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The Utilization Of Nitrogen, Calcium, And Phosphorus By The Growing Chick, C. W. Ackerson, M. J. Blish, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

1. The nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus content of 127 newly hatched chicks was determined. 2. Thirty newly hatched chicks were fed accurately known amounts of a good chick mash for 60 days. At the end of the period nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and fat were determined for each chick. 3. By means of the comparative slaughter test the retention of nitrogen was found to be 37.8 per cent, calcium 43.4 per cent, and phosphorus 27.3 per cent of the respective elements fed. 4. The average gain in live weight per gram of nitrogen fed was 12.0 grams. 5. The rate of …

Studies In The Development Of Tissue In The Stem And Leaf Of Pinus Edulis, Engelman, Eleanor Bartoszak

Bachelors’ Theses

Pinus edulis, Engelman commonly known as the two-leaved "Nut Pine", belongs to the genus Pinus of the tribe Abietineae which in turn is a member of the Pinnaceae family of the order Coniferales. The Coniferales constitute three-fourths of the present gymnosperms which comprise forty genera and approximately 350 species. The dominant conifers are the twenty-nine genera and approximately 245 species included
in the family Pinnaceae. In this family are found four tribes, Taxodineae, Cupressineae, Araucarineae, and Abietineae. This latter form includes nine genera and about 129 species.. The genera are Cedrus, found …

Some Monogenetic Trematodes From The Galapagos Islands And The Neighboring Pacific, Frank Grose Meserve

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Introduction

Trematodes are parasitic, unsegmented, flattened (rarely cylindrical) worms. They have ventral, anterior, posterior or median attachment organs. The sense organs are poorly developed. The mouth is terminal or ventral and subterminal. The intestine is usually forked with or without lateral branches. The animals, with few exceptions, are hermaphroditic. The ovary is usually single. They have one, two, or more testes. The development is direct with only one host in the ectoparasitic Monogenea and indirect in the Digenea which have two or more hosts. The digenetic trematodes usually parasitize vertebrates which serve as their primary hosts and invertebrates (Mollusca) which …

Sales Value And Assessed Value Of Nebraska Farm Land: 1921-1934, Eleanor H. Hinman

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

How to secure just and equitable estimates of the value of farm land as a basis for taxation has always been a vexatious problem. The existing assessment law in Nebraska went into effect April 1, 1921. The present study attempts to show how the assessed valuations of farm real estate made under that law compare with the actual sales value of the farms sold during the 13 years ending March 31, 1934. The data used in this study include records of 35,753 tracts of farm land in 93 Nebraska counties sold during the 13 years ending March 31, 1934.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1935) 3(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Some Nebraska Experiences ·with the Northern Purple Martin. By Mrs. George W. Trine ... 79

General Notes ... 82

Editorial Page ... 86

The 1935 Migration Season ... 87

Here and There with the N.O.U. Members ... 114

A History of Nebraska Ornithology. III. Period of the Explorations of the Early Nineteenth Century (1804-1854). The Lewis and Clark and Zebulon M. Pike Expeditions ... 115

Minutes of the Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting ... 125

Report on the Thirty-third Annual Field Day ... 128

Membership Roll of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union ... 129

Two New Bird Books ...132

The Food We Have Never Seen, Walter S. Price

Biology Honors Papers

This 32 page thesis gives a brief history of vitamins, where they are found in abundance, and the effect of vitamin deficiency on the body from a nutritional standpoint.

Bulletin No. 256 - Drainage And Irrigation, Soil, Economic, And Social Conditions, Delta Area, Utah: Division 2: Soil Conditions, D. S. Jennings, J. Darrel Peterson

UAES Bulletins

Project 90-A Study of Factors Influencing the Financial Condition of Certain Utah Irrigation and Drainage Projects-was undertaken in 1928 as an intensified study of local areas. This study was divided among four departments, with a project leader for each particular phase of the study. These four project leaders, guided by the Station Director, have constituted a committee in immediate charge of this project. Subprojects and their respective leaders are: A-Engineering and Engineering Economic Aspects, O. W. Israelsen; B-Soil Productivity Aspects , D. S. Jennings; C- Contributing Sociological Aspects, J. A. Geddes; and D-Economic Aspects, W. Preston Thomas.

