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1891. Announcement of Closing Exercises of Texas Normal College (open access)

1891. Announcement of Closing Exercises of Texas Normal College

Announcement and invitation to the closing exercises and commencement at Texas Normal College in Denton, Texas in 1891. The closing exercises include a musicale by students of the Department of Music on June 17, exercises by the Scientific Class on June 18, and annual commencement and presentation of diplomas on June 19. The invitation was printed on Argyle Linen paper and bears their watermark.
Date: 1891-06-10~
Creator: Texas Normal College
System: The Portal to Texas History
[1894 Promotional Pamphlet for Webster, Texas] (open access)

[1894 Promotional Pamphlet for Webster, Texas]

A pamphlet promoting immigration to and investment in the community of Webster, Texas, advertising its economic, geographic, demographic, and environmental advantages and those of Texas in general.
Date: February 1, 1894
Creator: Slosson, W. B. & Wilson, Robert E. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alfalfa, or Lucern (open access)

Alfalfa, or Lucern

Report discussing and promoting alfalfa for use as hay and as a soiling crop. Discussion includes instructions for planting, weed and pest control, and valuable uses of an alfalfa crop.
Date: 1899
Creator: Smith, Jared G. (Jared Gage), 1866-1957
System: The UNT Digital Library
Asparagus Culture (open access)

Asparagus Culture

Report discussing the cultivation of asparagus, including its varieties, soil preparation, fertilizers, harvesting practices, canning methods, and common fungus diseases and insect enemies.
Date: 1897
Creator: Handy, R. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barnyard Manure (open access)

Barnyard Manure

Report discussing the importance and use of manure from farm animals as a fertilizer. Factors discussed include the kind of animal, its age, and diet as well as best practices for managing manure.
Date: 1894
Creator: Beal, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bible Assucrance; or a reply to Dr. B. H. Carroll's Tract on Assurance: being a candid examination and thorough refutation of his historical and scriptural arguments against Bible assurance. (open access)

Bible Assucrance; or a reply to Dr. B. H. Carroll's Tract on Assurance: being a candid examination and thorough refutation of his historical and scriptural arguments against Bible assurance.

Pamphlet by Pastor E. R. Carswell refuting a similar tract written by B. H. (Benajah Harvey) Carroll about "Assurance," a religious concept about the salvation of believers. Carswell breaks down Carroll's arguments by analyzing the historic documents which Carroll references and then comparing scriptural text to Carroll's interpretation with his own commentary.
Date: 1895
Creator: Carswell, E. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Ranges of the Southwest: A History of the Exhaustion of the Pasturage and Suggestions for Its Restoration (open access)

Cattle Ranges of the Southwest: A History of the Exhaustion of the Pasturage and Suggestions for Its Restoration

Report giving "a history of the exhaustion of the pasturage of central Texas, with suggestions for its restoration. The general features of the country are described; the early conditions of the ranges and the causes which have led to their deterioration are graphically portrayed. The obstacles in the way of the improvement of the ranges and how the value of the stock ranges may be renewed are topics discussed in detail. The report closes with brief descriptions of a few other of the most important native grasses and forage plants which may be utilized in improving the pasturage or increasing the production of forage." -- p. 2.
Date: 1898
Creator: Bentley, H. L. (Henry Lewis)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Commencement program, 1897] (open access)

[Commencement program, 1897]

A commencement program for McKinney College from the C. B. Moore Collection. This program details the graduates from the tenth annual commencement held at McKinney College on May 26, 1897. Additional services honoring the graduates were held prior to the commencement and they included: a baccalaureate sermon held on May 23, 1897 at Baptist Church in Sulphur Springs, Texas; an art reception held on May 24, 1897 at McKinney College; and an annual education concert held on May 25, 1897 at Heard's Opera House. The commencement schedule is included on the last page of the program.
Date: May 1897
Creator: McKinney College
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Commencement Program for North Texas Normal College, 1892] (open access)

[Commencement Program for North Texas Normal College, 1892]

Commencement program for the 1892 class of Junior Scientifics of the North Texas Normal College. The program includes the order of service.
Date: 1892
Creator: North Texas State Normal College
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Commencement, Texas Normal College, July 30, 1892] (open access)

[Commencement, Texas Normal College, July 30, 1892]

Program for the commencement at Texas Normal College on July 30, 1892, includes a list of graduates and order of exercises. The library has five copies of the commencement in various colors. They belonged to Effie Wright who was in the Scientific Class of 1892.
Date: 1892-07-30?
Creator: Texas Normal College
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convict Labor vs. Honest Labor. (open access)

Convict Labor vs. Honest Labor.

