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Home Laundering
Report giving recommendations for easing the burden on housekeepers of washing and ironing laundry at home. Among the most important labor-saving devices for housekeepers is the establishment of a separate room in the home for laundry. The laundry room should be furnished with equipment such as tubs, wringers, washboards, boilers, and irons. Laundering methods are also discussed as well as community and commercial laundries.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Balderston, Lydia Ray
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative Marketing of Woodland Products
"Farmers' cooperative organizations for the marketing of farm produce have increased in number very rapidly in recent years. Certain kinds of produce are now very commonly marketed through associations. Woodland products may also be marketed in this manner... [and] much more might be done in this line, and this bulletin points out that what has been done in the cooperative marketing of other farm products can be done with woodland products also, with benefit both to the farmer and to the woodlands." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Hawes, Austin F. (Austin Foster), 1879-1962
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Crow in Its Relation to Agriculture: Is It a Farm Pest?
Report discussing the advantages and disadvantages of crows to farmers. Crows are omnivorous and feed upon a wide array of plants, animals, and insects. Topics discussed include its distribution, life cycle, and economic status as well as methods farmers can use to protect their crops and poultry.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Kalmbach, E. R. (Edwin Richard), 1884-1972
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Culling for Eggs and Market
Report written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs that instructs members how to gather eggs from hens. Discussion focuses on using physical characteristics to determine whether a hen will produce high-quality eggs.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selection and Preparation of Fowls for Exhibition
Report written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs that instructs members how to select competitive poultry specimens for display at exhibitions and fairs. Discussion focuses on preparing competitive birds through training and washing.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Kinghorne, J. W. (Joseph William)
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selection and Care of Poultry Breeding Stock
Report written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs that instructs members how to select birds for breeding a flock that is uniform in appearance and egg production. Uniformly bred flocks produce eggs which bring higher profits. Members are instructed to evaluate birds' ages, health, and appearances; consider objectives for the flock; and breeding and fertility practices.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy), 1883-1944
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fall-Sown Oats
Report discussing fall-sown grain crops in the southern United States, which serve several purposes during the winter: they provide cover for land, forage for livestock, and improve soils through crop rotation. Best practices for cultivation of a winter grain crop are discussed, especially with regard to sowing methods.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879- & Stanton, T. R. (Thomas Ray), b. 1885
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Control of Apple Powdery Mildew
"Apple powdery mildew is a serious disease of nursery stock throughout the United States and occasionally is serious on orchard trees in the East. In the apple-growing districts west of the Rocky Mountains, however, and especially in the pacific Coast States, it has become an important orchard disease that annually causes heavy losses.... Pruning out infected shoots during the dormant season is an important step in control, but this treatment must be supplemented by spraying during the growing season. The most effective sprays are diluted lime-sulphur solutions and those containing sulphur in a finely divided form. This bulletin tells how to prepare the spray materials needed and how to apply them. A spraying schedule, showing concisely when and with what to spray, is included." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Fisher, D. F.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Factors That Make for Success in Farming in the South
"This bulletin is designed to present, by pictures, charts, and brief text, some of the more important and fundamental factors that make for success on the Southern farm." -- p. 2 Factors discussed include record keeping, crop yields, the use of legumes as fertilizers, efficiency of labor, waste lands, and farm organization.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Goodrich, C. L. (Charles Landon)
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Brown-Spot of Corn with Suggestions for Its Control
"The purpose of this bulletin is to familiarize the farmer with the appearance, distribution, nature, and economic importance of the brown-spot of corn and to offer certain helpful suggestions for its control.... High temperature in combination with high humidity favors the development of the disease. For this reason the damage is greater in the South, where high temperatures prevail throughout the summer and the rainfall is rather heavy. The disease is caused by a minute fungus parasite.... Careful field sanitation, crop rotation, and seed selection aid in controlling the disease." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Tisdale, W. H. (Wendell Holmes), 1892-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Peanut Growing for Profit
Report discussing best practices for growing a profitable crop of peanuts. Peanuts have become a valuable cash crop in the United States, primarily in southern states, and increased demand is due in part to the market for peanut oil. Topics discussed include seeding, cultivation, harvesting, picking and cleaning, and varieties.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Control of Aphids Injurious to Orchard Fruits, Currant, Gooseberry and Grape
"The present bulletin treats of the aphids injurious to fruit and foliage of apple, quince, pear, plum, cherry, peach, currant, gooseberry, and grape. Forty-one species of aphids in all are discussed. The more important forms affecting a given fruit are considered first, and then follows a brief account of species known to infest the plant locally or occasionally, and which growers should be able to distinguish from the more destructive species. In their life history aphids are peculiar in many respects, and each species occurs in several different forms; for this reason a short account of aphids in general is given for the information of readers not familiar with these facts. Remedial measures are described at the close of the bulletin, since similar treatments are applicable, with some variations, for the control of all the species considered." - p. 3
Date:
1920
Creator:
Quaintance, A. L. (Altus Lacy), 1870-1958 & Baker, A. C. (Arthur Challen), 1885-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Diseases of Southern Pecans
"This bulletin is intended to aid nurserymen, growers, and prospective growers in obtaining a more thorough and definite knowledge of the various diseases of the pecan, the extent of their distribution, and their relative importance.... Where remedies are known they are given, and where they are not known such information as is available is presented." -- p. 2. Diseases discussed include scab, nursery blight, wood-rotting fungi, brown leaf spot, crown gall, anthracnose, powdery mildew, mistletoe, dieback, rosette, staghead, tipburn, kernel spot, and black pit.
