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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
System: The UNT Digital Library
W.A.S.P. Golden Anniversary Reunion 1942-1992 (open access)

W.A.S.P. Golden Anniversary Reunion 1942-1992

Pamphlet welcoming WASP to the 1992 San Antonio Reunion with letters and a schedule of events.
Date: 1992
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
What Climate Change Means for Arizona (open access)

What Climate Change Means for Arizona

Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in Arizona.
Date: August 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library