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The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary

Description: Book containing statistical figures regarding the United States of America's conflict with Germany during World War I, including statistics for casualties, expenditures, and ordnance. Index starts on page 151.
Date: 1919
Creator: Ayres, Leonard Porter, 1879-1946
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiment Station Record, Volume 39, July-December, 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: 1919
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
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Experiment Stations of the Bureau of Mines

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the eleven experiment stations established near important mining fields. The work done by the stations are discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 1919
Creator: Manning, Van. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Abstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining: January to May 1919

Description: Bulletin issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines: "This publication is devoted exclusively to a review and abstracts of decisions based on the laws governing the rights and duties of mine owners, operators, miners, and persons trafficking in all kinds of mining properties. It includes abstracts of current decisions of all the Federal and State courts of last resort on questions relating to the mining industries" (Bulletin 61, p. 9).
Date: 1919
Creator: Thompson, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Fruit for Home Use

Description: "This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points." -- p. 2
Date: 1919
Creator: Gould, H. P. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Fruit for Home Use

Description: Revised edition. "This bulletin aims to furnish, in concise form, information that will be of practical help to the beginner in fruit growing. It deals with the widely grown temperate-climate fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, and plum. Lists of desirable varieties of these fruits are given for the different parts of the country. Because of the number of fruits considered and the territory covered, cultural directions are necessarily brief, but they cover the most important general points.… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Gould, H. P. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How to Control Billbugs Destructive to Cereal and Forage Crops

Description: "Billbugs destroy or injure corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, timothy, blue grass, Bermuda grass, Johnson grass, rice, sugar cane, peanuts and chufa. The best-known form of injury is corn leaf perforation. The principal losses are caused by combined injury by the adult billbugs and their young or larvae. The heaviest losses are probably in hay and pasturage. Billbugs have only one generation yearly and are generally dependent on grass sods or wild sedges and rushes. Corn, sugar cane, chufa, and t… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Satterthwait, A. F.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Control of the Onion Thrips

Description: "The onion thrips, a minute, prolific insect almost invisible to the unaided eye, is the most serious menace to the onion-growing industry throughout the whole United States.... The thrips preys upon cabbage, cauliflower, and similar plants, cucumber, melons, and other vine crops, and most other garden and truck crops, though it is more injurious to some than to others. It is injurious to roses and some other ornamentals and to greenhouse plants. It also breeds upon a large variety of weeds. Cl… more
Date: 1919
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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Practical Hints on Running a Gas Engine

Description: "In this bulletin: General suggestions to inexperienced operators of gas engines on how to avoid or remedy the more common forms of engine trouble. Directions for making tests to locate trouble in the ignition system or the fuel system. A discussion of various methods of starting in cold weather. A 'trouble chart,' in which possible sources of trouble are listed, with brief outlines of measures that may be taken to remedy the trouble." -- p. 2
Date: 1919
Creator: Yerkes, Arnold P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Producing Family and Farm Supplies on the Cotton Farm

Description: "Home production of supplies offers the Southern farm family an easy way to reduce the cost of living. Because of the long growing season, and the short, mild winters of the Cotton Belt, garden vegetables may be grown there in abundance throughout the year with little labor and at trifling expense. Necessary livestock products and feeds for farm animals can be produced on the farm much more cheaply than they can be bought. This bulletin suggests ways in which southern farmers may make the most … more
Date: 1919
Creator: Goodrich, C. L. (Charles Landon)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Straining Milk

Description: "Sediment in milk indicates carelessness in its production or handling. Sediment contaminates milk and makes it less salable. Most of the sediment in milk comes from the bodies of cows and consists of hairs, manure, bedding, etc. Straining removes only the coarse particles of dirt and removes neither the bacteria nor the fine dirt. Straining improves the commercial quality of milk, but does not appreciably improve its healthfulness. The best system is to prevent, so far as possible, the entranc… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Kelly, Ernest & Gamble, J. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Sweet-Potato Weevil and Its Control

Description: "Immense losses of sweet potatoes in the Gulf States are being caused by the sweet-potato weevil. This foreign pest, introduced into the United States years ago, has become very destructive recently and now threatens to invade all States in which sweet potatoes are grown. The slender, metallic-blue weevil, about a quarter of an inch long with red legs and 'waist,' attacks leaves, stems, and roots or 'tubers,' and its whitish larvae or grubs tunnel the stalks and roots and inflict great damage, … more
Date: 1919
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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Machinery for Cutting Firewood

