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Habit-Forming Agents: Their Indiscriminate Sale and Use a Menace to the Public Welfare (open access)

Habit-Forming Agents: Their Indiscriminate Sale and Use a Menace to the Public Welfare

Report discussing the growth of drug addiction in the United States due chiefly to the consumption of drugs originally intended for medicinal purposes. Soothing syrups, soft drinks, medications for the nose and lungs, and remedies for headaches and epilepsy are the primary sources of habit-forming substances. In addition, medicines purporting to cure tobacco and drug addiction have, in many cases, also been found to contain addictive agents.
Date: 1910
Creator: Kebler, Lyman F. (Lyman Frederic), b. 1863
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Destroy English Sparrows (open access)

How to Destroy English Sparrows

"Introduced into the United States many years ago from Europe, this sparrow has multiplied and extended its range until now it is numerous and firmly established over most of the country. The bad qualities of the bird far outweigh its good ones, and, although its extermination is impracticable, a reduction of its numbers is feasible and important. The present bulletin aims to describe the best methods of destruction." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Dearborn, Ned, 1865-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irrigation of Grain (open access)

Irrigation of Grain

Report discussing irrigation of fields for growing grain, including methods for applying water to field, quantity of water, and scenarios for irrigation failure.
Date: 1910
Creator: McLaughlin, Walter W. (Walter Wesley)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irrigation of Orchards (open access)

Irrigation of Orchards

Report discussing methods for irrigating orchards, including ditches, flumes, pipes and standpipes, and furrows.
Date: 1910
Creator: Fortier, Samuel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irrigation of Sugar Beets (open access)

Irrigation of Sugar Beets

"A practical manual, giving methods pursued throughout the irrigated beet-growing sections and thereby furnishing information to new settlers in irrigated districts, as well as suggestions to beet growers as to the practices in States other than their own, should be of value in introducing the growing of beets and improving the methods of handling this important crop. As the matter now stands, each community where this industry has found favor is proceeding along lines suggested by local conditions which are more or less peculiar, and this bulletin is designed to be a compilation of the practices throughout the West, to which are added the results of experiments conducted by this Office in irrigation of sugar beets during the past four years." -- p. 9
Date: 1910
Creator: Roeding, F. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A More Profitable Corn-Planting Method (open access)

A More Profitable Corn-Planting Method

"Much study has been given to corn-planting methods and much progress made. This progress has usually been along the line of more rapid and easier planting and cultivating. While retaining these advantages, the method here described causes higher yields by supplying each plant with better conditions for growth and production." -- p. 5
Date: 1910
Creator: Hartley, C. P. (Charles Pinckney), 1870-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Muskrat (open access)

The Muskrat

Report discussing the economic importance of the muskrat, which is highly valued for both its fur and meat. Topics include muskrat behavior and habitats, agricultural problems caused by muskrats, muskrat farming, and protective laws.
Date: 1910
Creator: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oats: Distribution and Uses (open access)

Oats: Distribution and Uses

Report discussing best practices for the production and distribution of oats and its by-products, including market prices in the United States and abroad, product quality and grades, and its nutritional value for farm animals.
Date: 1910
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oats: Growing the Crop (open access)

Oats: Growing the Crop

"With the single exception of wheat, oats is the most important small-grain crop in this country. In general, however, our climatic conditions are not favorable to the production of this crop, while the methods of growing it do not produce the best results in yield or quality. This bulletin gives the best available information on the proper methods of growing and harvesting oats." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pheasant Raising in the United States (open access)

Pheasant Raising in the United States

"The propagation of pheasants is a comparatively new industry in the United States, but it has grown rapidly in the past few years, and by proper management may be made profitable. A steadily growing demand for pheasants insures a ready market for all that can be raised. The present bulletin, prepared in response to numerous inquiries for information on the subject, is designed to present a clear and concise account of the methods used by successful pheasant raisers. To add to its practical value, a chapter on the diseases to which pheasants are subject has been contributed. " -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Oldys, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potato as a Truck Crop (open access)

The Potato as a Truck Crop

"The discussion of [potato culture] most naturally falls into the methods adapted to growing potatoes as a truck crop and the methods best suited to growing them as a farm crop. This publication is confined to a consideration of the potato from the standpoint of the truck grower." -- p. 6
Date: 1910
Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potato Culls as a Source of Industrial Alcohol; With a General Discussion of the Availability of Other Wastes (open access)

Potato Culls as a Source of Industrial Alcohol; With a General Discussion of the Availability of Other Wastes

"This bulletin has been prepared with two purposes in view: First, to outline the conditions which must be considered before attempting to make denatured alcohol, and second, to give in detail the practical methods for the manufacture of alcohol from potatoes. A discussion of general conditions is given in order to answer the many inquiries received...as to the availability of various materials and it is hoped that persons interested, by a careful reading of this section, will be able to decide for themselves as to the value of any proposed material and the possibility of successfully making alcohol from it under their respective local conditions." -- p. 5
Date: 1910
Creator: Wente, A. O. & Tolman, L. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potato Culture on Irrigated Farms of the West (open access)

