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Bees

Description: Report discussing techniques for the proper management of bees by beekeepers. Topics discussed include equipment for keeping and maintaining hives, bee behavior, swarm management, honey production, wax production, and common disease and enemies of bees.
Date: 1910
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951
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Bread and Break Making

Description: "Perhaps no topic connected with the subject of human food is of more general interest than bread, and no crops are more important to the farmer than the bread-yielding cereals. This bulletin, which summarizes the most recent information on the use of cereals for bread making, is believed to be useful and timely." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Atwater, Helen W.
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Canada Bluegrass: Its Culture and Uses

Description: "The increasing realization of the agricultural value of Canada bluegrass has resulted in a demand for information regarding its habits, uses, and culture. This paper is intended to contain an agronomic discussion of this grass, embodying a description of the methods of culture and utilization now followed, and also some suggestions resulting from experiments conducted by the Bureau of Plant Industry." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Oakley, R. A. (Russell Arthur)
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Care of Food in the Home

Description: Report discussing the proper methods of handling and preserving food. Topics discussed include mold, flies, dust, pet hair and dander, cold storage techniques, and disinfectants. Includes an index.
Date: 1910
Creator: Abel, Mary Hinman, 1850-1938
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The Care of Milk and Its Use in the Home

Description: Report discussing the proper handling of milk in homes and the nutritional content of milk. The bulletin is divided into three parts: 1) The Care of Milk in the Home, 2) The Home Pasteurization of Milk, 3) Food Value of Milk.
Date: 1910
Creator: Whitaker, George M. (George Mason); Rogers, L. A. & Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
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The Coke Industry of the United States as Related to the Foundry

Description: From Introduction: "The present bulletin, published by the Bureau of Mines because of the analyzing and testing of fuels have been transferred from the Geographical Survey to the Bureau of Mines, briefly reviews the status of the coke industry, some features of practice in the use of coke in the foundry, the probable happenings of a cupola heat, and the reasons for modifying charging practice so that a particular coke can be used to best advantage."
Date: 1910
Creator: Moldenke, Richard
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The Control of Blowing Soils

Description: "The rapid extension of agricultural operations into the sections of the United States where the rainfall is so limited as to make the problem of soil blowing a serious one has led to numerous calls for information concerning the best methods of solution." -- p. 2. Control of blowing of both sandy soils and soils from newly cleared lands are among the topics discussed.
Date: 1910
Creator: Free, E. E. (Edward Elway), b. 1883 & Westgate, J. M.
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Corn Cultivation

Description: "It is possible within a few years to double the average production of corn per acre in the United States, and to accomplish it without any increase in work or expense. The lines of improvement that will most easily and quickly double the present production per acre are as follow: (1) Improvement in the quality of seed planted; (2) improvement in the condition of the soil; (3) improvement in methods of cultivation." -- p. 3-4
Date: 1910
Creator: Hartley, C. P.
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Cotton Wilt

Description: "This paper deals with the essential details of [cotton wilt] and outlines a successful means of combating the disease through the use of wilt-resistant varieties." -- p. 2.
Date: 1910
Creator: Orton, W. A. (William Allen), 1877-1930
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Demonstration Work on Southern Farms

Description: Report discussing the origination and purpose of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. The agency is primarily tasked with developing methods to control the spread of the Mexican cotton boll weevil, but it researches cultivation techniques for other crops as well, particularly corn and cowpea. This report summarizes the agency's preliminary findings.
Date: 1910
Creator: Knapp, S. A.
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Economical Use of Meat in the Home

Description: "The widespread interest in the most satisfactory and most economical ways of preparing meat for the table has led to the preparation of [this] summary of information on the cheaper cuts of meat and inexpensive meat dishes." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Langworthy, C. F. (Charles Ford), 1864-1932 & Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 21, 1909

Description: Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico station. Name and subject indexes start on page 801.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 22, 1910

Description: Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico station. Name and subject indexes start on page 801.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 49

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Tillage v. Sod Mulch in Orchards, Ear Characters of Seed Corn, Seed Disinfection, Blackleg of the Irish Potato, Progress in Horse Breeding, and Sweet Potatoes.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 55

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Poultry Manure, Early Onions in the Southwest, Oleander Poisoning of Live Stock, Fermented Cottonseed Meal for Hogs, Wintering Farm Work Horses, Alfalfa Meal as a Feeding Stuff, Mangels for Milch Cows, Records of Dairy Herds, Skim-Milk Buttermilk, Whipped Cream, Farm Butter Making, Camembert Cheese Making, Cement and Concrete Fence Pos… more
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 56

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Incompatibles in Fertilizer Mixtures, Principles of Dry Farming, Methods of Seeding Oats, Rolling v. Harrowing Winter Wheat, Destruction of Eelworms in Soil Pruning, Bean Anthracnose or Pod Spot, Animal Feeds for Farm Stock, Feeding the Pig, Jelly and Jelly Making.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 57

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: A Perfect Stand of Corn, Protection of Seed Corn, Clover-Seed Production, Home-Grown Feeds for Hogs, Fleshing Horses for Market, Fertility and Hatching of Eggs, Marketing of Eggs, and Cement Silos.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 58

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Fertilizers for Pineapples, Wart Disease of the Potato, the Typhoid or House Fly, Rice and Its By-Products as Feeding Stuffs, the Forced Molting of fowls, a Portable Panel Fence, Pasteurization in the Butter Making, and Milling and Baking Tests with Durum Wheat.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 60

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Commercial Bean Growing, Digestion Experiments with Range Forage Crops, Stallion Legislation, Substitutes for Oats for Horses, Tests for Casein in MIlk
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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