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Annual Report: 1987

Cherry County (Nebraska) Extension: Historical Documents

Cover Page

Table of Contents

Preface ......................... 1

Planning and Organization ......................... 2-4

Report of Accomplishment

CES Administration and Marketing ......................... 5-6

Ranch and Household Management ......................... 7-8

* A Touchy Subject - Handled Well ......................... 9-10

Economics of Housing, Home Furnishings ......................... 11

Economics of Foods and Nutrition ......................... 12

Home Extension Clubs - Convention ......................... 13-14

* Economic Impact of NCHEC Convention ......................... 15-17

Audience Outreach - 4-H ......................... 18

* Special Kids in 4-H ......................... 19

Integrated Reproductive Management ......................... 20-21

Forage Renovation on Wetlands and Rangelands ......................... 22

Range and Forage Production ......................... 23-24

Livestock Production …

G87-834 Leafy Spurge (Revised February 1989), R.S. Moomaw, Alex Martin, R.N. Stougaard

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Identification and control of leafy spurge, a noxious weed established in about three-fourths of Nebraska's counties, is discussed here.

Leafy spurge, (Euphorbia esula L.) introduced to the United States from Eurasia in 1827, has become a troublesome weed in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska.

Leafy spurge is found in about three-fourths of Nebraska's counties. It is most common in the state's northern and eastern areas. Leafy spurge is found primarily on untilled land such as pastures, range, roadsides, woodlands and farmsteads. Leafy spurge is a noxious weed according to the Nebraska Seed Law and the Nebraska …

Nitrogen Mineralization And Denitrification In Lake Michigan Sediment, Wayne S. Garder, Thomas F. Nalepa, John M. Malczyk

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Organic nitrogen mineralization mechanisms, fluxes, and fates in Lake Michigan sediments were examined by measuring accumulation rates of inorganic nitrogen in laboratory microcosms. Neither ammonium nor nitrate increased substantially in flow-cell or slurry microcosms of offshore, silty sediments. In experiments with gastight chambers containing "intact" offshore, silty sediment cores (sampled at 45- and 100-m water depths), the total fluxes of nitrogen (NH₄+, N0₃-, and N₂) across the sediment-water interface ranged from 14 to 51 µg-atoms N m^-2 h^-1. Nitrogen gas accounted for 93-98% of the total inorganic nitrogen flux from the …

Shiga And Shiga-Like Toxins, Alison D. O'Brien, Randall K. Holmes

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Introduction ........................ 206

Shiga Toxin in Shigella Spp. ........................ 207

History ........................ 207

Purification and Structure ........................ 207

Mode of Action ........................ 208

Receptor binding and internalization ........................ 208

Inhibition of protein synthesis ........................ 209

Immunology and Immunochemistry ........................ 209

Genetics ........................ 210

Role of Toxin in Disease ........................ 210

Dysentery ........................ 210

Diarrhea ........................210

HUS ........................ 211

Shiga-like toxins in E. Coli ........................ 211

History and Nomenclature ........................ 211

Discovery that EPEC and EHEC make Shiga-like toxins ........................ 211

Relationship of Shiga-like toxins to Vero toxins ........................ 212

Purification and Structure ........................ 212

Mode of Action ........................ 212

Immunology …

Comprehensive Review Supplemental Document 1987, Southeast Research & Extension Center

Southeast Research and Extension Center: Reports and Administration

Contents:

Introduction
Extension Specialist survey
Extension Specialist Survey summary
Extension Agent Survey
Extension Agent Survey summary
Department Head Survey
Department Head Survey summary
Citizen Survey
Citizen Survey Summary
Summary Report of Extension Specialists Retreat
Summary Report of Extension Agents Retreat
Summary Report of Focus Group Interviews with Citizens
Summary Report of Department Heads Meeting

Ec87-130 A 1987 Guide For Herbicide Use In Nebraska, John D. Furrer, Fred W. Roeth, Robert G. Wilson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 87-130 is a 1987 guide for herbicide use in Nebraska.

Ec87-1511 Field Crop Insect Control Guide For Nebraska : Alfalfa, Soybeans, Wheat, Range And Pasture, D. L. Keith, F. P. Baxendale, L. L. Peters

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 87-1511 is about field crop insect control guide for Nebraska alfalfa, soybeans, wheat, range and pasture.

