Farmers' Reading Courses (open access)

Farmers' Reading Courses

Report discussing the main features of the farmers' reading courses that have become popular in several states through agricultural colleges and experiment stations. The reading courses are designed to provide farmers with a systematic approach to their work through the study of a scientifically sound and accessible textbook curriculum.
Date: 1900
Creator: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act: Insights from a Survey of Employers (open access)

Assessing Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act: Insights from a Survey of Employers

A report which provides evidence on Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) law, which took effect in January 2014, based on a survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the food services and manufacturing sectors in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher & Waldfogel, Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New England Beryllium Investigations (open access)

New England Beryllium Investigations

Report issued by the Bureau of mines over studies conducted on beryllium deposits in New England. Evaluations of the deposits are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1968
Creator: Barton, William R. & Goldsmith, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecticut Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized (open access)

Connecticut Emergency Management and Homeland Security Statutory Authorities Summarized

This report is one of a series that profiles the emergency management and homeland security statutory authorities of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and three territories (American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Each profile identifies the more significant elements of state statutes, generally as codified. This report focuses on the state of Connecticut.
Date: April 2, 2004
Creator: Bea, Keith; Runyon, L. Cheryl & Warnock, Kae M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer (open access)

The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer

This report discusses the roundheaded apple-tree borer, an insect in the eastern and midwestern United States that, in its larval stage, destroys the bark and wood of apple trees. Several methods of control are discussed, including worming, paints and washes, and sprays.Apple-tree borers.
Date: 1915
Creator: Brooks, Fred E.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gipsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth and Their Control (open access)

The Gipsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth and Their Control

"This bulletin describes briefly the seasonal history and habits of [the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth] and suggests the best methods for their control, determined and adopted as a result of many extensive experiments." -- p. 5
Date: 1917
Creator: Burgess, A. F.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stake-Pin. (open access)

Stake-Pin.

Patent for stake-pin that improves upon previous stake-pins that are used for picketing horses and attaching the ropes. This design allows for the rope to stay out of the dirt. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1880
Creator: Carnes, William, Sr. & Penfield, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Printing-Machines. (open access)

Feeder for Printing-Machines.

Patent for a feeder for printing machines that supplies sheets for them to be printed automatically. It has a reciprocating bed with a cylinder over it which rotates when the bed moves. Blank sheets are on the beds, and the cylinder moves the sheets off the beds, into rollers.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Clarke, George R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letters from Citizens to the BRAC Commission - 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Citizens to the BRAC Commission - 2005]

Letters from citizens to the BRAC Commission asking to reverse the recommendation regarding closure of the New London Sub Base.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Coblens, Shirley & Peterson, Barry T.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States (open access)

Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States

"There are nearly 7,500 recognized species of ferns in the world, of which number over 200 are known to be native to the United States. A few species have become weed pests in this country, and it is to a discussion of the control of these weedy ferns that this bulletin is devoted. The parts of the United States in which ferns are bad weeds are, principally, (1) the hill country of the Northeastern States and the higher portions of the Appalachian Mountain region as far south as Georgia, and (2) the Pacific coast country west of the Cascade Mountains.... This publication deals only with fern eradication in the Eastern States." -- p. 1-2
Date: 1915
Creator: Cox, H. R. (Herbert Randolph)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Christopher J. Dodd to Harold Tickle, Jim Hanna, Charles Battaglia, and David Hague - June 9, 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Christopher J. Dodd to Harold Tickle, Jim Hanna, Charles Battaglia, and David Hague - June 9, 2005]

Letters from Connecticut Senator Christopher J. Dodd to Charles Battaglia, David Hague, Harold Tickle, and Jim Hanna expressing thanks for their visit to Submarine Base New London in Connecticut.
Date: June 9, 2005
Creator: Dodd, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1944-
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from  Christopher J. Dodd and Joseph Lieberman to Anthony Principi - May 25, 2005] (open access)

[Letter from Christopher J. Dodd and Joseph Lieberman to Anthony Principi - May 25, 2005]

