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Bean and Pea Weevils (open access)

Bean and Pea Weevils

"This bulletin tells about the principal kinds of bean and pea weevils and explains fully the methods of averting losses from these pests."
Date: 1918
Creator: Back, E. A. & Duckett, A. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breeds of Light Horses (open access)

Breeds of Light Horses

"This bulletin gives concise information regarding the breeds of light horses and will be of particular usefulness to the farmer in those sections where light horses are preeminently fitted for his work, such as mountainous and hilly sections and where there are markets for horses for saddle and driving purposes. The breeds discussed are the Arabian, Thoroughbred, Standardbred, American Saddle, Morgan, Hackney, French Coach, German Coach, and Cleveland Bay. Of these, the Standardbred, American Saddle, and Morgan breeds were developed in this country. The origin, development, general appearance, and adaptability of the light breeds are discussed. There is no best breed of light horses. Some breeds are superior to others in certain respects and one breed may be better adapted than another to certain local conditions. The general requirements for a particular section and the popularity of a certain breed in a certain locality should receive the utmost consideration in choosing a breed." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Reese, H. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Canada Thistle and Methods of Eradication (open access)

Canada Thistle and Methods of Eradication

Report discussing the weed Canada thistle: ways to identify it, its seed distribution, its root system, and methods of eradication and control.
Date: 1918
Creator: Hansen, Albert A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cattle Scab and Methods of Control and Eradication (open access)

Cattle Scab and Methods of Control and Eradication

"Cattle scab can be eradicated by dipping or spraying, but dipping is the better method of treatment. Lime-sulphur dips, nicotine dips, and crude-petroleum dips are efficacious. Methods of preparing and using these dips are described and the intervals between dippings and the conditions under which the various dips may safely be used for the different kinds of scab are discussed. Also, plans of cattle-dipping plants and directions for building vats and dipping cattle are given." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Imes, Marion
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cereal Smuts and the Disinfection of Seed Grain (open access)

Cereal Smuts and the Disinfection of Seed Grain

"This bulletin is published for the purpose of providing a condensed but complete source of up-to-date information for practical use in controlling cereal smuts by means of the most generally approved methods for the disinfection of seed grain.... Corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, sorghum (including kafir and broom corn), and millet smuts are described and illustrated with photographs." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Humphrey, H. B. (Harry Baker), 1873-1955 & Potter, Alden A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The college and its mission" : founder's day address (open access)

"The college and its mission" : founder's day address

Transcript of a speech given by the president of West Texas State Normal College on the anniversary of the founding of the college.
Date: 1918
Creator: Cousins, Robert Bartow, 1861-1932
System: The Portal to Texas History
Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture (open access)

Common Birds of Southeastern United States in Relation to Agriculture

Revised edition. This report discusses birds commonly found in the southeastern United States with special regard to their diets and the impact these birds have on agriculture and insects in this region.
Date: 1918
Creator: Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles), 1840-1916; McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962 & Kalmbach, E. R. (Edwin Richard), 1884-1972
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control of the Green Clover Worm in Alfalfa Fields (open access)

Control of the Green Clover Worm in Alfalfa Fields

"Severe infestation of alfalfa by the green clover worm has been reported recently from the central part of the United States. Caterpillars, hatching out from eggs laid by small brown and black moths, in some cases have stripped the foliage from alfalfa plants to such an extent that infested fields have been made to appear ragged. The green clover worm is generally distributed over the eastern half of the country. Timely cutting of the crop so as to remove their food supply when the caterpillars are most abundant, with clean culture, is the best control measure. It may be supplemented by the use of the hopper-dozer when outbreaks are particularly bad." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Hill, Charles C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control of the Melon Aphis (Attacks Cucumbers, Melons, Other Cucurbits, Cotton, Oranges, Etc.) (open access)

Control of the Melon Aphis (Attacks Cucumbers, Melons, Other Cucurbits, Cotton, Oranges, Etc.)