G87-845 Electrical Systems For Agricultural Buildings (Recommended Practices), Gerald R. Bodman, Laverne E. Stetson, Jack L. Schinstock

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide describes some of the specialized wiring practices and equipment required in agricultural buildings.

During June 1982, electrical system failures resulted in animal losses in excess of $100,000 on three Nebraska swine farms. In 1983, more than $45,000 worth of feeder pigs were electrocuted on another Nebraska farm. Dairy and beef animals also have been electrocuted--as have producers. A survey of more than 400 Nebraska farms revealed that over 50 percent have problems due to poor on-farm wiring. A more recent survey of 14 farms revealed none with 100 percent properly wired buildings. Many had conditions which were serious …

4-H 275 4-H Companion Animal Health : Common Dog Diseases And Health Problems, Duane Rice, Diane Longfellow

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

4-H 275: Common Dog Diseases and Health Problems, Many diseases can be prevented, parasite diseases, external parasites, and other common problems.

4-H 274 4-H Companion Animal Health : Common Cat Diseases And Health Problems, Duane Rice, Diane Longfellow

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

Extension Circular 4-H 274: Common Cat Diseases and Health Problems

Block And Bridle Annual, 1987

Block and Bridle Annual (1933–2021)

Table of Contents:

Opening
Emblem and purpose
Completion Project
Animal Science Dept. Chairman Address
Block and Bridle President’s Address
Block and Bridle Year-Round Activities
Meetings
Treasurer’s Report
Block and Bridle Advisors
Animal Science Faculty
Animal Science Secretaries
Animal Science Graduate Students
Block and Bridle Members
Block and Bridle Initiates
Block and Bridle Officers
Block and Bridle Executive Committee
Animal Science Liaison
Block and Bridle Seniors
New Activities
1986 Honors Banquet
1986 Block and Bridle Honoree
Visit with the Honoree
State Fair Awards
University of Nebraska Homecoming Parade
Little Ak-Sar-Ben
Horse Tour
Weston Bar Dance
Queen Coronation & Alumni Dance
Kid’s …

Natasha Nicholson: Anxious Objects, George W. Neubert

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Born and raised in St. Louis, Natasha Nicholson spent her first years in a crowded apartment in a housing project, moving as a teenager to an old house only slightly larger. Her three brothers slept in one room, the three girls in the other on the second floor. It was the children's floor, Nicholson's mother rarely venturing up, and the struggle for space and power among the siblings was unrelenting.

Within this crowded, chaotic environment Nicholson had to create her own way to reach for another reality. When she needed a moment away from the life that surrounded her, she …

Evolution Of The Aeluroid Camivora: Significance Of Auditory Structure In The Nimravid Cat Dinictis, Robert M. Hunt Jr.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Evolutionary lineages among living and extinct Carnivora can be identified by a diagnostic pattern of ontogenetic elements forming the auditory bulla enclosing the middle ear, best observed in newborn and juvenile animals. However, in the fossil record, the delicate unfused bulla parts of very young carnivorans are rarely preserved. Thus bulla composition in extinct lineages is difficult to determine unless juveniles with well-preserved auditory bullae can be found. Discovery in 1981 of an intact cranium of a juvenile aeluroid carnivoran (Dinictis) from the White River Group (Oligocene) in northwestern Nebraska has resulted in an improved understanding of bulla …

Groundwater Quality And Policy Options In Nebraska, Mary E. Exner, Roy F. Spalding

Center for Public Affairs Research (UNO): Publications

Potential contaminants and the occurrence of groundwater contamination in Nebraska are discussed. An overview of Nebraska's policy response to groundwater quality reveals that the policy has been fragmentary and generally reactive. Although a comprehensive groundwater quality protection strategy is needed if the groundwater is to be protected from potential point and nonpoint sources of contamination, it must recognize the site-specific nature of most groundwater contamination. The Nebraska Chemigation Act and the Petroleum Products and Hazardous Substances Storage and Handling Act passed in 1986 were the first comprehensive legislation addressing prevention of point source contamination. Proactive policies for the prevention of …

Virus Disease Of Small Fruits, R. H. Converse

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

This illustrated handbook was compiled by international authorities on virus and viruslike diseases of small fruits. Crops covered are in the plant genera Fragaria (strawberry), Vaccinium (blueberry and cranberry), Ribes (currant and gooseberry), and Rubus (blackberry and raspberry). The history, geographic distribution, importance, symptoms, transmission, cause, detection, and control of virus and viruslike diseases attacking these crops are discussed.

