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Digenetic Trematodes Of Fishes From The Galápagos Islands And The Neighboring Pacific, Harold W. Manter

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

During January, February, and March of 1934 it was the· privilege of the writer, aided by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to accompany the third Allan Hancock Expedition to the Galápagos Islands. A preliminary note concerning the trematode parasites collected has been published. Several papers dealing with various helminths collected have appeared. The present paper deals with the digenetic trematodes collected from fishes. Five hundred and thirty-two fishes, including nearly one hundred different species, were examined. Approximately 80 per cent of the species and 43 per cent of the individuals harbored some kind of trematode. Meserve records 22 species of …

Deterioration Of Grassland From Stability To Denudation With Decrease In Soil Moisture, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The great drought has now prevailed intermittently in the mid- west for a period of seven years. Damage to native vegetation in 1934 has been partially repaired, but further destruction has also occurred. Continued study of the shiftings in dominance among the grasses has revealed widespread losses of certain species and partial or complete replacement by others. Forbs also have greatly diminished, both in number of species and in abundance, and changes in structure of vegetation generally have been pronounced (3, 4). Hence it seemed advisable during 1939 to study the degree of deterioration of the grasslands, if any, from …

A Study Of Local Size Variations In The Prairie Pocket-Gopher (Geomys Bursarius), With Description Of A New Subspecies From Nebraska, Myron H. Swenk

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Beginning in the fall of 1913, the writer has continuously been interested in accumulating accurate body measurements, taken in the flesh, of Nebraska pocket-gophers. As a result quite an assemblage of such data has been secured. In the case of Geomys bursarius, the bulk of these data relates to specimens trapped in the vicinity of Lincoln, Lancaster County, involving to date 48 adult and 38 immature males and 50 adult and 65 immature females. Recently these measurements have been tabulated and compared with such measurements of the species as have been recorded in the literature from other parts of …

The Utilization Of Food Elements By Growing Chicks. Viii. A Comparison Of Alfalfa Meal And Artificially Dried Sudan Grass Meal In Rations For Growing Chicks, C. W. Ackerson, M. J. Blish, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

1. The effect of replacing the ten parts of alfalfa meal in a ration with artificially dried Sudan-grass meal on an equivalent protein basis was studied in a growth and body-analysis experiment with two lots of day-old chicks. 2. The chicks of both lots consumed equal amounts of dry matter during the feeding trial. 3. There were no significant differences in the growth rate or composition of the chicks at the end of a six weeks' feeding trial.

Nebraska In Relation To The Problems Of Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Alvin Leonard Lugn

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Nebraska is so peculiarly situated with respect to Pleistocene deposits of glacial, fluviatile, and eolian origin that it holds the key to the solution of many important problems of the stratigraphy of that period. A brief outline of the Pleistocene geology of Nebraska with several illustrations is followed by a statement of and brief discussion of several of these problems. The main problems touched upon are: age of the Loveland loess, Pleistocene classification, correlation with Europe, the need for a better understanding of what is meant by "glacial" and "interglacial," the problem of glacial and interglacial loess, the duration of …

4-H Keep Well One : Extension Circular 10-01-2, Mary B. Nelson

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

In this 4-H Keep Well project, we will discuss some important things that are directly related to health, individuals vary as to type of build. Some belong to the tall slender type, some to the short stocky type, and others to the average. We differ because we have inherited different tendencies and because we have treated our bodies differently.

Comparative Costs Of Home-Produced And Commercially Produced Bread And Rolls, Edna B. Snyder

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The purpose of this study was to determine the comparative costs of home-produced and commercially produced white and whole-wheat bread and rolls. Costs of home-produced bread were estimated on the basis of cost of ingredients and fuel, plus time. These costs were compared to costs of commercially prepared bread available at retail. Nutritive value was considered in interpreting results. The method used was a combination of survey and laboratory investigation. The survey included: (1) information regarding the baking practice of families in Nebraska, (2) detailed records of amounts and costs of ingredients, fuels, and time used in home-produced bread, (3) …

Meal Planning And Preparation : Extension Circular 9-03-2, Jessie G. Greene

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

Health, Happiness, and Success go hand in hand. After we have learned some of the "Hows" and "Whys" of cooking in our 4-H club, "Meal Planning and Preparation" will be all the more interesting. The total number of required recipes is smaller in the meal planning project but we expect club girls to continue using recipes they made in the "Hows and Whys for Young Cooks" project.

Personality Development In Farm, Small-Town, And City Children, Leland H. Stott

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

One purpose of the present research project was to contribute further toward an adequate knowledge of the relative merits of urban and rural environments. In this bulletin the three general home settings already mentioned, namely the farm in the open country, the small town (600 to 1,300 in population), and the city, are compared as to their "favorableness" in regard to the personality development of the children who grow up in them. The data for the comparisons are the average scores made by representative samples of young people from each environment on a set of tests and scales designed to …

Ec206 Draft Horse Management, Ross H. Miller

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 206 discusses draft horse management.

