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Bulletin No. 143 - Fruit Tree Root Systems: Spread And Depth, A. B. Ballantyne

UAES Bulletins

As mentioned in Utah Station Bulletin No. 124, seepage conditions on the Southern Utah Experiment Farm were responsible for the removal of about 5 acres of vineyard in 1908, and 7 acres of mixed peach orchard in 1910, all of which were on the lower or western half of the farm.

These orchards and vineyards had always received good care, clean culture being practiced in fact as well as name. The results for a number of years were all that could be desired, when the trees and vines began to die questions arose as to the cause: since in spite …

A Genetic Study Of Plant Height In Phaseolus Vulgaris, R. A. Emerson

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

When pole and bush beans are crossed, 3:1 segregation results whether the pole bean is very tall or only medium in height and whether the bush bean is very short or relatively tall. To determine the interrelation of these two types of behavior by an analysis of the factors concerned in height of plants in beans and by a study of their mode of inheritance was the object of the investigations reported here.

Bulletin No. 142 - Irrigation Of Peaches, L. D. Batchelor

UAES Bulletins

The writer took up the study of the irrigation of peaches in the spring of 1913 after being connected in a co-operative way with a similar problem during the years 1911 and 1912. The results which follow are primarily from notes taken during 1913 and 1914. Free access has been made, however, to notes taken on the similar problem noted above, when the author was associated with Prof. Walter McLaughlin in connection with a co-operative irrigation problem. Some of the results of 1913 were materially influenced by the treatment of the orchard in 1912.

Experimental Studies Of Vacuum Juice Heaters, Eugene Wycliffe Kerr, S. J. Webre

LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Reports

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 141 - Variation In Minimum Temperatures Due To The Topography Of A Mountain Valley In Its Relation To Fruit Growing, L. D. Batchelor, F. L. West

UAES Bulletins

The most destructive weather enemy in all fruit growing sections is the late spring frost which frequently occurs after warm weather has caused the fruit blossoms to become fully developed. The variation in severity of such frosts in mountain valleys is a phenomenon well known to the practical orchardist. The actual extent of this variation and the contributing causes have claimed only a very little attention from scientific workers in the mountainous regions. The present publcation is a preliminary report of investigations which were planned to measure the extent of such temperature variations, and acertain if possible some of the …

A Brief Sketch Of The Life And Work Of Charles Edwin Bessey, Raymond J. Pool

Papers in Systematics and Biological Diversity

Charles Edwin Bessey, professor of botany and head of the department of botany in the University of Nebraska since 1884 and a conspicuous figure in American science and education, passed away at his home in Lincoln on February 25, 1915, after a critical illness of four weeks.

The Bessey family is of French extraction, the original form of the name being Besse. The tradition is that the early members of the family, who were Huguenots, were compelled on account of religious persecution to flee to England from the old home near Strassburg in Alsace. This exodus occurred in the latter …

The Prairie Dog And Its Control, Myron Harmon Swenk

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Introduction
Injury
Appearance and History
The Prairie Dog Home
Habits
Natural Enemies
General Control
Use of Poisoned Baits
Competitive Experiments in Fall Poisoning
Competitive Experiments in Spring Poisoning
Demonstration Poisoning Experiments
Effect of Poisoning on Other Animals
Fumigation of Burrows
Fumigation Experiments
Less Successful Methods
Bibliography

Pork Production (Popular Edition), W. P. Snyder, E. A. Burnett

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This is the shorter or "popular" edition.

Contents:
Introduction
Wintering old brood sows
Wintering young brood sows
Food cost of the 50-pound pig
Pigs from old sows
Pigs from young sows
Cost of fall and spring pigs compared
Cost of pigs from old sows and young sows compared
Cost of growing pigs on alfalfa pasture and grain
Shorts for pigs on alfalfa pasture
Soaked or dry corn for pigs on alfalfa pasture
Five summers' record on gilts
Corn and supplementary feeds for fattening hogs:
Winter of 1911-1912
Winter of 1913-1913
Wheat and rye compared with corn for fattening hogs with …

Raising The Dairy Calf, E. G. Woodward

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

There are in Nebraska more than 600,000 dairy cows. The average period of usefulness of the dairy caw is not more than eight years. This means that to maintain the dairy herds of Nebraska at their present size between 70,000 and 80,000 heifer calves must be raised each year. To mate these cows properly with dairy bred bulls will require the rearing of about 8,000 bulls yearly. Aside from the necessity of maintaining the herds at their present size, the importance of calf raising to the Nebraska dairyman lies in the fact that this is the surest and most satisfactory …

Pork Production, W. P. Snyder, E. A. Burnett

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This is the "Limited Edition" long version.
Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Wintering brood sows:
Experiment 30. Wintering old brood sows
Table 1.-Wintering old brood sows. Record of four winters 1910-1914
Experiment 31. Wintering young brood sows
Table 2.-Wintering young brood sows. Record of five winters 1909-1914

