Resource Type

Corn Cultivation (open access)

Corn Cultivation

Revised edition. "Corn yields per acre in the United States could be doubled within a few years, and this could be accomplished without increase in work or expense.... The lines of improvement that will most easily and quickly double the present production per acre are as follow: (1) Improvement in the quality of seed planted; (2) improvement in the condition of the soil; (3) improvement in methods of cultivation." -- p. 3-4
Date: 1926
Creator: Hartley, C. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania (open access)

The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania

Revised edition. Report describing the production of tobacco in Pennsylvania, specifically cigar-leaf tobacco. Topics discussed include soil requirements, different planting methods, harvesting practices, curing and handling processes, and diseases and insect enemies of the tobacco plant.
Date: 1921
Creator: Frear, William, 1860-1922 & Hibshman, E. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania (open access)

The Production of Cigar-Leaf Tobacco in Pennsylvania

Revised edition. Report describing the production of tobacco in Pennsylvania, specifically cigar-leaf tobacco. Topics discussed include soil requirements, different planting methods, harvesting practices, curing and handling processes, and diseases and insect enemies of the tobacco plant.
Date: 1922
Creator: Frear, William, 1860-1922 & Hibshman, E. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concrete Construction on the Livestock Farm (open access)

Concrete Construction on the Livestock Farm

Revised bulletin. Report describing "methods of using concrete, with special reference to requirements on livestock farms." -- p. 2. Includes instructions for building a concrete feeding floor, a concrete manure pit, and concrete dipping vat.
Date: 1922
Creator: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pear and How to Grow It (open access)

The Pear and How to Grow It

Revised bulletin. Report discussing the best methods for growing pears. Topics discussed include propagation, orchard location, fertilizers, selecting trees for an orchard, pruning, common diseases and pests, and harvesting.
Date: 1923
Creator: Brackett, G. B. (Gustavus Benson), 1827-1915
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Common Game, Aquatic, and Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man (open access)

Some Common Game, Aquatic, and Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man

Revised edition. Report discussing the benefits of undomesticated birds to farmers. "In the following pages are discussed the food habits and relation to man of 19 species of game, aquatic, and rapacious birds, including 5 species of hawks and owls." -- p. 2
Date: 1924
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962 & Beal, F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles), 1840-1916
System: The UNT Digital Library
Planning the Farmstead (open access)

Planning the Farmstead

"The object of this bulletin is to set forth general principles involved in planning the arrangement of the buildings of the farmstead in their relation to one another.... The main considerations influencing the determination of the farmstead site are its location with respect to the rest of the farm and to public utilities, the elevation and drainage of the proposed site, the available water supply, the nature of the soil, the relation to the points of the compass, and the prevailing breezes and protection from heat and cold." -- p. 2
Date: 1920
Creator: Betts, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave), 1875-1936 & Humphries, W. R. (Walter Raymond), 1896-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Castrating and Docking Lambs (open access)

Castrating and Docking Lambs

Report discussing the advantages of castrating and docking lambs to promote health and growth. Procedures for castration and docking are discussed in detail.
Date: 1920
Creator: Bedell, G. H. (George Harold), 1890- & Baker, E. W. (Elbert Watkins), 1879-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grain Sorghums: How to Grow Them (open access)

Grain Sorghums: How to Grow Them

Report discussing the conditions and best practices necessary for growing grain sorghum, especially with respect to the different varieties and increased crop yields.
Date: 1920
Creator: Rothgeb, Benton E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative Marketing (open access)

Cooperative Marketing

Report giving suggestions for organizing cooperative marketing associations among farmers. Topics discussed include membership contracts, sales pools, organizational structures, financing, bylaws, management, and assignment of duties.
Date: 1920
Creator: Jesness, Oscar B. (Oscar Bernard), b. 1889
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dourine of Horses (open access)

Dourine of Horses

Report discussing the occurrence of the equine disease dourine (or covering sickness) in horses, including transmission of the disease, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Date: 1920
Creator: Mohler, John R. (John Robbins), b. 1875 & Schoening, Harry W. (Harry William), b. 1886
System: The UNT Digital Library
Milo, a Valuable Grain Crop (open access)

Milo, a Valuable Grain Crop

Report discussing the grain milo and the potential for increased crop yields in the United States, especially in the Southwest. Topics discussed include varieties of milo, methods for increasing crop yield, soil requirements, harvesting, and storage.
Date: 1920
Creator: Rothgeb, Benton E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cowpeas: Culture and Varieties (open access)

Cowpeas: Culture and Varieties

Report discussing the cowpea, a leguminous crop often grown in the Southern United States. Topics discussed include its several varieties, fertilizers, methods of sowing, and diseases.
Date: 1920
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep (open access)

Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep

Sheep are more vulnerable to parasites than other kinds of livestock. This report discusses the many parasitic diseases that affect sheep either externally or internally as well as preventive measures which can be taken. Parasites discussed include lice, the sheep tick, scab mite, arthropods, tapeworms, bladderworms, flukes, and roundworms.
Date: 1920
Creator: Hall, Maurice C. (Maurice Crowther), 1881-1938
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alsike Clover (open access)

Alsike Clover

Report discussing the distribution and cultivation of the leguminous crop alsike clover, which grows primarily in the northeastern United States. Topics discussed include soil requirements, seeding, uses, and insect enemies and diseases.
Date: 1920
Creator: Pieters, A. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cowpeas: Utilization (open access)

Cowpeas: Utilization

Report discussing common uses of the cowpea and methods of cultivation which improve crop yields for these purposes. The cowpea may be used for seed, straw, hay, pasture, or soil improvement.
Date: 1920
Creator: Morse, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1884
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspen Borer and How to Control It (open access)

Aspen Borer and How to Control It

"This bulletin gives methods of controlling the aspen borer or reducing its damage to a minimum. It is based on extensive studies made in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado, but the data in general apply to all regions of the United States where the poplars are native. The introduced Lombardy poplar is very seldom injured, but the commercial cottonwood of the Mississippi Valley seems to be the only native species of poplar which is at all immune to the attack of this insect." -- p. 2
Date: 1920
Creator: George Hofer, 1863-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diseases of Sheep (open access)

Diseases of Sheep

"Infectious and noninfectious diseases and common ailments of sheep in America are considered in this bulletin. It does not deal with diseases caused by animal parasites, such as gid, grub in the head, stomach, lung, and intestinal-worm affections, liver rot, scabies, etc., nor with plant poisoning. These diseases are described in other publications of the Department of Agriculture. The aim has been to give only the more important of characteristic symptoms which would be of value in distinguishing one disease from another.... Methods of treatment are outlined with regard to ease of application and the use of remedies which are both effective and easily procured." -- p. 39
Date: 1921
Creator: Gallagher, Bernard A. (Bernard Alfred), b. 1880
System: The UNT Digital Library
Angoumois Grain Moth (open access)

Angoumois Grain Moth

Report discussing the Angoumois grain moth, a pest now common in the United States which is destructive to corn, wheat, and other grains. Topics include the moth's life cycle, infestations, and methods of controlling it, including prompt thrashing and fumigation.
Date: 1920
Creator: Back, E. A. (Ernest Adna), 1886-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diseases of Apples in Storage (open access)

Diseases of Apples in Storage

This bulletin is a catalog of diseases that commonly affect apples being kept in storage. There is also a brief introductory paragraph about methods of disease control. Diseases discussed include scab, blotch, bitter rot, Northwestern anthracnose, and scald.
Date: 1920
Creator: Brooks, Charles; Cooley, J. S. & Fisher, D. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dodder (open access)

Dodder

Report discussing the weed commonly known as dodder or love vine and methods for controlling it. If procedures are properly followed, eradication of the weed in the United States is possible. Topics include varieties of dodder and plants that susceptible to attack by it, its life cycle, and ways it is unintentionally introduced to farms.
Date: 1921
Creator: Hansen, A. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proso, or Hog Millet (open access)

Proso, or Hog Millet

Report discussing proso (or hog millet), which is an early-maturing millet used as grain both for human food and livestock feed. Topics include varieties of proso, soil and climate requirements, methods of sowing, harvesting, thrashing, and diseases which commonly affect it.
Date: 1920
Creator: Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dry Farming in Western South Dakota (open access)

Dry Farming in Western South Dakota

"The United States Department of Agriculture, since 1908 at the Belle Fourche Field Station, near Newell, and since 1912 at the Ardmore Field Station, has been conducting thorough investigations of methods of crop production in South Dakota. The results of these investigations show that the high fluctuation of yields, due to fluctuating rainfall, can not be sufficiently overcome by cultural methods to change the problem materially. These results and the experience of farmers who have succeeded indicate that the most favorable conditions for grain production are found when combined with or subordinated to stock production. The system and methods recommended are 1) keeping live stock to the capacity of summer pasture and winter feed, 2) the growth of cultivated annual crops (corn and sorghum) for winter feed, and 3) the growth of small grains following the corn without plowing. This system may be modified as local or individual conditions warrant the growth of alfalfa for hay or seed, or the growth of a larger acreage of wheat or other grains." -- p. 2
Date: 1920
Creator: Mathews, O. R. (Oscar Roland), b. 1890
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essentials of Animal Breeding (open access)

Essentials of Animal Breeding

"This bulletin is written in simple language for the man who breeds farm animals, who wants to learn the rudiments of the science of breeding, and how to apply them in practice. It sets forth some of the known facts regarding the operation of the forces of heredity." -- p. 2. Topics include gestation periods, incubation for birds, fertility, Mendel's law of prepotency, selection, inbreeding, purity and pedigree, and livestock improvement techniques.
Date: 1920
Creator: Rommel, George M. (George McCullough)
System: The UNT Digital Library