Date:
1920
Creator:
McMurran, S. M. (Stockton Mosby), 1887-1920 & Demaree, J. B. (Juan Brewer), 1885-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Making Woodlands Profitable in the Southern States
Report discussing farm forestry in the southern United States, which "concerns the farmer chiefly as a matter of dollars and cents. Farm forestry may be said to be the handling of forest trees and woodlands in such a manner as to increase the income and the permanent value of the farm." -- p. 3. Topics discussed include marketing timber, protecting woodlands, and making empty spaces profitable.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Prickly Pear as Stock Feed
Report discussing the importance of the prickly pear cactus as an emergency food source for cattle during times of severe drought. Although the plant typically has inedible spines, spineless varieties do exist, and it is recommended that farmers cultivate prickly pear for use during droughts.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Griffiths, David, 1867-1935
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
California Oak Worm
"The live oak and the valley oak, which are characteristic of the landscape of central California, often are stripped of their leaves by a dark-striped worm which is the young stage of a light-brown moth. Besides stripping the trees of their leaves and making the owner think that they are dead, the worm crawls on lawns, walks, fences, and into houses, swimming pools, etc., becoming a general nuisance.... This bulletin describes and illustrates the worm and its work, tells about its habits and natural enemies, and explains the methods of control." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Burke, H. E. (Harry Eugene), 1878-1963 & F. B. (Frank Barnes) Herbert, 1890-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Harvesting and Storing Ice on the Farm
Report discussing methods and places for collecting and storing ice on farms. Discussion focuses on construction and preparation of ice houses.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Bowen, John T.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cranberry Diseases and Their Control
Report discussing diseases that affect cranberries and methods for their control. Diseases discussed include early rot, bitter rot (anthracnose), end rot (blossom end rot and stem end rot), hard rot and tip blight, red gall, rose bloom (Massachusetts false blossom, hypertrophy), red leaf spot, false blossom (Wisconsin false blossom, phyllody), and black rot.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Shear, C. L. (Cornelius Lott), 1865-1956
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Home Supplies Furnished by the Farm
"It is the purpose of this bulletin to point out the importance of the food, fuel, and shelter furnished the family by the farm. These contributions are not a cash receipt from the farm business, but they enable the farmer to reduce materially the cash cost of living and to continue business even when the financial summary of his operations may show only a small margin of profit at the end of the year.... In the following pages are presented graphic illustrations of a few of the more important methods followed by farmers in utilizing the food, fuel, shelter, and other things that the farm furnishes free of money cost." -- p. 3.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Funk, W. C. (Warren Clemmer), 1885-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Control of American Foulbrood
"American foulbrood is a disease of the brood of bees which is causing great losses to American beekeepers. It has existed almost since bees were first brought to North America. The facts about the disease on which the treatment is based are discussed in this bulletin and the treatment is described in full.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Funk, W. C. (Warren Clemmer), 1885-
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Carpet Grass
Report discussing carpet grass, which is an unappreciated but highly valuable grass that grows in permanent pastures on sandy soils, especially in the Coastal Plain of the southern United States. Discussion focuses on growing conditions and pasture practices.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cattle-Fever Ticks and Methods of Eradication
This bulletin discusses the cattle-fever tick and methods for controlling it. Possible methods include dipping, pasture rotation, and arsenical dips. The life history of the tick is also discussed.
Date:
1920
Creator:
Ellenberger, W. P. & Chapin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Hessian Fly and How to Prevent Losses from It
"The Hessian fly undoubtedly is the most injurious insect enemy of wheat in the United States. During the last 37 years at least seven general outbreaks of this pest have occurred in the States east of the Mississippi River. These invasions have averaged about one every five years, although they have occurred at rather irregular intervals. The last one was very destructive and was at its height during the period from 1914 to 1916.... A large proportion of such losses is preventable, although no remedy is known which will destroy the pest or save the crop once it has become thoroughly infested. Control and preventive measures are described on page 13 and summarized on page 16." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Walton, William Randolph, 1873-1952
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How Insects Affect the Rice Crop
This pamphlet discusses insects that damage rice crops: "The slender, milk-white grub or 'maggot' of the rice water-weevil lives on the roots of rice, and whether it feeds little or much upon them, kills practically all the roots that it attacks. This pruning of the roots weakens the rice plant and often kills it. Another enemy of this staple crop of the South is the stink bug, which sucks the juices from the soft grains of rice. The fall army worm, when it becomes abundant, works great havoc in its attack upon young rice. Other insects also, such as the rice stalk-borer, infest the rice field, and the rice planter must constantly guard his crop against them. This bulletin tells when to plant, and when to flood and drain the fields in order to reduce the numbers of these pests, and recommends other measures that will prevent attack by the many minor species of insects which normally breed in and near rice fields." -- p. 2
Date:
1920
Creator:
Webb, J. L. (Jesse Lee), 1878-1942
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library