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Tuberculosis: A Plain Statement of Facts Regarding the Disease, Prepared Especially for Farmers and Others Interested in Live Stock (open access)

Tuberculosis: A Plain Statement of Facts Regarding the Disease, Prepared Especially for Farmers and Others Interested in Live Stock

Report discussing the occurrence of tuberculosis in livestock, including its causes, symptoms, means of transmission, and the tuberculin test.
Date: 1911
Creator: American Veterinary Medical Association. International Commission on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis
System: The UNT Digital Library
How a City Family Managed a Farm (open access)

How a City Family Managed a Farm

"This bulletin is a record of the experience of a city family that moved onto a farm in 1892. The father had been a lawyer by profession, the manager for a well-established business firm in one of the principal cities of the Middle West, and was earning a salary of $3,000 a year. At 60 years of age, having been in business about twenty-five years, he was compelled on account of ill health to abandon his profession and business.... The family decided to buy a farm and attempt to solve the problem confronting them, namely, 'to make a living, educate the children, and make a pleasant home.' This paper will how they satisfactorily solved the problem.... An attempt will be made to present such facts about this farm as will enable the reader to comprehend under what conditions and by what means the results were accomplished; hence, a description of the farm and the methods of operating it will be given in some detail." -- p. 5
Date: 1911
Creator: Arnold, J. H. (Jacob Hiram), 1864-1921
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atascador (open access)

Atascador

Pamphlet advertising real estate and agri-business in an "All American Colony in Mexico" called Atascador. Land was offered at $12.50 - 25 per acre.
Date: 1911~
Creator: Atascador Land Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Better Grain-Sorghum Crops (open access)

Better Grain-Sorghum Crops

"This paper presents the best-known methods of improving the grain-sorghum crops on the farms where they are grown. These methods are simple and inexpensive of time or money, and are therefore within the reach of all farmers. More attention to the bettering of the quality and yields will be repaid as fully in these crops as in other cereals." -- p. 2. Sorghum crops can be improved for drought resistance, earliness, stature, productivity, and adaptability to machine techniques.
Date: 1911
Creator: Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frames as a Factor in Truck Growing (open access)

Frames as a Factor in Truck Growing

Report discussing the use of frames in growing the crops lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, parsley, eggplant, peppers, beets, and beans. Topics discussed include types of frames, soils and fertilizers, and control of insects and diseases.
Date: 1911
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Home Production of Onion Seed and Sets (open access)

The Home Production of Onion Seed and Sets

Report discussing best practices for cultivating onions from which to collect onion seed and establish onion sets. Also discusses fungal diseases common to the onion.
Date: 1911
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peanut (open access)

The Peanut

"It is the purpose of this bulletin to give full cultural directions for growing [peanuts], together with some of the uses of the peanut." -- p. 6. Topics discussed include soil preparation, fertilizers, seed selection, and varieties.
Date: 1911
Creator: Beattie, W. R. (William Renwick), b. 1870
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systems of Farming in Central New Jersey (open access)

Systems of Farming in Central New Jersey

Report discussing different cropping systems used on New Jersey farms, including the three-crop rotation system, small grain cropping systems, and alfalfa rotation systems. Includes an analysis of tenant farm which has successfully employed a four-crop system.
Date: 1911
Creator: Billings, George A. (George Austin) & Beavers, J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Successful New York Farm (open access)

A Successful New York Farm

Report discussing a farm in Monroe County, New York, which became successful due to excellent and systematic farm management in spite of the lack of beneficial political and economic circumstances for farmers at the time. The farm under discussion grew wheat, clover, potatoes, fruit (in orchards) and livestock, and its methods for cultivating these crops are detailed.
Date: 1911
Creator: Burritt, M. C. (Maurice Chase)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Winter Emmer (open access)

Winter Emmer

"In recent years [the] cultivation [of emmer] has greatly increased.... There are both spring and winter varieties, but the emmer crop of the United States heretofore has been almost entirely spring sown. This paper treats of winter emmer and the importance of using winter varieties for certain conditions and in certain districts. The general description of emmer, its history, etc., are applicable equally to spring or winter varieties." -- p. 5
Date: 1911
Creator: Carleton, Mark Alfred, 1866-1925
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eradication of Quack-Grass (open access)

The Eradication of Quack-Grass

Report discussing methods for destroying quack grass, which is also known as witch grass.
Date: 1911
Creator: Cates, J. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Best Two Sweet Sorghums for Forage (open access)

