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A Study Of The Respiratory System Of The Sparrow (Passer Domesticus), Ben Peter Arnowitz

Bachelors’ Theses

The respiratory mechanisms of birds, unlike that of mammals, are definitely adapted to the function of flight. Because of this added adaptation, we should expect, therefore, some morphological and perhaps even embryological, physiological, and histological differences. An example of a morphological difference between birds and mammals is the intricate system of air-sacs that are present in birds. This remarkable feature is probably the reason why birds are able to fly as they do.

In this thesis the writer has used the sparrow (Passer domesticus) for the basis of his experiments. This particular bird was chosen in preference to …

Fishes Of The Middle West, Rachel L. Carson

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The waters of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes are a potential source of several hundred million pounds of food in the form of tasty lake and river fishes. This rich resource of the inland waters is important to a nation at war. Because of the growing meat shortage, people will eat more fish than in pre-war years. In the interior of the country, people will eat more fresh-water fish than before, because fish are good and nutritious and because, in the coming months, the shipments of rosefish, halibut, shrimp, and other seafoods that come to them from the …

An Evaluation Of The Baking And Boiling Qualities Of Eight Varieties Of Potatoes, Minerva Kellogg, W.F. Buckholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Home Economics Pamphlets (1943-1957)

In 1942 the Sebago, Pontiac and Sequoia potatoes grown. at Brookings were late blight-resistant and somewhat scab-resistant. The prevalence of scab in Deuel County and a part of Codington County may make it highly desirable to resort to a resistant variety for table stock production in that area. One of the prime requisites of a potato variety is its cooking quality, and varieties differ in their relative response to different methods; for instance baking and boiling. To evaluate these three varieties in that respect, they were scored, when baked and boiled, along side Early Ohio, Irish Cobbler, Bliss Triumph, Katahdin, …

Night Vision, Charles Sheard

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Nutrition In The Emergency, G. O. Burr

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 307 - Skin Folds In Sheep, Milton A. Madsen, Alma C. Esplin, Ralph W. Phillips

UAES Bulletins

Sheep vary greatly, even within breeds, in the number and size of folds in the skin. At one time producers were emphasizing the importance of having a large number of skin folds in fine wool sheep such as the Merino and Rambouillet. This was based on the belief that skin folds were associated with high yields of grease wool and fineness of wool fibers. In recent years the trend has been toward a smoother bodied sheep with longer staple and less grease in the fleece.

The objects of this bulletin are to present a review of the available information concerning …

Food From The Sea: Fish And Shellfish Of New England, Rachel L. Carson

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Millions of Americans are developing new wartime food habits, trying foods they once neglected, turning to alternates for long familiar products. For everyone of the ten fish or shellfish that make up mere than four-fifths of New England's catch there are seven species little known or utilized, many of which could provide tasty and nutritious foods. Turning to these under-utilized species will conserve food resources by lifting the burden of over-exploitation from such fishes as cod and haddock and will augment dwindling supplies of protein foods. Exploring the seafood markets for unfamiliar species rewards the housewife and her family with …

Effect Of Manganese And Iodine Additions In A Specific Ration For Laying Hens, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

This preliminary experiment does not answer all of the questions that are presented about manganese and iodine requirements. It can only be taken to indicate that for a typical situation with a typical ration of the type that many poultry producers use, there was no satisfactory evidence that egg production, hatchability and the viability of the hens was limited by manganese and iodine in the ration.

The Development Of The Megagametophyte Of Ailanthus Altissima., Esther L. Bossung 1912-1994

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Bird Review (January-June 1943) 11(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Some Observations of the Loggerhead Shrike in Lincoln County, By Mary Paine Middleton ........................................................ 1

The Present Status of the Whooping Crane in Nebraska, By A. M. Brooking ...................................................................... 5

Results of a Two-Day Walking Trip Along the Missouri River in Douglas and Sarpy Counties, By Frederic D. Garrett ............................................................ 8

Nebraska Ornithologists' Union Regional Meetings and Field Days During May, 1943 ............................................................ 11

General Notes .................................................................................... 16

Announcement .................................................................................... 21

Book Review ........................................................................................ 22

A Message From N. O. U.'s President ............................................ 23

Obituaries ............................................................................................ 24

Agricultural Research In South Dakota: Fifty-Sixth Annual Station Report, July 1, 1942 - June 30, 1943, South Dakota College Of Agriculture And Mechanic Arts

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Perfect Stage Of Colletotrichum Falcatum., Fernando Carvajal

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 305 - The Composition Of Sumer Range Plants In Utah, L. A. Stoddart, J. E. Greaves

UAES Bulletins

In Utah, a vast industry of livestock grazing, which is the backbone of the state's agriculture, has arisen during the past 75 years. Range land furnishes between 6 and 7 million animal unit months of forage to some 2 1/2 million sheep and 275 thousand range cattle. Income from meat, wool, and range livestock sales in Utah is about $15,801,500 annually, of which $11,700,000 is calculated to be obtained from range lands exclusive of cultivated pastures.

These range lands can be used economically in no other way than by grazing livestock and, because of heavy winter snows and protracted dry …

Further Studies On Glucophylline, Arnold H. Maloney

College of Medicine Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Use Milk - An Essential Food, University Of Nebraska - Lincoln

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The purpose of this publication is to furnish the housewife with information on ways to utilize more milk in the home, especially in the farm home where milk is readily available and an economical source of vitality and greater health for all the family.

