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Bulletin No. 47 - The Climate Of Utah, James Dryden

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In reporting the meteorological observations of the Station for the years 1895 and 1896, it has been thought well to include for purposes of comparison records of temperature and precipitation at several other Utah points, as well as other data of climatological importance. The bringing together of all the known facts of our climate is a work of necessity that has been too long neglected. Observers have been patiently collecting data, some of them for a quarter of a century or more, and of the mass that has been collected very little is known outside of the periodical records of …

Bulletin No. 46 - Earthen Dams, Samuel Fortier

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According to the last census, 92 1/2 per cent of the Utah farms are irrigated. The advancement of agriculture in this State mainly depends upon the water, the available supply of which, in many of the older settled localities of the State, is already wholly utilized during the irrigation period. The future reclamation of new lands in such localities must, therefore, wait on the development of new sources of supply from storage reservoirs, sub-surface supplies, or from a more economical use of the summer flow of the available streams.

From estimates and measurements made by the hydrographers. of the United …

Bulletin No. 44 - Alfalfa Or Lucerne, A. A. Mills

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This bulletin gives the details of trials with alfalfa for the two years of 1894-5 and 1895-6. It also gives a summary of the results for three seasons. Bulletin 31 of the Station gives the details of the year's work not given here. Attention is also called to the work reported in bulletin 40 of this Station, in regard to feeding grasses, mostly alfalfa, to pigs.

Bulletin No. 43 - 1. Dairy Herd Record For 1984-95. 2. Winter Feeding Experiments With Dairy Cows. 3. Some Suggestions On The Building And Equipment Of Factories., F. B. Linfield

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The Dairy Department of this Station was fully organized by June 1894. The latter part of 1893 and early part of 1894 were devoted to fitting up the dairy rooms and getting the' necessary appliances and machinery in place. As our dairy herd was too small for experimental work, it was decided during the spring of 1894 to increase the number to fifteen head. The selection and purchasing of those cows were left to the writer.

Bulletin No. 42 - Creaming Experiments, F. B. Linfield

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During the summer of 1894, before our hand separator was fitted with power attachment, the writer found it scarcely practicable to run the separator, so that most of the milk was skimmed by deep setting. Although the usual methods of procedure were practiced, it was found impossible to get results that were satisfactory, or that would approximately compare with those reported from many eastern stations. Because of this and because ' the larger proportion of our dairymen use some method of setting, it was decided to undertake a series of experiments that might throw some light upon the subject. As …

Bulletin No. 41 - Tuberculosis, F. W. Brewer

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One of the most dreaded diseases which afflict the human race is "Tuberculosis." It is also the most fatal, as estimates based on reliable statistics show that at least one out of every eight of mankind die from the disease. It ha~ been a scourge throughout historical time and has been known under the various names of Phthisis, Consumption, Wasting Disease, Tuberculosis, etc. The researches of Professor Koch of Germany in 1881 and since that date have proved that not only Tuberculosis has been produced by the germs of which he was the discoverer, but that Scrofula, Tabes, Hydrocephalus, etc., …

Bulletin No. 40 - The Economic Production Of Pork, A. A. Mills

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This bulletin contains the detailed results of two years' work along the lines indicated, and a summary of the work of four years as far as it has been carried along these same lines.

In the summer of 1894, twelve lots of pigs were selected. They were purchased in Cache valley, and were a fair average of the pigs raised here. It was originally intended to put three pigs in each division, but just at the time of beginning the experiment it was difficult to procure enough animals of the proper age and size, so that the lots contained but …

Bulletin No. 39 - "Farming Irrigation" And "Orchard Irrigation", A. A. Mills, E. S. Richman

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The greater part of the matter given under the head "Farm Irrigation" is the result of five years' work. Some of the work reported gives the results obtained in fewer seasons. A great deal of the work was planned by Prof. J. VV. Sanborn, formerly Director of the Station, while the remainder was planned by the writer. The writer, however, has had charge of every detail of all of the field work from the beginning. Some of the matter has been published before, while a goodly portion of it has never been reported. For this publication the figures have been …

Bulletin No. 38 - Preliminary Report On Seepage Water And The Underflow Of Rivers, Samuel Fortier

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Into a box holding one cubic foot, or seven and one-half gallons of dry sand, one can usually pour from two to three gallons of water without causing any overflow. If the particles of sand were of the same size and cubical in form, they could be packed into a solid mass; and a cubic foot, instead of weighing about 100 pounds--the average weight of dry quartz sand--would then weigh about 165 pounds. But sand grains are irregular in form, and come in contact with adjacent grains only at particular points, thus enclosing spaces or voids, which in dry sand …

Bulletin No. 36 - Relative Value Of Corn And Oats For Horses, A. A. Mills

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This Bulletin reports the continuation of the study of the best nutritive ratio for horses under moderate work. The experiment was so arranged that a direct comparison could be made between oats and corn as the principal grain ration. The work was planned by Prof. J. W. Sanborn, who was then Director of the Station.

