Facts about milk. (open access)

Facts about milk.

Describes methods for the sanitary production and transport of milk.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial fertilizers : composition and use. (open access)

Commercial fertilizers : composition and use.

Describes different types of commercial fertilizers, their agricultural benefits, and indications for their use.
Date: March 1906
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beans, peas, and other legumes as food. (open access)

Beans, peas, and other legumes as food.

Describes several varieties of beans, peas, and other legumes. Discusses the composition and digestibility of legumes such as beans, peas, lentils, and peanuts. Discusses several different ways to prepare them for use in foods or other products.
Date: November 15, 1906
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sugar as food. (open access)

Sugar as food.

Discusses the sources of sugar, its uses, and its chemical composition.
Date: December 21, 1906
Creator: United States. Dept. of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turkeys : standard varieties and management. (open access)

Turkeys : standard varieties and management.

A guide to raising and selling domestic turkeys.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Example of Model Farming (open access)

An Example of Model Farming

Report explaining how to successfully manage a farm by example of a small 15-acre farm in Flourtown, Pennsylvania. The farm discussed was owned by Rev. J. D. Detrich, and topics under consideration include soil improvement, systematic management, employees, animal feed, manure, and hay.
Date: 1906
Creator: Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 33 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 33

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Handling Seed Corn; Adaptation of Seed Corn; Effect of Root Nodules on Composition of Crops; Fumigation of Nursery Stock; Cooking Quality of Potatoes; Food Value of Cottage Cheese Rice, Peas, and Bacon; Methods of Feeding Poultry; Extermination of Cattle Ticks; and Covered Yards for Cows.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Control of the Codling Moth and Apple Scab (open access)

The Control of the Codling Moth and Apple Scab

Report discussing "the two principal enemies of the apple [...] the chief insect enemy, the codling moth, and the principal fungous disease, the apple scab.... The remedial treatment for both of these is of such a nature that the applications can be combined at a lessening of nearly one-half the cost of time and labor. The bulletin includes a brief but plain statement of the nature of the codling moth and the means of controlling it, followed by a similar portion relating to apple scab, and concluding with the combined directions for spraying, and a spray calendar." -- p. 3
Date: 1906
Creator: Marlatt, C. L. & Orton, W. A. (William Allen), 1877-1930
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Prevention of Stinking Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of Oats (open access)

The Prevention of Stinking Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of Oats

Report discussing the parasitic wheat disease stinking smut (also known as common bunt) and proven methods for treatment and prevention.
Date: 1906
Creator: Swingle, Walter T. (Walter Tennyson), 1871-1952
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 34 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 34

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: American Sugar-Beet Seed, Stimulants for Seeds, Profits from Spraying Potatoes, Winter-Injured Fruit Trees, Durum Wheat, Fertility of Eggs, Indoor Versus Outdoor Feeding of Steers, Roughage for Steers, Cheap Dairy Rations, and Cottonseed Meal for Hogs.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maple Sugar and Syrup (open access)

Maple Sugar and Syrup

Report discussing the evolution of the maple syrup industry to its present state with special attention given to the modern manufacturing process of maple sugar and syrup.
Date: 1906
Creator: Hubbard, William F. (William Fairchild), 1876-1905
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Germination of Seed Corn (open access)

The Germination of Seed Corn

Report discussing "the importance of testing the vitality of individual ears of corn which are intended for seed, and [showing] how such tests may easily be made by every farmer in his own home." -- p. 2
Date: 1906
Creator: Duvel, J. W. T.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cucumbers (open access)

Cucumbers

Report discussing the cultivation of cucumbers, including for early markets and pickling. Also discussed are the use of cold frames and forcing-house cucumbers, which are grown under glass.
Date: 1906
Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of Vegetables for the Table (open access)

Preparation of Vegetables for the Table

Report discussing the nutritional value and chemical structure of vegetables, general principles for cooking vegetables, and common ways to prepare popular vegetables for meals. A few recipes are included.
Date: 1906
Creator: Parloa, Maria, 1843-1909
Object Type: Pamphlet
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.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seed of Red Clover and Its Impurities (open access)

Seed of Red Clover and Its Impurities

Report discussing the importance of the use of good red clover seed and detailing possible impurities.
Date: 1906
Creator: Brown, Edgar & Hillman, F. H.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cattle Tick in Its Relation to Southern Agriculture (open access)

The Cattle Tick in Its Relation to Southern Agriculture

Report discussing the problems posed to cattle raising in the southern United States by the cattle tick (also known as the Texas fever tick). The report details the economic losses caused by tick infestation and explains the importance of eradication.
Date: 1906
Creator: Mayer, August
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 36 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 36

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Water for Table Use, Phosphates, Winter Wheat, Glutenous and Starchy Wheats, Dry Farming, Methods of Canning, Beet Molasses and Pulp, Feed Lots, Guinea Fowls, Color of Eggs, Spraying for Scale Insects, and White Pine in New England.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Brown-Tail Moth and How to Control It (open access)

The Brown-Tail Moth and How to Control It

Report discussing the recent introduction of the European brown-tail moth into the Americas, its life cycle, and its possible impact on plant life, and methods to control it.
Date: 1906
Creator: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 37 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 37

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Breeding Corn, Buckwheat, Sugar Beets on Alkali Soils, Alfilaria as a Forage Plant, Apple Bitter Rot, Grass Mulch for Orchards, Hardiness of Young Fruit Trees, Protecting Cows from Flies, Effect of Silage on Milk, and Cold Storage of Cheese.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forage-Crop Practices in Western Oregon and Western Washington (open access)

Forage-Crop Practices in Western Oregon and Western Washington

Report discussing best practices for growing forage plants with special emphasis given to the usefulness of legumes as soil renovators. The report gives thorough descriptions of the most common of these plants.
Date: 1906
Creator: Hunter, Byron, b. 1869
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 38 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 38

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Loss of Nitrogen from Soils, Manure as Affected by Food, Continuous Corn Culture, Pasturing Wheat, Storage of Sweet Potatoes, Rotting of Potatoes in Storage, Hog Cots, the Disinfection of Stables, the Effect of Horsetail Weeds on Horses, Treatment of Calf Scours, Preserving Eggs, Wheat Bran, Testing Individual Cows, Clean Milk, Cleanliness in the Dairy, Grading Cream, and Paraffin in Dairying.
Date: 1906
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Citrus Fruit Growing in the Gulf States (open access)

Citrus Fruit Growing in the Gulf States

Report discussing best practices for cultivating a citrus orchard. Discussion includes possible grove sites, varieties of citrus trees, fertilizers, methods of cold protection, and nursery cultivation.
Date: 1906
Creator: Rolfs, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1865-1944
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits (open access)

Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits

"The object of this bulletin is to give the principal formulas for fungicides, together with a brief description of their method of preparation, and a summary of the principal diseases of fruits for which satisfactory remedies have been found. Most, though not all, of these remedies consist of spraying." -- p. 5
Date: 1906
Creator: Waite, Merton Benway, 1865-1945
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library