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Tennecetin: A New Antifungal Antibiotic, James Burns

Masters Theses

The present investigation is an outgrowth of some speculations we have entertained (and vice versa) for a number of years. These speculations revolved around the general idea of antibiotics -- their discovery, production, uses, and significance.

Despite a keen fascination with the matter, our attempts to build a philosophy of antibiosis suffered from an awkward ignorance of the subject itself. There seemed to be no easy way to remedy this situation. In a field dominated by commercial interests, with a literature too recent and scattered to have been sifted and sorted, the traditional academic tools of learning did not appear, …

Lateral Development Following Special Pruning Practices On Peach Shoots, Tayis S. Hamid

Masters Theses

[From the Introduction]

Because of its fruiting habit the peach creates a problem for growers. The problem is how to develop fruit wood nearer the trunk each year, so that propping, picking, spraying and fruit thinning will require about the same, rather than more labor each year.

The ever rising costs of production without the corresponding increases in retums have forced fruit growers to adopt time and labor saving devices in the production of their crop.

As a result of the above problem, this experiment was conducted to study and investigate the influence of some special pruning practices …

Characterization Of A Pigmented Yeast And Its Slime, Stephen Joseph Gagan

Masters Theses

Bacterial polysaccharides have received considerable attention because of their striking physical properties, their immunological reactions and their heterogeneity of composition and structure. The wide variety of these polysaccharides has been reviewed by Evans and Hibbert (1946).

More recently, surveys have been made of the sugar constituents of the polysaccharide fractions from a variety of fungi (Martin and Adams, 1956; Hough and Perry, 1955; Bernier, 1957; and Clutterbuck et al., 1934).

Little information, however, is available on polysaccharide slimes liberated by yeasts, a property confined almost entirely to certain members of the Cryptococcaceae.

The nature of this problem is concerned primarily …

Milk Production And Its Relation To Feed Crops Grown On Certain Grade A Dairy Farms In Bradley County, William M. Hale

Masters Theses

[From the Introduction] [Abbreviated]

Helping the dairy farmer increase production per cow and the efficiency of the dairy operation is one of the biggest challenges facing the Extension worker in Bradley County. Therefore, a study was undertaken based on the following objectives:

1. To determine the milk production per cow for Grade A producers in Bradley County.

2. To determine the relationship between milk production and acreage of certain crops, feeding practices, and breeding practices in Bradley County.

3. To assemble milk production records and related information of the Grade A producers to serve as a point of …

Relation Of Certain Management Practices To Yields Of Tobacco In Bradley County, William M. Hale

Masters Theses

[From the Introduction]

This problem is a collateral study to one which has been completed on "The Relation of Soil Type and Certain Chemical Soil Tests to Yields of Tobacco in Bradley County" (2). Results of this study indicated a very strong positive correlation beween soil type and yield of tobacco. Nevertheless, the fact that so many low yields were produced on excellent and good soils pointed to a need for further study in an effort to account for some of these low yields on good soils. A study was thus made based on the following objective: to …