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Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station

1923

Nebraska

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Seed Potato Investigations, H. O. Werner, R. F. Howard Dec 1923

Seed Potato Investigations, H. O. Werner, R. F. Howard

Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station

The objects of the investigations reported in this bulletin were:

  • To determine the condition of western Nebraska seed stock by the tuber unit method and by comparative trials in western Nebraska and various other points.
  • To determine the effect of culture, place, disease, etc., upon seed value.
  • To perfect methods of applying results to seed production in western Nebraska.


Relation Of Environment And Other Factors To Potato Wilt Caused By Fusarium Oxysporum, R. W. Goss Mar 1923

Relation Of Environment And Other Factors To Potato Wilt Caused By Fusarium Oxysporum, R. W. Goss

Historical Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station

The present work was undertaken to determine the influence of some environmental factors on the infection and progress of the disease potato wilt. The work has not progressed to the point of determining the exact relation of each of these factors. However, the results thus far obtained are presented here in order to direct attention to the nature and distribution of the disease in relation to the environmental conditions under which certain types of infection take place.