Alloparental Care In The Prairie Skink, Eumeces Septentrionalis: A Case Of Mistaken Identity?, Louis A. Somma

Papers in Herpetology

Alloparental care , or one individual caring for the eggs or young of another , ha s been documented for a variety of verte brate organism s (Coyne & Sohn 1978; Frame et a1. 1983; Gowaty & Karlin 1984) . In t h i s a rticle I document an instance of alloparental care in the prairie skink , Eumeces septentrionalis .

1987 Beef Cattle Report, Irvin T. Omtvedt

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Acknowledgments

Finishing

Determining Moisture of Grain Using Oven, Microwave, and Moisture Tester

Sarsaponin in Receiving Diets of Feedlot Cattle

Effect of Probiotics: Feedlot Receiving Diets

Effect of Roughage Source in Dry or High Moisture Whole Corn Finishing Diets

High Moisure Corn, Dry Grain Combinations for Finishing Cattle

Dry Corn, Wheat Combinations for Finishing Lambs, Cattle

Dry or Wet Corn Bran or Gluten Feed for Ruminants

Corn Gluten Feed: A Review

Methods of Estimating Heat Damage in Protein Sources

Altering Rumen Degradability of Soybean Meal Using Non-Enzymatic Browning

Slaughter Steer Basis, Nebraska Panhandle

Computer Prediction of Finishing Cattle Performance

Cow-Calf

Nutrition …

Mrs. Transome And 'Desecrated Sanctities', H.S. Kakar

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

As George Eliot's Introduction to Felix Holt would lead one to expect, the crux of the tragedy which this novel embodies is the "pity and terror" evoked by the "downfall of blindly-climbing hopes", rather than mere peripatetic - the 'discovery' of Mrs. Transome's guilty past. As always in her novels, the tragic reversal that really matters is not an external incident: it is internalised and is closely linked with moral 'recognition'. Mrs. Transome's agonised consciousness of her violated conscience, which the reader shares all through, is a prominent element in her suffering. The scene in the White Hart (Chapter 47) …

Index To Vol 7

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Comparative Frontier Scoial Life: Western Saloons And Argentine Pulperias, Richard W. Slatta

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In sparsely populated cattle frontier regions of the nineteenth century, only a limited number of social institutions functioned. The ranch, as a central socioeconomic complex, took on added importance. Ranch owners often took upon themselves political and legal powers exercised by civic officials in more settled areas. In the cattle regions of the American West and the pampas of Argentina, taverns were important local institutions. A comparison of social activities in the western saloon and the Argentine pulperi'a-a combination country store and tavern-reveals strong similarities. As frontier institutions, they served analogous multiple functions, and their cowboy and gaucho patrons behaved …

Plains Indian Agrariaism And Class Conflict, Russel Lawrence Barsh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Relatively little has been done to trace the political structures of American Indians through the years 1890 to 1940, when reservation economics were undergoing their most dramatic changes. That failure has left the false impression of a fifty-vear institutional vacuum. In fact, the middle years were times of complex reJisrrihutions of power ;md the emergence of indigellous socioeconomic classes. It was also perhaps the earliest period in which Plains Indians enjoyed anything like an Americanstyle, decentralized elective democracy. Federal programs shifted the control of the Indians' food supply. From being skilled hunter- organizers they became recipients of gc)\"ernnwnt patronage, heelme …

From Wasteland To Utopia: Changing Images Of The Canadian In The Nineteeth Century, R. Douglas Francis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is common knowledge that what one perceives is greatly conditioned by what one wants or expects to see. Perception is not an objective act that occurs independently of the observer. One is an active agent in the process and brings to one's awareness certain preconceived values, or a priori assumptions, that enable one to organize the deluge of objects, experiences, and impressions into some meaningful and comprehensive world view. Perception changes as new information or altered perspectives are integrated and thus, one's view of the "objective" external world is affected.