Description: "Power machinery for cutting firewood offers a practical solution of the fuel problem on farms where wood is available. A day's work with a buzz saw or a drag saw will yield as much firewood as could be cut in many days' hard work by hand and will effect a saving of labor, or coal, or perhaps of both, that is well worth considering at a time when both are scarce and high-priced. The shortage of coal in many localities has been due as much to shortage of cars to haul it as to scarcity of coal. T… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Tolley, H. R. (Howard Ross), 1889-1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Currants and Gooseberries

Description: "This bulletin gives information with regard to the essential features of currant and gooseberry culture, indicates the regions in which these plants may be grown, and points out certain restrictions on their culture due to insect pests and diseases.... The reader will find helpful suggestions regarding the selection of varieties of currants and gooseberries for planting, as well as recipes for making some widely popular fruit products." -- p. 2
Date: 1919
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Conserving Corn From Weevils in the Gulf Coast States

Description: This report discusses the destructive impact of weevils on the corn crop in the southern United States and controls measures which farmers may find effective in reducing their losses to this pest. Among the insects discussed are the Angoumois grain moth and the rice or "black" weevil.
Date: 1919
Creator: Back, E. A. (Ernest Adna), 1886-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Operating a Cooperative Motor Truck Route

Description: This bulletin discusses how rural communities can form and operate a cooperative association to transport produce and other goods to market by using motor trucks. It provides instructions for drafting a charter, managing membership, and highlights problems such associations often face while also explaining the many benefits of these associations.
Date: 1919
Creator: Yohe, H. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Muscadine Grape Paste

Description: "Muscadine grape paste is an economical, appetizing, and nutritious sugar-saving substitute for candy and other confections. It is excellent in combination with cheese, and especially with cottage cheese, as a substitute for the salad course or for a dessert. It may be made from the fresh fruit or preferably from the pulp of pomace left from grape juice and jelly making. It may be made with grape sirup or corn sirup instead of sugar. The pulp may be canned and the paste made at any convenient t… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Dearing, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Growing Sugar Cane for Sirup

Description: "This bulletin aims to give directions for growing and harvesting sugar cane in those regions where syrup is produced and where it is essentially a small-farm business." -- p. 2
Date: 1919
Creator: Yoder, P. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Care and Repair of Farm Implements: No. 5, Grain Separators

Description: "An enormous waste of grain and great loss of time result every year through the inefficient work of thrashing machines that are not properly repaired and put in thorough working condition before the beginning of the working season.... The separator should be overhauled at the close of the thrashing season or during the winter, needed parts ordered, and necessary repairs and adjustments made. This will tend to lengthen the life of the machine, and prevent loss of time and money from breakdowns … more
Date: 1919
Creator: Johnson, Elmer
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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"White Ants" As Pests in the United States and Methods of Preventing Their Damage

Description: "Damage by white ants is serious to many classes of crude and finished forest products. These insects are especially injurious to foundation timbers and woodwork of buildings and to material stored therein. Damage to timber in contact with the ground is especially serious in the South. The woodwork of buildings can be protected from the attack of white ants by proper construction and these insects can be eliminated where already established." -- p. 2. This bulletin discusses the life cycle of t… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Snyder, Thomas Elliott, b. 1885
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Striped Cucumber Beetle and Its Control

Description: "The striped cucumber beetle is the most important of all our cucumber insect pests and does serious damage to all forms of cucurbits. It is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains and is to be found in most fields and gardens.... To control this pest and reduce its ravages four methods are employed: Preventive measures, the use of repellent substances, spraying with arsenical insecticides, and good farm practice. These are described fully on pages 10 to 19 and summarized on page 20." --… more
Date: 1919
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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Commercial Comb-Honey Production

Description: This bulletin details the process for producing honey which is marketed in its original honeycomb and discusses the equipment needed, management of bees, and collection of the honeycombs.
Date: 1919
Creator: Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Illustrated Poultry Primer

Description: "The object of this bulletin is to give, by means of photographs and brief statements, the fundamentals underlying the production of poultry. An effort has been made to illustrate the various phases of poultry production in such a way as to impress upon the reader's mind the principles of poultry keeping. Under 'Selecting the Breed,' for example, photographs are shown of the more popular breeds of each of the three main classes of poultry, giving the reader an immediate and complete idea of the… more
Date: 1919
Creator: Lamon, Harry M. & Kinghorne, J. W. (Joseph William)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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