Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "This bulletin applies both to the western portions of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation and to western Oregon and Washington where irrigation is not essential for strawberry production but may be profitable. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts of the West; it aims to aid those persons familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those of irrigating other crops. Details must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Because strawberries in the humid areas frequently suffer from drought, which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove helpful to many growers in those areas who could install irrigation systems at small expense. This bulletin gives information on soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, shipping, and utilization." -- p. ii
Date: 1941
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Waldo, George F. (George Fordyce), b. 1898
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "Strawberries can be grown in those parts of the western Untied States in which ordinary farm crops are irrigated as well as in western Oregon and Washington, where irrigation is not essential but may be profitable. The principles of irrigating strawberries are essentially the same as those for other crops. Because strawberries are sensitive to the alkali salts that irrigation brings to the surface, such salts must be washed out or skimmed off. The strawberry grower, after choosing a suitable site and preparing the soil carefully, should select varieties adapted to his district and needs. He should use plants that are disease-free. In California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas the plants should have undergone a rest period. Usually the growers plant during the period of greatest rainfall. By using the recommended systems of training and care before, during, and after setting of the plants and the suggested methods of decreasing diseases and insect pests, he should obtain better yields. A grower can furnish consumers a better product by using good methods of harvesting and shipment. He can prolong the fresh-fruit season only a little by the use of cold storage, but he can extend his market by …
Date: 1948
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Waldo, George F. (George Fordyce), b. 1898
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 28, 1948] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 28, 1948]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Lee Webb thanking Webb for sending pears, as a gift, to the Kempners.
Date: December 28, 1948
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

OK, USA: A Musical Guide Book to the States: Soldier Shows "Blueprint Special"

The last of the U.S. Army Soldier Shows "Blueprint Specials" to be published, "OK, USA" is a musical revue on the theme of U.S. soldiers returning to the United States and finding it finding it as foreign and exotic as any country overseas because they have been away and living under extreme circumstances for so long. Like the other "Blueprint Specials," this show includes a complete script (multiple copies this time); a conductor's score and complete set of instrumental parts; a sample program; set and costume designs; and detailed instructions for producing the show using whatever materials are at hand. Unlike the other "Blueprint Specials," it includes no information on the librettists, songwriters, and other staff who worked on the show.
Date: 1945
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Postcard from Cooley's Gardens to D. W. Kempner, August 19, 1949]

Postcard from Cooley's Gardens to D. W. Kempner informing him that they have shipped his order of irises via parcel post.
Date: August 19, 1949
Creator: Cooley's Gardens
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Cooley's Gardens to D. W. Kempner, July 5, 1949]

Postcard from Cooley's Gardens to D. W. Kempner informing him that his order has been received and booked for shipment in August.
Date: July 5, 1949
Creator: Cooley's Gardens
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 17, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Lee Webb, December 17, 1945]

Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to Lee Webb thanking him for the pears he sent him.
Date: December 17, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Colonel Frank S. Besson, January 27, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Colonel Frank S. Besson, January 27, 1944]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to Colonel F. S. Besson discussing Besson's family and the previous letter Besson had sent.
Date: January 27, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Butterfly Hybrids, Sea Blue, Etc., June 1949] (open access)

[Invoice for Butterfly Hybrids, Sea Blue, Etc., June 1949]

Invoice for items sold to Daniel W. Kempner by Steele's Pansy Gardens, including butterfly hybrids, jumbo madame steele and bronze, sea blue and jumbo pay dirt for $10.5.
Date: June 18, 1949
Creator: Steele's Pansy Gardens
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History