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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 40

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Insoluble Phosphates, Forms and Methods of Applying Lime, Sediment in Irrigation Water, Hardy Bermuda Grass, Williamson Method of Corn Culture, Killing Sassafras Sprouts, Soluble Oils for San Jose Scale, Corn as food for Man, Storing Preserves and Canned Goods, Incubation of Chickens, Prevention of Nodule Disease of Lambs, Some Milk Te… more
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 22

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Pure Water for Cows; When to Cut Forage Crops; Lippia, or Fog Fruit; Pithiness in Celery; Irrigation of Strawberries; Farmers' Fruit Garden; Management of Orchards; Tropical and Subtropical Fruits; China Asters; Preserving Sweet Potatoes; Food Value of Beans; Tankage for Pigs; and Remedies for Fleas.
Date: 1903
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 25

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Watermelons in the North, Watermelon Culture in Georgia, Muskmelon Culture in the North, Rockyford Muskmelons, Cold Storage of Fruits, Selection of Seed Corn, Bread and Toast, Cooking Meat, Bitter Milk.
Date: 1904
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 7

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Home-Mixed Fertilizers, Forcing Asparagus in the Field, Field Selection of Seed, Potatoes as Food for Man, Corn Stover as a Feeding Stuff, Feeding Value of Sugar Beets, Salt-Marsh Hay, Forage Crops for Pigs, Ground Grain for Chicks, Skim Milk for Young Chickens, By-Products of the Dairy, Stripper Butter, Curd Test in Cheese Making, Gap… more
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 8

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Soil Moisture, Fertility of Soils, Cover Crops for Orchards, Cultivating v. Cropping Orchards, Transplanting Trees, Fecundity of Swine, Food Value of Eggs, Starch from Sweet Potatoes, the Toad as a Friend of the Farmer.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 10

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Manure from Cows, Plants for Alkali Soils, Influence of Alkali on Plants, Feeding Value of the Corn Plant, Sows and Pigs at Farrowing Time, the Soy Bean as a Feeding Stuff, Alfalfa Hay for Hogs, Animal Matter for Poultry, Water and Animal Diseases, Construction and Cooling of Cheese-Curing Rooms, and Irrigation Investigations.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 12

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Seaweed, the Tillering of Grains, Fertilizers for Garden Crops, Sweet Corn and Pole Beans Under Glass, Girdling Grapevines, Cereal Breakfast Foods, Food Value of Stone Fruits, When to Cut Alfalfa, Spontaneous Combustion of Hay, Preservation of Milk by Pressure, Cream Raising by Dilution.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 16

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Liming Grass Lands, Early Plowing for Wheat, Grafting Grape Cuttings, Olives, Nuts as Food, Coffee Substitutes, the Working of a Pure-Food Law, Feeding Moldy Corn, Selling Eggs by Weight, Flavor of Eggs, Unfermented Grape Juice.
Date: 1900
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zinc Metabolism of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets

Description: The function of zinc in the nutrition of man has been studied by numerous investigators in an attempt to determine the needs of the body for this element. To date no deficiency disease has been produced by a zinc-deficient diet and cured by the addition of this element to the diet. The only criteria thus far presented to establish its essentialness in the dietary of man are the facts that zinc is retained by the body and that its presence is necessary for normal functioning of other nutrients. … more
Date: February 1953
Creator: Tribble, Helen Marie
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effect of Toasting on the Protein Quality of White Bread and White Bread Supplemented with Soybean

Description: Supplemented and unsupplemented white breads were baked and toasted at three different toaster settings, light, medium, and dark. Organoleptically, products were highly accepted when toasted at the light and medium temperatures. Biological tests with rats resulted in a decline in the efficient utilization of the protein with toasted white bread diets, evidenced by poor weight gain, low liver weight, Serum protein, PER (protein efficiency ratio - weight gain/protein intake) and percent digestabi… more
Date: August 1979
Creator: Okoro, Chioma E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Cobalt Metabolism of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets

Description: This study was undertaken to determine the cobalt intake in food and milk, and the excretion of cobalt in the urine and feces of young college women living in the home management house at the North Texas State College and consuming a self-selected diet. Cobalt as a trace inorganic element has long been recognized according to Martin (1945) as a nutritional essential in ruminants in whom cobalt deficiency is a typical anemia. For that reason emphasis has been placed upon studies with ruminants, … more
Date: August 1951
Creator: Harp, Mary Wanda Jones
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Food, Feeding Selectivity, and Ecological Efficiencies of Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque) (Osteichthyes; Cyprinodontidae)

Description: This study was made to further define the trophic dynamics of Fundulus notatus by determining its ration composition under natural conditions, measuring feeding selectivity under various laboratory conditions of prey-species composition and availability, and determining the efficiencies with which F. notatus utilizes ingested chironomid larvae.
Date: August 1970
Creator: Atmar, Gerald Legare
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Poultry Raising on the Farm.

Description: A guide for the poultry breeder. Discusses bird varieties, care and housing, feeding, and the advantages of farm poultry raising.
Date: 1901
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Eggs and Their Uses as Food.

Description: A summary of the research and data available at the turn of the 20th century, regarding the production of eggs, their composition, and their use as food.
Date: 1901
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Milk as food.

Description: Describes the composition of milk. Investigates the nutritive values and digestibility of milk and milk products in 19th century terms.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Making American cheese on the farm.

Description: Discusses the nutritional value of homemade cheese. Describes the conditions favorable to cheesemaking. Provides instructions for making cheese on the farm for home consumption.
Date: 1929
Creator: Gere, C. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sugar as food.

Description: Discusses the sources of sugar, its uses, and its chemical composition.
Date: December 21, 1906
Creator: United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Meats: Composition and Cooking.

Description: Discusses the composition of different types of meat, their texture and flavor, the cuts, and how to prepare them. Includes detailed composition and calorie charts.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fish as food.

Description: Describes the composition, cost, and nutritive value of fish and other seafoods. Includes sample menus. Discusses methods of preparing seafood for market.
Date: April 6, 1907
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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