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Ec1458 Revised 1932 Questions And Answers On Poultry Breeds And Breeding, J. R. Redditt

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1458 Revised 1932 has multiple questions and answers on poultry breeds and breeding.

Ec1471 Questions And Answers On Marketing Eggs, J. R. Redditt

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1471 is about typical questions and answers on marketing eggs.

Ec1470 Poultry House Remodeling, J. H. Claybaugh

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1470 is about poultry house remodeling.

On The Trigonometric Developments Of Certain Doubly Periodic Functions Of The Second Kind, M. A. Basoco

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

The class of meromorphic functions which satisfy periodicity relations of the form (1) ƒ(z + 2ω_l) = c₁f(z), f(z + 2ω₂) = c₂f{z), where the multipliers c₁ and c₂ are independent of z, and ω_l/ω₂ is a complex number with non-vanishing imaginary part, has been named by Hermite doubly periodic of the second kind. It is possible to make the study of these functions depend on others of the same type, but such that one of the multipliers, say c_l, is unity. In what follows …

Ec923 New And Old Ways Of Cooking Vegetables, Minna Denton

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 923 discusses various new and old ways of cooking vegetables. This gives several examples of different cooking methods as well as using different vegetables.

Ec714 Revised 1932 Know Your Sewing Machine, Paul R. Hoff

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 714 is a 1932 revision of an earlier circular. It discusses the parts of the machine and what they are used for and includes illustrations. It also comments on care of the machine.

Ec626 Selection And Care Of Dairy Sires -- The Nebraska Safety Bull Pen, M. L. Flack

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 626 provides information on the selection and care of dairy sires as well as the arrangement and advantages of the Nebraska safety bull pen.

Ec733 Shelter Sheds For Turkeys, Paul R. Hoff, J. H. Claybaugh

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 733 discusses shelter sheds for turkeys, It also includes plans and diagrams for building these sheds.

Tuber Development In Triumph Potatoes As Influenced By Time Of Planting On Dry Land In Northwestern Nebraska, H. O. Werner

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Triumph potatoes were planted on four different dates during six years in order to determine the best planting date on dry land in northwestern Nebraska, where this variety is grown primarily for seed. Features considered in comparing the merits of these planting dates were: stand of plants; vine growth; disease prevalence; time of plant maturity; number, size, and shape of tubers; cracking at harvest time; prevalence and severity of common scab; total yields and yields of various grades of potatoes from various harvesting dates; weight loss in storage; and duration of the dormant period. The experimental aspects dealing with the …

Ec1467 Growing Mash Mixture No. 4-J

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 1467 is a recipe for chicken feed that allows for quick growth.

Ec922 Home Conservation Of Fruits And Vegetables, Margaret Osborn

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 922 provides information on conservation of fruits and vegetables. It includes a discussion on why foods spoil and discusses several ways to can and preserve fruits and vegetables at home.

Mccormick-Deering Farmall Model F-20 Instruction Book, Tractor Museum

Farmall, McCormick Deering and International Harvester Co

This eighty-six (86) page instruction booklet contains information related to the McCormick-Deering Farmall F-20 tractor. Included inside is information concerning all aspects of tractor operation, maintenence and repair including engine, transmission, starter, water system and other diagrams. (This is Tractor Test #221)

Ecology And Relative Importance Of The Dominants Of Tall-Grass Prairie, J. E. Weaver, T. J. Fitzpatrick

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

This paper is the result of an intensive study of the vegetation of the prairie. The study extended over a period of ten years. It deals with the life histories, distribution, and relative importance of the dominant grasses in a central area of the tall-grass prairie. This area includes the grasslands of the western one-third of Iowa and those of approximately the eastern one-third of Nebraska. On the south it extends into Missouri and Kansas to the Kansas River. North- ward it includes a small portion of southwestern Minnesota and a larger one of southeastern South Dakota.

Indicator Significance Of Brush Lands For The Growth Of Western Yellow Pine, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A study of unusual interest and significance in the application of ecological principles to the solution of an economic problem has recently been completed. It deals with the causes for the absence of western yellow pine in brush vegetation of various types that occur throughout the mountainous portions of northern Utah, eastern Idaho, and western Wyoming, and, in fact, form a much interrupted and fragmented belt whose center extends from the Gulf of California to west-central Montana. Many of these brush sites, especially in northern Utah and southern Idaho, lie immediately below the Douglas fir type (which is continuous) and …

Ec1466 Questions And Answers On Coccidiosis, H. E. Alder

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1466 is about the internal parasite called Coccidiosis.

