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Tobacco soils. (open access)

Tobacco soils.

Discusses tobacco growing in terms of soil, climate, and distribution.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Population of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1907 (open access)

Population of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 1907

Bulletin issued by the U.S. Census Bureau containing a statistical analysis of the population of the Oklahoma and Indian Territories (proposed to become the state of Oklahoma). The text contains summaries and tables breaking down the statistics according to sex, color, age, and location.
Date: 1907
Creator: Hunt, William C. (William Chamberlin), 1856-1929
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sea Island Cotton: Its Culture, Improvement, and Diseases (open access)

Sea Island Cotton: Its Culture, Improvement, and Diseases

Report explaining new cultivation techniques for growers of Sea Island cotton in Georgia and Florida. The deterioration of seed quality and poor farming practices for this unique cotton make the adoption of these techniques necessary.
Date: 1907
Creator: Orton, W. A. (William Allen), 1877-1930
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 42 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 42

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Extension of Rice Culture, Growing Seed Potatoes Under Mulch, Manure as a Summer Mulch in Forcing Houses, Renewal of Old Orchards, Injury by Bordeaux Mixture, Gluten Flours and Similar foods, Laxative Properties of Wheat Bran, Emmer as a Feeding Stuff, Roots for Farm Animals, Cabbage as Stock Feed, Pasturing Hogs, Cull Beans as a Feed for Hogs, and Healthy Poultry.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Games Laws for 1907: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, and Licenses (open access)

Games Laws for 1907: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, and Licenses

Report presenting information on the game laws effective in the United States and Canada for 1907, with special emphasis on federal laws and provisions governing interstate commerce. The report is not a comprehensive overview of state game laws.
Date: 1907
Creator: Palmer, T. S. (Theodore Sherman), 1868-1955; Oldys, Henry & Brewster, Charles E. (Chas. E.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 43 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 43

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Ice for Household Use, Culture and Varieties of Root Crops, Cowpeas and Soy Beans, Silage from Frosted Corn, Cooperation in Marketing Crops, Incubation of Eggs, Causes of Death of Young Chicks, Snow for Poultry, Eradication of Cattle Tricks, and Bacteria in Cream.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 44 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 44

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Distributing manure and Fertilizers, Winterkilling of Peach Buds, Color of Apples, Ringing Herbaceous Plants, Potato Scab, Gas Injury to Trees, the Tuna or Prickly Pear, Cooking Cereal Foods, Silage Making Horse-Feeding Tests, Supplements to Corn for Hogs, Tankage for Hogs Following Cattle, and Hoppers for Poultry Feeding.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 45 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 45

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: the Farm Home, Lining of Ditches and Reservoirs, Cement Pipe for Irrigation and Other Purposes, Pollination of Forced Tomatoes, Increasing the Productiveness of Corn, Shrinkage of Corn in Cribs, Grain for Cows at Pasture, Starters for Ripening Cream, Water Pans for Poultry, and Catching Hook for Poultry.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstration Work in Cooperation with Southern Farmers (open access)

Demonstration Work in Cooperation with Southern Farmers

Report discussing the efforts of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, which consists of "(1) the demonstration of improved methods of agriculture in the weevil-infected districts [...] and (2) the extension of the same principles to other Southern States beyond the range of weevil infestation." (p. 6) Congress created the organization in 1904 to assist with relief efforts.
Date: 1908
Creator: Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 46 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 46

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Fish Fertilizer, Reclamation of Salt Marshes, Bermuda Hay, Protein Content of Forage Crops, Quality in Wheat, Potato Spraying, Anesthetics in Forcing Plants, Fattening Cattle for Market, Cottonseed Meal and Corn Silage for Cows, Carbonated Milk, and Preservation of Fence Posts.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Split-Log Drag on Earth Roads (open access)

The Use of the Split-Log Drag on Earth Roads

Report discussing how to construct and use a split-log drag for the purpose of maintaining dirt roads.
Date: 1908
Creator: King, D. Ward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Milo as a Dry-Land Grain Crop (open access)

Milo as a Dry-Land Grain Crop

Report explaining how farmers can successfully cultivate milo ( a variety of sorghum) in the semiarid plains of the southwestern United States.
Date: 1908
Creator: Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958 & Leidigh, A. H. (Arthur Henry), b. 1880
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clover Farming on the Sandy Jack-Pine Lands of the North (open access)

