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Raspberry Culture
"The raspberry is grown not only in small plantations for the home and local market, but in some sections as the principal commercial crop. In these localities the raising of raspberries has become highly specialized, and methods of growing which are peculiar to this indstury are employed. This bulletin furnishes information as to the best methods of raising raspberries, and particularly considers practices which differ from those used with other bush fruits. Varieties are listed, characterizations of the leading sorts and their adaptations are made, and the autumn-fruiting sorts are discussed. The varieties liked best for canning and preserving are listed and directions for their utilization given." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Advice to Forest Planters in the Plains Regions
"Advice about tree planting to provide a windbreak and a supply of firewood, fence posts, and wood for repairs should be especially valuable to the settler in the Plains region. This bulletin gives advice that will enable him to select the species of trees that will bring the most profitable returns without overburdening him with care. Following the description of each species of tree adapted to the region, the points to be avoided in connection with its planting are summarized in a few concise 'dont's.' Information and advice also are given regarding time for planting, methods of cultivation, pruning, etc." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Smith, Seward Dwight, 1880-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How Insects Affect the Cotton Plant and Means of Combating Them
"The cotton plant is unusually attractive to insects and probably no other cultivated crop has as large a list of insect enemies. Among these are some of the most destructive pests in the history of agriculture. Many cotton pests come to the cotton from other crops or from weeds around the fields. Weeds should not be allowed to grow. Rotation of crops is of assistance in controlling cotton pests. Poisons seldom are needed, except in poisoned baits in the spring and against red spiders, grasshoppers, and 'worms' when they threaten the crop. Thorough fall plowing, winter cover crops, early spring preparation, and repeated cultivation during the season are important measures of insect control. The cotton plants should be turned under in the fall. This bulletin describes the work of many insects and gives suggestions for their control." -- p. 2. Among the insects discussed are ants, cutworms, may beetles, aphids, grassworms, grasshoppers, bollworms, wireworms, and crickets.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Pierce, W. Dwight (William Dwight), 1881-1967
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Spring Oat Production
"Oats rank next to corn and wheat in crop acreage and value in the United States. But, notwithstanding this, less attention has been given to the production of oats than to any other important grain, so that yields often have been unsatisfactory and the crop sometimes unprofitable. The essentials for success in oat production are -- (1) well-prepared land that is retentive of moisture and fairly fertile, (2) good seed of suitable varieties, thoroughly cleaned and graded and treated for smut, (3) early seeding with a grain drill, (4) the harvesting of the crop at the proper time, (5) careful shocking and stacking so as to preserve the crop from injury by weathering, and(6) clean thrashing. Directions for making the growing of oats more generally profitable are given in the following pages." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rye Growing in the Southeastern States
"Rye should be grown much more widely than at present in many parts of the Southeastern Stats. In any consideration of the expansion of the acreage of bread grain and in any encouragement given for the production of home-grown bread in this section it is necessary to consider wheat and rye together. This is because rye can be sown safely on many fields with less risk than wheat. Further, rye can be used as a substitute for wheat as a bread grain by those who are accustomed to it. Rye succeeds on poorer and sandier soils and with less fertilizer than wheat. For these reasons it should be sown in preference to wheat where it has been proved a safer crop. Rye is also the best grain in most of this section for use as a cover, green manure, and grazing dcrop. Home-grown seed is best. Northern-grown rye is not suitable for sowing in the South." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Growing Winter Wheat on the Great Plains
"This bulletin is intended to answer the requests for information on the production of winter wheat on the Great Plains under dry-farming conditions that arise from the stimulus of a present and prospective price much higher than that under which the agriculture of the section has been developed and from the campaign for a large increase in the crop to meet the necessities of war conditions." -- p. 3. Topics discussed include wheat varieties and seeding.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Chilcott, E. C. (Ellery Channing), 1859-1930 & Cole, John S. (John Selden)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fleas and Their Control
