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Breeding and Improvement of Cotton
Breeding and Improvement of Cotton
Article · 11 pages
An address by Dr. H. J. Webber of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, delivered at the Short Course at the A. & M. College in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on January 9, 1906, and printed in the Oklahoma Territorial Board of Agriculture's biennial report. It explains how farmers can breed and improve cotton by variety testing, selecting superior plants, combing seed to judge lint length, ginning plants separately, and growing isolated plant-to-row breeding patches with pedigree numbering. Illustrations show a cotton picking scene and plates of seed and lint demonstrating increased fiber length across selection generations.
Live Stock: Sheep Industry
Live Stock: Sheep Industry
Article · 8 pages
An address by W. L. English to the Oklahoma Board of Agriculture in January 1906, promoting sheep raising on Oklahoma farms. It covers the state of the industry, sheep numbers in the Territories, suitable breeds (Merino, Shropshire, Cotswold and others, crossbreeding), diseases, dog attacks, and sheep as weed control. The talk is followed by a short audience discussion on dogs, weeds and breed choice.
Sheep in the Southwest
Sheep in the Southwest
Article · 6 pages
A 1905-1906 article by John A. Craig, Dean and Director of the Agricultural College in College Station, Texas, on the sheep industry in the Southwest, reprinted in the Oklahoma Territorial Board of Agriculture's biennial report. It covers market conditions for lamb and wool, the suitability of the Southwest's climate and feed, starting a flock, choosing ewes and rams, dipping for scab and ticks, and feeding. It ends with a photograph of sheep in Oklahoma. The focus is livestock husbandry, not textiles or weaving.

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