Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1903

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Proposed New Buildings for the Department of Agriculture.

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Seeds with Lint Attached, Illustrating Types of Long Staple Cotton.

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Seeds with Lint Attached, Illustrating Types of Long and Short Staple Cotton.

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Field of Allen improved cotton at Port Gibson, Miss., showing method of Ridge Culture.
Field of well-open long staple upland cotton, at Yazoo City, Miss.

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Mature open and unopen bolls of lon staple upland cotton.

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Plant of Sunflower Cotton, grown at Columbia, S.C.
Plant of Griffin Cotton, grown at Columbia, S.C.

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Mulberry Trees and Leaf Gatherers, Lombardy, Italy.

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Fig 1: Reel in operation at the Department of Agriculture, with French and Italian Operators.
Fig 2: Reeled and Waste Silk.

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Silk Reeled at Department of Agriculture from American-grown Cocoons.

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American-grown Cocoons Used in the Reeling Experiments of the Department of Agriculture.

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American-grown Cocoons Used in the Reeling Experiments of the Department of Agriculture.

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Fig 1: Soil Washing Prevented by Terraces.
Fig 2: Cotton and Corn Growing on a Well-terraced Farm in Alabama.
Fig 3: Wide Planting, with Pindars Between the Corn Rows.

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Fig 1: Soil Too Poor for Profitable Corn Growing.
Fig 2: Average Production Reduced by Infertile Spots.
Fig 3: Average Production Reduced by Undrained Spots.

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Fig 1: Average Production Reduced by Close Proximity to Trees.
Fig 2: Implements Used in Producing 100 Bushels of Corn Per Acre.
Fig 3: Narrow Shovels and Fenders for Early Cultivation.

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Fig 1: Pennsylvania Field that Produced over 100 Bushels of Corn Per Acre.
Fig 2: Root Distribution at Silking Time.
Fig 3: Injurious Results from Cultivation Given After Ground had Become Too Dry.

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Fig 1: The Prout Horse Hoe or Hoeing Machine.
Fig 2: Surface Cultivator and Disk Cultivator at Work.
Fig 3: A Good Modern Double Cultivator.

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Fig 1: Laboratory and Headquarters of Boll-Weevil Investigation, Victoria, Tex.
Fig 2: Experimental Fields in Boll-Weevil Investigations, Calvert, Tex.

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Fig 1: Mit Afifi Egyptian Cotton, with Two Boll-Weelvils Feeding.
Fig 2: American Immature Bloom, Hollowed Out by Boll-Weevil Larva.

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Fig 1: American Square, Showing Exit of Adult Boll-Weevil.
Fig 2: Mit Afifi Egyptian Cotton Boll, Infested with Three Boll-Weelvil Larvae.

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Fig 1: Square Showing Feeding (left) and Egg (Right) Puncture of Boll-Weevil.
Fig 2: Typical Flared Square, Caused by Feeding Punctures of Male Boll-Weevils, Covered with their Excrement.