Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1916.
Publication Title:
Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1916.
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Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1916.
Corporate Agency Authors:
Agriculture Department
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Agriculture Department
Date:
1917
Publish Date ISO Format:
1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19170101
Publication End:
19171231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Agriculture Department
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1917
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783 p. il. 21 pl. 76 p. of pl.
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CONTENTS.—Report of Secretary [fiscal year 1916].—Meeting farmer halfway; by Carl Vrooman.—Meat-inspection service of Department of Agriculture; by George Ditewig.—Color as indication of picking maturity of fruits and vegetables; by L. C. Corbett.—Farms, forests, and erosion; by Samuel T. Dana.—Plant-introduction gardens of Department of Agriculture; by P. H. Dorsett.—Federated cooperative cheese manufacturing and marketing association; by Hector Macpherson and W. H. Kerr.—Some American vegetable food oils, their sources and methods of production; by H. S. Bailey.—Agriculture on Government reclamation projects; by C. S. Scofield and F. D. Farrell.—Dasheen, its uses and culture; by Robert A. Young.—Experiment in community dairying; by R. R. Welch.—Suppression of gipsy and brown-tail moths and its value to States not infested; by A. F. Burgess.—Progress in handling wool clip, development in the West; by F. R. Marshall.—Business essentials for cooperative fruit and vegetable canneries; by W. H. Kerr.—Effect of home demonstration work on community and county in the South; by Bradford Knapp and Mary E. Creswell.—Cooperative work for eradicating citrus canker; by Karl F. Kellerman.—Practical use of insect enemies of injurious insects; by L. O. Howard.—Stallion legislation and horse-breeding industry; by Charles C. Glenn.—Importance of developing our natural resources of potash; by Frederick W. Brown.—Cooperative bull associations; by Joel G. Winkjer.—Farm tenantry in United States; by W. J. Spillman and E. A. Goldenweiser.—Sewage disposal on farm; by George M. Warren.—Stable-manure business of big cities; by C. C. Fletcher.—Destroying rodent pests on farm; by David E. Lantz.—Present status of sugar-beet seed industry in United States; by C. O. Townsend.—Thanksgiving turkey; by Andrew S. Weiant.—Farmers' mutual fire insurance; by V. N. Valgren.—Development and localization of truck crops in United States; by Fred J. Blair.—Function of live stock in agriculture; by George M. Rommel.—Possibilities of market-train service; by G. C. White and T. F. Powell.—Fur farming as side line; by Ned Dearborn.—Pumping for irrigation on farm; by P. E. Fuller.—Opening up national forests by road building; by O. C. Merrill.—Graphic summary of world agriculture; by V. C. Finch, O. E. Baker, and R. G. Hainsworth.—Appendix.—Index.
NOTE.—Appendix contains statistical and other information.
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