Color Reactions As An Aid To Seed Indentification, Carlton Leo Schmit

Bachelors’ Theses

Plants have long been classified according to their physical likenesses and structures. To sort plants according to such a basis, a botanist uses a key. In most cases, these keys are based on the flower or fruit of the plant. Sometimes there are disadvantages in using these structures, because usually they are only present for a short portion of the year. In a few cases, the seeds or fruits of plants have been used as a basis of classification as, for instance, in the Umbelliferae, Alismaceae, and Bidens.

The Weather Effect On The Characteristic Protein Values In Wheat, Mary Margaret Murphy

Bachelors’ Theses

Scientific investigation has proved conclusively that the protein content of the wheat kernel is the most important factor in determining the quality of the flour obtained. A high protein wheat is used for flour for bread making, and a low protein wheat for pastry flours. The quality of the protein must be determined by baking experimental loaves.

The year 1934 was a year of drought. In all parts of the country the wheat crops were affected by the lack of rainfall; hence, the protein value of the wheat must necessarily have been affected in some manner. The United States Department …

Inheritance Of Resistance To Three Physiologic Forms Of Bunt In Ridit X Utah-Kanred Cross, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Bunt is a serious disease of wheat found in nearly all weat-growing countries of the world. In India the disease is more severe in the northern provinces than in the central and southern provinces as the temperature during planting time is favorable to the germination of the fungous growth in the northern part. In the central or southern parts, this is not the case. In the United States this disease causes heavy annual loss. The amount of smut in a field, or the percentage of smutted heads, is generally taken as an index of the reduction in yield or loss …

Bulletin No. 255 - Drainage And Irrigation, Soil, Economic, And Social Conditions, Delta Area, Utah: Division 1: Drainage And Irrigation Conditions, O. W. Israelsen

UAES Bulletins

Project 90-A Study of Factors Influencing the Financial Condition of Certain Utah Irrigation and Drainage Projects-has been Conducted cooperatively since 1928 by four different departments, each represented by a man in charge of one phase of the problem. These four department representatives have constituted a committee in immediate charge of this project, guided by the Station Director. Subprojects and their respective leaders are: A: Engineering and Engineering Economic Aspects, O. W. Israelsen; B: Soil Productivity Aspects, D. S. Jennings; C: Contributing Sociological Aspects, J. A. Geddes; and D: Economic Aspects, W. Preston Thomas.

Notes

Field and Laboratory

The Groundhog As A Weather Forecaster; Two Leading Chemists Visit Southern Methodist University; The Chemistry Club; Central Texas Section, American Chemical Society Meets At Southern Methodist University; Oberholser Lectures At Southern Methodist University

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1935) 3(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Songs of the Western Meadowlark. By Misses Jessie M. and Mary A. Towne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 51

The Case Against the Bronzed Grackle. By Mrs. George W. Trine. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. 54

General Notes......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

Forty-Eighth Annual Report Of The Agricultural Experiment Station Of Nebraska, February 1, 1935, W.W. Burr

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

This report differs from previous reports in two respects: it covers experimental work up to January 1, 1935, and it includes brief abstracts of publications since the last report. Previously most of the report dealt with work done before the end of the fiscal year; that is, work done between June 30 and January 1 was not reported until over a year later, for the most part. The present report corrects that defect, and in addition the abstracts of publications will make the report useful as a reference guide to published matter.

The projects are discussed under subject headings and …

Artificial Pruning In Coniferous Plantations, Ralph C. Hawley, Robert T. Clapp

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

The pruning practices here outlined should be applicable on the thousands of acres of coniferous plantations which have been established in southern New England and portions of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania having similar forest conditions.

