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Food Choice Behaviour, R. G. B. Brown

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Since 1965 the Canadian Wildlife Service has been concerned with the damage which birds cause in the orchards and vineyards of the Niagara fruit belt, in southern Ontario. My own contribution to this programme has been to collect information on the feeding be¬haviour and ecology of the birds concerned, and use this to test the effectiveness of various control systems. For the purposes of this seminar, I shall only deal with the damage which Robins do to sweet cherries. Here, I was particularly interested in whether it was possible to develop a "bird-proof cherry variety, which would settle the problem …

The Chemical Senses Of Birds, Morley R. Kare

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Birds are not concerned with the odors of their immediate environment. To a chicken, a starling or a cowbird, the odors of its environment are of little or no con-sequence. I am not saying that birds do not have the apparatus for olfaction, nor am I saying that no bird can smell. The kiwi of New Zealand is almost totally blind and does sniff. They do have "nostrils" on the tip of the bill. However, they are an unusual exception. If we place highly odoriferous material under one of two food choices and present them to domestic chickens or starlings, …

Agricultural Experiment Station News September 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTORS OFFICE
EXPERIMENT STATION WORKERS' CONFERENCE
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – September 1970

Agricultural Experiment Station News August 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - AUGUST 1970

Agricultural Experiment Station News July 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
DEPARTMENTAL HOUSEKEEPING AND EQUIPMENT REVIEW
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – JULY 1970

Agricultural Experiment Station News June 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
COLLEGE OF HOME ECONOMICS
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – June 1970
STATION AND RESEARCH BULLETINS PRINTED

Evaluating Economic Efficiency By Relative Price Analysis (Feed, Livestock And Product Sectors), J. Y. Chen, J. B. Hassler

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The specific objective of this research is to delineate efficient and inefficient economic performance areas and thereby locate the more significant problem aspects for research and program attention. Specific price analyses will be used to evaluate the price interrelationships for functional efficiency in the dimensions of space, form and time. Not only the efficient aspects of production and marketing will be indicated by the analyses but the inefficient aspects of economic performance will be stressed also. This research will provide some foundational information for making decisions, both public and private. Moreover, it will direct the attention of researchers or program …

Agricultural Experiment Station News April 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTORS OFFICE
THE NEW SOUTH CENTRAL STATION
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GENERAL NOTES
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBUCATIONS - April 1970

Chemosterilants As An Approach To Rodent Control, Rex E. Marsh, Walter E. Howard

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

Capitalizing on research directed toward oral contraceptives for humans, a wide variety of compounds are now under study for their practical value in inhibiting rodent reproduction to suppress detrimental populations. This paper discusses the specifications of ideal rodent chemosterilants and the advantages of chemosterilants over other methods of control, and compares the potential values of chemosterilants acting on females, males, and both sexes. Specific situations are detailed where chemosterilants will be most valuable in rodent control, together with proposed methods of application. Chemosterilants are not expected to become a panacea for control, but since they are based on sound biological …

Rodent Control Problems In Developing Countries, Robert Z. Brown

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

None of the so-called developing countries has an adequate rodent control program at present. In only a few of these countries is any rodent control research occurring despite the fact that rodent problems are actually quite serious in many regions and potentially so in others. Expertise, techniques and materials from the developed countries are of limited usefulness because of major differences in rodent species involved, standards for food handling and sanitation, and in the cultural contexts in which rodent control must occur. Trained personnel, both for control work and the basic research needed, are in very short supply. In addition, …

Agricultural Experiment Station News March 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
STAFF PROMOTIONS - 1970
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – March 1970
BULLETINS PRINTED

Growth In Weight Of Selected Organs, Tissues And Systems In The Pig, William J. Loeffel, Robert M. Koch

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

As a result of investigations at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station in 1929, 1930 and 1931 to determine the effect of weight and degree of fatness of the pork carcass upon the quality and palatability of the meat, 40 pigs were slaughtered, five each at the approximate live weights of 70, 80, 90, 100, 115, 135, 160, and 180 kg. This corresponds to carcass weights ranging from 50 to 150 kg. The results of the meat investigations and feedlot data were reported elsewhere (Loeffel et al.,1943). This study reports data relative to the weight of selected tissues and organs, as …

83rd Annual Report Of The Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Contents:
Foreword
Administration and Staff
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Research Projects
Experiment Station Publications
Publications of the Staff
Report of Income and Expenditures

Agricultural Experiment Station News February 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS- February 1970
BULLETINS PRINTED

Ec70-220 1969 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-220 contains the 1969 Dairy report.

Ec70-225 Beef Feeding Suggestions For Finishing Cattle, Paul Q. Guyer, Walter R. Woods, Terry J. Klopfenstein

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-225: Beef feeding suggestions for finishing cattle; non-nutrient factors influence ration selection, methods of formulating rations, computer formulation of rations, ration ingredients such as energy concentrates, roughages, or supplements. Some suggestions for nutrient specifications, formulating finishing rations, nutritional disturbances and formulating supplements.

Ec70-949 Short Cuts With Mixes, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-949 gives short cuts with mixes.

