Showing posts with label 1910. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910. Show all posts
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
1910 November 23--Secretary Wilson submits Report on Blueberry Culture to President William H. Taft
1910 September 30 -- Acting Chief of Bureau Submits Report on Blueberry Culture to Secretary of Agriculture
The summary of F.V. Coville's paper on Blueberry Culture is submitted by G. Harold Powell, Acting Bureau Chief to James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.
(more on G.H. Powell at end of Post)
Click on the following sections to read the document.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
1910 November 15 -- Experiments In Blueberry Culture
" It was November 15, 1910, that the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States of Agriculture issued Bulletin No 193. Its heading announces B.T. Galloway as Chief of the Bureau. The letter of transmittal to the Honorable James Wilson, then the Secretary of Agriculture, was written by William A. Taylor Acting Chief of the Bureau.
This Bulletin carried the title "Experiments in Blueberry Culture", written by Frederick V. Coville, Botanist in charge of Taxonomic and Range Investigations."
"Very soon after it was issued a copy of "Experiments In Blueberry Culture was in my hands."
Elizabeth C. White
May 1936
Click here to read the Bulletin No. 193
Beverly T. Galloway
May 1936
"It proved to be a considerable book of 100 pages, discussing broadly the principals governing the growth of blueberries in common with cranberries and allied plants which differ so widely from the principals governing the growth of most agricultural plants.
To me it was most fascinating reading, for never before had I known that the soil of our bogs was acid, as was the water of our streams, that it was this which made our bog water browns, as in acid water the humus is held in solution, while in alkaline waters it is deposited and the water becomes white. Never before had I known that associated with the roots of blueberry, cranberry and most other plants which grow in acid soils is a symbiotic fungus which, in some still unexplained way, assists these plants in obtaining the nitrogen necessary for their growth."
Click here to read the Bulletin No. 193
Beverly T. Galloway 
Fig. 2. Staff of the Bureau of Plant Industry in front of the USDA building, ca. 1900's. Flora Wambaugh Patterson is seated in the front row on the left. Beverly Galloway is standing to the right of the stairs. Courtesy of the National Archives.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
1910 November, Monthly Catalogue of Public Documents
By Elizabeth C. White
May 1936 The National Cranberry Magazine
" It was November 15, 1910, that the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States of Agriculture issued Bulletin No 193. Its heading announces B.T. Galloway as Chief of the Bureau. The letter of transmittal to the Honorable James Wilson, then the Secretary of Agriculture, was written by William A. Taylor Acting Chief of the Bureau.
This Bulletin carried the title "Experiments in Blueberry Culture", written by Frederick V. Coville, Botanist in charge of Taxonomic and Range Investigations.
It came to my attention through the list of Government publications which at that date was monthly sent to any citizen who requested it."
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