"Of the approximately 500 species of fleas known to exist, less than one dozen are of special interest as pests to many and domestic animals, but any individual of one of these few species, when bent upon satisfying its appetite, fully occupies the attention of its chosen host. The human flea, dog flea, cat flea, sticktight flea or chicken flea, and the rat fleas (which carry the bubonic plague), are the principal species that annoy man and domestic animals in the United States. The main steps in control, as described in this bulletin, are the elimination of breeding places and the destruction of fleas on the infested animals. If breeding places receive proper attention the premises often will be cleared of fleas, even though little or no attention is given to the animals themselves." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Standard Varieties of Chickens: II. The Mediterranean and Continental Classes
This bulletin describes the Mediterranean and Continental classes of chicken, especially with regard to their egg production. Leghorn, Minorca, White-faced Black Spanish, Blue Andalusian, Ancona, and Campine are the varieties of chicken discussed.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Everbearing Strawberries
"Strawberries may now be had throughout the summer and autumn month in the northern United States. Plants of the everbearing sorts may be set in the spring and a crop secured in the summer and autumn of the same year. The habits of these varieties have led to the development of cultural practices differing in special details from those followed in the production of standard sorts. Such practices are described in this bulletin, giving directions for raising the everbearing sorts." -- p. 2. Topics discussed include fertilizers, blossoms, tillage, mulching, harvesting, crop yields, and varieties.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Evaporation and Drying of Fruits
This bulletin gives methods and instructions for drying and evaporating fruits. Among the methods discussed are drying by kiln, artificial heat, and the sun. Details for market preparation are also provided. Apples, peaches, pears, cherries, prunes, apricots, and berries are fruits which may be dried.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Beattie, James H. (James Herbert), b. 1882 & Gould, H. P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Breeds of Swine
This report gives an overview of different breeds of swine, focusing on the distinction between lard hogs and bacon hogs.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Ashbrook, F. G. (Frank Getz), 1892-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homemade Fireless Cookers and Their Use
This report describes how to make a homemade fireless cooker and how to use it. Includes recipes for use with the cooker.
Date:
1917
Creator:
United States. Office of Home Economics.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Feeding and Management of Dairy Calves and Young Dairy Stock
This report discusses feeds and feeding techniques for dairy calves as well as diseases that affect calves in preparation for their separation from their mothers.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Brainerd, W. K. & Davis, H. P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Powder-Post Damage by Lyctus Beetles to Seasoned Hardwood
"The sapwood of seasoned hardwood material of all kinds, both finished and unfinished, especially of hickory, ash, and oak, is often ruined by yellowish-white grubs from one-eighth to one-fifth inch in length which burrow through the solid wood in all directions and convert it into powder. These grubs are the young, or larvae, of small, slender, somewhat flattened, reddish-brown to nearly black beetles, known as powder-post beetles.... The object of this bulletin is to describe the methods which have been found effective in preventing these losses and to induce a more general adoption of them throughout the United States as well as to show the character and extent of the damage." -- title page
Date:
1917
Creator:
Hopkins, A. D. & Snyder, Thomas Elliott, b. 1885
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How to Select a Sound Horse
"An understanding of the desirable and undesirable conditions found in horses, together with a knowledge of their relative values, will enable the purchaser to select a better animal with a considerable saving of time, inconvenience, and expense. A thorough examination for the various forms of blemish, vice, faulty conformation, and unsoundness in a horse is absolutely essential if serviceableness is to be secured, and a definite method of procedure should be adhered to in making the examination, which should correspond to the order in which the various steps most conveniently present themselves." -- title page
Date:
1917
Creator:
Reese, H. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tuberculosis of Hogs
"Hog raisers should be well-posted as to the nature and prevalence of hog tuberculosis and how to prevent and get rid of it, so that financial losses may be avoided. This bulletin contains such information." -- title page
Date:
1917
Creator:
Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875 & Washburn, Henry J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Use of a Diary for Farm Accounts
"It is the purpose of this bulletin to explain the different types of diaries available and the methods of utilizing them for farm records, attention being given to a discussion of such accounts as can readily be kept in a farm diary and which will be found of value to the average farmer." -- p. 4
Date:
1917
Creator:
Thomson, E. H. (Edward H.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anthrax or Charbon
