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Bur Clover

Description: This report discusses the cultivation of bur clover, which is an annual legume that serves as a winter cover crop and as pasturage. The best practices for and uses of bur clover are discussed in detail.
Date: 1915
Creator: Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926 & McKee, Roland
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Velvet Beans

Description: This bulletin describes the velvet bean, which is a legume useful in the southern United States for feeds and fertilizers. Topics discussed include varieties, planting practices, hay, feed production, and insect enemies.
Date: 1918
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920 & Coe, H. S.
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Horse Beans

Description: This bulletin discuss the horse bean (or fava bean), which is a legume cultivated widely in many nations and holds great potential as a crop along the Pacific and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
Date: 1918
Creator: McKee, Roland
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The Soy Bean: Its Culture and Uses

Description: This bulletin discusses soybean cultivation and the uses of soybeans. Soybeans may be used in mixtures, hay, pastures, silage, and as fertilizing agents through crop rotation.
Date: 1918
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
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Grain Farming in the Corn Belt with Live Stock as a Side Line

Description: "This bulletin is written to suggest to the corn-belt farmer of the Middle West -- especially the farmer whose soil has been run down by continuous grain farming -- some ways of coordinating and 'cashing in' the scientific advice offered him in hundreds of bulletins already published.... Briefly, these are the conclusions reached by our most successful corn-belt farmer and agricultural experts: To make a money-maker of a farm that has become a losing proposition through steady grain farming you… more
Date: 1916
Creator: Vrooman, Carl Schurz, 1872-1966
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 75

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Garden Sweet Peas, Winter-Flowering Sweet Peas, Southern Bur Clover, Type of Sheep for Southwest, and Combating Flies.
Date: 1913
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Farm Practice in the Use of Commercial Fertilizers in the South Atlantic States

Description: Report discussing the use of fertilizers on the more important soils of the South Atlantic States in the growing of staple farm crops. Factors which influence the use of commercial fertilizers such as crop rotation, legumes, and manure are discussed. In addition, methods for fertilizing cotton, corn, oats, wheat, and cowpea are discussed.
Date: 1910
Creator: Beavers, J. C.
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Soil Conservation

Description: This bulletin "makes clear the situation that confronts us in view of the fact that practically all the more desirable farm land in the country has been brought under cultivation; and that to meet the increasing demands for food stuffs, improved methods of farming must be used. such methods must be employed as are best adapted to the conservation and maintenance of soil fertility. To these ends there are discussed some of the more important factors determining the improved methods of farm manag… more
Date: 1910
Creator: Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
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The Peanut

Description: "It is the purpose of this bulletin to give full cultural directions for growing [peanuts], together with some of the uses of the peanut." -- p. 6. Topics discussed include soil preparation, fertilizers, seed selection, and varieties.
Date: 1911
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
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Lespedeza, or Japan Clover

Description: Report discussing the uses of and practices for cultivating lespedeza (also known as Japanese clover).
Date: 1911
Creator: McNair, A. D. & Mercier, W. B. (William Benjamin), b. 1868
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Building Up a Run-Down Cotton Plantation

Description: "This paper is an account of the progress made in three years in changing a run-down cotton plantation into a profitable stock and hay farm. The results obtained from the use of cowpeas and other leguminous crops in restoring the fertility of the land have exceeded the expectations of those in charge of the work." -- p. 5
Date: 1908
Creator: Brodie, D. A. (David Arthur), b. 1868
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Cover Crops for Soil Conservation

Description: "Cover crops are crops sown or planted in thick stands for the purpose of protecting and enriching the soil.... That the use of cover crops is a most efficient means for preventing soil erosion and increasing soil fertility is well known; yet this practice is not nearly so widely and extensively followed as it should be. The kinds of cover crops that should be used and the method of utilizing them to the best advantage varies in different regions, according to climatic conditions but almost eve… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Kell, Walter V., 1889- & McKee, Roland
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Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 63

Description: Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Sterilizing Tobacco Plant Beds, Clover Growing, Curing Clover Hay, the Velvet Bean, Draft Horses, and Care of Mares and Foals.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Forage Crops for the Cotton Region

Description: Report discussing the grasses, legumes, hay crops, pasture crops, and other forage crops which grow in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Among the more profitable crops discussed are velvet bean, beggarweed, Mexican clover, Japan clover, and Bermuda grass.
Date: 1912
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
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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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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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Green Manuring

Description: "Green manuring means turning under suitable crops to enrich the soil. Such crops may be turned under green or when ripe. Green manuring adds organic matter and, directly or indirectly, nitrogen to the soil. Leguminous crops are most desirable for green manuring, since they add to the soil nitrogen gathered from the air in addition to the organic matter which they carry. Besides the nitrogen in the legumes turned under, an additional supply of nitrogen is fixed in the soil by the action of bact… more
Date: 1922
Creator: Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926 & Pieters, A. J.
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