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Dimension Stock And Other Uses Of Aspen, Alexis J. Panshin

Aspen Bibliography

Utilization of aspen for pulpwood, excelsior bolts, veneer logs and lumber has increased steadily during the past 10 years. This was particularly true during the war years when, because of the scarcity of other timber, aspen entered many new phases of utilization. In the lumber field alone the wider acceptance of aspen has been reflected in an increase in the annual production from 67 million board feet in 1941 to 152 million board feet in 1946. It is estimated, however, that aspen stands in the Lake States can provide an annual cut of at least 300 million board feet of …

General Catalogue 1950, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalogue of 1950

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

Utah State University Commencement, 1949 – Main Campus, Utah State University

Commencement Programs

Fifty-Sixth Annual Commencement of the Utah State Agricultural College

Seedling Emergence And Survival Of Sixteen Grasses In Central Utah, Neil C. Frischknecht

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The successful artificial seeding of deteriorated range lands offers much promise for improving the economic security of western range states. It has been demonstrated that artifiial seeding is the most rapid means of increasing the quantity and improving the quality of forage for livestock as well as for stabilizing the soils agianst erosion; hence, it contributes directly to the stability of the agricultural industry and to the general welfare of the states involved. Agricultural pursuits have always been, and appear destined to be, the fundamental basis for a permanent society in the West. The present study was undertaken to learn …

Supply And Demand Of Secondary School Teachers In Utah, George W. Sperry

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

During the years of World War II the faculties of the public schools in Utah, as well as in the rest of the nation, were depleted to a serious extent, and enrollment in teacher training institutions throughout the country decreased. Because of this condition the State Department of Education in Utah as well as in other states was forced to issue letters of authorization to teachers who could not meet standard certification requirements in order to staff the schools. Many of these teachers are still teaching today.

A study of the history of education in the United States and in …

Levels Of Lygus Infestation And Stages Of Plant Development As Related To Alfalfa-Seed Production, B. Austin Haws

Biology

Alfalfa-seed production was one of Utah's most important and lucrative forage crops 24 years ago. Statistical reports compiled by Professor C. J. Sorenson, Research Professor of Etomology at Utah State Agricultural College (30), show that in 1925 the 69,000 acres of alfalfa seed raised in Utah yielded an average of 6.37 bushels of seed per acre. Utah's alfalfa-seed yield in 1925 was 42 percent of the total alfalfa seed grown in the United States. This bumper crop brought an income of approximately $4,433,022 to Utah seed producers that year.

The Selection And The Use Of Advisory Councils In Departments Of Vocational Agriculture In Utah, Maurice R. Lambert

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Advisory councils are being used in the fields of both business and education today. The vocational fields have increasingly made use of advisory councils in the organization of instruction content, selection of trainees and the placement of men trained in various occupations. At the present time there is considerable discussion among professional men in the field of vocational agriculture concerning the desirability of using advisory councils. Much has been written and several studies have been make concerning the organization and proper use of advisory councils. This problem at the present time calls for additional study and evaluation.

A Guide To Be Used In Evaluating Audio-Visual Aids For Use In The Teaching Of Industrial Arts In The Junior High Schools Of Utah, Dan H. Swenson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

To find the beginning of the use of audio-visual aids in the teaching of industrial arts is difficult, if not impossible. The very nature of the work makes the use of audio-visual teaching methods absolutely indispensable. Long before the term "audio-visual aids" had been coined and before any attention had been given to the teaching method, as such, teachers of industrial arts were making use of the demonstration, the model, the exhibit, and many other teaching devices since included in the scope of the meaning of audio-visual teaching aids.

It would be hard indeed to imagine how a teacher could …

Teaching Combinations Of The Men Teachers Of Physical Education In The Public High Schools Of Utah, Earl G. Holmstead

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The almost universal acceptance of physical education as an integral part of education has resulted in state legislation throughout the United States requiring the teaching of physical education in the public schools. Because of this legislation, it has become necessary to better prepare teachers to carry on a worthwhile physical education program. Efficient teaching cannot be expected to result from lack of training and inadequate preparation; therefore, the college graduate who holds a degree with no specialized training is not adequately prepared to teach effectively and efficiently in our school systems of today.