Clover Farming on the Sandy Jack-Pine Lands of the North

Report discussing techniques for treating soil in the Midwestern United States so that clover can be profitably grown in the region's sandy pine lands.
Date: 1908
Creator: Smith, Clarence Beaman, 1870-1948
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small Farms in the Corn Belt (open access)

Small Farms in the Corn Belt

Report discussing the successes of three farms in Nebraska to explain to young men how they can begin profitable small farms in the Corn Belt.
Date: 1908
Creator: Warren, Joseph Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 47 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 47

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Low-Grade v. High-Grade Fertilizers; Improvement of Sandy Soils; Dry Farming; Seed Selection; Evergreens: Uses and Culture; Nut Growing in Maryland; "Hogging Off" Corn; Mineral Matter in Feeding Stuff; Preparation of Miscible Oils; an Automatic Cheese Press; and Cane Sugar and Beet Sugar.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 48 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 48

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Plant Breeding on the Farm, Sorghum for Silage, Dry Rot of Corn, Starch from Sweet Potatoes, Profits from Tomato Growing, the Keeping of Apples, Weed Seeds in Manure, Weed Seeds in Feeding Stuffs, Forage Crops for Pigs, Market Classes and Grades of Horses and Mules, Profitable and Unprofitable Cows, Blackhead in Turkeys, Extraction of Beeswax, and an Improved Hog Cot.
Date: 1908
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Games Laws for 1908: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, Limits, and Licenses (open access)

Games Laws for 1908: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, Limits, and Licenses

Report presenting information on the game laws effective in the United States and Canada for 1908, with special emphasis on federal laws and provisions governing interstate commerce. The report is not a comprehensive overview of state game laws.
Date: 1908
Creator: Palmer, T. S. (Theodore Sherman), 1868-1955 & Oldys, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Basket Willow (open access)

The Basket Willow

Report discussing improved cultivation techniques for willow trees used in basket-making.
Date: 1909
Creator: Hubbard, William F. (William Fairchild), 1876-1905
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 49 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 49

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Conservation of Soil Resources, Potato Breeding, Disk-Harrowing Alfalfa, the Montreal Muskmelon, Storage of Hubbard Squash, Fig Culture in the South, Mushroom Growing, Preserving Wild Mushrooms, Cooking Beans and Other Vegetables, and a Model Kitchen.
Date: 1909
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boll Weevil Problem, with Special Reference to Means of Reducing Damage (open access)

The Boll Weevil Problem, with Special Reference to Means of Reducing Damage

Report summarizing the Department of Agriculture's previous publications on the boll-weevil problem and the unpublished results of the most recent investigations. Topics discussed include the life cycle of the boll weevil, its dissemination, and means of controlling it.
Date: 1909
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bacteria in Milk (open access)

Bacteria in Milk

Report discussing the effects of bacteria which grow naturally in milk, including their effects on both sugars and fats.
Date: 1909
Creator: Rogers, L. A. (Lore Alford), 1875-1975
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dairy Industry in the South (open access)

The Dairy Industry in the South

Report discussing the state of dairy farming in the southern United States and efforts to improve upon common practices on the farm and for distribution.
Date: 1909
Creator: Rawl, B. H. (Bernard Hazelius), 1876-1924; Stuart, Duncan, 1874-1930 & Whitaker, George M. (George Mason), 1851-1912
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nevada Mouse Plague of 1907-08 (open access)

The Nevada Mouse Plague of 1907-08

Report discussing the history of the mouse plague in Nevada from 1907-1908, its causes, effects, and lessons for combating future plagues. Special attention is given to the importance of protecting hawks, owls, and other small predatory mammals which can help prevent future occurrences.
Date: 1909
Creator: Piper, Stanley E. (Stanley Edward)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 50 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 50

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Commercial Clover Seed, Dodder in Alfalfa Seed, Growing Potatoes Under Straw, Hens Versus Incubators, Preparing Fowls for Market, Preservation of Eggs, the Mound-Building Prairie Ant, Coagulation of Milk in Cheese Making, Effect of Alkali on Cement Structures, Silo Construction, a Cheap and Efficient Sterilizer, a Cheap and Efficient Ice Box, the Power Laundry for the Farm.
Date: 1909
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library