicable equally to spring or winter varieties." -- p. 5
Date: 1911
Creator: Carleton, Mark Alfred, 1866-1925
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease

Description: Report discussing the spread of the chestnut bark disease, including its causes, symptoms, modes of transmission, financial consequences, and the possible methods of controlling it.
Date: 1911
Creator: Metcalf, Haven, 1875-1940 & Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), b. 1863
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forestry in Nature Study.

Description: Report promoting the study of forests in elementary school in the United States and offering outlines for courses of study, teaching methods, plans for experiments.
Date: 1911
Creator: Jackson, Edwin R. (Edwin Roy)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grape Propagation, Pruning, and Training

Description: Report discussing best practices for cultivating grapes, with special attention given to the training and pruning of vines.
Date: 1911
Creator: Husmann, George C. (George Charles), 1861-1939
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Systems of Farming in Central New Jersey

Description: Report discussing different cropping systems used on New Jersey farms, including the three-crop rotation system, small grain cropping systems, and alfalfa rotation systems. Includes an analysis of tenant farm which has successfully employed a four-crop system.
Date: 1911
Creator: Billings, George A. (George Austin) & Beavers, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Paint on the Farm

Description: Report discussing best practices for painting on farms. Topics discussed include the care and selection of brushes, painting techniques for different surfaces, the composition and costs of paint, and whitewash.
Date: 1911
Creator: Walker, Percy H. (Percy Hargraves), b. 1867
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ice Houses

Description: Report promoting the construction and usage of ice houses, which store harvested ice for later use.
Date: 1911
Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Seed Corn

Description: Revised edition. Report explaining how farmers can evaluate the quality of seed corn and prepare it for planting and storage.
Date: 1911
Creator: Hartley, C. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Testing Farm Seed in the Home and in the Rural School

Description: "The purpose of this bulletin is to encourage seed testing in the farm home and in the rural school by explaining the essential features of seed testing as it relates to farm seeds and by showing how satisfactory tests can be made by simple means." -- p. 3. Testing equipment, seed qualities, impurities, and testing processes are among the topics discussed.
Date: 1911
Creator: Hillman, F. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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