Forage Plants for the South (open access)

Forage Plants for the South

Report discussing the findings of an experimental study of over 500 native and foreign species of grasses and other forage plants in the southern United States. The report is limited to a discussion of species that were established to hold agricultural value for hay and pastures.
Date: 1894
Creator: Smith, Erwin F. (Erwin Frink), 1854-1927
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cattle Ranges of the Southwest: A History of the Exhaustion of the Pasturage and Suggestions for Its Restoration (open access)

Cattle Ranges of the Southwest: A History of the Exhaustion of the Pasturage and Suggestions for Its Restoration

Report giving "a history of the exhaustion of the pasturage of central Texas, with suggestions for its restoration. The general features of the country are described; the early conditions of the ranges and the causes which have led to their deterioration are graphically portrayed. The obstacles in the way of the improvement of the ranges and how the value of the stock ranges may be renewed are topics discussed in detail. The report closes with brief descriptions of a few other of the most important native grasses and forage plants which may be utilized in improving the pasturage or increasing the production of forage." -- p. 2.
Date: 1898
Creator: Bentley, H. L. (Henry Lewis)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cassava (open access)

Cassava

Report discussing the potential for cassava cultivation in the Gulf Coast States of the United States. Topics discussed include soil requirements, fertilizers, common diseases, harvesting, crop yields, and marketing.
Date: 1903
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling the Boll Weevil in Cotton Seed and at Ginneries (open access)

Controlling the Boll Weevil in Cotton Seed and at Ginneries

Report discussing the role of cotton ginneries in the dissemination of the boll weevil and improvements to the ginning process which can control the boll weevil's spread.
Date: 1904
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cotton Bollworm: An Account of the insect, With Results of Experiments in 1903 (open access)

The Cotton Bollworm: An Account of the insect, With Results of Experiments in 1903

Report describing the cotton bollworm, an enemy of the cotton plant, especially in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Discussion includes the bollworm's consequences for both cotton and corn as well as effective and ineffective methods of controlling it.
Date: 1904
Creator: Quaintance, A. L. (Altus Lacy), 1870-1958
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Paris Green in Controlling the Cotton Boll Weevil (open access)

The Use of Paris Green in Controlling the Cotton Boll Weevil

Report advocating for the rejection of the insecticide Paris green as a suitable method for eliminating the cotton boll weevil. The rejection of Paris green is a result of a series of experiments undertaken by both the Bureau of Entomology and planters.
Date: 1904
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cotton Bollworm: Some Observations and Results of Field Experiments in 1904 (open access)

The Cotton Bollworm: Some Observations and Results of Field Experiments in 1904

Report discussing the cotton bollworm, which is very destructive to the cotton plant, especially in the Southwestern states in the Cotton Belt of the United States. Contains reports on fieldwork conducted at two stations in Texas and a discussion of effective and ineffective methods of control.
Date: 1905
Creator: Quaintance, A. L. (Altus Lacy), 1870-1958 & Bishopp, F. C. (Fred Corry), 1884-1970
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 31 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 31

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Root Systems of Plants, Fertilizers for Asparagus, Mushroom Culture, Onions in the Southwest, Ether Forcing of Rhubarb, Noodles, Condimental Feeds, Beef vs. Dairy Type for Beef Production, Feeding Skim-Milk Calves, Animal Food for Ducks, Milk from Diseases Cows, Cider Vinegar.
Date: 1905
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Miscellaneous Cotton Insects in Texas (open access)

Miscellaneous Cotton Insects in Texas

Report discussing the various types of insects injurious to the cotton plant in Texas and classifying them according to whether they affect young plants, leaves, stalks, or squares and bolls.
Date: 1905
Creator: Dwight Sanderson, 1878-1944
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 35 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 35

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Use of Commercial Fertilizers, Weight of Lime per Bushel, Spreading Lime, Soil Sterilization, Weights per Bushel of Seeds, Disease Resistant Crops, Corn Billibugs and Root-Louse, Asparagus Rust and Its Control, Alfalfa Meal as a Feeding Stuff, Singed Cacti as Forage, Cattle Feeding in the South, Milk Fever, Nail Wounds in Horses' Feet, and Use of a Cheap Canning Outfit.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention (open access)

Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention

Report discussing the disease tick fever (also known as Texas fever) and its destructive effects on cattle. Topics discussed include the life cycle of the tick which transmits the disease, symptoms of the disease, and methods of treatment and prevention.
Date: 1906
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 39 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 39

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Improvements in Peach Growing, Mulberries, Alfalfa in the Eastern States, Oat Culture in the South, Improvement of Grass Land, Succotash as a Soiling Crop, Tankage and Bone Meal for Hogs, Grinding Corn for Hogs, Dips as Lice Killers, Digestibility of Fish and Poultry, Honey Vinegar, and the Farm Woodlot.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Important Grasses and Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region (open access)

Some Important Grasses and Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region

Report discussing Mexican clover, beggarweed, velvet beans, guinea grass, and para grass, which are among the most important grasses in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.
Date: 1907
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm (open access)

A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm

"In this bulletin is given the record of a 65-acre hog farm in the black prairie region of Alabama. The method of farming described is applicable to the entire area in which corn, alfalfa, and Bermuda grass can be grown. This area includes the black lands of Texas, the river bottoms of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and the alluvial soils generally in all the Southern States.... The primary object in the work of this farm was to demonstrate that hog farming is practicable in this territory, and three years' experience has led us to the conclusion that the production of alfalfa hay in this region can also be made highly profitable.... The system of farming established on the diversification farm at Uniontown, Alabama, was planned with the special view of increasing the fertility of the soil and reducing the cost of tillage by doing away with hillside ditches and adopting improved methods of cultivation." -- p. 5
Date: 1907
Creator: Crosby, M. A.; Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868- & Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cowpeas (open access)

Cowpeas

"The cowpea is the most valuable legume for the Southern States and its use would be much more extensive were it not for the relatively high price of the seed, most of which is still picked by hand. Particular attention is therefore given to the matter of harvesting seed by machinery now in very successful use in several communities. These methods are so far perfected that the cowpea seed crop should receive much greater attention in favorable localities." -- p. 5. This bulletin also discusses the use of cowpeas for hay, seed mixtures of cowpeas and other crops, the nutritional value of cowpeas in animal feeds, growing practices, and the several different varieties of cowpea.
Date: 1908
Creator: Nielsen, H. T. (Harold T.)
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
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
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
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 53 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 53

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Inoculation and Lime for Alfalfa, Citrus Culture in Southern Texas, Pruning Rotundifolia Grapes, Native Hays or Arid Region, Bermuda Grass, Short v. Long Feeding of Beef Cattle, Contagious Abortion of Cattle, Preventing Losses at Lambing time, Winter Lambs for the Pacific Coast Market, Feeding Work Horses, Colony Houses for Poultry, Food of the Crow Blackbird, and Flour for Baking Powder Biscuits.
Date: 1909
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Loco-Weed Disease (open access)

The Loco-Weed Disease

Report describing the poisonous plant locoweed, including its appearance and its effects on horses, cattle, and sheep.
Date: 1909
Creator: Marsh, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstration Work on Southern Farms (open access)

Demonstration Work on Southern Farms

Report discussing the origination and purpose of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. The agency is primarily tasked with developing methods to control the spread of the Mexican cotton boll weevil, but it researches cultivation techniques for other crops as well, particularly corn and cowpea. This report summarizes the agency's preliminary findings.
Date: 1910
Creator: Knapp, S. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 55 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 55

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Poultry Manure, Early Onions in the Southwest, Oleander Poisoning of Live Stock, Fermented Cottonseed Meal for Hogs, Wintering Farm Work Horses, Alfalfa Meal as a Feeding Stuff, Mangels for Milch Cows, Records of Dairy Herds, Skim-Milk Buttermilk, Whipped Cream, Farm Butter Making, Camembert Cheese Making, Cement and Concrete Fence Posts.
Date: 1910
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feeding Hogs in the South (open access)

Feeding Hogs in the South

Report discussing the status of hog raising in the southern United States. Topics discussed include sows, corn feeds, supplements to corn in feeds, and different breeds of swine.
Date: 1910
Creator: Gray, Dan T.
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