1/1: Information about the collection, and a finding guide

1/2: Letter to Dr. Cofer from J. E. Adams discussing the transfer of the files of J. Oscar Morgan, July 3, 1953 (typed)

1/3: "Broom Corn" by J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper, photocopy included)

1/4: "Don't Handicap the Corn and Cotton by Giving it a Poor Start" by J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper, photocopy included)

1/5: "Stable Manure Vs. Green Manure as a Source of Organic Matter for Soils" by J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper)

1/6: "Corn Culture in the South" by J. O. Morgan, 1912 (original, typed, photocopy included)

1/7: "Some Considerations of Soil Improvement" by J. O. Morgan (3 pages, original, typed on tracing paper, multiple copies)

1/8: "Some Needs of Texas Agriculture" by J. O. Morgan, March 15, 1911 (32 pages, original typed)

1/9: "The Relation of Soil Fertility to Farm Management" by J. O. Morgan (5 pages, original, typed on tracing paper, photocopy of essay described included)

1/10: "The Important of crop notation" by J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper, multiple copies)

1/11: "Now is the time for plan your future cropping system", no author possibly J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper, multiple)

1/12: "The Manure Problem on the Farm", no author, possibly J. O. Morgan (3 pages, multiple copies)

1/13: "Don't Neglect the Fall Preparation of your Seed Bad" written by J. O. Morgan (original, typed on tracing paper)

1/14: "Crops for the Silo" by J. O. Morgan (multiple copies)

1/15: "The Relation of Commercial Fertilizers to Green Manures", no author, possibly J. O. Morgan (6 copies)

1/16: "More Alfalfa for Texas" by J. O. Morgan (2 copies)

1/17: "Fertilizers, Manures, and rotations for Cotton", no author, possibly J. O. Morgan (multiple copies)

1/18: "Some Profitable Crops that can yet be produced by Texas Farmers" by J. O. Morgan (multiple copies)

1/19: "The First Steps in Preparing the Seedbed for Corn", no author, possibly J. O. Morgan (4 pages, original, typed on tracing paper)

1/20: "The Eradication of Johnson grass" by J. O. Morgan (multiple copies)

1/21: Miscellaneous Papers

• "Interacts from the U.S. Departments of Agriculture Washington D.C.", no author, Undated (original document, typed on tracing paper). Discusses three chemicals that kill vegetation and a method the Australians use to kill weeds that is less harmful to crops.
• Document providing the definitions of different biomes (2 pages, typed)
• Agriculture curriculum, training, and other information regarding of A&M College of Texas (3 pages, typed)
• Importance of fall plowing for the soil (typed)
• Sub-irrigation techniques for crops. (3 pages, typed)
• Proper techniques for planting broom corn. (2 pages, handwritten in pencil)
• Handwritten notes in pencil
• Scanned photocopies of all the documents

This collection contains papers of Dr. J. Oscar Morgan who was a Professor of Agronomy at A & M College of Texas in the early 1900s. Few exact dates could be identified, but some of the papers are dated around 1911-1912.

There is no information about whether these papers were ever published as articles, or whether they were used only in the classroom.