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Carpenter Ants And Control In Homes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe
Carpenter Ants And Control In Homes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe
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Carpenter ants are members of the insect order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and other ants. Carpenter ants can be occasional pests in the home and are noted particularly for the damage they can cause when nesting in wood. In Utah they are more of a nuisance rather than a major structural pest.
Leafhoppers In The Home Garden, Jay B. Karren
Leafhoppers In The Home Garden, Jay B. Karren
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Leafhoppers are common problems in home gardens and orchards throughout the state of Utah. There are many species of leafhoppers, several of which attack apples, roses, grapes, and potatoes. Most species overwinter in the egg stage in the bark of the host plant or among the fallen host plant leaves.
Millipedes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe
Millipedes, Jay B. Karren, Alan H. Roe
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Millipedes are related to trilobites, spiders and ticks, sowbugs, and crayfish, centipedes, and insects. Each group represents a different class of arthropods. Millipedes or "thousandlegged worms" include over 800 species of the class Diplopoda in North America.
How Well Does Your Irrigation Canal Hold Water?, Robert Hill
How Well Does Your Irrigation Canal Hold Water?, Robert Hill
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Irrigation canals placed in native soil or lined with earth can have seepage water losses varying from 20 percent to more than 50 percent. Well designed, new compacted earth lined canals can have reduced seepage losses similar to concrete lined channels. However, consistent and regular maintenance is required to keep seepage losses low. Older concrete lined canals with deteriorated joints and frost heave or settled sections may also have high seepage losses and require rehabilitating.
Crocheted Market Bag From Recycled Plastic Grocery Bags, Jodi Smith
Crocheted Market Bag From Recycled Plastic Grocery Bags, Jodi Smith
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This sturdy bag is the same size as an ordinary plastic grocery sack. It can hold much more, because you can pack it full.
Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension
Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension
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There are a number of characteristics of a knit fabric that will influence the pattern used and the sewing techniques chosen. Knits can vary from light weight to bulky weight and from tightly to loosely knit.
Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension
Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension
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Tall larkspur reduces pasture use and can cause death in cattle. In the West, overingestion of tall larkspur causes average death losses of 4-5%, but can exceed 15% on some ranches. In addition, the presence of tall larkspur in some pastures may force ranchers to avoid those pastures during peak forage growth in late spring and early summer.
Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell
Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell
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4-H and FFA livestock shows place cattle in a surrounding where they are stressed physically and psychologically. They are exposed to physical exertion, unfamiliar smells, tastes, sounds, people, cattle and other animals Owners of beef cattle who place them in these situations need to understand that stress can be reduced or eliminated with proper care and management.
Behavior Depends On Consequences, Behave
Behavior Depends On Consequences, Behave
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Ignoring Variation: Are We Missing Opportunities?, Behave
Ignoring Variation: Are We Missing Opportunities?, Behave
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This publication discusses the fact that each individual person and animal is so unique from one another and the opportunity to study and learn about the differences rather than the similarities and averages is often passed up.
Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell
Proper Use Of Ammoniated Low-Quality Forages For The Wintering Of Spring-Calving Beef Cow Herds In The Intermountain West, D. R. Zobell
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Low‐quality forages (LQF) such as cereal straws or post‐ripe hays are often used as economical feed sources for the wintering of beef cow herds. The ammoniation of such forages increases the digestibility and crude protein (CP) enough so that these forages can be used as the basis of beef cow diets, even during late gestation and early lactation if supplemented properly.
Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides
Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides
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Saltcedar is diffi cult to control. Single treatment approaches to control saltcedar have not proven feasible because no method completely eliminates saltcedar or its regeneration.
Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension
Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension
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What began in the 1950s as a small patch of weeds near a grain elevator in Juab County, turned into a serious environmental problem that impacts the state’s wildlife, grazing and tourist industries. In the early 1990s, it was estimated that squarrose knapweed infested nearly 200,000 acres of rangeland in central Utah.
Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension
Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension
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Why do animals eat certain foods and live in certain locations? Your first thought might be, they’re born that way or it’s in their genes. While it’s true that every animal is born with a set of genes that helps determine how they look and what they need, genetics is only part of the story.
Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension
Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants, Usu Extension
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If animals can learn which plants are toxic and which are safe, then why do they eat poisonous plants and die?
Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension
Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension
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Biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in a given location, has declined in many areas in the West. For example, woody plants, such as sagebrush and juniper now dominate many western landscapes.
The Role Of Composting And Soil And Manure Testing In Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning., Rich Koenig
The Role Of Composting And Soil And Manure Testing In Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning., Rich Koenig
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What is comprehensive nutrient management planning?
Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension
Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension
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Do you often eat at the same restaurants even if your town is loaded with places to eat? People frequent the same restaurants for a variety of reasons from the quality and type of food, to cost, to distance from home, to simply being unfamiliar with the alternatives.
Chalkboard With Pocket Placemat, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams
Chalkboard With Pocket Placemat, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams
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Chalkboard with Pocket.
A Note About Market Lamb Docking, Usu Extension
A Note About Market Lamb Docking, Usu Extension
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Tail removal or docking of lambs by the commercial sheep industry is a standard management practice. When properly docked, the tail or dock will be long enough that when lifting the tail to defecate, the caudal folds on the under side of the tail are raised.
Knitted Nesting Pincushion, Debra Proctor
Knitted Nesting Pincushion, Debra Proctor
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Knitted Nesting Pincushion
Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong, Behave
Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong, Behave
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This publication discusses when it is best to have livestock graze on land according to the carbohydrate reserves.
Learning About Foods And Locations, Behave
Learning About Foods And Locations, Behave
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This publication discusses the different ways that animals learn and adapt by being in different places and experiencing different things.
Mother Knows Best, Behave
Basic Crochet Slipper, Debra Proctor
Helping Dairy Producers Reduce The Scc, Clell Bagley
Helping Dairy Producers Reduce The Scc, Clell Bagley
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Practicing veterinarians are in an excellent position to help dairy producers recognize and deal with the problem of elevated somatic cell counts (SCC). Yet they are seldom asked to assist. A high SCC is an indication of chronic, subclinical mastitis in the herd and is also an indication of significant economic losses.
Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension
Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension
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In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists manage for correct plant density and height to ensure herbivores maximize intake.
Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension
Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension
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Cache County, like other counties in the Western United States, is experiencing a major transition in land use. Though we still have a host of relatively large acreage, well managed crop and livestock farms, the number of smaller acreages is increasing.
Cuffed Knit Slippers, Debra Proctor
Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave
Introducing Animals To New Foods, Behave
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This publication explains different ways of successfully introducing animals to new foods.