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Northeast Research Station Watertown, South Dakota Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station, Agronomy Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the 1967 annual progress report for the Northeast Research Station in Watertown, South Dakota. This report is issued by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and the South Dakota State University. This report includes information on the 1967 crop season, fertility and cultural practice experiments, corn and sorgham forage studies, small grain trials, corn performance trials, grain sorghum and soybeans, wheat and flax strain test, weed research, crop diseases, and insect control.

Forest Soil Characteristics As Influenced By Vegetation And Bedrock In The Spruce-Fir Zone Of The Great Smoky Mountains, James Alvis Wolfe

Doctoral Dissertations

The present study sought to determine differences in soil characteristics related to spruce-fir and beech-birch vegetation in the Great Smoky Mountains when other factors were held as nearly constant as possible. An attempt was made to evaluate the influence of bedrock on soil characteristics and vegetation patterns. Hopefully this investigation may contribute to a greater understanding of the perplexing vegetation mosaic found at higher mountain elevations.

The Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina constitute the portion of the Unaka Range situated between the Little Tennessee and Pigeon Rivers. Although metamorphosed, the rocks of Unakas, the westernmost …

Strongly Acid Soil Must Be Limed For Corn, Harold Miller

Agronomy Notes

The necessity of liming strongly acid soils that will be planted in corn is well illustrated in a demonstration conducted by Harold Vaught, Area Extension Agent in Adair County.

A field that was well fertilized with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium produced low corn yields in 1966. Analysis of a soil sample from the field showed that it was strongly acid soil. (Similar conditions have been reported by many farmers throughout the state in recent years.) Since this field was to be planted in corn again in 1967, a liming demonstration was planned .

Breeding Tobacco Varieties, Paul D. Legg

Agronomy Notes

The principal objectives in breeding tobacco are yield, field and handling characteristics, disease resistance, and quality. Of these objectives, major emphasis has been placed on breeding disease-resistant varieties. Resistant varieties have provided one of the most effective means of combating many of the pathogens that attack the tobacco plant. However, the transfer of genes for disease resistance into susceptible varieties has been accompanied in many cases by other characteristics which are undesirable. It is often a difficult task to combine acceptable type, yield, and quality with desired factors for disease resistance into a single variety.

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This seventh annual report of the research program at the Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm is presented herewith. The report has special significance for those engaged in agriculture and the agriculturally related businesses in the nine county area of southeast South Dakota, but it will be useful to many outside the area. The results shown are not necessarily complete nor conclusive. Interpretations given are tentative because additional data resulting from continuation of these experiments may result in conclusions different from those based on any one year.

South Central Research Farm Annual Progress Report, 1967, Agricultural Experiment Station, Plant Science Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the December 1967. report for the Agricultural Experiment Station at the South Central Research Farm. This report includes weather data, small grain variety testing, specialty crop testing, sorghum testing, legume and grass testing, management, tillage and cultural practices, and crop disease control.

Birds Of The Upper Colorado River Basin, C. Lynn Hayward

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Vol. 9 No. 2

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 9 No. 2

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

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Effect Of Nitrogen Fertilization On The Establishment, Density, And Strength Of Merion Kentucky Bluegrass Sod Grown On A Mineral Soil, Kent W. Kurtz

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Synthetic And Complex Media For The Rapid Detection Of Fluorescence Of Phytopathogenic Pseudomonads: Effect Of The Carbon Source, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Fluorescence is of diagnostic value for differentiating among species of aerobic pseudomonads (R. Y. Stanier, N. J. Palleroni, and M. Doudoroff, J. Gen. Microbiol. 43:159, 1966). The standard medium for detecting fluorescence is Medium B (E. 0. King, M. K. Ward, and D. E. Raney, J. Lab. Clin. Med. 44:301, 1954), which supports fluorescent pigment production of most pseudomonads tested (0. Jessen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other green fluorescent pseudomonads, A taxonomic study, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1965; R. Y. Stanier et al., J. Gen. Microbiol. 43:159, 1966). Minerals (J. V. King, J. J. R. Campbell, and B. A. Eagles, Can. J. …

Marketing Burley Tobacco, Ira E. Massie

Agronomy Notes

When your tobacco has been stripped, sort it (on the farm) into its respective groups. Sort in daylight or under fluorescent lighting, never by yellow (muzda) electric or lantern light.

