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Culture of the Logan Blackberry and Related Varieties

Description: "The Logan blackberry, formerly thought to be a hybrid between a blackberry and a red raspberry, is now considered a variety of the Pacific coast species of trailing blackberry.... In this bulletin, directions are given for planting, training, and pruning the plants and for harvesting and utilizing the fruit. The information should be especially valuable for those who plan to grow this variety either commercially or in their home gardens, as well as for those who grow other kinds of blackberrie… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Fruit for Home Use

Description: "This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points." -- p. 2
Date: 1919
Creator: Gould, H. P. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Fruit for Home Use

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points.… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Gould, H. P. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Fruit for Home Use

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points.… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Gould, H. P. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strawberry Culture in Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia

Description: "Strawberries are more widely grown than any other kind of fruit. Centers of large commercial production are found in many different regions throughout the country.... This bulletin discusses the different cultural methods used in different sections and points out those which have been demonstrated by experience to be the most efficient. It is of interest to strawberry growers not only in the State mentioned...but also in other parts of the South and where the conditions are similar to those in… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Home Uses for Muscadine Grapes

Description: "In the following pages, directions for preparing a large number of Muscadine grape products are given.... It is not asserted that these recipes can in no case be improved upon or that they represent the only desirable Muscadine grape products. It is recommended that the housekeeper who can obtain these grapes use this publication merely as a suggestive guide and exercise her ingenuity to devise additional useful methods of preparation." -- p. 2. Recipes are given for grape syrups, juice, jelly… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Dearing, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grains for Western North and South Dakota

Description: "This bulletin gives information regarding the best grains and the best methods of producing them in the western half of North and South Dakota (west of the one-hundredth meridian) and in the eastern fourth of Montana.... The crops considered are wheat, rye, emmer, spelt, oats, barley, flax, and proso millet." -- p. 3
Date: 1917
Creator: Babcock, F. Ray; Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893- & Smith, Ralph W. (Ralph Waldo), b. 1877
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Home Storage of Vegetables

Description: This bulletin describes methods for storing vegetables, including in basements, outdoor cellars, and banks and pits. Storage of apples is also discussed.
Date: 1917
Creator: Beattie, James H. (James Herbert), b. 1882
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grains for the Utah Dry Lands

Description: "This bulletin present the best available information on the small grain crops and varieties adapted to Utah dry lands and the cultural operations necessary to produce them." -- p. 3. The grains discussed are wheat, emmer, oats, and barley.
Date: 1917
Creator: Jones, Jenkin W. (Jenkin William), 1888- & Bracken, Aaron F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Saving Vegetable Seeds for the Home and Market Garden

Description: "With the present urgent necessity for producing increased quantities of food, the seed supply becomes very important. Where the seed itself is used for food the high prices have tended to throw much-needed seed stock into the food market, and in many other cases increased plantings have drawn heavily on stocks already low on account of the cutting off of European sources of supply. As an emergency measure, therefore, it is important that as much seed a possible should be saved on our farms and… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Tracy, W. W. (William Woodbridge), 1872-1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wheat Growing in the Southeastern States

Description: This bulletin discusses best practices for growing wheat in the southeastern United States, which has loamy soils containing sand, silt, and clay that are well-suited to wheat production, although it is necessary to use fertilizers and a system of crop rotation. Soft red winter wheats are generally the hardiest variety in this region. Topics discussed include costs, crop production yields, seeding, varieties, and common pests.
Date: 1917
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Harvesting Soy-Bean Seed

Description: This bulletin gives best practices for harvesting soy beans. Soy beans can be harvested manually using farm equipment -- such as the corn knife, mower, reaper, and binder -- or with machines. Before storing, soy beans must be completely dry. Other topics discussed include harvest time, curing, handling, thrashing, and straw production.
Date: 1917
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Raspberry Culture

Description: "The raspberry is grown not only in small plantations for the home and local market, but in some sections as the principal commercial crop. In these localities the raising of raspberries has become highly specialized, and methods of growing which are peculiar to this indstury are employed. This bulletin furnishes information as to the best methods of raising raspberries, and particularly considers practices which differ from those used with other bush fruits. Varieties are listed, characterizat… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spring Oat Production

