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The USDA Farmers' Bulletin was a series published by the United States Department of Agriculture. These volumes show advice given to American farmers from the end of the 19th century up through much of the 20th century. They can still be accessed online.[1][2]
Contents
Farmers Bulletins on Poultry
Chickens
- Farmers Bulletin 41: Fowls: Care and Feeding. 1896.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 51: Standard varieties of chickens. 1907.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 128: Eggs and their uses as food. 1901.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 141: Poultry Raising on the Farm. 1901.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 182: Poultry as food. 1903.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 236: Incubation and Incubators. 1905.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 287: Poultry management. 1907.[3]
- 355: A Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm. 1909.[3]
- 357: Methods of Poultry Management at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 1909.[3]
- 445: Marketing Eggs Through the Creamery. 1911.[3]
- 452: Capons and Caponizing. 1911.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 528: Hints to Poultry Raisers.[4]
- 530: Important Poultry Diseases. 1913.[3]
- 562: The Organization of Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs. 1913.[3]
- 574 Poultry House Construction. 1914.[3]
- 585: Natural and Artificial Incubation of Hens' Eggs. 1914.[3]
- 594: Shipping Eggs by Parcel Post. 1914.[3]
- 624: Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens. 1914.[3]
- 656: The Community Egg Circle. 1915.[3]
- 682: A Simple Trap Nest for Poultry. 1915.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 801: Mites and Lice on Poultry. 1917.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 806: Standard Varieties of Chickens: I. The American Class. 1917.[3]
- 830: Marketing Eggs by Parcel Post. 1917.[3]
- 849: Capons and Caponizing. December 1917.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 889: Back-yard poultry keeping. 1917, Revised 1919.[5][6]
- Farmers Bulletin 898: Standard Varieties of Chickens: II. The Mediterranean and Continental Classes. 1917.[3]
- 957: Important poultry diseases. 1918.
- Farmers Bulletin 1040: Illustrated Poultry Primer. 1919.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1052: Standard Varieties of chickens III. The Asiatic, English, and French Classes. Revised 1921.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1070: The Fowl Tick and How Premises May Be Freed from It. Revised 1941.[7]
- 1067: Feeding Hens for Egg Production. 1919.[3]
- 1105: Care of mature fowls. 1921.[8] Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- Farmers Bulletin 1106: Incubation of Hens' Eggs. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- Farmers Bulletin 1107: Brood Coops and Appliances. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1108: Care of Baby Chicks. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- Farmers Bulletin 1109: Preserving Eggs 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- Farmers Bulletin 1110: Lice, Mites, and Cleanliness. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1111: Management of growing chicks. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1112: Culling for Eggs and Market. 1920.[3] Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1113: Poultry houses. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1114: Common poultry diseases. 1920. Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1115: Selection and Preparation of Fowls for Exhibition. 1920.[3] Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1116: Selection and Care of Poultry Breeding Stock. 1920.[3] Written for Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs.
- 1200: Tuberculosis of Fowls. 1921.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1331: Back-yard poultry keeping. 1924.
- Farmers Bulletin 1221: Standard varieties of chickens. IV, The ornamental breeds and varieties. 1924.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1251: Standard varieties of chickens : V. The Bantam breeds and varieties. December 1921.[3]
- 1337: Diseases of poultry. July 1923.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1347: Standard varieties of chickens: I. The American class. July 1923.[3]
- 1363: Natural and artificial incubation of hens' eggs. March 1924.[3]
- 1376. Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens. 1924.[3]
- 1377: Marketing Poultry. 1939.[3]
- 1378: Marketing Eggs. 1957.[3]
- 1427: Poultry Accounts. 1924.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1506: Standard breeds and varieties of chickens: I. American, Asiatic, English, and Mediterranean classes. June 1940.
- 1507: Standard breeds and varieties of chickens. II, Continental European, Oriental, and Miscellaneous classes. 1937.
- Farmers Bulletin 1508: Poultry Keeping in Back Yards. 1954.[3][9]
- 1524: Farm Poultry Raising. 1949.[3]
- 1538: Incubation and brooding of chickens. June 1953.[3]
- 1541: Feeding chickens. October 1927.[3]
- 1554: Poultry houses and fixtures. 1940.[3]
- 1614: Business records for poultry keepers. 1940.[3]
- 1652: Diseases and Parasites of Poultry. 1953.[3]
- 1727: Selecting hens for egg production. May 1934.[3]
- 1841: The feeding of chickens. 1941.