The Best Two Sweet Sorghums for Forage

"At this time the several different sorghum varieties are grown promiscuously over the entire region adapted to this crop. This bulletin is prepared with a view to helping the farmer find the variety [of sorghum] best suited to his region and to grow and improve this variety so as to obtain better yields of forage." -- p. 2.
Date: 1911
Creator: Conner, A. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cabbage (open access)

Cabbage

Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of cabbage. Topics discussed include soil preparation, fertilizers, seed selection, diseases, insect enemies, and varieties of cabbage. Cultivation practices vary depending on whether the cabbage is intended as a truck crop crop, market-garden crop, or farm crop.
Date: 1911
Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ice Houses (open access)

Ice Houses

Report promoting the construction and usage of ice houses, which store harvested ice for later use.
Date: 1911
Creator: Corbett, L. C. (Lee Cleveland), 1867-1940
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barley: Growing the Crop (open access)

Barley: Growing the Crop

"Of the small-grain crops grown in this country barley ranks third in production. While much of the area devoted to this crop in the United States is suited to its production, the lack of care in selecting seed and the methods of cultivation practiced result in low yield of poor quality. This bulletin gives directions for the best methods of growing and harvesting the crop. With the use of these methods there should be a marked increase in the yield and quality of the barley grown in the United States." -- p. 2
Date: 1911
Creator: Derr, H. B. (Harry Benjamin), b. 1867
System: The UNT Digital Library
A System of Tenant Farming and Its Results (open access)

A System of Tenant Farming and Its Results

Report discussing the advantages and disadvantages of tenant farming, the fundamental principles of tenant farming, and a management system and practices which are likely to produce positive results in tenant farming.
Date: 1911
Creator: Froley, J. W. (John William) & Smith, C. Beaman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seed Corn (open access)

Seed Corn

Revised edition. Report explaining how farmers can evaluate the quality of seed corn and prepare it for planting and storage.
Date: 1911
Creator: Hartley, C. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing Farm Seed in the Home and in the Rural School (open access)

Testing Farm Seed in the Home and in the Rural School

"The purpose of this bulletin is to encourage seed testing in the farm home and in the rural school by explaining the essential features of seed testing as it relates to farm seeds and by showing how satisfactory tests can be made by simple means." -- p. 3. Testing equipment, seed qualities, impurities, and testing processes are among the topics discussed.
Date: 1911
Creator: Hillman, F. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dying of Pine in the Southern States: Cause, Extent, and Remedy (open access)

The Dying of Pine in the Southern States: Cause, Extent, and Remedy

Report discussing the destructive habits of the southern pine beetle, which in its most recent outbreak is threatening to kill a large percentage of the young and matured trees of the pine forests in the southern United States. "The paper gives the essential facts relating to the insect, its work, practical methods of control, and how to protect the pine from its depredations in the future." -- p. 2
Date: 1911
Creator: Hopkins, A. D. (Andrew Delmar), 1857-1948
System: The UNT Digital Library
House Flies (open access)

House Flies

Report discussing the life cycle of the house fly, its carriage of disease, measures for combating it, and approaches that cities and towns have taken to control it.
Date: 1911
Creator: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Facts About Malaria (open access)

Some Facts About Malaria

Report giving general facts about the disease malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes. Topics discussed include the causes of malaria, its symptoms, and methods of prevention.
Date: 1911
Creator: Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Utilization of Logged-Off Land for Pasture in Western Oregon and Western Washington (open access)

The Utilization of Logged-Off Land for Pasture in Western Oregon and Western Washington

Report discussing the possible uses of land cleared of timber in Oregon and Washington and ways to prepare these lands for cultivation, especially for pasture plants.
Date: 1911
Creator: Hunter, Byron, b. 1869 & Thompson, Harry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grape Propagation, Pruning, and Training (open access)

Grape Propagation, Pruning, and Training

Report discussing best practices for cultivating grapes, with special attention given to the training and pruning of vines.
Date: 1911
Creator: Husmann, George C. (George Charles), 1861-1939
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forestry in Nature Study. (open access)

Forestry in Nature Study.

Report promoting the study of forests in elementary school in the United States and offering outlines for courses of study, teaching methods, plans for experiments.
Date: 1911
Creator: Jackson, Edwin R. (Edwin Roy)
System: The UNT Digital Library