Sea Island Cotton: Its Culture, Improvement, and Diseases (open access)

Sea Island Cotton: Its Culture, Improvement, and Diseases

Report explaining new cultivation techniques for growers of Sea Island cotton in Georgia and Florida. The deterioration of seed quality and poor farming practices for this unique cotton make the adoption of these techniques necessary.
Date: 1907
Creator: Orton, W. A. (William Allen), 1877-1930
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 42 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 42

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Extension of Rice Culture, Growing Seed Potatoes Under Mulch, Manure as a Summer Mulch in Forcing Houses, Renewal of Old Orchards, Injury by Bordeaux Mixture, Gluten Flours and Similar foods, Laxative Properties of Wheat Bran, Emmer as a Feeding Stuff, Roots for Farm Animals, Cabbage as Stock Feed, Pasturing Hogs, Cull Beans as a Feed for Hogs, and Healthy Poultry.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Games Laws for 1907: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, and Licenses (open access)

Games Laws for 1907: A Summary of the Provisions Relating to Seasons, Shipment, Sale, and Licenses

Report presenting information on the game laws effective in the United States and Canada for 1907, with special emphasis on federal laws and provisions governing interstate commerce. The report is not a comprehensive overview of state game laws.
Date: 1907
Creator: Palmer, T. S. (Theodore Sherman), 1868-1955; Oldys, Henry & Brewster, Charles E. (Chas. E.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 43 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 43

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Ice for Household Use, Culture and Varieties of Root Crops, Cowpeas and Soy Beans, Silage from Frosted Corn, Cooperation in Marketing Crops, Incubation of Eggs, Causes of Death of Young Chicks, Snow for Poultry, Eradication of Cattle Tricks, and Bacteria in Cream.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 39 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 39

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Improvements in Peach Growing, Mulberries, Alfalfa in the Eastern States, Oat Culture in the South, Improvement of Grass Land, Succotash as a Soiling Crop, Tankage and Bone Meal for Hogs, Grinding Corn for Hogs, Dips as Lice Killers, Digestibility of Fish and Poultry, Honey Vinegar, and the Farm Woodlot.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm (open access)

A Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm

Report explaining how to successfully operate a tenant dairy farm by example of a 120-acre farm in southern Michigan. The farm discussed was owned by Mr. J. N. Neal and managed by Mr. Charles J. Angevine.Topics under consideration include operations contracts, cropping systems, buildings, employees, manure, equipment, and finances.
Date: 1907
Creator: Carrier, Lyman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 40 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 40

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Insoluble Phosphates, Forms and Methods of Applying Lime, Sediment in Irrigation Water, Hardy Bermuda Grass, Williamson Method of Corn Culture, Killing Sassafras Sprouts, Soluble Oils for San Jose Scale, Corn as food for Man, Storing Preserves and Canned Goods, Incubation of Chickens, Prevention of Nodule Disease of Lambs, Some Milk Terms.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spraying for Apple Diseases and the Codling Moth in the Ozarks (open access)

Spraying for Apple Diseases and the Codling Moth in the Ozarks

Report promoting the spraying of apples with insecticides and fungicides in the Ozarks in order to prevent damage from bitter-rot, apple blotch, leaf-spot diseases, apple scab, and the codling moth. Each problem is described and a course of treatment by spraying is recommended.
Date: 1907
Creator: Quaintance, A. L. (Altus Lacy), 1870-1958
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 41 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 41

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Wells and Pure Water, Phosphates and Soil Acidity, Pure Seed v. Poor Seed, Disease-Resistant Clover, Eradication of Wild Mustard, Sterilization of Soils for Preventing Plant Diseases, Seedless Tomatoes, Pickling Olives and Mock Olives, Hay Box or Fireless Cooker, Insect Enemies of Shade Trees, Feeding Whole Grain, Improvement of Cattle, Ventilation of Stables, Hog Cots, Preserving Eggs, and American Camembert Cheese.
Date: 1907
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diversified Farming Under the Plantation System (open access)

Diversified Farming Under the Plantation System

Report promoting crop diversification and crop rotation on farms, particularly among those engaged in the plantation system.
Date: 1907
Creator: Brodie, D. A. (David Arthur), b. 1868 & McClelland, C. K. (Chalmer Kirk), 1877-1956
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Important Grasses and Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region (open access)

Some Important Grasses and Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region

Report discussing Mexican clover, beggarweed, velvet beans, guinea grass, and para grass, which are among the most important grasses in the Gulf Coast region of the United States.
Date: 1907
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Alcohol: Sources and Manufacture (open access)

Industrial Alcohol: Sources and Manufacture

Revised edition. This bulletin "is devoted to the description of the sources from which industrial alcohol may be made and the methods of [its] manufacture." -- p. 2. Topics discussed include legislation concerning denatured alcohol, agricultural sources of industrial alcohol, the yield and composition of alcohol-producing crops, alcohol by-products, and the manufacturing process for alcohol.
Date: 1907
Creator: Wiley, H. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines (open access)

