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Cheese Making on the Farm
Report discussing the proper methods for making cheese on farms. Includes suggestions for making print, pot, Neufchâtel, English cream, French cream, and double cream cheeses.
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Irrigation of Sugar Beets
"A practical manual, giving methods pursued throughout the irrigated beet-growing sections and thereby furnishing information to new settlers in irrigated districts, as well as suggestions to beet...
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The Preservative Treatment of Farm Timbers
Report discussing methods for preserving timber. Methods discussed include peeling and seasoning, charring, painting, dipping, cold-bath treatments, and impregnation with creosote.
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Potato Culture on Irrigated Farms of the West
"In the mountain valleys of Colorado are found conditions of altitude, soil, and moisture naturally favorable to the growth of the potato, with an almost entire absence of harmful freezes and bacterial...
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The Adulteration of Forage-Plant Seeds
Report discussing the adulteration of forage plant seeds, including for red clover, alfalfa, alsike clover, orchard grass, meadow fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, redtop, and brome grasses (bromus).
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The Loco-Weed Disease
Report describing the poisonous plant locoweed, including its appearance and its effects on horses, cattle, and sheep.
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Hog Cholera
Report discussing the disease hog cholera, including its causes, symptoms, and diagnosis. Also discusses diseases which may be mistaken for hog cholera and methods of prevention and treatment.
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Care of Food in the Home
Report discussing the proper methods of handling and preserving food. Topics discussed include mold, flies, dust, pet hair and dander, cold storage techniques, and disinfectants. Includes an index.
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Irrigation of Alfalfa
Report discussing the best methods for irrigating lands that grow alfalfa. The border, check, flooding, and furrow methods are all discussed as well as farm ditches, necessary amounts of water, and...
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Soy Beans
"The recent enormous exportations of soy beans and soy-bean meal from Manchuria to Europe would seem to indicate that there is practically an unlimited market for this product. It is now believed that...
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Drainage of Irrigated Lands
Report discussing "the drainage of irrigated lands which have been seriously injured or rendered wholly unproductive by the seepage of irrigation water or by the rise of alkali, or by both combined.......
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How to Destroy Rats
Report discussing the most effective methods for destroying and controlling rat populations. Methods discussed include rat-proofing buildings, withholding food, and using predators, traps, poisons, or...
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The Eradication of Bindweed, or Wild Morning-Glory
Report discussing the destructive plant bindweed (another name for wild plants of the morning glory family). Topics discussed include a description of the plant, its geographic distribution, injurious...
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Lightning and Lightning Conductors
"This paper contains information respecting the phenomena of lightning in general and suggests means of protecting farm buildings from destructive lightning strikes." -- p. 3
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A Profitable Cotton Farm
"This bulletin is an account of the progressive and successful farm operations of a farmer of South Carolina who, by combining thorough tillage, crop rotation, barnyard manure, and a judicious use of...
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The Use of Milk as Food
"Perhaps no article of diet is more important than milk, and the present bulletin discusses such questions as composition, digestibility, care of milk in the home, use of milk in cookery, and its...
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Meadow Fescue: Its Culture and Uses
"There is at present a great lack in the agricultural literature of this country of concise descriptions of the methods followed in the growing and handling of the different cultivated grasses,...
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Canning Vegetables in the Home
Report discussing the proper way to can and preserve vegetables, with an emphasis on sterilization techniques.
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A Primer of Forestry
Report discussing the importance of forestry and forest management, which are best done through "conservative lumbering" and making "the forest render its best service to man in such a way as to...
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A Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm
"The present article is the story of a professional man whose longing for the freedom of country life led him at the age age of 36 to abandon the city for the farm.... the farm referred to is that of...
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The Tuberculin Test of Cattle for Tuberculosis
Report promoting the use of the tuberculin test in accurately diagnosing tuberculosis in cattle, which can then be removed from the herd to avoid further contamination.
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The Dehorning of Cattle
Report discussing the proper method for dehorning cattle. Topics discussed include instruments necessary for dehorning and appropriate treatments for cattle that have been successfully dehorned.
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The Repair of Farm Equipment
Report discussing the proper care and maintenance of farm equipment, including tools necessary for repair work and shop facilities capable of repair work. Contains illustrations of tools.