Description: "Oats rank next to corn and wheat in crop acreage and value in the United States. But, notwithstanding this, less attention has been given to the production of oats than to any other important grain, so that yields often have been unsatisfactory and the crop sometimes unprofitable. The essentials for success in oat production are -- (1) well-prepared land that is retentive of moisture and fairly fertile, (2) good seed of suitable varieties, thoroughly cleaned and graded and treated for smut, (3… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rye Growing in the Southeastern States

Description: "Rye should be grown much more widely than at present in many parts of the Southeastern Stats. In any consideration of the expansion of the acreage of bread grain and in any encouragement given for the production of home-grown bread in this section it is necessary to consider wheat and rye together. This is because rye can be sown safely on many fields with less risk than wheat. Further, rye can be used as a substitute for wheat as a bread grain by those who are accustomed to it. Rye succeeds o… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Winter Wheat on the Great Plains

Description: "This bulletin is intended to answer the requests for information on the production of winter wheat on the Great Plains under dry-farming conditions that arise from the stimulus of a present and prospective price much higher than that under which the agriculture of the section has been developed and from the campaign for a large increase in the crop to meet the necessities of war conditions." -- p. 3. Topics discussed include wheat varieties and seeding.
Date: 1917
Creator: Chilcott, E. C. (Ellery Channing), 1859-1930 & Cole, John S. (John Selden)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Everbearing Strawberries

Description: "Strawberries may now be had throughout the summer and autumn month in the northern United States. Plants of the everbearing sorts may be set in the spring and a crop secured in the summer and autumn of the same year. The habits of these varieties have led to the development of cultural practices differing in special details from those followed in the production of standard sorts. Such practices are described in this bulletin, giving directions for raising the everbearing sorts." -- p. 2. Topic… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Commercial Evaporation and Drying of Fruits

Description: This bulletin gives methods and instructions for drying and evaporating fruits. Among the methods discussed are drying by kiln, artificial heat, and the sun. Details for market preparation are also provided. Apples, peaches, pears, cherries, prunes, apricots, and berries are fruits which may be dried.
Date: 1917
Creator: Beattie, James H. (James Herbert), b. 1882 & Gould, H. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dwarf Broom Corns

Description: This report discusses dwarf broom corn (a type of sorghum) and its cultivation. Varieties, planting and harvesting practices, market preparation, diseases, and profit and loss are discussed.
Date: 1916
Creator: Rothgeb, Benton E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Grain on Southern Idaho Dry Farms

Description: "In this bulletin a brief description of the climate and soils of southern Idaho is given. The equipment of the dry farm is then discussed, followed by directions for growing the principal grain crops and recommendations as to the best varieties to grow." -- title page
Date: 1916
Creator: Aicher, L. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corn Growing Under Droughty Conditions

Description: "For 50 years new settlers from the East[of the United States] have attempted to grow corn in the semiarid West. The seed used and the methods employed were often those with which the settlers had had experience in the East. They were not adapted to western conditions, and many failures resulted... It is the purpose of this bulletin to show in a general way some of the causes of these failures and how failures may be made less frequent or less intense. Particular varieties of corn and particula… more
Date: 1916
Creator: Hartley, C. P. (Charles Pinckney), 1870- & Zook, L. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fall-Sown Grains in Maryland and Virginia

Description: "For the best results, fall-sown grains in Maryland, Delaware, and the Virginias require -- A well-drained, fertile soil, well-supplied with humus and lime. An abundance of available plant food, supplied by the use of stable manure, green crops turned under, and commercial fertilizers. A rotation which includes at least one cultivated crop and one or more legumes. A seed bed with the surface 2 or 3 inches loose and finely pulverized, while the soil just beneath is firm and moist. Good, pure, cl… more
Date: 1917
Creator: Stanton, T. R. (Thomas Ray), b. 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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