Part II. Cost of the 50-pound pig
Experiment 32. Pigs from old sows
Table 3.-Cost of feed for producing a 50-pound pig from old sows.
Four years' record-1910-1913
Experiment 33. Pigs from young sows
Table 4.--Cost of feed for producing a 50-pound pig from young sows. Four years' record-1910-1913
Experiment 34. Fall pigs. Costs …

A Handbook Of Nebraska Grasses : With Illustrated Keys For Their Identification, Together With A General Account Of Their Structure And Economic Importance, E. Mead Wilcox, George K. K. Link, Venus W. Pool

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The true grasses belong to the one family Poaceae, often called Gramineae, and constitute a very well defined natural group of plants. This family comprises upward of 3,000 species distributed among almost 300 genera. From the economic point of view the family is of supreme importance thru the fact that here belong the cereals, which supply a large part of the food of man, and the forage grasses which are so important as feed for our domesticated animals.

The genera and species are for the most part separated by artificial characters—a fact which renders their study and identification extremely difficult …

Bulletin No. 138 - How To Control The Grasshoppers, E. D. Ball

UAES Bulletins

There is no longer any reason why a farmer or a community of farmers should allow their crops and meadows to be destroyed by swarms of grasshoppers. Our knowledge of their habits has increased and better methods of destruction are known, so that at the present time the grasshopper takes its place in the list of crop pests that can be controlled by those who desire to do so. In the old days when countless numbers of the Rocky Mountain locusts (M. spretus) settled down on the crops of the few scattering settlers of the plains or Intermountain region, there …

Bulletin No. 137 - The Quality Of Home Grown Vs. Imported Wheat, Robert Stewart, C. T. Hirst

UAES Bulletins

In 1907 a number of new varieties of wheat were introduced into Utah and have since been grown on the Nephi Experimental Dry Farm, under strictly dry farm conditions. In view of the well-known influence of environment upon the quality of the wheat it is of importance to study the effect of climatic conditions in Utah upon this introduced seed. Wiley (1) says: "The quality and properties of wheat depend more upon the environment in which it is grown than upon the species to which it belongs. There is perhaps no other field crop in which environment, namely, conditions of …

Bulletin No. 136 - The Commercial Production Of Sugar Beet Seed In Utah, Frank S. Harris

UAES Bulletins

History of the beet sugar industry: The production of sugar from beets is a new industry when compared with the length of time that most kinds of crops have been used by man. It was only about 150 years ago that sugar was extracted from beets even in the laboratory, and at that time the percentage of sugar was so low that the expense of extracting was more than the sugar was worth. Just a little more than 100 years ago the first beet sugar factories were built, but it was nearly fifty years after this time before the industry …

Bulletin No. 135 - A Study In Annual Egg Production: Based On The Records Of A Flock Of Seven-Year-Old Hens And Their Progeny, E. D. Ball, Geo. Turpin, Byron Alder

UAES Bulletins

Experimental work in breeding for egg production was started with this flock of Single Comb White Leghorns in 1907. The flock of 1907 was hatched from eggs from a small flock that had been introduced into the plant two or three years before.

After two years' records of these flocks had been completed and studied it was found that nearly three-fourths of the first flock had made better records the second year than they did the first and that there was a great variation in the two years' records of individual hens. This raised the question of whether the first …

The Storage And Use Of Soil Moisture. Report Of Experimental Substation, North Platte, Nebraska, W. W. Burr

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The profitable cultivation of the non-irrigable lands in west central and western Nebraska is limited by the amount and efficient use of the precipitation. There are tracts of land in the sand hills and minor tracts of badly worn heavier soils where the need of soil fertility is becoming evident. But, in the main, the great problem at present is not one of soil fertility, but of how to get enough water to make use of the fertility now present. The rainfall of this section, which varies from an actual shortage to seldom more than a meager sufficiency, makes it …

Bulletin No. 133 - Irrigation And Manuring Studies: The Effect Of Varying Quantities Of Irrigation Water And Manure On The Growth And Yield Of Corn, Frank S. Harris

UAES Bulletins

Indian corn is one of the most important crops raised by American farmers. Anything that affects the corn crop of the American farmers. Anything that affects the corn crop of the United States has an influence on the prosperity of the entire country. From an economic point of view therefore, it is important to know as much about the production of this crop as possible. The corn plant also offers an excellent field for scientific investigation independent of any economic bearing.

I. On The Distribution And Composition Of The Humus Of The Loess Soils Of The Transition Region, Morris Blish

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The main object of this investigation has been to determine the distribution of the humus, to a depth of six feet, throughout the soils in representative virgin prairies of the so-called “transition region" of Nebraska. This region is the large area which extends westward from the Missouri River for a distance of over three hundred miles and which is covered, for the most part, with loess soil. This is, agriculturally, the most important soil in the state of Nebraska, and covers more than half the area of the state. The term "transition region" is employed to convey the idea of …

Circular No. 17 - The Number And Distribution Of Licensed Stallions And Jacks In The State In 1913, W. E. Carroll

UAES Circulars

Table No. 1 shows the number of licensed stallions and jacks of each breed in each county of the State. It will be seen that 439 licenses have been issued. Of these 92 are grades, which means that 79 per cent of all the licensed animals of the State are purebred. Cache County leads with 59 licensed animals, including 8 grades. Sevier County stands second with 51, including 8 grade animals. Sanpete County has 43 licensed animals, including 10 grades. Utah County has 44, two of which are grades. The number of licensed animals vary in the other counties from …

Circular No. 16 - Better Seed, Frank S. Harris

UAES Circulars

It is impossible to produce good crops unless good seed is used. The soil may be of the best quality and it may be prepared in the most thorough manner, the supply of moisture may be ample, the season may be the most favorable, yet all these count for little if worthless seed is planted.