"Next to the striped cucumber beetle the melon aphis, or 'melon louse,' is our most important cucumber insect pest and probably the most serious enemy of melons and related crops in this country. It works quickly, sucking the juices of the plants and causing them to wither and die, often before insect injury is suspected. Large fields often are destroyed in a few days.... This bulletin describes several methods of control, the most important of which is spraying with nicotine sulphate, as described on pages 11 and 12. Keep a constant lookout for first signs of injury and employ control measures promptly on the appearance of the insect; otherwise the entire crop may be lost. Be careful to select the best spraying devices appropriate for work against this pest, as described on pages 13 and 14." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Chittenden, F. H. (Frank Hurlbut), 1858-1929
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling the Garden Webworm in Alfalfa Fields (open access)

Controlling the Garden Webworm in Alfalfa Fields

Report discussing the webworm's effects on alfalfa, its natural enemies, and methods of controlling it.
Date: 1918
Creator: Kelly, E. O. G. (Edward Owen Guerrant), 1880- & Wilson, T. S. (T. Scott)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooling Milk and Cream on the Farm (open access)

Cooling Milk and Cream on the Farm

This bulletin discusses ways for maintaining the cool temperature of milk and cream on the farm in order to prevent bacterial growth. Among the methods discussed are natural ice, surface coolers, cooling tanks, wells and spring water.
Date: 1918
Creator: Gamble, J. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative Bull Associations (open access)

Cooperative Bull Associations

"Cooperative bull associations are formed by farmers for the joint ownership, use, and exchange of pure-bred bulls. The purchase price and cost of maintenance are distributed according to the number of cows owned by each, thereby giving the farmer an opportunity to build up his herd at minimum expense. The organization also helps its members to market dairy stock and dairy products, to fight contagious diseases of cattle intelligently, and in other ways assists in improving the dairy industry. The bull association does not give something for nothing, but with an outlay of $50 can furnish a share in five pure-bred bulls. These bulls cannot increase the production of the cows in a herd, but they may double the production of their daughters. The daughters of association bulls and grade cows can never be registered, but in all other respects they may be the equal of purebreds." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Winkjer, Joel G., 1870-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crop Systems for Arkansas (open access)

Crop Systems for Arkansas

"Crop systems for Arkansas that make for increased food production and increased efficiency in man labor and horse labor are described in the following pages. By the introduction of cowpeas, soybeans, and other legumes, and by second cropping, provision is made for a considerable increase in the number of crop acres that can be farmed by the average family.... In each of the cropping systems suggested the crop acreages are calculated for two men and a team, and for light, medium, and heavy soils. These systems in general apply to all of Arkansas, except the northwestern part, and some of them may be used to advantage in northern Louisiana, northeastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, western Tennessee, and the northern half of Mississippi." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: McNair, A. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Culture of the Logan Blackberry and Related Varieties (open access)

Culture of the Logan Blackberry and Related Varieties

"The Logan blackberry, formerly thought to be a hybrid between a blackberry and a red raspberry, is now considered a variety of the Pacific coast species of trailing blackberry.... In this bulletin, directions are given for planting, training, and pruning the plants and for harvesting and utilizing the fruit. The information should be especially valuable for those who plan to grow this variety either commercially or in their home gardens, as well as for those who grow other kinds of blackberries." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eradication of Bermuda Grass (open access)

Eradication of Bermuda Grass

This bulletin describes Bermuda grass, a plant that is both highly valuable to pastures and also invasive in the southern United States, and gives suggestions for its control. Possible methods for eradication include the strategic use of shade, winterkilling, fallowing, hog grazing, and tilling practices.
Date: 1918
Creator: Hansen, Albert A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm and Home Drying of Fruits and Vegetables (open access)

Farm and Home Drying of Fruits and Vegetables

"Imperative necessity demands nation-wide conservation of those portions of our food crops which have heretofore been permitted to go to waste. A considerable portion of this wasted food material is made up of perishable fruits and vegetables produced in home gardens and fruit plats in excess of the immediate needs of the producers and in the absence of accessible markets for the surplus. Drying offers a simple, convenient, and economical method for preserving food materials and permits the carrying over of the surplus into periods in which fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive or unobtainable.... Directions for the preparation, drying, and subsequent storage and care of the dried products are given fully for each of the more important fruits and vegetables." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Caldwell, Joseph S. (Joseph Stuart)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Practices That Increase Crop Yields in Kentucky and Tennessee (open access)

