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Rural Planning: The Social Aspects of Recreation Places.

Description: Describes the trend toward establishing planned recreation areas in rural communities, and the economic and social benefits they provide to farmers.
Date: 1924
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 53

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Inoculation and Lime for Alfalfa, Citrus Culture in Southern Texas, Pruning Rotundifolia Grapes, Native Hays or Arid Region, Bermuda Grass, Short v. Long Feeding of Beef Cattle, Contagious Abortion of Cattle, Preventing Losses at Lambing time, Winter Lambs for the Pacific Coast Market, Feeding Work Horses, Colony Houses for Poultry, Fo… more
Date: 1909
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Games Laws for 1904: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, and Licenses

Description: Report presenting information on the game laws effective in the United States and Canada for 1904, with special emphasis on federal laws and provisions governing interstate commerce. The report is not a comprehensive overview of state game laws.
Date: 1904
Creator: Palmer, T. S. (Theodore Sherman), 1868-1955; Oldys, Henry & Williams, R. W. (Robert White), 1877-1940
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hop Culture in California

Description: Report discussing the potential of California for developing a hops industry and successful practices for hops cultivation.
Date: 1900
Creator: Flint, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dodder

Description: Report discussing the weed commonly known as dodder or love vine and methods for controlling it. If procedures are properly followed, eradication of the weed in the United States is possible. Topics include varieties of dodder and plants that susceptible to attack by it, its life cycle, and ways it is unintentionally introduced to farms.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hansen, A. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Plum and Prune Growing in the Pacific States

Description: Report discussing the cultivation of plums and prunes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Discussions includes geographic distribution, different varieties, propagation, fertilizers, harvesting, and common diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1931
Creator: Kinman, C. F. (Charles Franklin), b. 1880
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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California Oak Worm

Description: "The live oak and the valley oak, which are characteristic of the landscape of central California, often are stripped of their leaves by a dark-striped worm which is the young stage of a light-brown moth. Besides stripping the trees of their leaves and making the owner think that they are dead, the worm crawls on lawns, walks, fences, and into houses, swimming pools, etc., becoming a general nuisance.... This bulletin describes and illustrates the worm and its work, tells about its habits and n… more
Date: 1920
Creator: Burke, H. E. (Harry Eugene), 1878-1963 & F. B. (Frank Barnes) Herbert, 1890-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Control of the Citrus Thrips in California and Arizona

Description: "The citrus thrips, a minute orange-yellow insect, has in the past few years caused extensive damage to citrus fruits in the San Joaquin Valley of California and also occasioned considerable injury in southern California and Arizona orange groves. The nature and extent of the injury caused by this insect and its life history and habits were carefully studied, and extensive experiments for its control were conducted by the writer during the period from 1910 to 1912. It is the purpose of the pres… more
Date: 1915
Creator: Horton, J. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: May 22, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during May 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: June 23, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during May and June 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: July 21, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during June and July 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports. Contains articles and tables about the Hessian fly, marketing by parcel post, car supplies, and market prices.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: September 16, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during August and September 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: October 16, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during the autumn (September-November) of 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: November 23, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during October and November 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: December 31, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports. Contains an article and tables about wheat production in South America.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: March 20, 1915

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during March 1915, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1915
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Agricultural Outlook: March 23, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States in 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports. Contains articles and tables about preparing seed corn and grain for planting, farm labor wages and hours, pricing trends, and crop reports from Florida and California
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention

Description: Report discussing the disease tick fever (also known as Texas fever) and its destructive effects on cattle. Topics discussed include the life cycle of the tick which transmits the disease, symptoms of the disease, and methods of treatment and prevention.
Date: 1906
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the Semiarid West

Description: "Within the semiarid region there are millions of acres of rich, fertile land, now barren, some of which will be reclaimed through irrigation, but most of which can not be irrigated on account of the limited water supply, and must be farmed, if at all, without irrigation.... This land is now attracting eastern farmers who are prone to risk failure in view of the possibilities in years of favorable precipitation. There have been many deplorable failures during the recent years which could have b… more
Date: 1910
Creator: Fuller, P. E. (Paul Edwin)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Irrigation of Orchards

Description: Report discussing methods for irrigating orchards, including ditches, flumes, pipes and standpipes, and furrows.
Date: 1910
Creator: Fortier, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing and Curing Hops

Description: "In keeping with the great progress made in agriculture within recent years the methods employed in hop production have not remained unchanged. Nevertheless certain practical principles of great importance to successful hop growing merit a much wider consideration and use than they now enjoy. These will be discussed in the following pages in which is also presented a brief general outline of hop culture." -- p. 7. Hops culture is discussed with regard to climate and soil requirements, propagati… more
Date: 1907
Creator: Stockberger, W. W. (Warner Webster)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Roselle: Its Culture and Uses

Description: Report discussing and promoting the cultivation of the roselle plant -- a species of hibiscus -- in the United States. Topics discussed include varieties of roselle, helpful fertilizers, harvesting practices, uses, and common diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1907
Creator: Wester, P. J. (Peter Johnson), 1877-1931
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Irrigation of Sugar Beets

Description: "A practical manual, giving methods pursued throughout the irrigated beet-growing sections and thereby furnishing information to new settlers in irrigated districts, as well as suggestions to beet growers as to the practices in States other than their own, should be of value in introducing the growing of beets and improving the methods of handling this important crop. As the matter now stands, each community where this industry has found favor is proceeding along lines suggested by local condit… more
Date: 1910
Creator: Roeding, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Culture of Rice in California

Description: This report discusses rice cultivation in California and makes recommendations for its improvement. All aspects of rice cultivation are discussed, but the topics of irrigation and weed control receive special attention.
Date: 1915
Creator: Chambliss, Charles E. & Adams, E. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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