- 1888: Poultry Cooking. 1941.
- Farmers' Bulletin 2063: Breeds of chickens for meat and egg production. May 1954.[3]
- Farmers' Bulletin 2066: Ornamental and game breeds of chickens. 1954.[3]
- 2197: Farm poultry management. 1977.[10]
- 2198: Automatic feeding equipment for livestock and poultry. 1964.[11]
- Farmers' Bulletin 2262: Small Poultry Flocks. 1977.[12]
- 2272: Solar Heating for Brooding Chickens. 1981.
Other Types of Poultry
- Farmers Bulletin 54: Some common birds in their relation to agriculture. 1904.
- Farmers Bulletin 64: Ducks and geese : standard breeds and management. 1902.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 200. Turkeys: standard varieties and management. 1906.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 234: The Guinea Fowl and Its Use as Food. 1905.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 684: Squab Raising. 1915.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 697: Duck Raising. 1915.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 767: Goose Raising. 1917.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 791: Turkey Raising. 1917.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 858: The Guinea Fowl. 1917.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1391: The Guinea Fowl. December 1953.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1409: Turkey raising. May 1952.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1521: Propagation of Game Birds. 1927.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1613: Propagation of upland game birds. January 1930.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1694: Dressing and packing turkeys for market. August 1940.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 1815: Grading Dressed Turkeys. 1938.[3]
- Farmers Bulletin 2011: Turkey on the table, the year round. August 1949.[3]
Farmers Bulletins on Other Topics
- 16: Leguminous Plants for Green Manuring and for Feeding.
- 19: Important Insecticides: Directions for Their Preparation and Use.
- 21: Barnyard manure. 1894.
- 22: The feeding of farm animals. 1901.
- 28: Weeds and How to Kill Them
- 38: Spraying for Fruit Diseases.
- 44: Commercial fertilizers: composition and use. 1906.
- 58: The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop.
- 93: Sugar as Food.
- 94: The Vegetable Garden.
- 142: Principles of nutrition and nutritive value of food. 1910.
- 146: Insecticides and fungicides: chemical composition and effectiveness of certain preparations. 1902.
- 188: Weeds used in medicine. 1904.
- 218: The school garden. 1909.
- 240: Inoculation of Legumes. 1905.[3]
- 525: Raising Guinea Pigs. 1913.[3]
- 587: Economic Value of North American Skunks. 1914. Revised 1917.[3]
- 795: The Domesticated Silver Fox. 1917.[3]
- 808: How to Select Foods: [Part] 1. What the Body Needs. 1917.[3]
- 824: How to Select Foods: [Part] 3. Foods Rich in Protein. 1917.[3]
- 1617: Soybean utilization. 1940.[3]
- 1044 The City Home Garden. 1942.
- 2038: Soybeans for feed, food, and industrial products. 1952.[3]
Articles and Resources
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References
- ↑ USDA Farmers' Bulletins, University of North Texas Digital Library.
- ↑ Farmers' bulletin," Hathi Trust Digital Library, Accessed March 2, 2016.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 3.53 3.54 3.55 3.56 3.57 3.58 3.59 3.60 3.61 3.62 3.63 3.64 3.65 3.66 3.67 3.68 3.69 3.70 3.71 3.72 USDA Farmers' Bulletins, University of North Texas Digital Library.
- ↑ Hints to Poultry Raisers," Accessed March 2, 2016.
- ↑ Back-yard poultry keeping.
- ↑ Back-yard poultry keeping.
- ↑ USDA Farmers' Bulletins, University of North Texas Digital Library.
- ↑ Care of mature fowls.
- ↑ United States. Agricultural Research Service. Animal and Poultry Husbandry Research Branch. (1954). Poultry keeping in backyards(Vol. 1508). United States Department of Agriculture.
- ↑ Farmers' bulletin," Hathi Trust Digital Library, Accessed March 2, 2016.
- ↑ Automatic feeding equipment for livestock and poultry.
- ↑ [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002827088q;view=1up;seq=2 Farmers Bulletin 2262: Small Poultry Flocks. 1977.
External Resources
- USDA Farmers' Bulletins, University of North Texas Digital Library.
- Farmers' bulletin," Hathi Trust Digital Library.