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The Computation of Rations for Farm Animals by the Use of Energy Values
Report explaining the general dietary requirements of farm animals and methods for determining the food rations that will ensure that they receive necessary nutrients.
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Some Common Disinfectants
"There is much popular misconception as to the value and limitations of the various disinfectants which are sold in this country. For this reason the following very brief description of some of the...
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The Cultivation of Tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee
Report discussing the cultivation of tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee. Topics discussed include soil selection and preparation, fertilizers, harvesting, curing, and methods of insect control.
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Declaration of Governors for Conservation of Natural Resources
"The Declaration of Governors contained in this bulletin was adopted by the conference of governors of the States and Territories called by the President to consider the conservation of our natural...
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Macadam Roads
"This bulletin is intended as a brief discussion and discussion of the several processes and essential features entering into the construction of macadam roads in rural [areas]. Some data as to costs...
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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...
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Harmful and Beneficial Mammals of the Arid Interior, With Special Reference...
"Large tracts of arid desert are now being reclaimed and converted into arable land, rich in agricultural possibilities. Crops, trees, live stock, poultry, and ditch banks in this reclaimed territory...
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Cotton Wilt
"This paper deals with the essential details of [cotton wilt] and outlines a successful means of combating the disease through the use of wilt-resistant varieties." -- p. 2.
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Nuts and Their Uses as Food
Report discussing the composition, nutritional value, and different uses of nuts in food. Includes descriptions of nuts in preserves, candies, coffee, butters, as well as in foods for diabetics.
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Forage Crops for Hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma
Report discussing forage crops commonly grown for hog feed in Kansas and Oklahoma. Among the more important crops are alfalfa, wheat, oats, and rye, while less important forage crops include clovers,...
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Deer Farming in the United States
"As a result of the growing scarcity of game animals in this country, the supply of venison is wholly inadequate to the demand, and the time seems opportune for developing the industry of deer farming,...
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Silver Fox Farming
"The present bulletin furnishes information as to the possibilities of the propagation of silver, or silver-black, foxes and the best methods of conducting the business. The silver-black fox is one of...
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The Conservation of Natural Resources
This bulletin about the conservation of natural resources was originally an address delivered by the forester Gifford Pinchot to the National Geographic Society, in Washington D. C. on January 31,...
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Building Up a Run-Down Cotton Plantation
"This paper is an account of the progress made in three years in changing a run-down cotton plantation into a profitable stock and hay farm. The results obtained from the use of cowpeas and other...
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Sweet Potatoes
Report discussing best practices for growing sweet potatoes, including climate and soil requirements, use of fertilizers, harvesting methods, and common diseases and insect enemies of the sweet potato.
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Cowpeas
"The cowpea is the most valuable legume for the Southern States and its use would be much more extensive were it not for the relatively high price of the seed, most of which is still picked by hand....
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Progress in Legume Inoculation
"The peculiar value of legumes for maintaing and increasing the fertility of soils is due to certain bacteria which develop nodules upon the roots of leguminous plants and which have the unique power...
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Harvesting and Storing Corn
"The production of a large crop is of course the subject of most importance in corn growing, but there is need of much care and labor in harvesting and storing the crop after it is produced in order to...
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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...
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Sand-Clay and Burnt-Clay Roads
"The mixing of sand and clay as a form of road construction has received careful study and is of great importance, especially to the Atlantic and Gulf states, where throughout large areas sand and clay...
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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...
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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...
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Dodder in Relation to Farm Seeds
"Dodder, on account of its parasitic nature, is the most dangerous weed in alfalfa and clover fields, and also often affects flax. On account of the large quantity of low-grade seed containing dodder...
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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...
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Marketing Eggs Through the Creamery
Report discussing different methods for the delivery and marketing of eggs. A creamery in Minnesota has cleverly signed agreements with local farmers which allows farmers to deliver their eggs along...
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Barley: Growing the Crop
"Of the small-grain crops grown in this country barley ranks third in production. While much of the area devoted to this crop in the United States is suited to its production, the lack of care in...
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The Treatment of Bee Diseases
"The diseases which attack the honey bee may be divided into two classes, namely, those affecting the brood and those to which the adult bees are subject. The diseases of adult bees have not been...
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