The Use of Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines

"Owing to the fact that there are not on the American market any engines designed especially for alcohol, the experiments so far made have been with alcohol in the gasoline and kerosene engines familiar to the American market. The purpose of these experiments is twofold: (1) To determine what can be done with alcohol in the existing engines, and (2) to learn what changes in the mechanism of the engines are necessary to secure the highest efficiency in the use of alcohol as a fuel. ...It has seemed best to publish as a Farmers' Bulletin the essential facts brought out by the experiments made, with some popular matter on the use of gas engines for farm purposes, leaving the details and the more technical results of the tests to be published later, and such publication is therefore recommended." -- p. 2
Date: 1907
Creator: Lucke, Charles Edward, 1876-1951 & Woodward, Sherman M. (Sherman Melville), b. 1871
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Practice in the Columbia Basin Uplands (open access)

Farm Practice in the Columbia Basin Uplands

"The principle objects in undertaking this study [of farming practices in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho] were (1) to ascertain what methods of tillage are in actual use by the farmers of the region, together with the relative merits of the different methods, and (2) to determine, if possible, the localities and conditions under which each of the leading varieties of wheat succeeds best." -- p. 7
Date: 1907
Creator: Hunter, Byron, b. 1869
System: The UNT Digital Library
Home-Grown Tea (open access)

Home-Grown Tea

"This paper...was prepared in order to meet a considerable demand for information [in the United States] on the methods of growing tea in small home gardens and utilizing it for drinking purposes." -- p. 3. Topics discussed include climate and soil requirements for tea, cultivation practices, harvesting, and curing methods for black tea, sun tea, and green tea.
Date: 1907
Creator: Mitchell, George F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corn-Harvesting Machinery (open access)

Corn-Harvesting Machinery

Report discussing the use of different machines for harvesting corn. Machines discussed include sled harvesters, binders, shockers, pickers, huskers, and shredders.
Date: 1907
Creator: Zintheo, C. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing and Curing Hops (open access)

Growing and Curing Hops

"In keeping with the great progress made in agriculture within recent years the methods employed in hop production have not remained unchanged. Nevertheless certain practical principles of great importance to successful hop growing merit a much wider consideration and use than they now enjoy. These will be discussed in the following pages in which is also presented a brief general outline of hop culture." -- p. 7. Hops culture is discussed with regard to climate and soil requirements, propagation, planting, trellises and training, picking, and curing.
Date: 1907
Creator: Stockberger, W. W. (Warner Webster)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roselle: Its Culture and Uses (open access)

Roselle: Its Culture and Uses

Report discussing and promoting the cultivation of the roselle plant -- a species of hibiscus -- in the United States. Topics discussed include varieties of roselle, helpful fertilizers, harvesting practices, uses, and common diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1907
Creator: Wester, P. J. (Peter Johnson), 1877-1931
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm (open access)

A Successful Alabama Diversification Farm

"In this bulletin is given the record of a 65-acre hog farm in the black prairie region of Alabama. The method of farming described is applicable to the entire area in which corn, alfalfa, and Bermuda grass can be grown. This area includes the black lands of Texas, the river bottoms of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and the alluvial soils generally in all the Southern States.... The primary object in the work of this farm was to demonstrate that hog farming is practicable in this territory, and three years' experience has led us to the conclusion that the production of alfalfa hay in this region can also be made highly profitable.... The system of farming established on the diversification farm at Uniontown, Alabama, was planned with the special view of increasing the fertility of the soil and reducing the cost of tillage by doing away with hillside ditches and adopting improved methods of cultivation." -- p. 5
Date: 1907
Creator: Crosby, M. A.; Duggar, J. F. (John Frederick), 1868- & Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Successful Southern Hay Farm (open access)

A Successful Southern Hay Farm

"In localities where a one-crop system has prevailed for a number of years farms which deviate from this system are of special interest, because they show what types of farming are possible in the section in which they are located. In the cotton-growing States such farms are of unusual interest for the reason that so few of them exist. Much of the hay consumed on Southern farms and plantations is shipped from the North. As a result, hay is high priced in the South. There is room for a considerable number of hay farms in that section. That such farms can be made to pay handsomely is demonstrated by the experience of the farmer who work is described in these pages. Not every hay grower can follow the methods here described. It is not necessary, however, that a farmer should feed steers for their manure, as is done on this farm, in order to be able to grow hay. While nothing else is quite equal to manure, land can be kept in good heart by plowing under an occasional green crop and then using lime and commercial fertilizers. A brief discussion of hay growing under more usual conditions on southern …
Date: 1907
Creator: Benton, Harmon
System: The UNT Digital Library