Studies Of Prairie Hay In North Central Nebraska, F. D. Keim, A. L. Frolik, G. W. Beadle

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

During five years, 1924-1928, Nebraska ranked first among the states in the production of prairie hay. Approximately 2,500,000 tons were grown annually during this period. In acreage utilized, wild hay ranked third among the field crops of Nebraska. As a forage crop in the state, prairie hay ranked first in acreage, but second to alfalfa in production. The purpose of this bulletin is to report studies made of the botanical structure and yields of the native hay meadows during a period of four years, 1926-1929, in the most prominent prairie hay producing section of the state. Four counties in this …

On The Dating Of The English And Scottish Ballads, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

HE practice has established itself among literary historians and anthologists of associating the English and Scottish ballads primarily with the fifteenth century, sometimes with the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of the best and most popular of the histories of English literature now used in schools and colleges states in its revised editions: "These ballads appear to have flourished luxuriantly among the folk in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, after which their composition ceased. Over three hundred of them, in 1,300 versions, have survived, and have been collected and printed."' The now widely used History of English Literature by M. …

Ec913 Some Suggestions To The Homemaker For Putting Variety And Palatability Into Low-Cost Meals

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 913 provides information and suggestions to the homemaker for putting variety and palatability into low-cost meals. It includes ingredient lists and recipes for low cost meals.

The Practical Evaluation Of Resultants, T. A. Pierce

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

The purpose of the present note is to give a practical method of evaluating the resultant of two equations. The method is particularly effective when the degree of one of the equations is high while that of the other is low. Use will be made of certain results in the theory of matrices.

Ec841 Revised 1932 Ninth Annual Farm Business Report : Sixty-Nine Cass County Farms

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 841-32 is the Annual Farm Business Report for sixty-nine Cass County farms in 1931.

Canning Club Demonstration Problem 1 Vegetable And Fruit Canning : Extension Circular 9-21-2 1932

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

This 4-H circular is a revision of the 1928 circular of the same number. It discusses the process and need for canning fruits and vegetables. It gives instructions for the process and points out the tools used.

Test 211: Mccormick-Deering Model T-40 "Tractractor", Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

All tractors tested at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory were certified by their manufacturers as being stock model machines, conforming to specifications filed with the application for test. No special or high-test fuels were used except as recommended by the manufacturer as necessary.

All results within the official tractor test report were actually attained in tests and are without correction or allowances for friction, temperature, altitude, etc. The results were initially accomplished with the tractor in charge of skilled operators employed by the University.

Unless otherwise noted, each tractor was apparently in good condition at the end of the testing …

Ec908 The Garden That Feeds The Family

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 908 provides information on the part which food plays in the matter of health and in particular with the part which the proper varieties and quantities of vegetables play in an adequate diet. It includes information on topics such as use of food by the body, functions of various foods, servings and varieties of foods needed in an adequate diet, the importance of an adequate diet, and establishing and maintaining a quality vegetable garden.

Ec1170 Lighting The Home, Rizpah A. Douglass

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1170 provides information on lighting the home. Topics covered in this circular include the history of the lamp, essentials for good lighting, causes of eyestrain, selection of the shade and the base for the lamp, materials for shades, directions for making lamp shades, and bases for lamps.

Ec5588 Some Quilting Thoughts, Mabel Sensor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 5588: Some Quilting Thoughts presents information about quilting.

Ec1171 Suggestions For Making Simple Porch Or Lawn Furniture

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1171, Suggestions For Making Simple Porch Or Lawn Furniture, details the use and construction of porch and lawn furniture. Includes instructive illustration.

Ec1261 Making The Outdoor Living Room

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension circular 1262 discusses the creation of an outdoor living room. It covers topics from location, style, borders, flower suggestions, accessory suggestions to insect control.

Ec5590b A Trial Of Fire

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 5590b: A trial of Fire, talks about how a case trial is, meaning the defendants and the court room.

Rb32-270 A Seven Year Study Of A Milk Supply, P.A. Downs

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The amount of butter produced by the grain-belt states is evidence that a great many cows are milked by the midwestern farmer. Most of this milk is separated on the farm, the cream is sold, and the skimmilk is fed to hogs and other livestock. As the market for fluid milk has developed, many farmers near the cities have turned to the sale of milk, because it affords a better return for the butterfat sold. Much of the milk produced for sale as fluid milk is produced under practically the same conditions as milk which is produced primarily for the …

Test 205: Caterpiller Model 20, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

All tractors tested at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory were certified by their manufacturers as being stock model machines, conforming to specifications filed with the application for test. No special or high-test fuels were used except as recommended by the manufacturer as necessary.

All results within the official tractor test report were actually attained in tests and are without correction or allowances for friction, temperature, altitude, etc. The results were initially accomplished with the tractor in charge of skilled operators employed by the University.

Unless otherwise noted, each tractor was apparently in good condition at the end of the testing …