Bulletin No. 131 - Variety Tests Of Field Crops In Utah, Frank S. Harris, J. C. Hogenson

UAES Bulletins

The number of varieties of practically all the field crops is now very great, and is increasing every year. Each variety has certain growers who believe in it and who do what they can to make it more widely grown. As a result many varieties of crops are found in most every farming community.

This condition is often bad, since it is impossible to build up a good market with a great mixture of varieties of any crop. A much better price can be obtained if each community offers for sale large quantities of a few standard types, rather than …

Bulletin No. 132 - Minor Dry Land Crops At The Nephi Experiment Farm, P. V. Cardon

UAES Bulletins

The investigations conducted at the Nephi substation deal primarily with cereals; other crops, such as alfalfa, peas, corn, potatoes, etc., have occupied only a secondary position in the work of this station. This necessarily has been true because the experiments are confined to dry-land practices, and the cereals unquestionably comprise the basal crops for dry-land farming as it is now understood and practiced in Utah. No crops have been found as yet which yield so profitably on the dry lands as do the cereals, especially winter varieties.

The purpose of this bulletin is to review the work done on the …

The Inheritance Of A Recurring Somatic Variation In Variegated Ears Of Maize, R. A. Emerson

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The inheritance of variegation has special interest and importance in genetics. In this paper I shall present data from maize and attempt to show how they can be interpreted in strictly Mendelian terms.

Bulletin No. 130 - The Change In Weight Of Grain In Arid Regions During Storage, Frank S. Harris, George Thomas

UAES Bulletins

In handling grain the question of the changes that may occur in weight after threshing is always before the dealer. If there is any considerable loss during storage his profits are consumed, while if there is a gain it is possible for him to work on a much closer margin.

Annual Report Of The Director Of The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station For Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914, South Dakota State College Of Agriculture And Mechanical Arts

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 128 - Blooming Periods And Yields Of Fruit In Relation To Minimum Temperatures, A. B. Ballantyne

UAES Bulletins

As noted In Bulletin 124, the Southern Utah Experiment Farm is located in Washington Field, southeast of St. George. This tract of land is comparatively low and flat and bounded on three sides by hills. On the front or north side it extends to the Rio Virgin river, which enters and leaves the valley through small canyons. This entire area has a very poor water and air drainage. Frosts occur here much more severely and much later than on the surrounding bench land.

Bulletin No. 129 - Codling Moth Studies In 1911: The Driving Spray Under Excessively Wormy Conditions, E. D. Ball, W. M. Ball

UAES Bulletins

Spraying experiments against the codling moth were carried on upon the Smart orchard until the number of worms per tree was reduced to such an extent that no accurate comparisons could be made between different treatments. As a result of the work on this and other orchards, practically every commercial orchard in the valley was by this time well sprayed and the worms reduced to a point where one driving spray per season would keep them under control.

In the meantime a number of questions arose which required very wormy conditions to adequately investigate. Search was therefore made for orchards …

Circular No. 15 - Pastures And Pasture Grasses For Utah, F. S. Harris

UAES Circulars

Since the earliest records of man his domestic animals have secured a large proportion of their forage from pastures. Before crops were planted and harvested by man the wild grasses furnished the chief food for numerous kinds of animals, and the cutting and curing of hay came as a later development to supplement natural pasturage in seasons of scarcity.

Bulletin No. 123 - Farm Drainage: A Manual Of Instruction, Chas F. Brown

UAES Bulletins

In addition to emphasizing the general need for drainage in the arid regions with reference to seepage and alkali problems, this bulletin is intended as a practical treatise covering all engineering phases of farm drainage, from the general observations concerning specific needs of drainage, to the realizations of successful reclamation. It is made up of two parts for convenience in handling and distribution, Part I, Manual of General Instruction, and Part II, Practical Discussion of Problems.

Bulletin No. 126 - A Comparison Of First, Second And Third Crop Alfalfa Hay For Milk Production, W. E. Carroll

UAES Bulletins

In most sections of the State three crops of alfalfa hay are harvested. There is a widespread opinion among practical feeders in this locality that these crops of hay are not of equal value for feeding purposes. Especially is this true when feeding dairy cows is considered. The belief is so strong in some cases that farmers have said they would exchange three tons of second crop hay for two of first crop when feeding milk cows. Third crop hay is given second choice.