Letter from Senators Joseph Lieberman, Christopher Dodd, and Rob Simmons to Anthony Principi regarding Principi's visit to discuss New London, Connecticut Submarine Base.
Date: May 25, 2005
Creator: Dodd, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1944-; Lieberman, Joseph & Simmons, Rob (Robert Ruhl), 1943-
Object Type: Letter
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
Shipping System (open access)

Shipping System

Patent for a spreadsheet in relation to shipping. Illustration included.
Date: August 15, 1905
Creator: Fisher, Charles H. & Raymond, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machine for Drawing and Spinning Cotton (open access)

Improvement in Machine for Drawing and Spinning Cotton

Patent for a machine that improves the process of spinning and drawing cotton. The patent includes an illustration and instructions.
Date: August 25, 1868
Creator: Fuller, Jim B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Graphic Dictionary of Connecticut (open access)

A Graphic Dictionary of Connecticut

This report aids in finding any geographic feature upon the atlas sheets of Connecticut published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Date: 1894
Creator: Gannett, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission - July 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission - July 2005]

Letters from residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission regarding New London Sub Base.
Date: July 23, 2005
Creator: Geer, Catherine D.; Haney, Janice O.; Chaplinski, Sylvia; Trombley, Mildred H. & Engdall, William E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeologic Evaluation of Selected Stratified-Drift Deposits in Connecticut (open access)

Hydrogeologic Evaluation of Selected Stratified-Drift Deposits in Connecticut

From purpose and scope: The purpose of this investigation was to estimate the water-yielding potential and water-quality characteristics of a stratified-drift deposits in five areas of Connecticut.
Date: 1983
Creator: Grady, Stephen J. & Handman, Elinor H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Modeling of Ground-Water Availability in the Pootatuck River Valley, Newtown, Connecticut (open access)

Computer Modeling of Ground-Water Availability in the Pootatuck River Valley, Newtown, Connecticut

From abstract: A hydrologic analysis based on available data, test drilling, seismic refraction profiling, and the stream-aquifer connection was performed using a digital computer model. The report presents its findings on the quality and availability of the ground and surface water of the Pootatuck River Valley in Connecticut.
Date: July 1978
Creator: Haeni, F. P. & Handman, Elinor H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Development Field Investigations, Nott Island Upland Habitat Development Site, Connecticut River, Connecticut: Summary Report (open access)

Habitat Development Field Investigations, Nott Island Upland Habitat Development Site, Connecticut River, Connecticut: Summary Report

This report summarizes habitat development activities at the Nott Island Upland Habitat Development Site in the Connecticut River near Essex, Connecticut, including aspects of engineering, botany, soils, and wildlife.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Hunt, L. Jean; Wells, B. R. & Ford, Alford W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioaccumulation of contaminants from Black Rock Harbor dredged material by mussels and polychaetes (open access)

Bioaccumulation of contaminants from Black Rock Harbor dredged material by mussels and polychaetes

"This report describes work performed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPS), Environmental research laboratory, Narragansett, R.I. (ERLN), as part of the Interagency Field verification of Testing and predictive Methodologies for Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives Program or the Field Verification Program (FVP)."
Date: February 1985
Creator: Lake, James; Hoffman, Gerald L. & Schimmel, Steven C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Residents of Connecticut and Virginia to the BRAC Commission - July/August 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Residents of Connecticut and Virginia to the BRAC Commission - July/August 2005]

Letters from citizens to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) asking to reverse the recommendation of the Secretary of Defense regarding closure of the New London Sub Base.
Date: July 2005
Creator: Margeson, Justin
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission - August 2005] (open access)

[Letters from Residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission - August 2005]

Letters from residents of Connecticut to the BRAC Commission regarding their feelings toward the recommendation to close Naval Submarine Base New London.
Date: August 2005
Creator: Mathley, Sally Austin; Stevens, Lori J. & Dawydko, Theodore
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States (open access)

How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States

"The means of increasing the number of birds about our homes are few and simple. They comprise adequate protection and the provision of suitable nesting places, food, and water.... This bulletin [recommends] practicable methods of attracting birds about homes [in the northeastern United States]. Especial attention will be given to the value of fruit-bearing shrubs and trees." -- title page. Protection for birds, winter feeding, water supplies, and nesting boxes and birdhouses are also discussed.
Date: 1914
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library