In regard to the qualifications and functions …

An Evaluation Of Trout Stocking In The Logan River Drainage, Nels Andrew Thoreson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

One of the more important forms of recreation in Utah is fishing. Each year since the end of World War II more than 100,000 resident and 4,000 non-resident fishermen have taken to the streams and lakes of this state. They spend approximately $2,200,000 each year in the quest of fish, mostly trout. In 1916, 25,473 licenses were sold, in 1937 the number of licenses had risen to 41,200, in 1945 the sales amounted to 104,000 and in 1947 had increased to nearly 131,000. Because of the increased number of fishermen each year, the desirability of greater numbers of legal-sized fish …

Institution Building In Utah, Joseph A. Geddes

Faculty Honor Lectures

The slow growth of civilization and the early meagerness of tested knowledge in any but the most pressing and practical matters undoubtedly conditioned and determined the nature of primitive collective thinking. Large assumptions had to be made about all things. Trial and error methods were slow methods. Only in his late maturity as knowledge multiplied has man found ways of testing the validity of an hypothesis so that assumption-making could become a tool of advancement rather than a controlling mechanism. Superstition, a large component in the culture of even the most advanced peoples, was an inevitable adjunct of progress. As …

Bulletin No. 333 - Drainage Districts In Utah: Their Activities And Needs, J. Howard Maughan, Orson W. Israelsen, Eldon G. Hanson

UAES Bulletins

The need for drainage in Utah was widely recognized before 1900, resulting in passage of a drainage district law in 1896 and provision for cooperative drainage research beginning in 1904. The drainage district laws, developed and improved during the half-century ending 1948, have served as the major basis for drainage organization in the state.

Development Of The Potential Weber Basin Project, Utah: Bonneville Basin, United States Department Of The Interior

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.

Papers Concerning Logan Water Works; Contract For Water System Improvements, Dean F. Peterson, Alvin A. Bishop

Local Matters: Putting USU Research to Work in Cache Valley

No abstract provided.

General Catalogue 1949, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalogue of 1949

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

Bulletin No. 335 - Reclamation Of Saline-Alkali Soils By Leaching: Delta Area, Utah, R. C. Reeve, L. E. Allison, D. F. Peterson Jr.

UAES Bulletins

Salinity is a problem of irrigation agriculture and is recognized as a serious threat to crop production in the Western States. All water used for irrigation, whether diverted from surface stream or pumped from wells, contains dissolved salts in amounts varying from a few hundred pounds to several tons per acre-foot (8,23). Salts accumulating in the root zone of the soil, as water is removed by crop and by surface evaporation eventually, may restrict crop yields. Extensive areas of land in the Western States, which were at one time productive under irrigation, have been abandoned because of the development of …

Bulletin No. 331 - Cost And Efficiency Of Canning Pea Production In Cache And Box Elder Counties, Utah, Earnest M. Morrison

UAES Bulletins

The production of field peas for canning purposes has played an important part in Utah's agriculture, furnishing some of the intensity needed on her small farms. Peas are a crop that can be handled largely with the labor of the operator and his family and has not required any specialized machinery for their production. They are a suitable alfalfa nurse crop and in most areas do not compete greatly with other crops grown for the farmer's time.

The Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 25 No. 3, May 1948, Utah State University

Utah State Magazine

The quarterly magazine for friends and alumni of Utah State University.

An Analysis Of Consumer Preferences For Peaches In Salt Lake City, Utah, 1947, Marion R. Larsen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Peaches are the predominant tree fruit in Utah. Preliminary estimates for 1947 indicate a crop of 933,000 bushels valued at $1,679,000, which represents approximately 27 percent of the value of the major fruits grown in Utah and 1.2 percent of the value of all agricultural commodities grown in the state (5:23). It should be noted, however, that the 1947 peach crop was somewhat above normal. The estimated average annual production over the 10-year period 1938 to 1947 was 722,000 bushels.

The Cost Of Producing Peaches In Utah County, 1947, Arnold Taylor

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Peach production in Utah County is an important farm enterprise. In 1944, 342,525 bushels were produced, valued at $685,050. This was 5.5 percent of the total value of all agricultural products sold or used in the home for the year 1944. In value and acreage the peach crop leads all other fruit crops produced in Utah County.

Utah County is the most important peach producing area in the state. It contained 28 percent of the total farms reporting peach orchards, 44.7 percent of all peach trees, and 40.6 percent of the number of bushels harvested in the state for the …

Factors Influencing The Validity Of Pheasant Census Methods, Sevier County, Utah, Eldon H. Smith

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The measurement of animal populations is a most important phase of wildlife management. The initiation of systematic management of any unit of specific game habitat usually involves the measurement of the stock on hand as a primary step. In practice game inventory performs a twofold function; namely, as a medium determining the efficacy of past management practices as a basis for future manipulations and as an aid in the establishment of game protective or removal policies.

