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Experiment Station Record, Volume 38, January-June, 1918

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 901.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 37, July-December, 1917

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 901.
Date: 1918
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rock Quarrying for Cement Manufacture

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over rock quarries in the United States. As stated in the introduction, "the bulk of the report deals with quarrying methods and equipment, and gives special attention to drilling and blasting; a chapter on rock mining and one on prospecting are included" (p. 1). This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: June 1918
Creator: Bowles, Oliver
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Control of the Melon Aphis (Attacks Cucumbers, Melons, Other Cucurbits, Cotton, Oranges, Etc.)

Description: "Next to the striped cucumber beetle the melon aphis, or 'melon louse,' is our most important cucumber insect pest and probably the most serious enemy of melons and related crops in this country. It works quickly, sucking the juices of the plants and causing them to wither and die, often before insect injury is suspected. Large fields often are destroyed in a few days.... This bulletin describes several methods of control, the most important of which is spraying with nicotine sulphate, as descr… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Chittenden, F. H. (Frank Hurlbut), 1858-1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How to Reduce Weevil Waste in Southern Corn

Description: "In weevil-infested regions ears with poor shuck coverings are damaged before the corn can be stored. To store corn with short, loose shucks results in greatly increased loss. Shucks that extend beyond the tips of the ears and close tightly about the silks are weevil proof both in the field and in storage. Feed or sell the unprotected ears as rapidly as possible. Store the weevil-proof ears in the their shucks. Select the best ears, in the field if possible, for next year's seed. Be sure that t… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Kyle, C. H. (Curtis Hernon), b. 1878
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Principles of the Liming of Soils

Description: "In the following pages information is presented regarding the materials used in liming, their preparation and use, as well as a discussion of the chemical changes brought about in the soil by lime, so far as they are known. The relative merits of different forms of lime are discussed and data furnished whereby the value of any particular form of lime for agricultural purposes may be determined approximately. The bulletin has been prepared primarily from the point of view of materials used in l… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Shorey, Edmund C. (Edmund Cecil), 1865-1939
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cereal Smuts and the Disinfection of Seed Grain

Description: "This bulletin is published for the purpose of providing a condensed but complete source of up-to-date information for practical use in controlling cereal smuts by means of the most generally approved methods for the disinfection of seed grain.... Corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, sorghum (including kafir and broom corn), and millet smuts are described and illustrated with photographs." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Humphrey, H. B. (Harry Baker), 1873-1955 & Potter, Alden A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Haymaking

Description: "Haymaking is an operation that must be done in a certain space of time that is short at best and that is always liable to be made shorter by bad weather. For this reason there is perhaps no farm operation in which system and efficiency count for more than in haymaking; yet throughout the hay-growing area more or less haphazard methods of haymaking are still very common. This bulletin is designed to point out ways in which the more successful hay growers of the country save time and labor in th… more
Date: 1918
Creator: McClure, H. B. (Harry B.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Rag-Doll Seed Tester: Its Use in Determining What Ears of Corn Are Fit for Seed

Description: "Almost every fall, hard freezing weather in one or more sections of the United States catches the corn crop in an immature condition and injures or destroys the ears for use as seed. The latest and sappiest ears are often killed, while other ears, somewhat drier, have but a portion of the kernels killed. Frequently there are some ears so mature and dry that they are not injured or but slightly injured. Under such circumstances the uninjured ears are suitable for seed. By inspection they can be… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Burt, George J.; Biggar, H. Howard & Trout, Clement E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Breeds of Light Horses

Description: "This bulletin gives concise information regarding the breeds of light horses and will be of particular usefulness to the farmer in those sections where light horses are preeminently fitted for his work, such as mountainous and hilly sections and where there are markets for horses for saddle and driving purposes. The breeds discussed are the Arabian, Thoroughbred, Standardbred, American Saddle, Morgan, Hackney, French Coach, German Coach, and Cleveland Bay. Of these, the Standardbred, American … more
Date: 1918
Creator: Reese, H. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Simple Hog-Breeding Crate

Description: This bulletin gives instructions for making a breeding crate which can be used to assist in the mating of hogs. "There are many types of breeding crates which the farmer may construct. The accompanying illustrations show a crate that can be operated by one man and is easily constructed on the average farm without involving much expense." -- p. 3
Date: 1918
Creator: Zeller, J. H. (John Henry), 1894-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sweet-Potato Storage

Description: "The proper storage of sweet potatoes is one of the most important food-conservation measures that can be put into effect in the Southern States. No perishable product produced in the South is of as great importance as the sweet potato, and none is so poorly handled. This bulletin describes in considerable detail the types of storage houses that have proved successful and the proper method of handling sweet potatoes from harvesting to marketing. For those growers who are not able to build stora… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Thompson, H. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cooling Milk and Cream on the Farm

Description: This bulletin discusses ways for maintaining the cool temperature of milk and cream on the farm in order to prevent bacterial growth. Among the methods discussed are natural ice, surface coolers, cooling tanks, wells and spring water.
Date: 1918
Creator: Gamble, J. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hay Caps

Description: "Hay caps can be used to advantage to keep rain from wetting hay in cocks on many farms in the eastern half of the United States." -- p. 2. This bulletin describes the different types of hay camps, estimates their cost, and explains how hay caps may be used.
Date: 1918
Creator: McClure, H. B. (Harry B.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Control of the Green Clover Worm in Alfalfa Fields

Description: "Severe infestation of alfalfa by the green clover worm has been reported recently from the central part of the United States. Caterpillars, hatching out from eggs laid by small brown and black moths, in some cases have stripped the foliage from alfalfa plants to such an extent that infested fields have been made to appear ragged. The green clover worm is generally distributed over the eastern half of the country. Timely cutting of the crop so as to remove their food supply when the caterpillar… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Hill, Charles C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bean and Pea Weevils

Description: "This bulletin tells about the principal kinds of bean and pea weevils and explains fully the methods of averting losses from these pests."
Date: 1918
Creator: Back, E. A. & Duckett, A. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Farm and Home Drying of Fruits and Vegetables

Description: "Imperative necessity demands nation-wide conservation of those portions of our food crops which have heretofore been permitted to go to waste. A considerable portion of this wasted food material is made up of perishable fruits and vegetables produced in home gardens and fruit plats in excess of the immediate needs of the producers and in the absence of accessible markets for the surplus. Drying offers a simple, convenient, and economical method for preserving food materials and permits the car… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Caldwell, Joseph S. (Joseph Stuart)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Timothy

Description: "Timothy, usually seeded in mixture with clover, is grown in rotations with other crops on most of the farms in the northeastern fourth of the United States. Timothy is usually seeded with some grain as a nurse crop. Winter wheat and rye are generally better nurse crops than oats or other spring grains. Timothy seeded alone in late August or early September will produce a crop of clear timothy hay the following season. Fertilizers applied on corn, wheat, or other crops grown in rotation with ti… more
Date: 1918
Creator: Evans, Morgan W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cooperative Bull Associations

Description: "Cooperative bull associations are formed by farmers for the joint ownership, use, and exchange of pure-bred bulls. The purchase price and cost of maintenance are distributed according to the number of cows owned by each, thereby giving the farmer an opportunity to build up his herd at minimum expense. The organization also helps its members to market dairy stock and dairy products, to fight contagious diseases of cattle intelligently, and in other ways assists in improving the dairy industry. … more
Date: 1918
Creator: Winkjer, Joel G., 1870-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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