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Back-yard poultry keeping.

Description: Describes the advantages of keeping poultry at home; provides instructions for building, maintaining, and operating a poultry house.
Date: 1924
Creator: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944 & Lee, Alfred R., b. 1887
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Good proportions in the diet.

Description: Provides advice for planning meals and buying the appropriate amount of food for a family that does active, but not hard muscular work.
Date: 1923
Creator: Hunt, Caroline Louisa, 1865-1927
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Cooking Beef According to the Cut.

Description: Pamphlet discussing the nutritional value and versatility of beef; provides recipes and methods for its preparation in various dishes.
Date: October 1928
Creator: Alexander, Lucy M. (Lucy Maclay), 1888- & Yeatman, Fanny Walker, b. 1876
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The Control of the Alfalfa Weevil.

Description: Pamphlet describing the characteristics of the alfalfa weevil, the damage it causes, and methods of control.
Date: June 1927
Creator: Reeves, Geo. I. (George I.), b. 1879
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Concrete Construction on the Livestock Farm

Description: Revised bulletin. Report describing "methods of using concrete, with special reference to requirements on livestock farms." -- p. 2. Includes instructions for building a concrete feeding floor, a concrete manure pit, and concrete dipping vat.
Date: 1922
Creator: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry.
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The Pear and How to Grow It

Description: Revised bulletin. Report discussing the best methods for growing pears. Topics discussed include propagation, orchard location, fertilizers, selecting trees for an orchard, pruning, common diseases and pests, and harvesting.
Date: 1923
Creator: Brackett, G. B. (Gustavus Benson), 1827-1915
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Some Common Game, Aquatic, and Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing the benefits of undomesticated birds to farmers. "In the following pages are discussed the food habits and relation to man of 19 species of game, aquatic, and rapacious birds, including 5 species of hawks and owls." -- p. 2
Date: 1924
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962 & Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles), 1840-1916
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Planning the Farmstead

Description: "The object of this bulletin is to set forth general principles involved in planning the arrangement of the buildings of the farmstead in their relation to one another.... The main considerations influencing the determination of the farmstead site are its location with respect to the rest of the farm and to public utilities, the elevation and drainage of the proposed site, the available water supply, the nature of the soil, the relation to the points of the compass, and the prevailing breezes a… more
Date: 1920
Creator: Betts, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave), 1875-1936 & Humphries, W. R. (Walter Raymond), 1896-
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Castrating and Docking Lambs

Description: Report discussing the advantages of castrating and docking lambs to promote health and growth. Procedures for castration and docking are discussed in detail.
Date: 1920
Creator: Bedell, G. H. (George Harold), 1890- & Baker, E. W. (Elbert Watkins), 1879-
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Grain Sorghums: How to Grow Them

Description: Report discussing the conditions and best practices necessary for growing grain sorghum, especially with respect to the different varieties and increased crop yields.
Date: 1920
Creator: Rothgeb, Benton E.
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Cooperative Marketing

Description: Report giving suggestions for organizing cooperative marketing associations among farmers. Topics discussed include membership contracts, sales pools, organizational structures, financing, bylaws, management, and assignment of duties.
Date: 1920
Creator: Jesness, Oscar B. (Oscar Bernard), b. 1889
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Dourine of Horses

Description: Report discussing the occurrence of the equine disease dourine (or covering sickness) in horses, including transmission of the disease, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Date: 1920
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875 & Schoening, Harry W. (Harry William), b. 1886
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Milo, a Valuable Grain Crop

Description: Report discussing the grain milo and the potential for increased crop yields in the United States, especially in the Southwest. Topics discussed include varieties of milo, methods for increasing crop yield, soil requirements, harvesting, and storage.
Date: 1920
Creator: Rothgeb, Benton E.
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Cowpeas: Culture and Varieties

Description: Report discussing the cowpea, a leguminous crop often grown in the Southern United States. Topics discussed include its several varieties, fertilizers, methods of sowing, and diseases.
Date: 1920
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
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Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep

Description: Sheep are more vulnerable to parasites than other kinds of livestock. This report discusses the many parasitic diseases that affect sheep either externally or internally as well as preventive measures which can be taken. Parasites discussed include lice, the sheep tick, scab mite, arthropods, tapeworms, bladderworms, flukes, and roundworms.
Date: 1920
Creator: Hall, Maurice C. (Maurice Crowther), 1881-1938
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Alsike Clover

Description: Report discussing the distribution and cultivation of the leguminous crop alsike clover, which grows primarily in the northeastern United States. Topics discussed include soil requirements, seeding, uses, and insect enemies and diseases.
Date: 1920
Creator: Pieters, A. J.
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Cowpeas: Utilization

Description: Report discussing common uses of the cowpea and methods of cultivation which improve crop yields for these purposes. The cowpea may be used for seed, straw, hay, pasture, or soil improvement.
Date: 1920
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
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Aspen Borer and How to Control It

Description: "This bulletin gives methods of controlling the aspen borer or reducing its damage to a minimum. It is based on extensive studies made in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado, but the data in general apply to all regions of the United States where the poplars are native. The introduced Lombardy poplar is very seldom injured, but the commercial cottonwood of the Mississippi Valley seems to be the only native species of poplar which is at all immune to the attack of this insect." -- p. 2
Date: 1920
Creator: George Hofer, 1863-
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Diseases of Sheep

Description: "Infectious and noninfectious diseases and common ailments of sheep in America are considered in this bulletin. It does not deal with diseases caused by animal parasites, such as gid, grub in the head, stomach, lung, and intestinal-worm affections, liver rot, scabies, etc., nor with plant poisoning. These diseases are described in other publications of the Department of Agriculture. The aim has been to give only the more important of characteristic symptoms which would be of value in distinguis… more
Date: 1921
Creator: Gallagher, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), b. 1880
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Angoumois Grain Moth

Description: Report discussing the Angoumois grain moth, a pest now common in the United States which is destructive to corn, wheat, and other grains. Topics include the moth's life cycle, infestations, and methods of controlling it, including prompt thrashing and fumigation.
Date: 1920
Creator: Back, E. A. (Ernest Adna), 1886-
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Diseases of Apples in Storage

Description: This bulletin is a catalog of diseases that commonly affect apples being kept in storage. There is also a brief introductory paragraph about methods of disease control. Diseases discussed include scab, blotch, bitter rot, Northwestern anthracnose, and scald.
Date: 1920
Creator: Brooks, Charles; Cooley, J. S. & Fisher, D. F.
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Dodder

Description: Report discussing the weed commonly known as dodder or love vine and methods for controlling it. If procedures are properly followed, eradication of the weed in the United States is possible. Topics include varieties of dodder and plants that susceptible to attack by it, its life cycle, and ways it is unintentionally introduced to farms.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hansen, A. A.
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Proso, or Hog Millet

Description: Report discussing proso (or hog millet), which is an early-maturing millet used as grain both for human food and livestock feed. Topics include varieties of proso, soil and climate requirements, methods of sowing, harvesting, thrashing, and diseases which commonly affect it.
Date: 1920
Creator: Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-
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