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Northeast Research Station Watertown, South Dakota Annual Progress Report, 1963, Agricultural Experiment Station, Agronomy Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the 1963 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 College Agronomy and Plant Pathology Department. This report includes information on the 1963 crop season, fertility and cultural practice experiments, corn and sorgham forage studies, alfalfa variety trials, small grain trials, corn performance trials, grain sorghum trials, wheat strain test, grass testing, weed research, soybeans, crop disease control.

Phosphorus And Potassium Elemental Or Oxide, Harold F. Miller, George D. Corder

Agronomy Notes

Soil tests for phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) are reported on the elemental basis by all soil testing laboratories (state and county) in Kentucky.

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 1963, J.F. Fredriksen, F.E. Shubeck

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the third annual progress report of the South East South Dakota Experiment Station near Centerville, South Dakota. This annual progress report includes research on the following topics: Fertility and Cultural Practice, Forage Study, Soil Potassium of the Southeast Farm, Weed Control in Corn, Herbicide Residue Study, Standard Variety Trials of Small Grain, Grain Sorghum Performance Trials, Corn Performance Trials, Soybeans, Crop Disease, Swine Research, Cattle Feeding Trial, Beef Research Unit Feeding System, Electric House Heating.

South Central Research Farm Annual Progress Report, 1963, Agricultural Experiment Station, Plant Science Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the December 1963. report for the Agricultural Experiment Station at the South Central Research Farm. This report includes weather data, small grain testing, specialty crop testing, sorghum testing, legume and grass testing, management, tillage and cultural practices, and crop disease control.

Field Trials With Zinc On Corn, H. F. Miller, S. H. Phillips, C. E. Wyatt

Agronomy Notes

Zinc deficiency in corn has been found in isolated instances in Kentucky during the past few years. Usually the deficiency is found in fields having a high pH or in high-phosphate soils with somewhat lower pH values. At present zinc deficiency in Kentucky soils does not appear widespread enough to justify recommending its application except where known deficiencies exist.

A New Black Shank Resistant Hybrid, Jones H. Smiley, Ira E. Massie

Agronomy Notes

Seed of a new black shank resistant burley hybrid will be available to growers in 1964. This hybrid is especially for farmers who cannot rotate their tobacco land and . thus, are forced to set their crop in a black shank infested field. The hybrid is a cross between two black shank resistant varieties, MS L8 and Burley 37. The female parent , MS L8, carries black shank resistance from a wild relative of tobacco.

A Preliminary Annotated Checklist Of The Foliose And Fruticose Lichens Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Barbara Jo Moore

Masters Theses

While much of the flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been extensively studied, the lichens have been somewhat neglected. Degelius' Lichen Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains (1941) is the first, and until now the only extensive study of the lichens of this area. Sharp (1930) mentions Gyrophora dillenii (=Umbilicaria mammulata) from Mt. LeConte. Cain (1935), Mozingo (1954), Sierk (1958), and Hale (1961) mention several species from the Smokies. Mozingo (1961) gives keys to the genus Cladonia both in Eastern Tennessee and in the Great Smoky Mountains.

The descriptions and keys in this study have been compiled …

Humulus Lupulus L., Leland Jacob Gier

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Acer Saccharum Marshall, B. Berkson

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Calcium Deficiency Symptoms In Burley Tobacco, Jones H. Smiley, Ira E. Massie, George Everette

Agronomy Notes

Calcium is an element required by all higher plants in relatively large quantities. It appears to be closely related to the formation of buds and flowers.

Calcium is usually available in sufficient quantities in Kentucky soils to produce a normal crop of tobacco. However, when certain varieties of burley tobacco commence to bloom and produce suckers, the tips of the calyx lobes of the flowers may turn brown and die and the edges of the small leaves of the suckers may be necrotic, resulting in irregularly shaped sucker leaves. In severe cases the apical bud may be killed. These calcium …

Ticks Of The Nevada Test Site, D Elden Beck, Dorald M. Allred, Elias P. Brinton

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Mites On Kangaroo Rats At The Nevada Test Site, Morris A. Goates

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

A systematic study of parasitic mites on kangaroo rats of two species at the Nevada Test Site was conducted from August 1959 to December 1961. The intent was to determine the kinds, numbers, seasonal occurrences and ecological relationships of mites in nuclear disturbed and contiguous undisturbed areas. A total of 1,256 rats from nine plant communities was examined.