After the sticks of tobacco have been carefully sorted and checked, they should be packed on the truck in the following order: first, the sticks of the lowest quality, then the flyings, then the next quality, etc. Next load the high quality lugs. The leaf is then loaded, beginning with that of the highest quality and then in the order of quality to the lowest.

Use Of Wild Species In Developing Varieties, Glenn B. Collins

Agronomy Notes

The familiar plant known as tobacco has the more technical name of Nicotiana tabacum L. It belongs to a family of plants called the Solanaceae or Nightshade family. This family includes many familiar species besides tobacco: tomato, potato, bitter sweet, horse-nettle, ground-cherry, jimsonweed, henbane, and petunia, to mention only a few. In addition to these more distant relatives of tobacco, there are approximately 65 Nicotiana species. Morphologically, the Nicotiana species are very diverse, ranging from those resembling tobacco to the extreme types that look more like cabbage. The species are widespread geographically, with a particularly large concentration in South and …

Fertilizing No-Tillage Corn And Soybeans, George D. Corder

Agronomy Notes

Planting corn and soybeans in sod (commonly referred to as "no-tillage" planting) is increasing in parts of Kentucky, and interest in this practice in other parts of the state is growing.

One question is often asked: 'What is the best method of liming and fertilizing no-tillage corn and soybeans?"

Since no-tillage planting is a comparatively new practice, only a limited amount of research on methods of fertilization has been done. However, research designed to find out how well plants can recover phosphorus and potassium applied on the surface of the soil will be started by the Department of Agronomy at …

Using Birdsfoot Trefoil In Kentucky Pastures, W. C. Templeton Jr., C. F. Buck, D. W. Wattenbarger

Agronomy Notes

Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) is an excellent pasture legume in the Corn Belt and in northeast United states . It has usually been considered too poorly adapted to Kentucky to merit trial by the farmers. Observations and grazing results in Woodford county during the last 14 years, however, indicate that this view is no longer valid.

A grazing trial was established in 1954, with birdsfoot trefoil and Kentucky bluegrass as one of three mixtures used. Trefoil was seeded alone in the spring, and an excellent stand was obtained. Bluegrass was drilled in the established trefoil in September 1954. There …

Acer Negundo L., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Parthenocissus Quinquefolia (L.) Planch., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Maclura Pomifera (Raf.) Schneid., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Morus Alba L., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Lysimachia Quadriflora Sims, S.C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Vitis Riparia Michx., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Fraxinus Pennsylvanica Marsh., S. C. Mueller

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Verbena Hastata L., John E. Ebinger

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Certified Seed Of Kenblue Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Available, Department Of Agronomy, College Of Agriculture, University Of Kentucky

Agronomy Notes

A limited quantity of certified seed of Kenblue, a new variety of Kentucky bluegrass, will be available this fall. Kenblue was developed last year and officially released July 31, 1967 by the University of Kentucky and the USDA-ARS.

Kenblue is more insect- and disease-resistant than any of the other named varieties of bluegrass . Its adaptability to Kentucky conditions is also much higher, because Kenblue was developed from seed taken from 12 farms in seven Central Kentucky counties where bluegrass is normally grown for seed purposes . In each case, fields from which the seed was taken had been in …

Barsoy-A New Winter Barley, V. C. Finkner, S. H. Phillips

Agronomy Notes

The early maturity of Barsoy winter barley will fill a gap in the maturity dates of the barley varieties presently recommended. Double cropping of small grain and wheat has grown to the extent that 30,000 to 40,000 acres in Kentucky grow two crops each year. This practice will continue to develop and become more important on grain farms. The early maturity characteristic of Barsoy will allow an earlier planting of soybeans than will other barley varieties.

1967 Recommended Small Grains-Planting Dates, Varieties, And Description, V. C. Finkner, S. H. Phillips

Agronomy Notes

Wheat

Planting Dates - - - September 15 to October 20
Varieties - - - - - Benhur, Knox 62, Monon, Red Coat

Barley

Planting Dates - - - September 15 to October 20
Varieties - - -- - Barsoy, Datyon, Harrison, Kenbar, Will

Oats (Fall varieties)

Planting Dates - - - August 20 to October 1
Varieties - - - - - Dubois and Nor line

Portulaca Oleracea L., Leland Jacob Gier

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Humulus Lupulus L., Leland Jacob Gier

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Portulaca Oleracea L., Leland Jacob Gier

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Phyla Lanceolata (Michx.) Greene, L. J. Gier

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.