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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.
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An Outfit for Boring Taprooted Stumps for Blasting

Description: Report describing how to "blast stumps from the ground in order to prepare it for farming. It is comparatively easy to place the charge under a stump having a semitaproot or lateral system of rooting by boring or digging a hole in the earth to a point under the center of resistance and deep enough to give the desired effect." -- title page
Date: 1914
Creator: Thompson, Harry
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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.
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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.
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The Agricultural Outlook: August 22, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during July and August 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
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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.
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How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States

Description: "The means of increasing the number of birds about our homes are few and simple. They comprise adequate protection and the provision of suitable nesting places, food, and water.... This bulletin [recommends] practicable methods of attracting birds about homes [in the northeastern United States]. Especial attention will be given to the value of fruit-bearing shrubs and trees." -- title page. Protection for birds, winter feeding, water supplies, and nesting boxes and birdhouses are also discussed. more
Date: 1914
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
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Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens

Description: "Brooding with hens is the simplest and easiest way to raise a few chickens and is the method which issued almost exclusively on the average farm. Artificial brooders are necessary where winter or very early chickens are raised, where only Leghorns or other nonsetting breeds of poultry are kept, or where large numbers of chickens are raised commercially. Successful natural rearing of chickens requires convenient facilities, regular attention, and often tries one's patience, while artificial met… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Lamon, Harry M.
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The Carpet Beetle or "Buffalo Moth"

Description: Report discussing the carpet beetle (also known as the buffalo moth) and its geographic distribution, life cycle, habits, and methods for exterminating it.
Date: 1914
Creator: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
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The House Centipede

Description: Report discussing the common house centipede, which helpfully eats insects but is feared for its appearance and potentially painful bite. Also discusses methods for exterminating centipedes.
Date: 1914
Creator: Marlatt, C. L.
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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.
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Growing Peaches: Varieties and Classification

Description: Report discussing the varieties of peaches available for planting and methods for classifying them. Includes a list of varieties with their geographic distribution and average ripening dates.
Date: 1914
Creator: Gould, H. P.
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What the Farm Contributes Directly to the Farmer's Living

Description: "This bulletin contains the result of a study carried on in the summer of 1913 by the Office of Farm Management to determine the value of that part of the farmer's living which is furnished directly by the farm. The data presented concern the food products, fuel, and the use of the farmhouse. Figures are also given showing the value of the food and fuel bought, the value of which becomes important when considered in relation to the quantity furnished by the farm." -- p. 3
Date: 1914
Creator: Funk, W. C.
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The Chalcis-Fly in Alfalfa Seed

Description: "The clover-seed chalcis fly which is generally termed the alfalfa-seed chalcis-fly by alfalfa-seed growers, has been increasing so rapidly that its destructive work is now causing a large annual loss, and in some sections even threatening the production of alfalfa seed.... This bulletin will serve to give the alfalfa-seed grower a general knowledge of the chalcis-fly, together with such information as will direct him in adopting measures for reducing the large annual loss due to it work." -- p… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Urbahns, Theodore Dietrich, 1880-
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Eradication of the Cattle Tick Necessary for Profitable Dairying

Description: Report discussing the effectiveness of the dipping and spraying methods for eradicating the cattle tick, which transmits the harmful Texas fever to cattle. If widely used by farmers in an area, both methods are found to be effective.
Date: 1914
Creator: McClain, J. H.
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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.
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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.
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The Agricultural Outlook: February 7, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States during January 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
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The Agricultural Outlook: March 18, 1914

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture discussing the status of agricultural production in the United States for 1914, including forecasts for crop yields and livestock reports. Contains articles and tables on international production of corn, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, and flax as well as beef imports from Argentina, cotton production in Africa, and crop reporting systems in other countries.
Date: 1914
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
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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.
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The Classification and Grading of Cotton

Description: "The objects of grading and classifying cotton are to aid (1) in determining the comparative values of the different qualities and (2) in describing the cotton so as to make buying and selling easier when there are no samples. With the present methods of buying cotton...the grade practically determines the price that is received by the producer." -- p. 1-2. The bulletin introduces the grades by name, explains the factors that influence the grade, discusses grade standards, and provides cost and… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Earle, D. E. & William S. (William Samuel) Dean, 1883-
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The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States

Description: Report discussing best practices for growing winter wheat in the eastern United States. Topics discussed include soils adapted to wheat cultivation, fertilizers, seed selection and preparation, and crop rotation.
Date: 1914
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
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Corn Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It

Description: "The purpose of this bulletin is not to recommend Indian corn to the exclusion of other foods of its group, the cereals, which include wheat, rice, rye, and others, but to speak of its value as a food and its distinguishing qualities which call for special methods of cooking, and to show how it may be used to secure variety in one of the principal lines of food materials which make up the usual dietary." -- p. 2. Includes recipes.
Date: 1914
Creator: Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932 & Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
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