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37,352 pages ; scarce, complete run of 43 volumes to 1937 ; thousands of late 19th and early 20th century photographs ; nearly 100 full color plates ; various colored bindings ;Title varies; OCLC: 2288725 (1894-1922); OCLC: 2288694 (1923-1925); OCLC: 2289136 (1926-1937) ; Partial contents: Birds That Injure Grain--Danger of Importing Insect Pests--Hybrids and Their Utilization in Plant Breeding--Lawns and Lawn Making--Some Edible and Poisonous Fungi--The Agricultural Outlook of the Coast Region of Alaska--The Fruit Industry, and Substitution of Domestic for Foreign-grown Fruits--The Present Status of Flax Culture--Utilization of By-products of the Dairy--Agriculture in Puerto Rico--Cattle dipping, experimental and practical--Cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes--Insects injurious to beans and peas--Sand-binding grasses--Pruning of trees and other plants--The present condition of grape culture in California--The use of kites in the exploration of the upper air--Growth of the tobacco industry--Seed selling, seed growing, and seed testing--Smyrna fig culture in the United States--Amplification of weather forecasts--Rabies: its cause, frequency, and treatment--The scale insect and mite enemies of citrus trees--How birds affect the orchard--Some poisonous plants of the northern stock ranges--The value of potatoes as food--Commercial pear culture--The date palm and its culture--The use and abuse of food preservatives--The world's exhibit of leaf tobacco at the Paris Exposition of 1900--Mohair and mohair manufactures--The tuberculin test for tuberculosis--Prairie dog of the Great Plains--Agriculture in the tropical islands of the United States--The San Jose scale--Distribution and magnitude of the poultry and egg industry--Grape, raisin, and wine production in the United States--Promising new fruits--Silk culture--Attitude of lumbermen toward forest fires--Potato culture near Greeley, Colorado--Sugar-beet seed breeding--Some uses of the grapevine and its fruit--Cotton culture in Guatemala--The gypsy and brown-tail moths--Birds that eat scale insects--The preparation of unfermented apple juice--Bacteria in milk--The rabbit as a farm and orchard pest--The status of the American lemon industry--The codling moth or apple worm--Pocket gophers as enemies of trees--Flat-headed borers--Some of the more important ticks of the United States--The value of the shellfish industry and the protection of oysters from sewage contamination--The handling of dressed poultry a thousand miles from the market--Some results obtained in studying ripening bananas with the respiration calorimeter--Insects injurious to the onion crop--Condensed and desiccated milk--The American thrushes--Apple sirup and concentrated cider--Meat production in Australia and New Zealand--Shipping fish three thousand miles to market--The production and handling of grain in Argentina--Stallion legislation and the horse-breeding industry--The Thanksgiving turkey--Present status of the peanut industry--Breeding horses for the United States Army--The soybean industry--Hog production--Oats, barley, rye, rice, grain sorghums, seed flax, and buckwheat--Sugar--The sheep industry--Improvement and genetics of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant--Grape development and improvement--Heredity in the dog, etc ; individual volume general condition ranges from G to FINE; as a set, FINE. N° de ref. del artículo 006871
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Título: Yearbook of the United States Department of ...
Editorial: Washington : G.P.O., 1894-1937
Año de publicación: 1894
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Fine
Condición de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket
Tipo de libro: Book
