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Machinery for dusting cotton.

Description: Describes the types of machinery which can be used for dusting cotton plants with chemicals to prevent boll weevil damage.
Date: July 1934
Creator: Gaines, R. C. (Robert Callaway), 1898- & Isler, D. A. (David Adelbert), 1902-
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Stop gullies : save your farm.

Description: Provides advice and instructions for stopping or healing gullies created by erosion. Includes photographs and descriptions of the damage caused by gullies to farmland.
Date: September 1934
Creator: Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941
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Rabbit Production

Description: "This bulletin sets forth the essential principles of rabbit raising and tells how to apply them in practice." -- p. ii. Topics discussed include necessary equipment, different breeds, feeding practices, and breeding practices, and preparing rabbits for market.
Date: 1934
Creator: Ashbrook, F. G. 1892- & Kellogg, Charles E.; 1890-
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Planning a Subsistence Homestead

Description: "Growing food for family-living purposes in connection with enough outside work to provide the family with the cash for necessary farm and family expenses is a combination that many families now want to develop.... This kind of farming has often been called subsistence farming and a farm of this kind a subsistence homestead. This part-time farming has certain problems of its own that are somewhat different from the usual farming problems. The family has to think of the quantity and variety of p… more
Date: 1934
Creator: Wilcox, Walter W. (Walter William), 1904-1999
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Feeding Horses

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin explains the computation of rations for horses, suggests certain feed combinations which approximately meet the needs of horses under differing conditions, and reviews such factors of feeding as tend to make the horse more efficient." -- p. ii
Date: 1934
Creator: Bell, George A. (George Arthur), b. 1879 & Williams, J. O.
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Improving the Farm Environment for Wild Life

Description: This bulletin discusses how farmers can improve their environment for wild life and game animals. Farmers should provide cover for wild life, ensure an adequate and continuous food supply, and take measures to protect wild life from farm operations, birds of prey, cats and dogs, diseases, etc.
Date: 1934
Creator: Grange, Wallace B. (Wallace Byron), 1905-1987 & McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
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Farm Practice with Lespedeza

Description: "The use of lespedeza as a farm crop has rapidly increased during the past few years. The increase in the use of lespedeza is due partly to the excellent results that have been obtained by the farmers who have been growing the Common variety, for hay and for pasture and soil improvement, but more particularly to the introduction of some new varieties that produce better yields, are adapted to a wider range of climatic conditions, and are generally better suited to the needs of the average farm … more
Date: 1934
Creator: Miller, H. A.
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