The 6,208 mites collected represented 16 species including four undescribed. Fourteen were found on both kinds of rats. Considerably more rats were infested with chiggers than with mesostigmatids. Each species of mite occurred alone on its host at least 20% of the …

Reptiles Of The Nevada Test Site, Wilmer W. Tanner, Clive D. Jorgensen

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Vol. 3 No. 3

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Vol. 3 No. 4

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 3 No. 3

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 3 No. 4

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Vol. 4 No. 1

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 4 No. 1

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Tobacco Stalk Production, Value And Use, George D. Corder, Harold F. Miller

Agronomy Notes

When Kentucky farmers finish stripping the 1963 tobacco crop they will have 176,000 tons of tobacco stalks worth $2 million on their farms.

These stalks will contain 9.8 million pounds of nitrogen, 932,000 pounds of phosphorus (2 million pounds of P₂O₅) and 13 million pounds of potassium (15.6 million pounds of K₂O). Equal amounts of these plant nutrients bought in commercial fertilizers in 1963 would have cost more than $2 million.

Changes In Soil Ph Caused By Heavy Nitrogen Fertilization, W. O. Atkinson

Agronomy Notes

Ammonium nitrate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, urea and anhydrous ammonia leave acid residues, thus tending to make the soils more acid. The degree to which soil pH may be affected and the persistence of such changes for a silt loam soil is shown in the table below. The same amounts of phosphorus and potash were applied to all plots, and the different amounts of nitrogen were supplied from ammonium nitrate. Burley tobacco was the crop grown and the data are for 1963, which was the second consecutive year for the fertilizer treatments. (These were experimental plots and the high treatments …

Morus Rubra L., B. Berkson

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Vitis Vulpina L., B. Berkson

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Humulus Lupulus L., George Neville Jones

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Agronomy Notes, No. 6, Harold F. Miller, George D. Corder

Agronomy Notes

This fall is an ideal time to apply needed agricultural limestone. Spreading equipment can get over the dry ground with less soil compaction, and limestone applied now can correct soil acidity during the winter months.

Fall Treatment Of Tobacco Beds With Methyl Bromide, Ira E. Massie, George Everette, Jones H. Smiley

Agronomy Notes

Treating tobacco beds with methyl bromide for the purpose of killing weed seed has become very popular in recent years. The gas is effective except on the seed of white clover and when the soil temperature is below 50° F.

Plant Beds, Jones H. Smiley, Ira E. Massie

Agronomy Notes

Due to the occurrence of blue mold and manganese toxicity in some of the plant beds this last spring, it is probably advisable for all growers to select a new site for the 1964 crop.

Blue mold is a fungus disease which sometimes causes severe damage to tobacco seedings just prior to setting time. The fungus will produce heavy-walled spores on the dying or dead leaves. These spores are capable of remaining in the soil at least a year and attacking the next crop of plants if the same site is used again for tobacco plants .

Bulletin No. 14: Creating New Landscapes With Herbicides, A Homeowner's Guide, William A. Niering, Richard H. Goodwin

Bulletins

A how-to-do-it handbook describing the formulations and techniques to be used in eliminating unwanted plants such as poison ivy. The use of herbicides in naturalistic landscaping, wildlife and woodlot management are included. [Addendum on new data on chemicals inserted 1970] 30 pp.

A Study Of Puccinia Graminis And Cronartium Ribicola, Duane W. Hughes

Graduate Student Research Papers

It was the purpose of this study (1) to review the literary history of rusts in the United States and in the Northwest in particular, ( 2) to learn where rusts generally are found geographically, (3) to gain further information regarding the etiology of wheat rust (Puccinia graminis tritici), of white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) and to become enlightened on other rusts, (4) to learn ways of controlling the two rusts, black stem rust of wheat and white pine blister rust, and to gain an appreciation of the economic importance of rust prevention.

Determine Liming Needs On Tobacco Land This Fall, Jones H. Smiley, Harold F. Miller

Agronomy Notes

There have been far too many reports of manganese toxicity in tobacco this season for a condition which is so easily corrected.

Manganese is one of the minor elements necessary for plant growth, but it is needed in very small amounts. When large amounts are taken up by a tobacco plant, light green or yellowish areas appear between the larger veins of the leaf. In severe cases the plant may be stunted or even die.