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Cleanup week : don't give fire a place to start. (open access)

Cleanup week : don't give fire a place to start.

Describes steps to take for spring cleaning to prevent fires and accidents in the home.
Date: 1957
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barberry eradication in stem rust control: wheat, oats, barley, rye. (open access)

Barberry eradication in stem rust control: wheat, oats, barley, rye.

Discusses the spread of stem rust in wheat, oats, barley, and rye due to the presence of certain species of barberry bushes; discusses eradication of these barberry bushes to control stem rust.
Date: December 1957
Creator: United States. Plant Pest Control Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Know Your Watersheds. (open access)

Know Your Watersheds.

Describes the necessity of water in everyday life, the water cycle, and provides suggestions for the management of watersheds.
Date: September 1957
Creator: United States. Forest Service.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing the transplant onion crop. (open access)

Growing the transplant onion crop.

Discusses onion-growing by the transplant method. Provides suggestions for soils, transplanting, irrigation, weed control, insect and disease control, harvesting, and storage.
Date: November 1957
Creator: Jones, H. A. (Henry Albert), 1889-; Perry, Bruce A. & Davis, Glen N. (Glen Norton), 1906-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tung production. (open access)

Tung production.

Discusses planting, cultivating, and harvesting tung trees for oil production. Describes insect enemies and diseases.
Date: July 1957
Creator: Potter, George F. (George Frederick), b. 1891. & Crane, Harley Lucius, 1891-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grasshoppers : a new look at an ancient enemy. (open access)

Grasshoppers : a new look at an ancient enemy.

Describes the damage grasshoppers cause to crops, how to identify different species, how they develop, and where and how they live. With this information as a background, the final section describes how to control them.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Parker, J. R. (John Robert), 1884-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nematode disease of wheat and rye. (open access)

Nematode disease of wheat and rye.

This document describes the nematode disease of wheat and rye, including: symptoms, cause, geographic distribution, and methods of control of the disease.
Date: April 1957
Creator: Leukel, R. W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indicators of Southwestern range conditions. (open access)

Indicators of Southwestern range conditions.

A guide to evaluating range conditions. Discusses range indicators and range deterioration.
Date: December 1957
Creator: Talbot, M. W. (Murrell Williams), b. 1889
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Price programs. (open access)

Price programs.

Provides detailed descriptions of several price support programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A large appendix includes information about federal agencies which administer price programs.
Date: 1957
Creator: Henderson, Harry W. (Harry William), 1908-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing Eggs. (open access)

Marketing Eggs.

Describes the benefits of the egg market, the process for producing quality eggs, and the steps for grading, packaging, transporting, and selling eggs.
Date: December 1957
Creator: Kilpatrick, Lester, 1903-; Pond, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1899-; Kennett, H. C. & Larkin, R. C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pea diseases and their control. (open access)

Pea diseases and their control.

Describes pea diseases, how they spread, and how to control them.
Date: 1957
Creator: Harter, L. L. (Leonard Lee); Zaumeyer, W. J. (William John) & Wade, B. L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pruning hardy fruit plants. (open access)

Pruning hardy fruit plants.

Provides instructions for pruning several types of fruit trees, grapevines, and small fruit plants.
Date: 1957
Creator: Magness, J. R. (John Robert), 1894-; Cullinan, F. P.; Magoon, C. A. & Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Culture of sorgo. (open access)

Culture of sorgo.

Discusses sorgo culture and syrup manufacturing. Provides information on characteristics and varieties, diseases, and insects affecting stored sorgo.
Date: 1957
Creator: Stokes, I. E.; Dean, Jack L. & Coleman, Otto H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Producing and harvesting grass seed in the Great Plains. (open access)

Producing and harvesting grass seed in the Great Plains.

Discusses best practices for selecting, growing, and harvesting grass seed in the Great Plains states: Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, north Dakota, and South Dakota.
Date: 1957
Creator: Cooper, Harold W., 1914-; Atkins, Maurice Donald, 1912- & Smith, James E., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sudan grass. (open access)

Sudan grass.

Describes the varieties, characteristics, and uses of Sudan grass. Includes instructions for control of diseases and pests.
Date: March 1957
Creator: Hein, M. A. (Mason August), b. 1894
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Grades for Beef. (open access)

U.S. Grades for Beef.

A consumer guide to U.S. federal meat grades. Includes examples of the stamps used to mark meat, a chart of beef cuts, and a suggested cooking guide for meat cuts and grades.
Date: 1957
Creator: United States. Agricultural Marketing Service. Livestock Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beef Cattle for Breeding Purposes. (open access)

Beef Cattle for Breeding Purposes.

Describes how to select and manage beef cattle that will be used for breeding.
Date: February 1957
Creator: Clark, R. T. (Richard Turnbull), 1902-1965 & Baker, A. L. (Alfred Leroy), 1898-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pear growing in the Pacific Coast states. (open access)

Pear growing in the Pacific Coast states.

Describes pear varieties of the Pacific Coast states, and how to grow them.
Date: June 1957
Creator: Magness, J. R. (John Robert), 1894-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snap beans for marketing, canning, and freezing. (open access)

Snap beans for marketing, canning, and freezing.

Discusses the importance of snap beans as a crop, its adaptability and varieties, its planting and care, as well as its disease and insect enemies and how to control them.
Date: September 1957
Creator: Zaumeyer, W. J. (William John)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing the small forest (open access)

Managing the small forest

A guide to the basic principles of forest management, for use by small forest owners.
Date: September 1957
Creator: United States. Forest Service.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Semi-Empirical Method of Calculating the Energy-Absorption Build-up Factor with an Application to a Uniformly Contaminated Space Having Spherical Boundaries (open access)

Semi-Empirical Method of Calculating the Energy-Absorption Build-up Factor with an Application to a Uniformly Contaminated Space Having Spherical Boundaries

From Abstract: "The results are compared with those obtained by other methods, and an application to the problem of uniformly and continuously distributed point-source is discussed."
Date: October 14, 1957
Creator: O'Brien, Keran; Lowder, Wayne M. & Solon, Leonard R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beta and Gamma Dose Rates From Terrestrially Distributed Sources (open access)

Beta and Gamma Dose Rates From Terrestrially Distributed Sources

Report that examines the dose rate of radiation in the air and in a test subject due to radioactive materials (uranium, thorium, and potassium) that are present in the ground. The test subject in these experiments is a water cylinder that is meant to receive radiation in a manner similar to a person.
Date: October 28, 1957
Creator: O'Brien, Keran; Lowder, Wayne M. & Solon, Leonard R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transistorization of Nuclear Counting Circuits (open access)

Transistorization of Nuclear Counting Circuits

From Abstract: "The advantage of long operational life, low power drain and miniaturization may be realized in nuclear counting circuits through the use of transistors. The disadvantage of instability, due to the effects of temperature change in the transistor, may be minimized in counting circuit designs. Representative circuits of a binary stage, amplitude discriminator, one shot multivibrator, and ratemeters are included. These were designed using the criteria of an minimum Beta and a maximum Ico."
Date: August 19, 1957
Creator: Graveson, R. T. & Sadowski, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hazard Summary Report Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II) (open access)

Hazard Summary Report Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II)

From Forward: "This report describes the present conceptions of the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II as well as the safety procedures and precautions which are currently anticipated for its operation."
Date: May 1957
Creator: Koch, L. J.; Monson, H. O.; Okrent, D.; Levenson, M.; Simmons, W. R.; Humphreys, J. R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library