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Alaskan Coal Problems

Report discussing coal problems existing in Alaska, which Alaskan coal has high value.

Date: 1911

Creator: Fisher, Walter L.

Item Type: Report

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Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1910

Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics, discussions of foreign investigations, and selected studies.

Date: September 14, 1911

Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.

Item Type: Book

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Anthrax, With Special Reference to Its Suppression

Report discussing the bacterial disease anthrax, which is particularly harmful to cattle. Topics discussed include the nature of the disease and its life cycle, different forms of the disease, methods of control, and the anthrax vaccine.

Date: 1911

Creator: Washburn, Henry J.

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Apparatus and Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Furnace Gases

From Introduction: "It is the purpose of this paper to describe some apparatus and methods which have proved satisfactory to those engaged in the chemical work of the investigations mentioned. While these methods and apparatus have been designed more particularly with regard to analysis of furnace gases, their use is by no means limited to that purpose."

Date: 1911

Creator: Frazer, J. C. W. & Hoffman, E. J.

Item Type: Report

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Barley: Growing the Crop

"Of the small-grain crops grown in this country barley ranks third in production. While much of the area devoted to this crop in the United States is suited to its production, the lack of care in selecting seed and the methods of cultivation practiced result in low yield of poor quality. This bulletin gives directions for the best methods of growing and harvesting the crop. With the use of these methods there should be a marked increase in the yield and quality of the barley grown in the United… more

Date: 1911

Creator: Derr, H. B. (Harry Benjamin), b. 1867

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Bees

Report discussing the basics of beekeeping and bee behavior for farmers interested in the cultivation of bees for either pleasure or profit. Topics discussed include necessary equipment, hive management, and honey and wax production.

Date: 1911

Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951

Item Type: Pamphlet

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The Best Two Sweet Sorghums for Forage

"At this time the several different sorghum varieties are grown promiscuously over the entire region adapted to this crop. This bulletin is prepared with a view to helping the farmer find the variety [of sorghum] best suited to his region and to grow and improve this variety so as to obtain better yields of forage." -- p. 2.

Date: 1911

Creator: Conner, A. B.

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Better Grain-Sorghum Crops

"This paper presents the best-known methods of improving the grain-sorghum crops on the farms where they are grown. These methods are simple and inexpensive of time or money, and are therefore within the reach of all farmers. More attention to the bettering of the quality and yields will be repaid as fully in these crops as in other cereals." -- p. 2. Sorghum crops can be improved for drought resistance, earliness, stature, productivity, and adaptability to machine techniques.

Date: 1911

Creator: Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Binders for Coal Briquets: Investigations Made at the Fuel-Testing Plant, St. Louis, Missouri

From Introduction: "The problem is always to produce at a profit a briquet of satisfactory grade for the use intended. This problem will be made clearer by a brief summary of the available binders, followed by a preliminary discussion of the characteristics of a good briquet."

Date: 1911

Creator: Mills, James E.

Item Type: Report

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A Biological Survey of Colorado

From introduction: "Report based chiefly on the field work prosecuted during 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1909. It is primarily a characterization of the several major distribution areas or life zones."

Date: August 17, 1911

Creator: Cary, Merritt

Item Type: Report

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Briquetting Tests at the United States Fuel-Testing Plant, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907-8

From Briquetting Tests: "The briquetting work undertaken at Norfolk had these specific objects: 1. To determine what percent of pitch or other binder was necessary to make a satisfactory briquet out of the coals tested. 2. To investigate the relative merits of different binders. 3. To provide briquets for comparative combustion tests of run-of-mine coal and the same coal briquetted."

Date: 1911

Creator: Wright, Charles L.

Item Type: Report

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Cabbage

Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of cabbage. Topics discussed include soil preparation, fertilizers, seed selection, diseases, insect enemies, and varieties of cabbage. Cultivation practices vary depending on whether the cabbage is intended as a truck crop crop, market-garden crop, or farm crop.

Date: 1911

Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Capons and Caponizing

Report discussing capons, which are castrated male chickens, and the castration process known as "caponizing." Topics discussed include breed selection, instruments and equipment, the castration operation, post-operative care, and kiling and preparing the capons for market.

Date: 1911

Creator: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged, Volume 1, Lists of Congressional and Departmental Publications

This listing is "an approximately complete checklist of all public documents issued by the United States Government during the first century and a quarter of its history." (p. vii) List of bureaus, departments, divisions, offices, etc. starts on page 1683.

Date: 1911

Creator: United States. Superintendent of Documents.

Item Type: Book

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The Choice of Crops for Alkali Land

"The object of this bulletin is to bring to the attention of owners of alkali land the crop plants which are most likely to give satisfactory results. It can not be too emphatically stated that crop production on such soils is at best precarious. For this reason and because the alkali resistance of plants depends upon many varying conditions, it is impossible to offer more than suggestions as to what crops are best worth trying." -- p. 5-6. Topics discussed include the effects of alkali upon pl… more

Date: 1911

Creator: Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956

Item Type: Pamphlet

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Coals Available for the Manufacture of Illuminating Gas

From Introduction General Statement: "The investigations were so directed as to permit the testing of coals from different parts of the united States. The results show that certain coals from which good yields of gas had been expected can not be considered as available for illuminating-gas manufacture, whereas other coals give promise and should investigated further. The data contained in this report are the outcome of the cooperative work at the laboratory mentioned during parts of the years 1… more

Date: 1911

Creator: White, A. H. & Barker, Perry

Item Type: Report

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Commercial Deductions from Comparisons of Gasoline and Alcohol Tests on Internal-Combustion Engines

From Introduction: "The following report is a summary of the commercial results which were obtained from 2,000 tests conducted by technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey at St. Louis, Mo., and Norfolk, Va., in 1907 and 1908, under the technical supervision of R.H. Fernald, engineer in charge of the producer-gas section."

Date: 1911

Creator: Strong, Robert M.

Item Type: Report

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Companies B, C, and D, Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry. Report of the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry Relative to the Shooting Affray at Brownsville, Tex. August 13-14, 1906 by Soldiers of Companies B, C, and D Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry: Volume 1

Report of the United States Army regarding events during the Brownsville (Tex.) Affair including documentation and transcripts of the court proceedings of the court of inquiry appointed to hear and report upon all charges and testimony relating to the shooting affray which took place at Brownsville, Texas.

Date: 1911

Creator: United States. War Department.

Item Type: Report