Author:Franklin Hiram King

Franklin Hiram King
(1848–1911)

Franklin Hiram King

Works

Contributions to the Bulletin

Contributions to the Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin's Agricultural Experiment Station.

• "Comparative value of warm and cold water for milch cows in winter" (Vol. 21, 1889) (external scan)
• "The construction of silos" (Vol. 28, 1891) (external scan)
• "Destructive effects of winds on sandy soils and light sandy loams: with methods of protection" (Vol. 42, 1894) (external scan)
• "The agricultural possibilities of Douglas county and northwest Wisconsin" (Vol. 43, 1895) (external scan)
• "One years work done by 16-foot geared wind mill" (Vol. 68, 1898) (external scan)
• "Construction of cheese curing rooms for maintaining temperatures of 58° to 68° F." (Vol. 70, 1899) (external scan)
• "Principles of construction and maintenance of country roads" (Vol. 79, 1899) (external scan)
• "The character and treatment of swamp or humus soil" (Vol. 80, 1900) (external scan)
• "Experiments in grinding with small steel feed mills" (Vol. 82, 1900)
• "Silage, and the construction of modern silos" (Vol. 83, 1900) (external scan)
• "Development and distribution of nitrates and other soluble salts in cultivated soils" (Vol. 85, 1901) (external scan)
• "Development and distribution of nitrates in cultivated soils: second paper" (Vol. 93, 1902) (external scan)

Government publications

• "Observations and experiments on the fluctuations in the level and rate of movement of ground-water on the Wisconsin agricultural experiment station farm and at Whitewater, Wisconsin" in the Bulletin of the United States Weather Bureau, Vol. 5 (1892) (external scan)
• "Irrigation in humid climates" in Farmers' bulletin, Vol. 46 (1896)
• "Principles and conditions of the movements of ground water" in the Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. 19, part 2 (1897) (external scan) 11 plates.
• "Irrigation experiments in Wisconsin" in the Bulletin, Vol. 119 (1901) (external scan)
• "Differences between four southern and four northern soils, and improvements in soil management which these differences suggest" in the Bulletin, Vol. 142 (1904) (external scan)
• "Investigations in soil management" in the Bureau of Soils Bulletin, Vol. 26 (1905) (external scan) Milton Whitney, Chief of Bureau. 205 pages, 4 plates.
  • Part I. Amount of plant food readily recoverable from soils with distilled water.
  • Part II. Relation of crop yields to the amounts of water-soluble plant-food materials recovered from soils.
  • Part III. Relation of differences of climatological environment to crop yields

Encyclopedia articles

• Contributions to "The Treatment of the Soil With Reference to Moisture" in the Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (1907). (external scan)
• "Drainage" in The Standard Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture (British) (1908) (external scan)
• "Irrigation" in The Standard Cyclopedia of Modern Agriculture (British) (1908) (external scan)

Books

• Weeds in the United States, editor (1889) (external scan)
• Elementary lessons in the physics of agriculture (1891) (external scan)
• The Soil, its nature, relations, and fundamental principles of management (1895) (external scan)
• Irrigation and drainage—principles and practice of their cultural phases (1899) (external scan)
• A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture (1901) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Investigations in Soil Management: Being Three of Six Papers on the Influence of Soil Management Upon the Influence of Soil Management Upon the Water-soluble Salts in Soilsand the Yield of Crops (1904) (external scan)
• Ventilation for Dwellings, Rural Schools, and Stables (1908) (external scan)
• Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (1911)
• Soil Management (1914), ed. by Carrie H. Baker King (external scan)

Other publications

• Investigations in Soil Management: Being Three of Six Papers on the Influence of Soil Management Upon the Influence of Soil Management Upon the Water-soluble Salts in Soils and the Yield of Crops, bulletins E, F, and D. (1904) (external scan)
• "On the suspension of solids in fluids and the nature of colloids and solutions", Part 1, No. 3, in Transactions, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1908) (external scan)
• "The wonderful canals of China" in National Geographic, vol. 23, issue 10 (1912). (external scan)

Unpublished

• Observations on crop and soil management methods and practices in China, Manchuria, Korea and Japan: made between Feb. 19 and July 21, 1901 (1901)