Ec70-219 Nebraska Swine Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-219: 1970 Nebraska swine report; subjects on profit, hot pork processing, home cooked soybeans for swine, diet comparison between wheat, sorghum, corn, and millet. Also, dietary protein level and hormones such as effects on carcass leanness, hog cholera eradication in Nebraska, and complex nutrition problems. Swine finishing facilities, non-protein nitrogen, gestation diets, swine waste treatment, and gas removal from swine housing.

Agricultural Experiment Station News January 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK
TRAVEL EXPENSES
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS - January 1970
BULLETINS PRINTED

Mite Transmission Of Plant Viruses, G.N. Oldfield

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

The subject of mite transmission of plant viruses has been reviewed sev­eral times by Slykhuis (122, 124,126,128). A considerable number of papers on this subject have been published since Slykhuis's last review; several constitute significant additions to the knowledge of the relationships be­tween mites and the plant viruses they transmit.

Except, perhaps, for the apparent case of transmission of potato virus Y by Tetranychus telarius (107), the only proven mite vectors of plant viruses are certain members of the family Eriophyidae. In 1927, Amos et al. (2) reported a positive correlation between the infestation of black currants with the black …

1970 Nebraska Beef Cattle Report, J. L. Adams, E. F. Frolik, H. W. Ottoson, F. E. Eldridge

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

The use of high concentrate rations in finishing cattle has led to a rather high loss of livers due to abscesses.

The 1967 Statistical Summary of the Federal Meat Inspection Service of the USDA indicated the total number of cattle inspected was 27,859,980. Of these, 9.6% were condemned because of liver abscess. Considering the value of a liver to be about $3, the estimated loss to the industry because of condemnatIon due to abscess would be over $8 million annually.

The incidence of liver abscesses increases as the roughage level in a finishing ration decreases below 5% (Table I). The …

Effect Of Feeding-Fasting Interval On Finishing Pigs: Weight Gain, Feed Utilization And Physical And Chemical Carcass Measurements, T. L. Veum, W. G. Pond, L. Dale Van Vleck, E. F. Walker Jr., L. Krook

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Thirty-two Yorkshire pigs (49 kg body weight, 108 days of age) were used to determine the effect of feeding-fasting interval on rate of body weight gain, feed utilization and carcass and organ measurements at a slaughter weight of approximately 90 kilograms. Treatments were: (1) Continuous ad libitum feeding,(2) ad libitum 1 day, fasted on alternate days, (3) ad libitum 1 day, fasted 2 days, (4) ad libitum 1 day, fasted 3 days. Average daily gain was reduced progressively as severity of the fasting-feeding interval was increased. Efficiency of feed utilization, likewise, was reduced as the severity of feed restriction increased, …

Influence Of Dietary Supplements Of Vitamin D3 And Various Fats On Cholesterol And Fatty Acid Composition Of The Blood And Body Of Growing-Finishing Swine, M. H. Jurgens, E. R. Peo, Jr., P. E. Vipperman, Jr., R. W. Mandingo

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Previous work at this station suggested that vitamin D₂, when fed with or without dietary cholesterol, depressed blood cholesterol levels of swine (Jurgens, Peo and Vipperman, 1967) and rats (Jurgens, Blunn and Peo, 1968). While not proven to be the cause, blood cholesterol levels have been used as one of the main criteria to estimate the development of atherosclerosis in man (Rabinowitz, Meyerson and Wohl, 1960; Swell, Law and Treadwell, 1962). Several investigators have reported that supplementation of unsaturated fats (Ahrens et al., 1957; Okey and Lyman, 1957; Avigan and Steinberg, 1958; Peifer, 1966) and especially linoleic …

Ec70-951 Swiss Fondue, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Cheese Fondue is a Swiss national dish which combines cheese and bread. In years past, quantities of bread and cheese were made during the winter for use throughout the year. Gradually, both became very hard. To make them more edible, the cheese was melted and the bread dunked in this mixture.

Fondue to served informally in a festive atmosphere. Each person spears a piece of crusty bread with a fork, going through the soft part first to secure the points in the crust. The bread is dunked in the fondue with a stirring motion.

This extension circular discusses the fondue …

Ec70-541 Extension Home Economics Bringing The University Of Nebraska To Nebraska Families

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-541: Extension home economics; information of the extension home economics program, history on economics program, and how to involve in economics programs.

Ec70-950 Food Safety, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-950 discusses Food Safety.

Ec70-948 The Art Of Easy Blending, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-948 discusses the art of easy blending.

Ec70-925 Home Canning Of Fruits And Vegetables, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-925: Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables; general canning procedure, how to wash fruits and vegetables, filling containers, cooling and storing, and processing in pressure canner. Different pressure needed when can-foods will be using at different altitude, on guard against spoilage, and table of processing time in pressure canner.

Ec70-923 Care And Cooking Of Game Meats, Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 70-923: Care and cooking of Game Meats: recipes for large game, small game, and game birds.

Ec70-923 Care And Cooking Of Game Meats (Revised), Ethel Diedrichsen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Game meats, like domestic meats, are best when properly dressed and cooked. Good eating depends upon the treatment the animal receives when killed. For high quality meat, the animal should be promptly bled, dressed and cooked under sanitary conditions. Much good game is ruined because this procedure is not followed.

This Extension circular covers the handling of wild game and includes recipes for all wild game.