Farm Practices That Increase Crop Yields in Kentucky and Tennessee

"In the limestone and mountain districts south of the Ohio River there is much land that has been run down by continual cropping without rotation. In some places run-down land is left to grow up in weeds, wild grasses, and brush, a practice known as 'resting' the land. Where this sort of farm management is followed farm manure is largely wasted, little or no attention is paid to green-manure crops or other means of putting humus into the soil, and crop yields are very low. However, progressive farmers throughout the region who have built up run-down lands are now getting heavy yields. In the following pages are described some of the methods by which these farmers get results by making good use of farm manure and crop refuse, using legumes and grasses in regular rotations, and applying lime and commercial fertilizers." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Arnold, J. H. (Jacob Hiram), 1864-1921
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Practices That Increase Crop Yields: The Gulf Coast Region (open access)

Farm Practices That Increase Crop Yields: The Gulf Coast Region

"Gulf Coast region upland soils are ordinarily deficient in nitrogen and need to be supplied with liberal quantities of organic matter if profitable crop yields are to be produced. This condition is most easily and cheaply remedied by growing such legumes as velvet beans, cowpeas, soy beans, bur clover, crimson clover, hairy vetch, and beggar weed, and by carefully utilizing all farm manures, crop residues, and other sources of humus. By a simple readjustment most of the cropping systems followed in this region may be made to include one or more legumes which will increase the supply of nitrogen and humus in the soil and greatly increase crop yields. Systems by means of which crop yields are being increased in the region are discussed in the following pages." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Crosby, M. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Games Laws for 1918: A Summary of the Provisions of Federal, State, and Provincial Statutes (open access)

Games Laws for 1918: A Summary of the Provisions of Federal, State, and Provincial Statutes

Report presenting information on the game laws effective in the United States and Canada for 1918, with special emphasis on federal laws and provisions governing interstate commerce. The report is not a comprehensive overview of state game laws.
Date: 1918
Creator: Lawyer, Geo. A. (George A.) & Earnshaw, Frank L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gas Tractor in Eastern Farming (open access)

The Gas Tractor in Eastern Farming

This bulletin discusses gas tractors with regard to their operation and maintenance in relation to farming practices in the eastern United States, particularly in New York. "Tractors using gasoline or kerosene are increasing in numbers on eastern farms. More than 250 New York State farmers furnished detailed reports of their experience with tractors during 1917 and the spring of 1918, and on these the information given in this bulletin is based." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Yerkes, Arnold P. & Church, L. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Handling Barnyard Manure in Eastern Pennsylvania (open access)

Handling Barnyard Manure in Eastern Pennsylvania

"Barnyard manure is handled with special care and excellent results by farmers in certain parts of Eastern Pennsylvania. For over a century it has been the custom in this region to store stable manure in a walled manure yard, partly or wholly covered, in which the stabled animals are allowed to exercise during the day. Manure thrown into such a yard and thoroughly tramped by stock loses much less through heating and leaching than does manure piled in the open. This bulletin describes the manure-yard method of handling manure and outlines the farm practices of ten successful farmers who follow this method." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: Brodie, D. A. (David Arthur), b. 1868
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hay Caps (open access)

Hay Caps

"Hay caps can be used to advantage to keep rain from wetting hay in cocks on many farms in the eastern half of the United States." -- p. 2. This bulletin describes the different types of hay camps, estimates their cost, and explains how hay caps may be used.
Date: 1918
Creator: McClure, H. B. (Harry B.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Haymaking (open access)

Haymaking

"Haymaking is an operation that must be done in a certain space of time that is short at best and that is always liable to be made shorter by bad weather. For this reason there is perhaps no farm operation in which system and efficiency count for more than in haymaking; yet throughout the hay-growing area more or less haphazard methods of haymaking are still very common. This bulletin is designed to point out ways in which the more successful hay growers of the country save time and labor in this important field work. It tells how the growing scarcity of farm labor may be met by rearranging crews and changing methods, and by the adoption of up-to-date implements, such as the hay loader, push rake, and stacker. In addition to outlines of methods for various sized crews and acreages the bulletin presents, briefly, a discussion of the theory of curing hay, a thorough understanding of which is a great help in planning an efficient method of haymaking." -- p. 2
Date: 1918
Creator: McClure, H. B. (Harry B.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemorrhagic Septicemia: Stockyards Fever, Swine Plague, Fowl Cholera, Etc. (open access)

Hemorrhagic Septicemia: Stockyards Fever, Swine Plague, Fowl Cholera, Etc.

Report discussing hemorrhagic septicemia, an infectious disease which affects farm animals and has a very high mortality rate. Discussion includes a description of causes, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, prevention methods, and potential treatments.
Date: 1918
Creator: Washburn, Henry J.
System: The UNT Digital Library