"Anthrax or charbon, is an acute infectious disease affecting animals and occasionally man. Cattle and sheep are most susceptible, and none of the domestic animals are exempt.... The most effective method of dealing with anthrax is by prevention. The preventive measures recommended are (1) protecting individual animals by vaccination and (2) burning or deeply burying the carcasses of animals that have died of the disease, so as to avoid infecting the ground. Full information and directions are given in this bulletin." -- title page
Date:
1917
Creator:
Washburn, Henry J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fall-Sown Grains in Maryland and Virginia
"For the best results, fall-sown grains in Maryland, Delaware, and the Virginias require -- A well-drained, fertile soil, well-supplied with humus and lime. An abundance of available plant food, supplied by the use of stable manure, green crops turned under, and commercial fertilizers. A rotation which includes at least one cultivated crop and one or more legumes. A seed bed with the surface 2 or 3 inches loose and finely pulverized, while the soil just beneath is firm and moist. Good, pure, cleaned, and graded seed which has been treated for smut, sown with a drill at the proper time and rate. Varieties which are adapted to the locality and which produce high yields of grain of good quality. The best varieties are listed on page 23." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Stanton, T. R. (Thomas Ray), b. 1885
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mushroom Pests and How to Control Them
"The insect and other pests which usually attack cultivated mushrooms, and those of which complaints are most frequently made, may be divided roughly into four classes, namely, mushroom maggots, mites, sprintails, and sowbugs. Of these the maggots are the most generally injurious, the mites following in order of importance, owing to the difficulty with which their eradication is accomplished, and then come springtails and sowbugs in the order named." -- title page. This bulletin describes methods of controlling these pests.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Popenoe, C. H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Contagious Abortion of Cattle
"Contagious abortion in cattle is a germ disease which causes the death of unborn calves and occasions annual losses of millions of dollars.... A bull may spread the germ from a diseased cow to healthy animals. One aborting cow in a herd may infect the whole herd. Every cow that shows the disease should be isolated. The fetus and all discharges should be burned or buried and the stall disinfected thoroughly. The cow should be treated systematically with mild antiseptic douches, and she should not be bred again within two months and not then if the discharge has not ceased. The premises should be cleaned, disinfected thoroughly, and thereafter maintained in a sanitary condition.... Details of the disease and its treatment are given in the following pages." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Eichhorn, A. (Adolph) & Potter, George M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Turkey Raising
This report discusses the turkey industry in the United States and best practices for raising turkeys. Topics discussed include turkey breeds, brooding, marketing, and diseases.
Date:
1917
Creator:
Weiant, Andrew S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How the Federal Farm Loan Act Benefits the Farmer
This report discusses the disadvantages of the present farm mortgage loan system in the United States and the advantages of the new federal land bank system recently created by the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916. According to this legislation, "the federal land banks, it is expected, will stand ready at all times to lend money to farmers on farm-mortgage security.... Loans will be made for periods ranging from 5 to 40 years.... Local loan associations will improve the credit of their members and reduce the cost of loans through the performance of definite services. The bonds issued will be secured not only by farm mortgages deposited with the land bank registrar but also by the capital and surplus of the 12 federal land banks. Both mortgages and bonds will be exempt from all forms of taxation." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Thompson, C. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Citrus-Fruit Improvement: How to Secure and Use Tree-Performance Records
"Many California citrus growers have reported in recent years that they were securing lower yields of fruit per acre than in the earlier history of their industry. Complaint also has been made that an increasing proportion of the fruit of the leading commercial varieties of oranges and lemons was abnormal or 'off type' in size, form, color, smoothness of skin, or other important characteristics.... The results obtained in bud-selection experiments carried on during the past five years indicate that by top-working with buds from those having consistently good records for productiveness and quality the inferior or 'drone' trees of such varieties as Washington Navel and Valencia oranges can be made productive and profitable. This bulletin describes the methods that have been found effective and practicable in locating the desirable and undesirable trees in groves and for transforming the latter when found." -- p. 2
Date:
1917
Creator:
Shamel, A. D. (Archibald Dixon)
System:
The UNT Digital Library