Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1917.
Publication Title:
Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1917.
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Yearbook of Department of Agriculture, [calendar year] 1917.
Corporate Agency Authors:
Agriculture Department
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Agriculture Department
Date:
1918
Publish Date ISO Format:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19180101
Publication End:
19181231
Corporate/Agency Author:
Agriculture Department
Publication month:
13
Publication year:
1918
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853 p. il. 7 pl. 70 p. of pl.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Cloth, $1.00.
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CONTENTS.—Report of Secretary [fiscal year 1917].—Brief review of work of bureaus and offices of Department, [fiscal year] 1917.—Soy-bean industry in United States; by W. J. Morse.—Present status of peanut industry; by H. C. Thompson.—Federal aid to highways; by J. E. Pennybacker and L. E. Boykin.—Sources of our nitrogenous fertilizers; by Frederick W. Brown.—Cheesemaking brings prosperity to farmers of southern mountains; by C. F. Doane and A. J. Reed.—Value of records to farmer; by J. S. Ball.—Production of drug-plant crops in United States; by W. W. Stockberger.— Phosphate rock our greatest fertilizer asset; by Wm. H. Waggaman.—Danger of introducing fruit flies into United States; by E. A. Back.—Great Plains waterfowl breeding grounds and their protection; by Harry C. Oberholser.—Weed problem in American agriculture; by H. R. Cates.—Rest rooms for women in marketing centers; by Anne M. Evans.—Cooperative campaigns for control of ground squirrels, prairie-dogs, and jack rabbits; by W. B. Bell.—House rat, most destructive animal in the world; by David E. Lantz.—Fertilizers from industrial wastes; by Wm. H. Ross.—Design of public roads; by Charles H. Moorefield.—Conservation of fertilizer materials from minor sources; by C. C. Fletcher.—Peanut, great American food; by H. S. Bailey and J. A. Le Clerc.— How dairy cow brought prosperity in wake of boll weevil; by L. A. Higgins.—Sheep and intensive farming; by F. R. Marshall.—Teamwork between farmer and his agent; by C. E. Bassett.—Growth of beef-cattle industry in the South; by F. W. Farley.— Brooding horses for United States Army; by H. H. Reese.—Butterfat and income; by J. C. McDowell.—Service of cold storage in conservation of foodstuffs; by I. C. Franklin.—Pig clubs and swine industry; by J. D. McVean.—Cooperative marketing, where? when? how? by C. E. Bassett and O. B. Jesness.—Wasted sugar supply; by E. F. Phillips.—Wool, production, foreign trade, supply, and consumption; by George K. Holmes.—Hides and skins, production, foreign trade, supply, and consumption; by George K. Holmes.—Sugar supply of United States; by Frank Andrews.—World's supply of wheat; by O. C. Stine.—Cereal diseases and national food supply; by Harry B. Humphrey.—Seed supply of nation; by R. A. Oakley.—Graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops; compiled by O. E. Baker, C. F. Brooks, and R. G. Hainsworth.— Appendix.—Index.
NOTE.—Appendix contains statistical and other information.
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