A census, in the sense applied in this study, is best defined as the enumeration of a population on a given area at a …

A Study Of Land Drainage By Pumping From An Experimental Drainage Well In The Delta Area, Utah, Ellaf Arni Olafson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Although it is now generally accepted that, in the west, irrigation and drainage are necessarily complementary practices, the realization has been slow in developing. Recent estimates indicate that about 8 million acres of land under irrigation in the 17 western states require drainage. For most irrigated lands a depth to groundwater of at least five to ten feet is desirable. Very high capital as well as annual maintenance costs would be involved in meeting this minimum requirement with the usual types of tile and open drains. Indeed, in most instances it cannot economically be accomplished. The purpose of this study …

Geological Studies In Utah, J. Stewart Williams

Faculty Honor Lectures

Utah's thousands of square miles of mountains, plateaus, and i ~ desert basins exhibit a wide variety of geological features and offer the student of geology an endless series of challenging problems. The solution of some of these problems began nearly one hundred years ago with the surveys of the United States territories; the work continues today at a greatly accelerated rate with scores of professional geologists and advanced students in the field each summer. The writer and students under his direction have made some contributions to the solution of a few of these problems in the twelve years that …

General Catalogue 1948, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalogue of 1948

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

Bulletin No. 329 - Cost And Efficiency Of Producing Sugar Beets In Utah, 1945, Ernest M. Morrison

UAES Bulletins

Early in the history of Utah the pioneers became interested in sugar-beet production. In 1852 John Taylor, Elias Morris and others, under the direction of Brigham Young, obtained machinery from France for refining beet sugar, transported it across the Atlantic Ocean by boat, up the Mississippi River to Fort Leavenworth, and thence across the plains to Utah by ox teams. The factory was established in what is now known as Sugar House in the southeastern part of Salt Lake City. These initial efforts proved to be unsuccessful primarily because the "open kettle" method employed was never satisfactory.

Not until 1891 …

Bulletin No. 332 - Cost And Efficiency Of Celery Production In Box Elder And Utah Counties In 1945 And 1947, Earnest M. Morrison

UAES Bulletins

The production of celery by farmers in Utah has undergone important changes in the past five or six years. The most notable have been centered around the introduction of the new green type (Pascal) celery. The methods of production have advanced rapidly, the quality of the product has been greatly improved, the yield per acre has been increased at least twofold, and the acreage has been expanded.

With the growing impetus of the industry have come requests for information on cost and return to the farmer and for an analysis of other economic and physical factors associated with the industry. …

Farm & Home Science Vol. 8 No. 4, December 1947

Utah Science

Recommended agricultural production program for Utah for 1948, by W. P. Thomas and G. T. Blanch 1

Research in home economics expands 2

Disease problems in the production of tomato plants in the Moapa Valley, by H. L. Blood 3

New grass-legume pasture mixtures are high producers, by W. Keller, G. Q. Bateman and J. E. Packer 5

Disease threatens celery industry in Utah, by E. L. W aldee 6

The impact of war on the future marketing of poultry products in the Western States, by Carl Frischknecht 8

Seeding ranges to grass, by C. W. Cook and L. A. …

Chemical Utilization Of Aspen, Geo J. Ritter, Ralph L. Hossfeld

Aspen Bibliography

Chemical utilization of raw materials depends largely on the chemical composition and the chemical and physical properties of the raw materials under consideration. The utilization of wood is no exception to this principle. Thus, a wood having a low percentage of cellulose is uneconomical as a source of wood sugar or pulp for paper; and one of an excessively knotty character is undesirable for chemical conversion Woods having several undesirable characteristics generally fall within the classification of species little used for the purpose. Fortunate! aspen falls outside this class.

Farm & Home Science Vol. 8 No. 2, June 1947

Utah Science

2,4•D for weed control in Utah, by O. C. Tingey and R. J. Evans 1

School of Forest, Range, and Wildlife Management. 2

Green manure crops for soil improvement, by O. W. Thorne and H . B. Peterson 3

State appropriation 4

American Farm Bureau Federation supports increased federal funds for research 4

Factors which influence the development of good teeth, by O. A. Greenwood 5

Irrigation research laboratory, by C. W. Lauritzen and O. W. Israelsen 6

Vegetable seed production limited by disease, by H. L. Blood 8

Agriculture and the farmer in postwar Japan, by E. L. Waldee …

Possibilities Of Managing Aspen, Paul Zehngraff

Aspen Bibliography

The management of aspen or popple (Populus tremuloides) has received little attention in the past, largely because of the former abundant supply of other and more valuable tree species in the Lake States. Be- cause of a rapidly expanding market for all forest products during the past decade, particularly during the war, the attention and ingenuity of industry have turned toward the use of aspen. As a consequence, aspen has now become one of the important pulpwood species in the Lake States, and is used for many other products. That it will retain its place for some time to come …