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Fertilizers for Cotton.

Description: Presents the results of experiments conducted on the farms of the South Carolina Experiment Station and provides recommendations for preventing excessive or wasteful use of commercial fertilizers in cotton farming.
Date: 1895
Creator: McBryde, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cranberry culture.

Description: A guide to cranberry culture, including soil selection and preparation, planting, draining, flooding, fertilizing, and pest and disease control.
Date: 1894
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hog raising in the South.

Description: A guide to the care, feeding, and breeding of hogs.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The rape plant: its history, culture, and uses.

Description: Describes the history, culture, and uses of the rape plant. Discusses the need for increased production of the plant in the United States.
Date: 1893
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Milk as food.

Description: Describes the composition of milk. Investigates the nutritive values and digestibility of milk and milk products in 19th century terms.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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How to Grow Mushrooms.

Description: A guide to growing mushrooms, with instructions for sorting and packing for shipment.
Date: 1897
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Manuring of Cotton.

Description: Describes experiments in manuring cotton, the yield and profit of cotton crops when properly fertilized, and best practices in fertilizer application.
Date: 1897
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Butter Making on the Farm.

Description: Describes the steps used to make butter on the farm, including creaming, churning, coloring, salting, and working the butter.
Date: 1897
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potato diseases and their treatment.

Description: Describes the diseases which affect potato crops, and methods for control.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Good roads for farmers.

Description: Provides an overview of the best practices, costs, and recommended equipment for rural road building and maintenance. Describes the construction of earth roads, sand roads, sawdust or bark roads, corduroy roads, hard roads, gravel roads, shell roads, and stone roads.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Cotton seed and its products.

Description: Discusses cottonseed and its uses. Describes methods of manufacturing cottonseed products.
Date: June 1896
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potato culture.

Description: Describes best practices for growing and cultivating potatoes.
Date: 1896
Creator: Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tomato growing.

Description: Discusses tomato growing in detail, including cultivation, pest control, and greenhouse growing. Includes a guide to growing tomatoes for canneries.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Grain Smuts: How They Are Caused and How to Prevent Them.

Description: Discusses the types of smut that affect cereal crops. Provides instructions for treating seed to increase crop production.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methods of curing tobacco.

Description: Describes the process of curing and aging for various types of tobacco, including export tobaccos.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fungous Diseases of the Grape and Their Treatment.

Description: Discusses four of the most destructive fungous disease affecting grapes, and methods for control.
Date: 1891
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grape Diseases on the Pacific Coast.

Description: Describes three major diseases affecting grapes in California and other Pacific Coast states, and ways to prevent them.
Date: 1895
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Culture of the Sugar Beet.

Description: Answers to the most frequently asked questions about growing sugar beets, based on inquiries received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the late 19th century. Discusses climate, beet varieties, soil preparation, harvesting, and siloing. Includes detailed descriptions of tools used and the costs involved in beet farming and sugar production.
Date: 1891
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forestry for farmers.

Description: A guide to planting and maintaining small timber tracts or wood lots on farmlands.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 4

Description: This is a copy of the fourth volume of "Dictionary of Music and Musicians," edited by Sir George Grove. This volume, published in 1890, is an encyclopedic work that contains the biographies of well-known composers as well as articles contributed by various authors on music topics, concepts and definitions starting alphabetically from: "S" (continuation of the article about the Medieval rota, "Sume is icumen in" that appears on vol. 3) to "Z" (starting with the singer, Zur Mühlen, Raimund von).
Date: 1890
Creator: Grove, George, 1820-1900
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[The Guest Book]

Description: The guest-book: in which may be recorded the coming and the going of guests, with pages for autographs, incidents, and sketches pertaining to pleasant visits, social calls, and other gatherings designed and illustrated by Annie F. Cox. This book was part of the private library of Mrs. Delas A. Blodgett, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bound in olive green cloth over boards; gilt lettering and brown-stamped decorations. The signatures on the first page include that of Delas A. Blodgett, Daisy P. Blod… more
Date: 1891
Creator: Cox, Annie F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[World's Columbian Exposition Calendar]

Description: Calendar covering from April 1893 to March 1894, illustrated with views of buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with information on the New York Life Insurance Company. Bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers.
Date: 1892
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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