Fermentation Of Sugar Acids By Bacteria, Gordon B. Robbins, Keith H. Lewis

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

Bacterial fermentation of the sugar acids has received little attention in comparison with the wide-spread use of the common aldoses and sugar alcohols. These acids, and especially their sodium salts, are well suited to bacteriological techniques because of their solubility and heat stability, yet their usefulness for investigating the relationship of chemical structure to biological utilization has only recently been recognized. Their application to systematic differentiation of bacteria has also been neglected.

Kendall, Bly and Haner (1923) concluded from a study of three monocarboxylic acids and three dicarboxylic acids that these compounds possessed little value for the differentiation of bacterial …

Nebraska Bird Review (July-December 1939) 7(2), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Bird Banding Operations in Nebraska. By Harry E. Weakly .. 25

General Notes ........................................... 27

N. O. U. Cooperative Bird Migration List for Spring of 1939 ... 37

Minutes of the Fortieth Annual Meeting .................... 43

Report on the Thirty-seventh Annual Field Day. . . . . . . . . . . .. 47

A New Bird Guide Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 48

Effect Of Organic Matter Decomposition On The Solubility And Fixation Of Phosphorus In Alkaline Soils, H. F. Rhoades

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

It is the purpose of this bulletin to report a laboratory study on the effects of organic matter decomposition on the solubility and fixation of phosphorus in alkaline soils. The study included the following: (1) a comparison of the effects of a decomposing organic material with those of a physiologically acid nitrogen fertilizer, and (2) a comparison of the effects of different organic materials of varying phosphorus contents.

Jesse James- Fbi Files Part Three

United States Department of Justice: Publications

Memorandum for Mr. Tolson

Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI

Dear Sir,

Is the old time Jessie James still alive? This week there was here in this place a man who claimed to be the original Jessie James. He exhibited himself at a picture show here.

I talked with him at a hotel here for over an hour, and he talked very convincingly that he was the original Jessie James of outlaw fame. He is an old man of 90 years old, and he talked like he was telling honest facts within his experience.

I never did dream that I would …

The Girl's Room A Place To Live : Extension Circular 11-02-2 1939, Helen Noyes, Mary B. Nelson

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

In order to be eligible to enter the Girl's room 4-H project, the member should be twelve years of age and should know the basics of sewing. There are certain tasks to do before she has completed the work for the the certificate of achievement as follows:

Keep a record of all work done.

Make a color wheel and the value and intensity charts

Make a patch work pillow

Make curtains or make a flounced dressing table.

Refinish a piece of furniture.

Arrange a dressing center. This does not mean making a dressing table. It is the study of the …

Effect Of Soil Type, Slope, And Surface Conditions On Intake Of Water, F. L. Duley, L. L. Kelly

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

In connection with investigations of runoff and erosion in the Great Plains an attempt has been made by means of artificial applications of water to determine certain principles concerning the effect of different soils and soil conditions on runoff and soil erosion. Such information is needed in planning all field operations dealing with soil erosion and moisture control. It is also needed in connection with watershed studies that are being established in the Central Great Plains, dealing with runoff and flood flows from larger areas. The method employed makes it possible to obtain comparable data on a wide range of …

Amount Of Underground Plant Materials In Different Grassland Climates, S. B. Shively, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

From the highlands of central Mexico entirely across the United States and northward into Canada extends the great midcontinental area of grassland. From this central mass, prairie extends westward across Wyoming into eastern Utah, and southwestward through northern New Mexico into northern Arizona. Other grasslands in the northwest cover most of southern Idaho, a part of northern Utah, large areas in eastern Oregon and Washington, and recur in British Columbia. The Pacific prairie occupies the Great Valley of California, and the Desert Plains grassland much of southern Arizona and New Mexico and southwestern Texas. Together they constitute the Grassland or …

The Effects Of Stinking Smut (Bunt) And Seed Treatment Upon The Yield Of Winter Wheat, T. A. Kiesselbach, W. E. Lyness

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The depreciating effects of bunt or stinking smut (Tilletia levis Kuhn and tritici [Bjerk.] Wint.) upon the yield and quality of winter wheat in Nebraska and many other states are well known. The practical control of this disease through seed treatment has also been established and is being extensively practiced by growers. At the time these experiments were initiated in 1923, formaldehyde was the most commonly used disinfectant, while copper carbonate was just gaining recognition following its introduction by Darnell-Smith in 1915. It has been the chief purpose of the investigations herein reported to study the relative merits of …

Further Studies Of Selected Types Of Domestic Gas Stoves, Arnold E. Baragar

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This bulletin is a supplement to Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Research Bulletin 86. Tests were conducted in the same manner as were those described in Bulletin 86; hence, no reference has been made to experimental methods unless a test has not been previously reported. This paper is primarily concerned with (1) a discussion of cooking tops producing excessive carbon-monoxide gas, (2) more data relative to cooking-top burner efficiencies, (3) a further discussion of automatic lighters, and (4) a detailed study of ovens.

