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Soil Map, Frio County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, ranches, towns, churches, schools, state parks, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1934
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Potter County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, schools, fairgrounds, ranches, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Land divisions displayed in blocks and sections.
Date: 1934
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Frio County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Frio County, Texas

Text describes the climate, agriculture, soils, and crops of Frio County, Texas.
Date: 1934
Creator: Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter); Hawker, H. W. (Herman William) & Ragsdale, L. G.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, reconnaissance survey, trans-Pecos area, Texas

Map displays soil types along with counties, towns, ranches, creeks, rivers, springs, experiment stations, reservoirs, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1934
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas

Text describes the climate, agriculture, soils, and crops of Potter County, Texas.
Date: 1934
Creator: Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry) & Shearin, A. E.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey (Reconnaissance) of the Trans-Pecos area, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey (Reconnaissance) of the Trans-Pecos area, Texas

Soil survey of nine Texas counties lying west of the Pecos River. Included are Brewster, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves, and Terrell Counties. Text describes the area, natural vegetation, settlement and development, climate, agriculture, soils and crops, agricultural industries and methods of soil management, alkali, irrigation, and soil erosion and rain-water conservation of these counties.
Date: 1934
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter); Smith, Howard Malcolm; Hawker, H. W. (Herman William); Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry) & Reitch, T. C.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quality Guides in Buying Ready-Made Dresses. (open access)

Quality Guides in Buying Ready-Made Dresses.

Provides advice for judging the quality of dresses based on the fabric used, the cut, and the workmanship.
Date: July 1934
Creator: Scott, Clarice L. (Clarice Louisba), b. 1899
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machinery for dusting cotton. (open access)

Machinery for dusting cotton.

Describes the types of machinery which can be used for dusting cotton plants with chemicals to prevent boll weevil damage.
Date: July 1934
Creator: Gaines, R. C. (Robert Callaway), 1898- & Isler, D. A. (David Adelbert), 1902-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stop gullies : save your farm. (open access)

Stop gullies : save your farm.

Provides advice and instructions for stopping or healing gullies created by erosion. Includes photographs and descriptions of the damage caused by gullies to farmland.
Date: September 1934
Creator: Mattoon, Wilbur R. (Wilbur Reed), 1875-1941
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The green June beetle larva in tobacco plant beds. (open access)

The green June beetle larva in tobacco plant beds.

Describes the damage caused to tobacco plant beds by the larva of the green June beetle. Provides recommendations for its control.
Date: 1934
Creator: McKinney, K. B. (Kenneth Barbee), 1890- & Milam, Joe.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1933 (open access)

Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1933

Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics and selected studies.
Date: June 1934
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 69, July-December, 1933 (open access)

Experiment Station Record, Volume 69, July-December, 1933

Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Puerto Rico Station. Name and subject indexes start on page 913.
Date: 1934
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Important cultivated grasses. (open access)

Important cultivated grasses.

An illustrated guide to several varieties of grasses.
Date: July 1934
Creator: Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver), 1867-1926
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Containers used in shipping fruits and vegetables. (open access)

Containers used in shipping fruits and vegetables.

Describes five types of containers used for shipping fruits and vegetables, and indications for their use. Discusses the benefits of standardized shipping containers.
Date: 1934
Creator: Spilman, H. A. (Harold Addison), 1883- & Davis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1899-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selecting hens for egg production. (open access)

Selecting hens for egg production.

A guide to evaluating the health and maturity of a hen for the purpose of egg production.
Date: May 1934
Creator: Quinn, Joseph Patrick, 1889-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1932 (open access)

Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1932

Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which is a compilation of accidents in quarries located in the United States with data regarding the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (e.g., number of men employed, kinds of quarries, amount of work performed, etc.).
Date: 1934
Creator: Adams, William W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1932 (open access)

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1932

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1934
Creator: Adams, William W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Underfeed Combustion, Effect of Preheat, and Distribution of Ash in Fuel Beds (open access)

Underfeed Combustion, Effect of Preheat, and Distribution of Ash in Fuel Beds

From Introduction: "This report covers studies of the underfeed-type fuel bed-exemplified by underfeed stokers-and of the effect of preheated air on what transpires in both overfeed and underfeed fuel beds."
Date: 1934
Creator: Nicholls, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 2. High-Temperature Specific-Heat Equations for Inorganic Substances (open access)

Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 2. High-Temperature Specific-Heat Equations for Inorganic Substances

From introduction: "The present work reviews the available high-temperature thermal data on inorganic compounds and gives representative specific-heat equations valid at high temperatures for use in thermodynamic calculations."
Date: 1934
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permissible Coal-Cutting Equipment Approved Prior to July 1, 1932 (open access)

Permissible Coal-Cutting Equipment Approved Prior to July 1, 1932

From Schedules, Approvals, and Approval Plates: " This schedule has been revised from time to time to conform with information gained from testing a large variety of equipment and to bring the requirements in line with new developments in the art. As the approval plate on a machine evidences compliance with the safety requirements established by the Bureau the user, in fairness to the Bureau and the manufacturer, should not operate such a machine if it has been changed from the design approved without authority or if it has become unsafe through neglect or accident. The machine should be in proper condition, or the approval plate should be removed and destroyed."
Date: 1934
Creator: Ilsley, L. C.; Brunot, H. B. & Freeman, H. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applied Methods and Equipment for Reducing Evaporation Losses of Petroleum and Gasoline (open access)

Applied Methods and Equipment for Reducing Evaporation Losses of Petroleum and Gasoline

From Scope of Report: "The subject matter in this bulletin is divided as follows: Theory of evaporation; methods of determining evaporation losses; lease operation; transportation and storage of crude petroleum; and evaporation losses of gasoline at the refineries."
Date: 1934
Creator: Schmidt, Ludwig
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1932 (open access)

Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1932

Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1934
Creator: Adams, W. W. & Geyer, L. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accounting System and Office-Management Procedure for Medium-Size Metal Mines (open access)

Accounting System and Office-Management Procedure for Medium-Size Metal Mines

Report discussing an accounting system and management of office procedures design for medium-size metal mines, offered by the United States Bureau of Mines, to be more efficient in the mining industry.
Date: 1934
Creator: Keller, Albert E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature

This volume of the Journal contains the full documentation for the third called session of the Senate of Texas including proceedings, authors of Senate bills, as well as the history of Senate bills and resolutions. The index begins on page 357.
Date: 1934
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History