Alfalfa, or Lucern (open access)

Alfalfa, or Lucern

Report discussing and promoting alfalfa for use as hay and as a soiling crop. Discussion includes instructions for planting, weed and pest control, and valuable uses of an alfalfa crop.
Date: 1899
Creator: Smith, Jared G. (Jared Gage), 1866-1957
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meadows and Pastures: Formation and Cultivation in the Middle Eastern States. (open access)

Meadows and Pastures: Formation and Cultivation in the Middle Eastern States.

A guide to the cultivation and selection of varieties of hay, pasture grasses, and clover. Describes the use grass as a soil builder and provides methods of soil improvement.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Suggestions to Southern Farmers (open access)

Suggestions to Southern Farmers

Report summarizing the contents of papers read at the Interstate Farmers' Convention held at Vicksburg, Mississippi, February 8-10, 1899. Topics discussed include soil properties, cotton products, livestock farming and feeding, horticulture, agricultural education, forage crops, and the Weather Bureau. The material collected in this report is intended primarily for residents of the South and the Southwest.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 9 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 9

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Sugar Beets on Alkali Soils, Planting and Replanting Corn, Improvement of Sorghum, Improved Culture of Potatoes, Second-Crop Potatoes for Seed, Cold v. Warm Water for Plants, Forcing Head Lettuce, the Date Palm in the United States, the Codling Moth, Jerusalem Artichokes for Pigs, Feeding Calves, Pasteurization in Butter Making, Gassy and Tainted Curds, Pure Cultures in Cheese Making.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 13 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 13

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Fertilizer Requirements of Crops, Persimmons, Forcing Rhubarb, Grinding Corn for Cows, Waste in Feeding Cornstalks, Molasses for Farm Animals, Feeding Ducks, Cost of Raising Calves, Feeding Calves with Milk of Tuberculous Cows, Killing the Germs of Tuberculosis in Milk, Ropy Milk and Cream, Dairy Salt.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library