Bulletin No. 35 - Steer Feeding, A. A. Mills

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The object of this Bulletin is to give and discuss the results of experiments, herein detailed, in regard to the system, prevalent here, "of keeping cattle on hay and other coarse foods during the winter, then feeding grain for a few weeks in the spring just previous to selling. All over the inter-mountain region very little grain is fed, and what little is used is fed with the idea that an animal which has been kept poorly can be filled up with profit in a very short period, just before selling. The idea was to test these questions, and to …

Bulletin No. 34 - Relative Value Of Wheat, Peas, Corn And Barley In The Production Of Pork, A. A. Mills

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This bulletin treats of the use of wheat, peas, corn, and barley when mixed with bran and fed to pigs, the idea being to see if, by using one-half bran, the above grains could not be fed with profit, and also to test the relative value of the mixtures.

Bulletin No. 30 - Narrow Vs. Wide Nutrituve Rations For Horses, J. W. Sanborn

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In the third annual report of this Station (1892) the result of feeding wide and narrow nutritive rations to horses was given. This trial was favorable to the narrow nutritive ration. This ration was made up of clover, oats and wheat", while the wide ration was made up of timothy and corn. The trial ran through the summer, when the influence of what has been termed heating food, like corn, might be less effective than in the winter season. Many believe that the more varieties of food given the better the result, as the palatableness of food, it is claimed, …

Bulletin No. 31 - Time To Harvest Lucerne. Mulching., J. W. Sanborn

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The opinion has prevailed in scientific as well as in practical circles, that hay cut before or during bloom is more valuable, pound for pound, than when cut at a later period, and it is even maintained that the gross product per acre is more valuable. The old assumption, now somewhat modified, that as plants mature a part of the starch and sugar is converted into fibre, and that the nutrition of the stem is moved into the seed, led to the belief that early-cut hay was both more digestible and more valuable than that cut at a later period. …

Bulletin No. 33 - 1. Grazing Values Of Varieties Of Grass. 2. Drilling Vs. Broadcasting Grass Seed., J. W. Sanborn

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In the annual report for 1893, we published the result of experiments in grazing nine varieties of grass and clover, plus the grazing value of a plat of all these varieties mixed. There were some unequal conditions in the trial and it was continued over until the present season.

On May 23, two steers were placed upon each of the ten lots, enclosed by wire fence, to remain there for the period of one month, in artier to observe the length of time the varieties would carry these steers and the growth derived from the varieties. Several reasons prevented the …

Bulletin No. 29 - Irrigation: Amount Of Water To Use. Relative Feeding Values Of Timothy, Lucerne And Wild Hay, J. W. Sanborn

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In Bulletin 24 are given results of the first three years of experimentation as to the relation between the amount of water used and crop yield, soil fertility, and the exit, through drains, of the matters held in solution in the water applied. In this report are included the results of the first three years, plus those of the past season. The experiment is regarded of the very highest importance in that it deals with the right amount of water essential to the growth of wheat and grass crops, but more especially as it approximately determines whether the materials of …

Bulletin No. 28 - The Value Of Grass In The Production Of Pork: Exercise Vs. Non-Exercise Pigs

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This Bulletin treats of the economical use of grain when fed alone or when fed with green grass, and also of the economy of raising hogs on grass alone. Furthermore, the relation of exercise to the economical use of food is treated of. This Bulletin only reports the continuation of the experiment, as enlarged, carried on during the summer of 1892, and reported in Bulletin No. 22 of this Station.

Bulletin No. 27 - Irrigation; Early, Late And Usual, J. W. Sanborn

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Bulletin No. 23 reported the results of the first three years' trials in early and late irrigation. The trial reported in this Bulletin is a continuation of the trials reported in the Bulletin. above mentioned. The purpose of the experiment is to ascertain whether water added to the soil very early is so far stored that it will be available later in the season, and whether late irrigation has an injurious effect on the crop through its influence on development of stem and leaf at the expense of the seed; or, again, whether it is necessary to irrigate crops later …

Bulletin No. 26 - Sub-Irrigation Vs. Surface Irrigation And Water For Irrigation, J. W. Sanborn, Samuel Fortier

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It has long been held that irrigation water applied beneath the surface is better than surface irrigation, in relation to the amount used, the temperature of the soil, the amount of evaporation, washing of soil and yield of crop, including quality of crop received. Though philosophically there would seem to be little doubt that the propositions are well taken, sub-irrigation as an economical process has been over-pres ed by some as a mean of very greatly curtailing the amount of water used . There are those who have asserted that only one-tenth of the water applied by sub-irrigation would be …

Bulletin No. 25 - Fuits And Forest, Shade Adn Ornamental Trees, E. S. Richman

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After three years' trial on the experimental grounds we are ready to acknowledge the conditions unfavorable to the growth of strawberries; the high and dry location of the land, coupled with its sterility, make it unsuitable to the growth of strawberries. The first plants were necessarily, on account of lack of time, planted before the soil was fertilized. Manure was applied freely the second and third seasons, as a top dressing, but the ground, being compacted by frequent irrigation, never has been in the proper condition for strawberries, either as regards fertility or mechanical condition. A new bed has been …