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- The European starling in the United States.
- Describes the life cycle of the European starling, its beneficial and harmful qualities, and methods for its control.
- Farm practices under corn-borer conditions.
- Describes the problems caused by the corn borer in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, and methods of control.
- Harvesting grain sorghums.
- Describes methods and equipment used for harvesting, threshing, and storing grain sorghums in the Great Plains of the United States.
- The house fly and how to suppress it.
- Describes the different types of flies found in the home, the diseases they carry, and various ways to control them.
- The husker-shredder on eastern Corn Belt farms.
- Describes the uses and benefits of the corn husker-shredder. Includes a discussion of the costs involved in renting or buying a shredder.
- Insects attacking the peach in the South and how to control them.
- Describes various species of insects that target peach crops in the southern United States, and methods of control.
- Legume hays for milk production.
- Argues the case for using legume hays on the farm. Describes the advantages of legume hays for profitability and increased nutrients per acre.
- The Making and Feeding of Silage
- Revised edition. Report discussing the use of silos for storing feed for livestock, with special attention to silage for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, and sheep. Topics discussed include crops for silage, preparing crops for storage, and storage practices.
- Onion Diseases and Their Control
- Revised edition. Report discussing diseases which affect onions in both the field and in storage, and methods for their control. Diseases discussed include smut, mildew (blight), leaf mold, fusarium rot, pink root, root knot, neck rot, soft rot, black mold, smudge (anthracnose, black spot), rust, white rot, dodder, and macrosporium rot.
- The Porto Rican mole cricket.
- Describes the characteristics of the mole cricket, the damage it causes, and methods of control.
- Preparing Johnson hay for market in the Black Prairie belt of Alabama and Mississippi.
- Presents the case for raising the demand for Johnson Hay for the market and stresses the need for raising and maintaining a higher level of quality in order to achieve this end. Includes examples of hay making practices.
- Prickly Pear as Stock Feed
- Revised edition. Report discussing the importance of the prickly pear cactus as an emergency food source for cattle during times of severe drought. Although the plant typically has inedible spines, spineless varieties do exist, and it is recommended that farmers cultivate prickly pear for use during droughts.
- Rat Control.
- Discusses the damage that rats can cause, and provides methods for effective exclusion and destruction of the pest.
- Rural libraries.
- Describes how libraries are created in rural areas; describes the types of services offered by rural libraries.
- Saving Man Labor in Sugar-Beet Fields
- Revised edition. "By using larger equipment many sugar-beet growers have greatly reduced their requirements for man labor and at the same time have been able to accomplish more work in a given time. This bulletin tells how man labor can be saved and production speeded up in the several American sugar-beet regions through the use of large machines and units of power." -- p. ii
- Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions
- Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of strawberries in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Topics discussed include varieties, soil preparation, mulch and fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting, and diseases and insect enemies.
- Strawberry Culture: Western United States
- Revised edition. "This bulletin applies to that part of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts in the irrigated regions of the West; it aims to aid those familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those which apply in the growing of other crops. Details of operation must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Since strawberries in the humid regions frequently suffer from drought, which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove suggestive to many growers in those localities who could install an irrigation system at small expense. Detailed information is also given as to soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, and shipping. Methods of using surplus strawberries for preserves and jams, for canning, and for flavoring for various purposes are given." -- p. 3
- Sweet-Potato Diseases
- Revised edition. "Diseases of sweet potatoes are divisible into two classes, 1) field troubles, and 2) storage rots. Field troubles are divisible into root and stem diseases and leaf diseases. Root and stem diseases include stem-rot, black-rot, foot-rot, scurf, and root-rot; and leaf disease, leaf-blight, white-rust, and leaf-spot.... Control of the five storage rots described hinges on careful storage-house management. Sweet potatoes infected with field diseases should never be placed in storage, for heavy loss will follow. But this elimination of field diseases must be coupled with a well-regulated system of storage, the first requisite of which is a thoroughly disinfected house free from the numerous storage-rot germs." -- p. ii. There are many methods of control for field diseases which are also discussed.
- Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication.
- Revised edition. Report discussing the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and efforts necessary to detect, control, and eradicate it. Includes discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, the tuberculin test, and best methods for eradication and prevention.