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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 …

General Catalogue 1915, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalogue of 1915

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration.

Agricultural College Of Utah Secretary's Report, John L. Coburn

Reports of the Secretary to the President Student Affairs President’s Correspondence, 1900-1907

Secretary's Report for Utah Agricultural College, includes reports for the college, cedar city branch, farmers' institute fund, farm and home demonstration, smith lever, hatch fund, adams fund, experiment station miscellaneous fund, state agricultural investigation and demonstration fund, and panguitch school farm from July 1, 1914 to November 30, 1914.

Student Life, December 1914, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Utah State University student newspaper December issue.

Student Life, November 20, 1914, Vol. 13, No. 9, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Student Life, October 30, 1914, Vol. 13, No. 6, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Student Life, October 9, 1914, Vol. 13, No. 3, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

Student Life, October 16, 1914, Vol. 13 No. 4, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Student Life, October 2, 1914, Vol. 13, No. 2, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Student Life, September 25, 1914, Vol. 13, No. 1, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan

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 …

Bulletin No. 134 - The Nitric Nitrogen Content In The Country Rock, Robert Stewart, William Peterson

UAES Bulletins

In many arid sections of Western America there have been reported marked accumulations of nitrates in the cultivated soil. Hilgard,(1) who was the first to observe these accumulations, believed that the nitrates are being formed at the present time by the rapid nitrification of the organic matter contained in the soil. In Colorado there has been considerable trouble with orchards dying; the death of the trees in some cases has been attributed to the excessive accumulations of nitrates in the cultivated soil. These accumulations are due, according to Dr. Headden,(2) to the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria now at …

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.

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 …

Agricultural College Of Utah Secretary's Report, John L. Coburn

Reports of the Secretary to the President Student Affairs President’s Correspondence, 1900-1907

Secretary's Report for Utah Agricultural College, includes reports for the college, cedar city branch, farmers' institute fund, farm and home demonstration, hatch fund, adams fund, experiment station miscellaneous fund, state agricultural investigation and demonstration fund, and panguitch school farm from July 1, 1913 to December 31, 1913.

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.

Buzzer 1914, Utah State University

USU Buzzer Yearbook

1914 yearbook for Utah State University. Published from 1909-1971 with single issues in 1978 and 1981.

General Catalogue 1914, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalogue of 1914

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration.

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.

Circular No. 14 - Housing Farm Poultry, Byron Alder

UAES Circulars

With the exception, perhaps, of actual starvation of the fowls themselves, there is no other factor in connection with the keeping of poultry that will affect egg production and good vigorous growth so decidedly as poor or improper methods of housing. This circular sets forth some of the essentials of a good house for Utah conditions, and offers plans of three houses in which an attempt has been made to include these essentials. The ideas and plans presented here do not represent anyone person's original work. They are a compilation of the work done on this subject by those who …

Agricultural College Of Utah Secretary's Report, John L. Coburn

Reports of the Secretary to the President Student Affairs President’s Correspondence, 1900-1907

Secretary's Report for Utah Agricultural College, includes reports for the college, cedar city branch, farmers' institute fund, farm and home demonstration, hatch fund, adams fund, experiment station miscellaneous fund, state agricultural investigation and demonstration fund, and panguitch school farm from July 1, 1913 to October 15, 1913.

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.

Bulletin No. 125 - The Chemical Milling And Bake Value Of Utah Wheats, Robert Stewart, C. T. Hirst

UAES Bulletins

The Chemical Department of the Utah Experiment Station, since 1903, has been conducting investigations regarding the value of different wheats grown in the State. The results obtained during the years 1903 to 1906 were published as Bulletin No. 103 of this station. A special investigation in 1910 regarding the influence of the combined harvester on the value of the wheat was conducted and the results obtained issued as Bulletin No. 113. The results reported in the following pages were obtained during the progress of these investigations during the years 1907, 1908, and 1909. The method of milling the samples of …

Bulletin No. 124 - Fruit Variety Tests On The Southern Utah Experiment Farm, A. B. Ballantyne

UAES Bulletins

Since the material contained in the following report of the variety tests on the Southern Utah Experiment Farm was mainly accumulated under plans outlined before the farm was made part of the Utah Experiment Station, it may be well in this connection to give a brief history of its location, management, and a survey of its situation. It was established by an act of the State Legislature approved March 21, 1899, and the site was chosen the following July by a committee appointed by Governor Heber M. Wells. The area selected consists of forty acres located in the southeastern portion …