Resource Type

Texas (open access)

Texas

Informational pamphlet on various aspects of Texas, including its history, seal, flag, song, state bird, state flower, state tree, etc.
Date: September 1929
Creator: Texas Library and Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beautifying the Farmstead (open access)

Beautifying the Farmstead

Revised edition. Report giving practical ways for families to beautify farmsteads. Contains sections on design, locations of buildings, walkways, driveways, lawns, trees and other plants.
Date: 1929
Creator: Mulford, Furman Lloyd, b. 1869
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breeds of Sheep for the Farm (open access)

Breeds of Sheep for the Farm

Revised edition. Report discussing the different breeds of sheep raised by farmers and their suitability for either wool or mutton.
Date: 1929
Creator: Marshall, F. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection and Preservation of Plant Material for Use in the Study of Agriculture (open access)

Collection and Preservation of Plant Material for Use in the Study of Agriculture

Revised edition. "The purpose of this bulletin is to suggest methods of collecting, preparing, mounting, and preserving plant specimens of various sorts which can be used by teachers of agriculture. To instructors in agriculture who have had special training along these lines, doubtless many of the suggestions here given will seem superfluous; but there are many teachers who are called upon to teach agriculture who have not had such training, and who will doubtless welcome specific information as to how to prepare the materials needed for illustration and demonstration purposes in the classroom." -- title page
Date: 1929
Creator: Derr, H. B. (Harry Benjamin), b. 1867 & Lane, C. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feed-Lot and Ranch Equipment for Beef Cattle (open access)

Feed-Lot and Ranch Equipment for Beef Cattle

"Practical equipment which is more or less essential in the successful handling of beef cattle on the range and in the feed lot is discussed in this bulletin and illustrated by drawings and photographs. Details concerning silos, barns, and concrete work which have previously been presented in other publications are not included, but reference is made to the publication containing such details." -- p. ii. Includes discussion of sheds, windbreaks, feeders, troughs, tanks, silos, scales, corrals, and dipping vats.
Date: 1929
Creator: Black, W. H. 1888-1949 & Parr, V. V.; 1888-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemorrhagic Septicemia: "Shipping Fever" of Cattle (open access)

Hemorrhagic Septicemia: "Shipping Fever" of Cattle

Revised edition. Report discussing hemorrhagic septicemia, an infectious disease which affects farm animals and has a very high mortality rate. Discussion includes a description of causes, symptoms, diagnostic procedures, prevention methods, and potential treatments.
Date: 1929
Creator: Washburn, Henry J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hog Lice and Hog Mange: Methods of Control and Eradication. (open access)

Hog Lice and Hog Mange: Methods of Control and Eradication.

Revised edition. Report discussing lice and mange, two external parasites which commonly affect hogs. Infected hogs may experience irritation, arrested growth, lack of vitality, and have an increased risk of death. Both diseases are discussed in details along with potential remedies. Treatments include hand applications, spraying, hog oilers, medicated hog wallows, and dipping.
Date: 1929
Creator: Imes, Marion
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Loco-Weed Disease (open access)

The Loco-Weed Disease

Revised edition. "Loco weeds are poisonous plants that have caused heavy losses of horses, cattle, and sheep in some parts of the West and Southwest. Three plants are known definitely to be locoes, a few others are probably injurious, and some suspected ones are harmless. The loco plants, their distribution, characteristics, and effects upon animals eating them, are described in this bulletin. Illustrations of the plants and of poisoned animals accompany the descriptions." -- p. ii
Date: 1929
Creator: Marsh, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight); Clawson, A. B. & Eggleston, W. W. (Willard Webster), b. 1863
System: The UNT Digital Library
Production of Late or Main Crop Potatoes. (open access)

Production of Late or Main Crop Potatoes.

Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for maximizing crop yields for late or main-crop potatoes. Topics discussed include soil requirements and preparation, fertilizers, varieties, spraying practices, harvesting, and storage.
Date: 1929
Creator: Stuart, William, 1865-1951
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication. (open access)

Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication.

Revised edition. Report discussing the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and efforts necessary to detect, control, and eradicate it. Includes discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, the tuberculin test, and best methods for eradication and prevention.
Date: 1929
Creator: Kiernan, John Andrew, 1873-1927 & Wight, Alexander E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooking Beef According to the Cut. (open access)

Cooking Beef According to the Cut.

