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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methods and Equipment for Home Laundering.

Description: Guide to planning a laundry center at home. Describes various types of equipment and machinery available for washing, drying, and ironing. Describes the products used for laundering and the recommended laundering methods for specific fabric types.
Date: February 1940
Creator: O'Brien, Ruth, b. 1892 & Holbrook, Helen S. (Helen Shepard), b. 1882
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Soil Fertility

Description: Report of an address given before the Rich Neck Farmers' Club, of Queen Anne's County, Maryland about methods ordinary farmers can use to improve the soil fertility of their lands.
Date: 1906
Creator: Whitney, Milton, 1860-1927
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adjusting Corn Belt Farming to Meet Corn-Borer Conditions

Description: "The European corn borer is recognized as a dangerous enemy of the corn crop.... Its eradication is considered economically impossible but it is believed that the injury may be kept at a point so low that little commercial damage will occur during normal seasons. This can be done by using control measures and practices that have proved to be effective.... On some farms some changes in the crops grown and in their sequence will aid materially in controlling the borer and may prove profitable eve… more
Date: 1932
Creator: Myres, Kenneth Hayes, 1898-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Principal Insect Enemies of the Grape.

Description: Discusses nine different insect enemies of the grape, and methods for control.
Date: 1898
Creator: Marlatt, C. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rural Planning: The Social Aspects of Recreation Places.

Description: Describes the trend toward establishing planned recreation areas in rural communities, and the economic and social benefits they provide to farmers.
Date: 1924
Creator: Nason, W. C. (Wayne Crocker), b. 1874
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tobacco soils.

Description: Discusses tobacco growing in terms of soil, climate, and distribution.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Muscadine Grapes: A Fruit for the South

Description: Revised edition. This bulletin discusses the cultivation of muscadine grapes in the southern United States. Topics discussed include propagation, pruning and training, soil management, fertilizers, harvesting, common diseases, and varieties.
Date: 1971
Creator: United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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