Potato Culture on Irrigated Farms of the West

"In the mountain valleys of Colorado are found conditions of altitude, soil, and moisture naturally favorable to the growth of the potato, with an almost entire absence of harmful freezes and bacterial enemies." -- p. 5. This bulletin explains how potatoes can be cultivated to thrive in the western United States.
Date: 1910
Creator: Grubb, E. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Preservative Treatment of Farm Timbers (open access)

The Preservative Treatment of Farm Timbers

Report discussing methods for preserving timber. Methods discussed include peeling and seasoning, charring, painting, dipping, cold-bath treatments, and impregnation with creosote.
Date: 1910
Creator: Willis, C. Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania (open access)

The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania

Report describing the production of tobacco in Pennsylvania, specifically cigar-leaf tobacco. Topics discussed include soil requirements, different planting methods, harvesting practices, curing and handling processes, and diseases and insect enemies of the tobacco plant.
Date: 1910
Creator: Frear, William, 1860-1922 & Hibshman, E. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Protection of Orchards in the Pacific Northwest from Spring Frosts by Means of Fires and Smudges (open access)

The Protection of Orchards in the Pacific Northwest from Spring Frosts by Means of Fires and Smudges

"The object of this bulletin is to give, in considerable detail, the results of successful experiments and the methods employed in preventing frost injury by means of fires and smudges in the apple, peach, and pear orchards of the Rogue River Valley in southern Oregon during the spring of 1909.... The important facts to be known by the grower are how to prepare for frost prevention, what materials to employ for fuel and the manner of distributing them in the orchards, what to use in starting the fires and the method of preparing them, etc." -- p. 5
Date: 1910
Creator: O'Gara, P. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rice Culture (open access)

Rice Culture

Report discussing general properties of rice and practices in its cultivation. Topics include varieties of rice, production and importation of rice, rice lands, irrigation, sowing seed, flooding, fertilizing, harvesting, milling, and rice by-products. Special attention is given to the rice growing regions of Louisiana and Texas.
Date: 1910
Creator: Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Exercises in Plant Production (open access)

School Exercises in Plant Production

This bulletin "is intended as a laboratory guide or manual for the use of teachers and not as a textbook to be studied by the pupils.... It has been decided to limit this bulletin to exercises illustrating some of the more important principles of plant production, leaving to subsequent bulletins the application of these principles to particular crops." -- p. 7-8. Contains 46 exercises.
Date: 1910
Creator: Crosby, Dick J. (Dick Jay), 1866-1926
System: The UNT Digital Library
School Lessons on Corn (open access)

School Lessons on Corn

Report discussing a possible curriculum for instructing students about growing corn. Topic for exercises include 1) selecting seed, 2) judging corn, 3) testing seed in school, 4) selecting corn for exhibition, 5) cultivation practices, and 6) simple corn breeding.
Date: 1910
Creator: Crosby, Dick J. (Dick Jay), 1866-1926 & Howe, Frank William, 1865-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seed Corn (open access)

Seed Corn

Report explaining how farmers can evaluate the quality of seed corn and prepare it for planting and storage.
Date: 1910
Creator: Hartley, C. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats (open access)

Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats

Report discussing the results of experiments undertaken to determine the viability of early oats in different regions of the United States since early oats typically thrive only in the Corn Belt and Great Plains regions.
Date: 1910
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Conservation (open access)

Soil Conservation

This bulletin "makes clear the situation that confronts us in view of the fact that practically all the more desirable farm land in the country has been brought under cultivation; and that to meet the increasing demands for food stuffs, improved methods of farming must be used. such methods must be employed as are best adapted to the conservation and maintenance of soil fertility. To these ends there are discussed some of the more important factors determining the improved methods of farm management that must soon be generally adopted." -- p. 2
Date: 1910
Creator: Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the Semiarid West (open access)

The Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the Semiarid West

"Within the semiarid region there are millions of acres of rich, fertile land, now barren, some of which will be reclaimed through irrigation, but most of which can not be irrigated on account of the limited water supply, and must be farmed, if at all, without irrigation.... This land is now attracting eastern farmers who are prone to risk failure in view of the possibilities in years of favorable precipitation. There have been many deplorable failures during the recent years which could have been averted had the unfortunate settlers fortified themselves against periods of drought by irrigating small parts of their land holdings. It is realized that to accomplish this requires an outlay of capital and if this outlay is great it precludes the possibility of such procedure. With a view to helping these settlers, this Office has investigated the use of windmills as a means of pumping water for the irrigation of small areas in connection with the farming of more extensive areas without irrigation. It is the purpose of this bulletin to set forth in a simple, comprehensive way the possibilities of irrigation, using windmills only as means of power." -- p. 5
Date: 1910
Creator: Fuller, P. E. (Paul Edwin)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Victor (open access)

The Victor

A catalog from the Victor Safe & Lock Company, featuring several fireproof safes and desks, directions for their use, and freight rates for each state. Envelope is included.
Date: 1910~
Creator: Victor Safe and Lock Company
System: The Portal to Texas History