Circular formatted as a letter to state legislator from Harris County constituents, calling for state-level legislation to quit employing prisoners within Texas.
Date: 1891-07-15~
Creator: Smith, D. C.; Charlton, James; Ashe, S. S.; Hamilton, H.; Campbell, E. A.; Harris, Jonathan et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Culture in the South (open access)

Corn Culture in the South

Report discussing and promoting the cultivation of corn in the southern United States. "The purpose of the article is to encourage the more extensive growing of corn in those portions of the South where its culture has hitherto been more or less neglected." -- p. 2.
Date: 1898
Creator: Tracy, S. M. (Samuel Mills), 1847-1920
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cowpeas (open access)

Cowpeas

Report promoting the cultivation of the cowpea as a forage plant because of it adaptability to a wide variety of soils and agricultural conditions.
Date: 1899
Creator: Smith, Jared G. (Jared Gage), 1866-1957
System: The UNT Digital Library
Denton Business Review and Directory (open access)

Denton Business Review and Directory

This Denton business review was published as a guide for the farmers and residents of Denton county outside of the city. The directory includes descriptions of Denton's agricultural resources, commercial advantages, and business institutions.
Date: May 1890
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 3 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 3

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Flax Culture, Crimson Clover, Forcing Lettuce, Heating Greenhouses, Corn Smut, Millet Disease of Horses, Tuberculosis, Pasteurized Cream, Kitchen and Table Wastes, Use of Fertilizers.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 4 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 4

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Pure Water, Loss of Soil Fertility, Availability of Fertilizers, Seed Selection, Jerusalem Artichokes, Kafir Corn, Thinning Fruit, Use of Low-Grade Apples, Cooking Vegetables, Condimental Feeding Stuffs, Steer and Heifer Beef, Swells in Canned Vegetables.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 5 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 5

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Humus in Soils; Swamp, Marsh, or Muck Soils; Rape; Velvet Bean; Sunflowers; Winter Protection of Peach Trees; Subwatering in Greenhouses; Bacterial Diseases of Plants; Grape Juice and Sweet Cider.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 6 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 6

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Fraud in Fertilizers, Sugar Beet Industry, Seeding Grass Land, Grafting Apple Trees, Forest Fires, American Clover Seed, Mushrooms as Food, Pigs in Stubble Fields, Ensiling Potatoes, Anthrax.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 7 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 7

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Home-Mixed Fertilizers, Forcing Asparagus in the Field, Field Selection of Seed, Potatoes as Food for Man, Corn Stover as a Feeding Stuff, Feeding Value of Sugar Beets, Salt-Marsh Hay, Forage Crops for Pigs, Ground Grain for Chicks, Skim Milk for Young Chickens, By-Products of the Dairy, Stripper Butter, Curd Test in Cheese Making, Gape Disease of Chickens.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 8 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 8

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Soil Moisture, Fertility of Soils, Cover Crops for Orchards, Cultivating v. Cropping Orchards, Transplanting Trees, Fecundity of Swine, Food Value of Eggs, Starch from Sweet Potatoes, the Toad as a Friend of the Farmer.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 9 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 9

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Sugar Beets on Alkali Soils, Planting and Replanting Corn, Improvement of Sorghum, Improved Culture of Potatoes, Second-Crop Potatoes for Seed, Cold v. Warm Water for Plants, Forcing Head Lettuce, the Date Palm in the United States, the Codling Moth, Jerusalem Artichokes for Pigs, Feeding Calves, Pasteurization in Butter Making, Gassy and Tainted Curds, Pure Cultures in Cheese Making.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 10 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 10

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Manure from Cows, Plants for Alkali Soils, Influence of Alkali on Plants, Feeding Value of the Corn Plant, Sows and Pigs at Farrowing Time, the Soy Bean as a Feeding Stuff, Alfalfa Hay for Hogs, Animal Matter for Poultry, Water and Animal Diseases, Construction and Cooling of Cheese-Curing Rooms, and Irrigation Investigations.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 11 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 11

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Excessive Irrigation, Cross-Pollination of Plums, Root Pruning of Fruit Trees, the Oxeye Daisy, Poisoning by Wild Cherry Leaves, Preserving Eggs, Gestation in Cows, the Long Clam, Silage for Horses and Hogs, Commercial Butter Cultures with Pasteurized Cream, and the Stave Silo.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 12 (open access)

Experiment Station Work, [Volume] 12

Bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture compiling selected articles from the Agricultural Experiment Stations. This bulletin contains articles on: Seaweed, the Tillering of Grains, Fertilizers for Garden Crops, Sweet Corn and Pole Beans Under Glass, Girdling Grapevines, Cereal Breakfast Foods, Food Value of Stone Fruits, When to Cut Alfalfa, Spontaneous Combustion of Hay, Preservation of Milk by Pressure, Cream Raising by Dilution.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
System: The UNT Digital Library