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Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin applies to that part of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts in the irrigated regions of the West; it aims to aid those familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those whic… more
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Saving Man Labor in Sugar-Beet Fields

Description: Revised edition. "By using larger equipment many sugar-beet growers have greatly reduced their requirements for man labor and at the same time have been able to accomplish more work in a given time. This bulletin tells how man labor can be saved and production speeded up in the several American sugar-beet regions through the use of large machines and units of power." -- p. ii
Date: 1928
Creator: Moorhouse, L. A. & Summers, T. H.
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Sweet-Potato Diseases

Description: Revised edition. "Diseases of sweet potatoes are divisible into two classes, 1) field troubles, and 2) storage rots. Field troubles are divisible into root and stem diseases and leaf diseases. 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.... Control of the five storage rots described hinges on careful storage-house management. Sweet potatoes infected with field diseases should never be placed in stora… more
Date: 1928
Creator: Harter, L. L. (Leonard Lee)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
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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, mildew (blight), leaf mold, fusarium rot, pink root, root knot, neck rot, soft rot, black mold, smudge (anthracnose, black spot), rust, white rot, dodder, and macrosporium rot.
Date: 1928
Creator: Walker, J. C. (John Charles), 1893-
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The Making and Feeding of Silage

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing the use of silos for storing feed for livestock, with special attention to silage for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, and sheep. Topics discussed include crops for silage, preparing crops for storage, and storage practices.
Date: 1928
Creator: Woodward, T. E. (Thompson Elwyn); Rommel, George M. (George McCullough); Sheets, E. W.; McNulty, J. B. & Marshall, F. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of strawberries in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Topics discussed include varieties, soil preparation, mulch and fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting, and diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication.

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and efforts necessary to detect, control, and eradicate it. Includes discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, the tuberculin test, and best methods for eradication and prevention.
Date: 1928
Creator: Kiernan, John Andrew, 1873-1927 & Wight, Alexander E.
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Prickly Pear as Stock Feed

Description: Revised edition. Report discussing the importance of the prickly pear cactus as an emergency food source for cattle during times of severe drought. Although the plant typically has inedible spines, spineless varieties do exist, and it is recommended that farmers cultivate prickly pear for use during droughts.
Date: 1928
Creator: Griffiths, David, 1867-1935
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The husker-shredder on eastern Corn Belt farms.

Description: Describes the uses and benefits of the corn husker-shredder. Includes a discussion of the costs involved in renting or buying a shredder.
Date: December 1928
Creator: Collier, George W., 1897-; Humphries, W. R. (Walter Raymond), b. 1886 & McComas, E. W. (Earl W.)
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Harvesting grain sorghums.

Description: Describes methods and equipment used for harvesting, threshing, and storing grain sorghums in the Great Plains of the United States.
Date: September 1928
Creator: Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-; Reynoldson, L. A. (Le Roy August), b. 1886; Rothgeb, Benton E. & Hurst, W. M. (Wilbur Magruder), 1898-
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Rural libraries.

Description: Describes how libraries are created in rural areas; describes the types of services offered by rural libraries.
Date: April 1928
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
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Legume hays for milk production.

Description: Argues the case for using legume hays on the farm. Describes the advantages of legume hays for profitability and increased nutrients per acre.
Date: October 1928
Creator: Dawson, J. R. (James Robert), b. 1894
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Rat Control.

Description: Discusses the damage that rats can cause, and provides methods for effective exclusion and destruction of the pest.
Date: 1928
Creator: Silver, James, b. 1890
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Farm practices under corn-borer conditions.

Description: Describes the problems caused by the corn borer in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, and methods of control.
Date: January 1928
Creator: Tapp, Jesse W. (Jesse Washington), 1898-; Collier, George W., 1897- & Arnold, C. R. (Carl R.), 1891-
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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