Pamphlet discussing the nutritional value and versatility of beef; provides recipes and methods for its preparation in various dishes.
Date: October 1928
Creator: Alexander, Lucy M. (Lucy Maclay), 1888- & Yeatman, Fanny Walker, b. 1876
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Making and Feeding of Silage (open access)

The Making and Feeding of Silage

Revised edition. Report discussing the use of silos for storing feed for livestock, with special attention to silage for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, and sheep. Topics discussed include crops for silage, preparing crops for storage, and storage practices.
Date: 1928
Creator: Woodward, T. E. (Thompson Elwyn); Rommel, George M. (George McCullough); Sheets, E. W.; McNulty, J. B. & Marshall, F. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Onion Diseases and Their Control (open access)

Onion Diseases and Their Control

Revised edition. Report discussing diseases which affect onions in both the field and in storage, and methods for their control. Diseases discussed include smut, mildew (blight), leaf mold, fusarium rot, pink root, root knot, neck rot, soft rot, black mold, smudge (anthracnose, black spot), rust, white rot, dodder, and macrosporium rot.
Date: 1928
Creator: Walker, J. C. (John Charles), 1893-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prickly Pear as Stock Feed (open access)

Prickly Pear as Stock Feed

Revised edition. Report discussing the importance of the prickly pear cactus as an emergency food source for cattle during times of severe drought. Although the plant typically has inedible spines, spineless varieties do exist, and it is recommended that farmers cultivate prickly pear for use during droughts.
Date: 1928
Creator: Griffiths, David, 1867-1935
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saving Man Labor in Sugar-Beet Fields (open access)

Saving Man Labor in Sugar-Beet Fields

Revised edition. "By using larger equipment many sugar-beet growers have greatly reduced their requirements for man labor and at the same time have been able to accomplish more work in a given time. This bulletin tells how man labor can be saved and production speeded up in the several American sugar-beet regions through the use of large machines and units of power." -- p. ii
Date: 1928
Creator: Moorhouse, L. A. & Summers, T. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions (open access)

Strawberry Culture: South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions

Revised edition. Report discussing best practices for the cultivation of strawberries in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Topics discussed include varieties, soil preparation, mulch and fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting, and diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "This bulletin applies to that part of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts in the irrigated regions of the West; it aims to aid those familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those which apply in the growing of other crops. Details of operation must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Since strawberries in the humid regions frequently suffer from drought, which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove suggestive to many growers in those localities who could install an irrigation system at small expense. Detailed information is also given as to soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, and shipping. Methods of using surplus strawberries for preserves and jams, for canning, and for flavoring for various purposes are given." -- p. 3
Date: 1928
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sweet-Potato Diseases (open access)

Sweet-Potato Diseases

Revised edition. "Diseases of sweet potatoes are divisible into two classes, 1) field troubles, and 2) storage rots. Field troubles are divisible into root and stem diseases and leaf diseases. Root and stem diseases include stem-rot, black-rot, foot-rot, scurf, and root-rot; and leaf disease, leaf-blight, white-rust, and leaf-spot.... Control of the five storage rots described hinges on careful storage-house management. Sweet potatoes infected with field diseases should never be placed in storage, for heavy loss will follow. But this elimination of field diseases must be coupled with a well-regulated system of storage, the first requisite of which is a thoroughly disinfected house free from the numerous storage-rot germs." -- p. ii. There are many methods of control for field diseases which are also discussed.
Date: 1928
Creator: Harter, L. L. (Leonard Lee)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication. (open access)

Tuberculosis in Live Stock: Detection, Control, and Eradication.

Revised edition. Report discussing the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and efforts necessary to detect, control, and eradicate it. Includes discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, the tuberculin test, and best methods for eradication and prevention.
Date: 1928
Creator: Kiernan, John Andrew, 1873-1927 & Wight, Alexander E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing and Marketing Texas Vegetables (open access)

Growing and Marketing Texas Vegetables

Bulletin outlining information regarding vegetable growing and marketing, organized by types of crops. It includes information about each stage of cultivation such as acquiring and planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, water and soil, harvests, and distribution to markets.
Date: August 1927
Creator: Seymour, L. A. & Hunter, J. Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Control of the Alfalfa Weevil. (open access)

The Control of the Alfalfa Weevil.

Pamphlet describing the characteristics of the alfalfa weevil, the damage it causes, and methods of control.
Date: June 1927
Creator: Reeves, Geo. I. (George I.), b. 1879
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buckwheat (open access)

Buckwheat

Report discussing best practices for cultivating the grain crop buckwheat. Topics discussed include soil preparation, fertilizers, varieties, sowing, harvesting, insect enemies, and its many uses.
Date: 1927
Creator: Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cattle Scab and Methods of Control and Eradication (open access)

Cattle Scab and Methods of Control and Eradication

Revised edition. "Cattle scab can be eradicated by dipping or spraying, but dipping is the better method of treatment. Lime-sulphur dips, nicotine dips, and crude-petroleum dips are efficacious. Methods of preparing and using these dips are described and the intervals between dippings and the conditions under which the various dips may safely be used for the different kinds of scab are discussed. Also, plans of cattle-dipping plants and directions for building vats and dipping cattle are given." -- p. 2
Date: 1927
Creator: Imes, Marion
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth (open access)

Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth

Revised edition. This bulletin provides simple guidelines and illustrations for determining the age of cattle by examining their teeth.
Date: 1927
Creator: Pope, George W. (George Whitfield), 1867-
System: The UNT Digital Library