Manual Of The Grasses Of The United States, A. S. Hitchcock

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Introduction 1

Uses of grasses 1

Distribution of grasses 5

Morphology of grasses 6

Classification of grasses 10

Nomenclature 12

Common names 14

Scope of the manual 14

Gramineae (Poaceae), the grass family 15

Descriptions of the subfamilies and keys to the tribes 16

Subfamily 1. Festucoideae 16

Subfamily 2. Panicoideae 17

Descriptions of the tribes and keys to the genera 17

Tribe 1. Bambuseae 17

Tribe 2. Festuceae 17

Tribe 3. Hordeae 20

Tribe 4. Aveneae 21

Tribe 5. Agrostideae 22

Tribe 6. Zovsieae 24

Tribe 7. Chlorideae 24

Tribe 8. Phalarideae. 25

Tribe 9. Oryzeae 25

Tribe 10. …

Bulletin No. 251 - Apricot Varieties, Francis M. Coe

UAES Bulletins

While this publication has as its primary purpose the presentation of data as a progress report on the apricot variety testing work of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, study of the apricot varieties being grown in the state and of the literature showed such a confusion of varietal nomenclature in orchards, nurseries, and even in the literature on apricot varieties, that it was considered desirable to review the literature and to describe the varieties at hand more completely than is usual with a report of this kind in the hope that by so doing the apricot variety situation might be …

Bulletin No. 252 - Groundwater: Part I: Fundamental Principles Governing Its Physical Control, Willard Gardner, T. R. Collier, Doris Farr

UAES Bulletins

This article does not purport to present detailed specifications for engineering structures nor to enlighten engineers specifically as to devices or methods appropriate to the control of groundwater. It is the aim rather to discuss fundamental principles and to indicate applications.

Forest Fire Damage Studies In The Northeast--I. Bark-Beetles And Fire Damaged Hardwoods, Paul W. Stickel

The Bark Beetles, Fuels, and Fire Bibliography

In reporting the damage to trees scorched lightly at the base by fire the average fire warden and even the technically trained forester is given to stating that little harm has been done providing the tree crowns remain green. Such a statement is far from being correct, failing as it does to take into account the aftermath of insect and fungus damage which invariably follows even the lightest of surface fires. In the case reported herein, over 50 per cent of the fire-scorched hardwoods showed signs of the presence of ambrosia-beetles, whose work, even if the trees continue to live, …

Studies In The Development Of Tissue In Helianthus Annuus, L., Theodore Riedeburg

Bachelors’ Theses

The common sunflower, Helianthus annuus, L. is a member of the Compositae and a native of the Great Plains region of the United States. It is an annual herb, with a rough hairy stem three to fifteen feet high, broad, coarsely toothed rough heartshaped leaves three to twelve inches long and heads of flowers three to six inches wide in wild specimens and often one foot or more in cultivated plants. The plant is economically important, for its leaves are used as fodder, the flowers yield a yellow dye, and the seeds contain oil and are used for food. …

History Of Farm Land Prices In Eleven Nebraska Counties 1873-1933, Eleanor H. Hinman

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The subject of farm land price is intimately intertwined with the economic and social welfare of farm people, and even with the financial structure of the nation. A detailed, year-by-year record of farm land sales and prices from several typical Nebraska farming areas over a 61-year period may throw light on the behavior of land values in the counties studied and in similar farming areas, and may help towards supplying a better basis for land price analysis and forecasting than now exists. This bulletin presents such a record for 11 Nebraska counties. It is based on 76,544 true sales of …

The Effect Of The Nitrogen Fixation And Of Aeration Upon The Growth Of Yeast In Culture Media, Syrene C. Bernstein