Effects Of Frequent Clipping On The Underground Food Reserves Of Certain Prairie Grasses, F. S. Bukey, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A series of experiments in which true-prairie grasses were clipped at frequent intervals afforded excellent materials for a study of the effects of such treatment upon the food reserves. Two species of Andropogon, at present the most important dominants of true prairie, were employed. A series of quadrats on a north-facing slope in the Blemont prairie in Lincoln, Nebraska, in which little bluestem Andropogon scoparius, grew in about 70 of big bluestem, A. furcatus, were obtained about a mile distant from virgin lowland prairie near the flood plain of salt creek.

The Utilization Of Food Elements By Growing Chicks. Vii. A Comparison Of Corn And Kalo In A Ration For Growing Chicks, C. W. Ackerson, M. J. Blish, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

1. The effect of replacing 31 per cent of ground corn in a ration by 31 per cent of ground kalo was studied in a growth and body-analysis experiment with two lots of newly hatched chicks. 2. The amounts of feed consumed by all chicks of both lots were kept identical by hand-feeding equal amounts of the pelleted rations daily. 3. There were no significant differences in the growth rate or composition of the chicks at the end of a six weeks' feeding trial.

Hows And Whys For Young Cooks : Extension Circular 9-02-2, Jessie G. Greene

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

It is not only fun to cook but it is a worthwhile accomplishment to be able to plan and prepare attractive, healthful meals. Each 4-H club aims to help boys and girls develop the 4 H's found in the 4-H club pledge. The cooking club project aims to teach young cooks some of the Hows and Why of food selection and of cooking.

Fifty Years Of Achievement In Agricultural Investigation, R. T. Prescott

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

In Nebraska, a hustling frontier state in 1887, the legislature hesitated not at all in taking advantage of the provisions of the Hatch Act, and now that fifty years have elapsed since the Station was founded, seventy-five years since the Land Grant College Act was passed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture established, and almost twenty-five years since the Agricultural Extension Service was added, it seems worth while to present a general summary of achievement within the state. The main object will be to show some of the important things that have been learned through the investigations of the …

The Comparative Ability Of The Bob-White And The Ring-Necked Pheasant To Withstand Cold And Hunger, Paul L. Errington

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

The native Bob-white (Colinus virginianus) and the introduced Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus torquatus) may both, on occasion, suffer severe winter mortality over much of their common range in north-central United States. Their habitats often overlap, although the Pheasant has a greater cruising radius and an ability to live in a more open type of country than the Bob-white. In given localities they also live upon much the same kinds of winter foods.

The scope of this paper is not intended to cover the ecological adjustments of Pheasants or of Bob-whites to their winter environment so much …

Effect Of Frequent Clipping On Plant Production In Prairie And Pastur, J. E. Weaver, V. H. Hougen

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The degeneration of native bluestem prairies of eastern Nebraska occurs slowly under moderate grazing or slight overgrazing but within two to five years where overgrazing is pronounced. Although the changes in the plant populations are continuous until the soil is finally almost bare, for convenience of study they have been grouped into several more or less distinct stages (Weaver and Harmon, 1935). An intermediate stage in deterioration is indicated by a great increase in the abundance of bluegrass (Poa pratensis), blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis), or buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), the latter especially on …

Major Changes In Grassland As A Result Of Continued Drought, J. E. Weaver, F. W. Albertson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A comprehensive research on 135 large tracts of prairie was completed in 1933 after five years of study. These tracts were distributed over an area of 60,000 square miles, including the eastern one-third of Nebraska, the western one-third of Iowa, and adjacent areas in the four neighboring states (2). This investigation furnished the background for an understanding of the profound changes which have occurred during the several years of the great drought, which first became pronounced in 1934. The response of prairie to the drought of that year has been discussed (3). Likewise, a detailed account of the destruction caused …

The Utilization Of Food Elements By Growing Chicks. Vi. The Influence Of The Protein Level Of The Ration On The Growth Of Chicks, C. W. Ackerson, M. J. Blish, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

1. Two rations containing 16 and 22 per cent of protein respectively were fed to newly hatched chicks in two series of feeding trials. In one series the lower protein level was secured by diluting the higher with 30 parts of starch so that the amount but not the quality of the protein was changed. In the other series the amount and quality of the protein both varied since the two rations were mixed by using different proportions of the base and concentrate to yield the 16 and 22 per cent levels in the finished rations. 2. Comparisons were made …

Ec5590 Helpful Hints For The Club President

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 5590: Helpful Hints for the Club President, information about what a president should have, meaning the qualities of one and types of presidents.

An Outline Of The Principal Natural Resources Of Nebraska And Their Conservation, George E. Condra

George E. Condra Publications

Nebraska is well endowed with important natural resources, such as stone, clay, sand, soil, water, prairie, forests and wildlife. However, soil and water are our basic heritage because they, more than other resources, support native life, agriculture, industry, and social development.

An Outline Of Nebraska's Industries, George E. Condra

George E. Condra Publications

The principal industries of Nebraska are summarized into the following groups: mineral, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation and publishing, and trade or mechandizing.