On The Nature Of The Horse Of The American West In Nineteenth Century Art, Martin E. Petersen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In nineteenth century America the horse was identified with the frontier and served as an image of independence and unrestrained freedom. Western travelers published in their diaries and journals accounts of sighting mustangs, the wild horses of the prairies. Washington Irving's vivid descriptions in his Tour on the Prairirs (1835) were among the earliest. In painting, literature's sister art, however, images of the western horse do not correspond with the written descriptions of the livestock that actually inhabited the area. The artists, rather, painted the ideal Arahian horse, a recognizable type developed throughout the century. The Arahian, considered the oldest …

The Transition From Farming To Ranching In The Kansas Flint Hills, Joseph V. Hickey, Charels E. Webb

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For more than a century the Flint Hills have been a stronghold of the livestock industry, an area of Kansas devoted almost exclusively to the feeding and breeding of cattle. One of the last large segments of tall grass prairie that once stretched from Canada to Texas and from Kansas to Indiana, the Flint Hills region covers some five thousand square miles of rolling hills and narrow valleys in east central Kansas. The Flint Hills embrace all or parts of thirteen counties: Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and Wabaunsee (fig. 1).¹

Nature In Don Segundo Sombra And The Virginian, John Donahue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Environment and culture shape human beings, both as individuals and as societies. In all the vast plains of the Americas where a cattle industry developed, a human type evolved a distinct way of life: the gaucho in Argentina, the charro in Mexico, the llanero in Venezuela, the guaso in Chile, and the cowboy in the United States and Canada. ¹ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, an Argentine intellectual who was an avid reader of James Fenimore Cooper, was perhaps the first to state clearly in regard to the Americas that wherever a similar combination of geographical features occurs, parallel customs and occupations …

Climate Of The Great Plains Region Of The United States, Norman J. Rosenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The climate of the Great Plains is extreme and variable. A wide range of weather conditions can occur within the period of a day, from one day to the next, from season to season, and from year to year. There are two key reasons for this situation: (1) the greatest portion of the Plains is remote from any major body of water and (2) air masses of differing characteristics alternate frequently in their dominance of the region.

Farm Consolidation In The Northern And Central States Of The Great Plains, Bradley H. Baltensperger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the past half century, American agriculture has been revolutionized and rural America has been dramatically transformed. The industrial revolution had arrived in American agriculture in the 1840s when machines and animal power began replacing some hand tools wielded by humans. But not until the 1930s, when petroleum-driven machines rapidly displaced both animal and human power, did this revolution intensify sufficiently to have significant impacts on rural life and farm numbers. Since that time, reliance on farm-produced inputs-fertilizer, seed, energy-has given way to dependence on purchased factors of production. The commercial aspects of farming have nearly obliterated the subsistence components. …

Prohibition And The Kansas Progressive Example, Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wets and drys freely exchanged epithets as Kansas began the twentieth century. They agreed only upon the fact of mass violations of prohibition. Kansas was dry in law and had local option in reality; and cities like Wichita, Kansas City, and Leavenworth had open saloons that conducted business on main streets in full public view. Kansas had a vast amount of "wet" territory, but estimates varied on exactly how much. One report of the Kansas Temperance Union stated that two thirds of the 129 cities and towns surveyed in 1900 ignored prohibition laws.¹

The Whooping Crane, The Platte River, And Endangered Species Legislation, Daniel C. Vaughn

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Whooping Crane—A General Description

III. The Migration Route

IV. The Importance of Nebraska to the Whooping Crane

V. Federal Endangered Species Legislation

VI. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 ... A. The Listing Process ... B. Intra-agency Obligation—Section 7 ... C. The Taking Prohibition—Section 9

VII. NESCA [Nebraska Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Act]—Mechanics and Purpose

VIII. Little Blue II

IX. The Effectiveness of NESCA: Post–Little Blue II

X. A New Threat—LB 1106

XI. Conclusion

Faculty Collaboration For Better Teaching: Adult Learning Principles Applied To Teaching Improvement, Elizabeth A. Mcdaniel

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Rationale

Adult Learning Principles

The Instructional Improvement Model

Illustrations of the Model

Summary

References