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject of yeast has been widely studied from many viewpoints; we can find many bacteriological, physiological, and chemical papers on the subject. Besides the purely scientific work on yeast, there are numerous industrial investigations on this subject, since yeast growth and the products of yeast growth form the foundation for such important industries as the distilling, brewing, baking industries as well as commercial yeast manufacture. The effect of nitrogen fixation has been treated from all of these angles, scientific and industrial, and the investigations include the form in which the nitrogen is most easily assimilated, the manner of the …

Studies On The Comparative Value Of The Hot Treatment (Krantz Patent) And Common Methods Of Handling Barnyard Manure, Orval E. Winkler

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Antidating written human history the dung of animals, chalk, marl, wood ashes and other substances were probably used to increase the productivity of the soil. These practises found their way into the earliest farming activities of the Chinese, Persians, Greeks and Romans. (3)(11) In the Hebrew scriptures mention is made of the "Dung Gate". (10) This was undoubtedly a place given to the marketing of manures. That manure was used as a soil amendment in Asia Minor in Biblical times is not questioned. The famous Roman agricultural writer Cato (234 B.C.) wrote at length on manures and their handling. He …

Notes On Texas Crustacea, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

No abstract provided.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1934) 2(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Notes on Some Logan County Birds. By Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Glandon ........................................31

General Notes ........................................... 37

Editorial Page .......................................... 40

The 1934 Migration Season ............................... 42

Here and There with the N. O. U. Members ................. 51

Principal Ornithological Organizations of the United States .. 52

The Distribution Of Pectinatella Magnifica Leidy In The United States, S. W. Geiser

Field and Laboratory

In 1851, Leidy described from the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, the interesting Bryozoan, Pectinatella magnifica. Since then, it has been recorded from a number of other localities in America and Europe. The exact distribution, however (for America, at least) is still only partially known. Brown1 has recently published a careful study of the biology of this species; and the present writer has studied, since 1928, the distribution of this species in Iowa, as well as its periodicity of abundance.

Contributions To The Anatomy And Physiology Of The Heart In The Turtle, David J. Twohig

Bachelors’ Theses

The heart in any animal, and especially in higher animals, is an important organ. It is the purpose of this paper to consider such an organ from the anatomical and physiological basis as it exists in the turtle.

The turtle was chosen as the subject for many reasons. The first one of these reasons was because the heart of the turtle closely.resembles the most complex of hearts in structure and action. The second was because the heart is quite typical of the members of Class Reptilia. The third reason was because the speciments are readily obtainable.

Bulletin No. 247 - Effect Of Manure And Of Phosphorus Fertilizer On The Yield And Composition Of Alfalfa Hay, D. W. Pittman

UAES Bulletins

It has frequently been observed by practical stockmen that alfalfa hay produced on poor unproductive land has a much lower feeding value than hay produced on good productive land. Some have also observed that by the use of a supplemental feed rich in phosphorus (such as steamed bone-meal), the feeding value of this poor quality alfalfa hay may be improved, indicating that phosphorus deficiency is at least one cause of its low feeding value.

Bulletin No. 246 - Food Habits Of Rural School Children In Relation To Their Physical Well-Being, Almeda Perry Brown

UAES Bulletins

A study of school children's diet and of their physical status was made in six rural Utah communities, similar in size, and in social, economic, and physical characteristics.

Bulletin No. 245 - Cherry Pollination Studies In Utah, Francis M. Coe

UAES Bulletins

The cherry is rapidly becoming Utah's most important fruit crop. According to the 1930 census, there were 110,050 bearing and 114,230 non-bearing cherry trees in Utah orchards. Most of these trees are sweet cherries, the newer plantings consisting mainly of Bing and Lambert trees, although Napoleon predominated in the older plantings.

The problem of pollination is of more importance with the cherry than with other- fruits, because of the large number of individual fruits required to make a crop and because of the self-sterility and intersterility shown by the major commercial sweet varieties.

As has been shown by the investigations …