Farm Management in Northern Potato Growing Sections (open access)

Farm Management in Northern Potato Growing Sections

Report discussing "the potato crop as a part of a system of farming, and [giving] special attention to the system of farming prevailing in Aroostook County, Maine, where potato growing is perhaps more highly developed than in any other section of the United States." -- p. 2
Date: 1909
Creator: Dodge, Lawrence G. (Lawrence Green), 1882-
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
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 25 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 25

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Watermelons in the North, Watermelon Culture in Georgia, Muskmelon Culture in the North, Rockyford Muskmelons, Cold Storage of Fruits, Selection of Seed Corn, Bread and Toast, Cooking Meat, Bitter Milk.
Date: 1904
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rape as a Forage Crop (open access)

Rape as a Forage Crop

Report discussing the cultivation of the rape plant as a forage crop, including its varieties, soil requirements and preparation, and harvesting. Also describes various uses of rape as a forage crop, weed destroyer, and cover crop.
Date: 1903
Creator: Hitchcock, A. S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cropping Systems for New England Dairy Farms (open access)

Cropping Systems for New England Dairy Farms

"This paper gives the results of three years' study of the cropping systems on a number of the most successful dairy farms in New England. This study point[s] out the elements which go to make a satisfactory cropping system in that section and to make definite recommendations concerning crops to plant and the relative acreage of these crops on dairy farms." -- p. 3
Date: 1908
Creator: Dodge, L. G.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (open access)

Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station

This bulletin discusses the methods of poultry management employed at the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. It contains recommendations for breeding, natural and artificial incubation, feeding practices, and sheltering.
Date: 1909
Creator: Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
To Establish a Shad Hatchery on the Kennebec River, In the State of Maine, Report (open access)

To Establish a Shad Hatchery on the Kennebec River, In the State of Maine, Report

Report of the Committee on Fisheries detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 6460 to provide for the establishment of a shad hatchery on the Kennebec River in the State of Maine. It includes a letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor on the proposed legislation.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Fisheries
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library