Further Studies On Glucophylline, Arnold H. Maloney

Faculty Reprints

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 302 - Nutritional Inadequacy Of Beet Molasses Rations For Swine, Russel A. Rasmussen, Harry H. Smith, Ralph W. Phillips, Ton J. Cunha

UAES Bulletins

The feeding of large amounts of beet molasses to young hogs causes a condition that is characterized by a wobbly gait, and that is frequently fatal. Hog raisers have apparently recognized this condition for a number of years, since a number of farmers have reported it in their animals. Some farmers have also reported breeding failures and abortions when beet molasses was fed to brood sows. Consequently, beet molasses has not been considered a good hog feed by Utah raisers.

Beet molasses is a relatively cheap source of carbohydrates and could be used advantageously in pork production if the cause …

Quantitative Effects Of Rootone On Stem And Root Growth In Zea Mays And The Effect Of Nutrient Salts On The Same, Roy Wenhold

Biology Honors Papers

This 22 page thesis examines the effect of Rootone growth hormone on the sweet corn plant.

A Study Of Origins And Ecological Features Of Hardy, Cultivated, Herbaceous Plants Of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dorothy Elaine Witheck

Bachelors’ Theses

Gardeners have always been interested in herbaceous plants, chiefly because of their beauty and usefulness. As a result of the great popularity, a large number of attractive varieties have been produced through centuries of' cultivation, selection and breeding. Very early agricultural and medical demands stimulated an interest in the plants, and as early as 372-287 B.C. Theophrastus, a pupil of Aristotle, described about 460 cultivated plants and classified them as herbs, undershrubs, shrubs and trees. Much of the work accomplished by the ancient Greeks was lost and it was not until the sixteenth century that renewed enthusiasm for the study …

Culture Media For Drosophila, Joseph L. Himmelreich

Bachelors’ Theses

In the work with Culture Media for Drosophila the author was interested in producing a medium that was not expensive, easy to prepare, and one that would produce mature and hardy flies.

One Hundred Studies Of The Calcium, Phosphorus, Iron, And Nitrogen Metabolism And Requirement Of Young Women, Ruth M. Leverton, Alice G. Marsh

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The present study was undertaken to add appreciably to the data available on the metabolism of calcium, phosphorus, iron, copper, and nitrogen of young women on their customary self-chosen diets. It was planned to use the figures for the retentions or losses of these dietary essentials which occurred at various levels of intake to determine the requirement of the subjects and to evaluate the adequacy of present adult dietary standards for young women. The fact that the girls were living on self-chosen diets warrants emphasis. A large proportion of the subjects were doing light housekeeping and brought much of their …

Plant Diseases Common, Destructive, Preventable In South Dakota, W.F. Buckhholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Plant Pathology Pamphlets (1942-1962)

Abundant agricultural production is a victory goal and in South Dakota is based on an abundance of feed, forage and cash field crops and an adequate home vegetable and fruit supply. On the other hand, soil conservation and the maintenance of South Dakota’s agricultural productivity depends on a practice of moderate rather than wholesale over-cropping of cultivated land. Shortages of labor and machinery place a definite limit on the amount of really good farming that can be done it South Dakota for the duration of the war. One of the ways to insure maximum crop production from a minimum of …

Abstract Papers

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Sorghum Smut Control By Seed Treatment, W.F. Buckhholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Plant Pathology Pamphlets (1942-1962)

Sorghum smut is the black sooty degeneration of all the kernels of the sorghum ear. The ear is lost for feed in grain sorghum and smutted oars in forage result in lowered nutritive value and palatability of the fodder. It is estimated that 5-10 percent of the sorghum grown in South Dakota farmers will probably plant nearly 2,000,000 acres of sorghum, probably plant nearly 500,000 acres for grain. The grain loss from smut will probably fall between 250,000 and 500,000 bushels and the total loss at least a million bushels of feed. The loss is entirely and easily preventable. Treatment …

Bulletin No. 306 - Report Of The Agricultural Experiment Station Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, R. H. Walker

UAES Bulletins

The agricultural experiment stations have contributed in a very material way to the progress of agriculture in the United States not only by the development of better crops and livestock and production practices, but, through basic research on the many and varied problems of agriculture, they have furnished an understanding of those principles upon which progress must depend.

The permanent value of these research centers to the progress of agriculture is no better illustrated than in the present emergency. The ability of farmers to meet the tremendous additional contributions to defense in the way of increased food supplies is dependent …

Agricultural Research In South Dakota: Fifty-Fifth Annual Station Report, July 1 1941 - June 30 1942, South Dakota State College Of Agriculture And Mechanic Arts

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Leaflet No. 7 Food For Victory

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

One of the most important things families can do in the present emergency is to keep physically fit. Nutrition is a fundamental factor in physical fitness. Those families who are making a conscientious effort to improve their food habits are lining up for the nation's defense and ultimate victory.

If you are enrolled in the Victory Home and Garden program you are helping to insure yourself and others of an adequate supply of home produced foods through careful planning of production and preservation.

This March 1942 publication discusses the concern about preserving enough food for good health during times of …

Threonine Deficiency In Hydrolysates Of Zein Prepared By Autoclaving, Raymond Borchers, John R. Totter, Clarence P. Berg

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

In a previous paper (Borchers and Berg, 1942) we showed that

autoclaving zein with sulfuric acid longer than necessary for complete

hydrolysis causes destruction and racemization; either of

these might account for the failure of such a hydrolysate to

promote growth in young rats when substituted for a hvdrolysate,

prepared by refiuxing, in a diet which produced moderate growth.

It seemed to us that this deterioration in the dietary protein might

well be the result primarily of essential amino acid deficiencies

which could be detected and overcome by appropriate supplementation.

Because threonine is known to be present in zein in …