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If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime

Description: Graphic pamphlet advising mothers what train conditions are like during World War II, with advice and instructions on how to travel safely with a small child.
Date: 1944
Creator: United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.
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Onion Diseases and Their Control

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing diseases which affect onions in both the field and in storage, and methods for their control. Diseases discussed include smut, downy mildew, leaf mold, fusarium rot, pink root, root knot, neck rot, bacterial soft rot, black mold, smudge, rust, white rot, dodder, damping-off, purple blotch, yellow dwarf, aster yellows, eelworm rot, and aspergillus rot.
Date: 1944
Creator: Walker, J. C. (John Charles), 1893-
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Shipping Fever of Cattle: Hemorrhagic Septicemia

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing hemorrhagic septicemia, an infectious disease which affects farm animals and has a very high mortality rate. Discussion includes a description of causes, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, prevention methods, and potential treatments.
Date: 1944
Creator: Stein, C. D. (Clarence Dinsmore), b. 1889
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Strawberry Culture: Eastern United States

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin discusses commercial methods [for strawberry growing] in the eastern United States, the territory including approximately one tier of States west of the Mississippi -- that part of the country where farm crops are usually grown without irrigation -- but not including the South Atlantic and Gulf coast region. Revised edition. The successful cultural methods followed in the different strawberry districts are described. These commercial methods are not all applicabl… more
Date: 1944
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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Sweetpotato Diseases

Description: Revised edition. There are two classes of sweet potato diseases, 1) field troubles (which are either root and stem diseases or leaf diseases), and 2) storage rots. 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. There are many methods of control for field diseases which are discussed. Control of the five storage rots described hinges on careful storage-house management.
Date: 1944
Creator: Harter, L. L. (Leonard Lee)
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