Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing the lignite and bituminous coal fields of Michigan, Texas, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Analyses of the varying regional coal fields are presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.

Revised edition. "Strawberries can be grown in those parts of the western Untied States in which ordinary farm crops are irrigated as well as in western Oregon and Washington, where irrigation is not essential but may be profitable. The principles of irrigating strawberries are essentially the same as those for other crops. Because strawberries are sensitive to the alkali salts that irrigation brings to the surface, such salts must be washed out or skimmed off. The strawberry grower, after choosing a suitable site and preparing the soil carefully, should select varieties adapted to his district and needs. He should use plants that are disease-free. In California, southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas the plants should have undergone a rest period. Usually the growers plant during the period of greatest rainfall. By using the recommended systems of training and care before, during, and after setting of the plants and the suggested methods of decreasing diseases and insect pests, he should obtain better yields. A grower can furnish consumers a better product by using good methods of harvesting and shipment. He can prolong the fresh-fruit season only a little by the use of cold storage, but he can extend his market by …

Photograph of six identical fighter planes flying in formation past Mount Rushmore. The jets have "United States Air Force" written across the main part of the body and they have livery on the tails that includes scalloped red around the front edge and an eagle logo surrounded by stars.

The following report provides information that follows investigations of radioactivity in certain rocks found in Wyoming and South Dakota during the summer of 1945. Uranium is the principal element in this report with thorium as secondary.

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines regarding the concentration of manganese ore along the Missouri River valley. The report contains maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and illustrations.

Postcard from Captain Edward Drew to Mickey McLernon informing her that he received her letter and about his travels. The front of the post card has an illustration of the National Bank of South Dakota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to J. E. Foster thanking Foster for informing Kempner of the facts and restrictions regarding the shipping of pheasants from South Dakota to Texas.

Letter from J. E. Foster to I. H. Kempner informing Kempner that he enjoyed their meeting and discussing the laws surrounding sending pheasants in the mail in South Dakota.

Aeronautical map of Montana and part of its surrounding region, showing cities, topographical features, radio frequency ranges and other various aeronautical symbols for flight training and navigation. Scale 1:1,000,000.

The problem of this study was to analyze the objectives and methods for teaching reading in the elementary grades as they appeared in the latest available courses of study in certain states for the purpose of determining their uniformity or lack of uniformity. An effort was made to compile data on teaching reading in order to determine certain modern trends as supplementary material for the writer's teaching aids.

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, from Harlan J. Bushfield, Governor, State of South Dakota, dated December 15, 1941. Harlan J. Bushfield defines Americanism.

Revised edition. "This bulletin applies both to the western portions of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation and to western Oregon and Washington where irrigation is not essential for strawberry production but may be profitable. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts of the West; it aims to aid those persons 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 of irrigating other crops. Details must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Because strawberries in the humid areas frequently suffer from drought, which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove helpful to many growers in those areas who could install irrigation systems at small expense. This bulletin gives information on soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, shipping, and utilization." -- p. ii

"This bulletin deals with soil and water conservation problems which relate to agriculture of the northern Great Plains [of the United States]." -- p. i. "The major portion of this bulletin, beginning on page 18, is devoted to a discussion of the controls and cures for land misuse. These suggested practices, in the main, represent the methods of control that are now being used in the several demonstration areas of the Soil Conservation Service. The use of these practices in a few specific demonstration areas is included in the section beginning on page 47. The last section (p. 76) points out a democratic procedure whereby landowners and operators may effect a more appropriate use of the land through soil conservation districts." -- p. 2

A photograph print showing Great Northern (GN) 186, 4-4-0 (class B-19), Yankton, SD. (Note GN emblem on tender)

A postcard addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas From Sarah Anna Simmons Crane, Yankton, South Dakota, postmarked Yankton, South Dakota, April 27, 1940. The reverse side includes correspondence written to Mr. Carswell from Sarah Anna Simmons Crane, dated April 26, 1940. Crane expresses how glad she was that Carswell spoke at President Sandefer's Funeral. She thought it so fine of him to suggest a building as a Memorial.

From Introduction: "The principal purpose of the survey is to make public information not generally known concerning the gold deposits in the Black Hills. Operating mines, particularly the Homestake, are discussed only briefly."

Describes various types of planned villages and provides examples of features in such communities.