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A Study Of The Relationship Between The Ideological Tendencies Of United States Supreme Court Cases Affecting The Press, 1946-1974, Thomas A. Schwartz Jan 1977

A Study Of The Relationship Between The Ideological Tendencies Of United States Supreme Court Cases Affecting The Press, 1946-1974, Thomas A. Schwartz

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Analysis of United States Supreme Court decision-making in cases affecting the press is important to communication law because many significant aspects of the court’s political behavior cannot be studied by reading the opinions of the court. The great volume of cases and range of issues simply preclude meaningful analysis except when subjected to the quantitative techniques of data processing and measurement. The hypotheses are: 1. Basic attitudes of Supreme Court justices contribute to their voting behavior. 2. Basic attitudes of Supreme Court justices in civil liberties cases. 3. Basic attitudes of Supreme Court justices toward press issues contribute to their …

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A Study Of Selected Factors Associated With Formal Normative Inmate Behavior At The Maryland State Correctional Institution, Virgil J. Brown Jan 1977

A Study Of Selected Factors Associated With Formal Normative Inmate Behavior At The Maryland State Correctional Institution, Virgil J. Brown

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This research was designed to answer the following question: “What factors are associated with inmate deviations from formal rules and regulations within a correctional institution?” The study had the following objectives: (1) the development of a theoretical model which would be capable of analyzing formal normative behavioral patterns of incarcerated individuals; (2) the development of instruments for measuring formal normative behavior and a set of related variables; (3) to establish the degree of association between selected variables and formal normative behavior of inmates; and (4) the development of an index for prediction of inmates propensity to conform to or deviate …

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Project Remand : Estimating Probability Of Failure To Appear, Glen Arthur Just Jan 1977

Project Remand : Estimating Probability Of Failure To Appear, Glen Arthur Just

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The study investigated the following problem: What is the best estimator of failure to appear (FTA) for felons in Ramset County, Minnesota, who are released into the community during their pretrial period? An estimator of FTA and nonFTA probabilities was derived with the aid of stepwise discriminant analysis. The method demonstrates the expost facto ability to correctly place 98 percent of the nonFTA’s and 30 percent of the FTA’s in the 1975 sample. The overall total group placement, due to the large percentage of nonFTA’s in the sample, was approximately 90 percent. Even though it is recognized that multiple regression …

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A Microprocessor Controlled Clock System, Joseph P. Clarke Jan 1977

A Microprocessor Controlled Clock System, Joseph P. Clarke

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While the areas of time keeping and computers have been somewhat independent, there have been exceptions. The commercial time recording clocks have for many years been used of ring bells in schools and factories. An example of this type of system is the simplex control clock designed by International Business Machines in 1949. This type of clock relies on electromechanical logic. With the introduction of low cost digital logic and microprocessors, the designer has been given the opportunity to develop real time control systems and sophisticated digital clocks. The first attempt at this project definition was to develop a digital …

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An Analysis Of The Public Television Audience In The Oxford, Mississippi, Area, 1977, Susan Helen Langdon Jan 1977

An Analysis Of The Public Television Audience In The Oxford, Mississippi, Area, 1977, Susan Helen Langdon

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No abstract provided.

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The Visionary Experience In Three Novels By Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Elizabeth Tonos Brantley Jan 1977

The Visionary Experience In Three Novels By Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Elizabeth Tonos Brantley

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Estimate Of Production By A Population Of Fathead Minnows, Pimpephales Promelas, In A South Dakota Prairie Wetland, Ronald D. Payer Jan 1977

Estimate Of Production By A Population Of Fathead Minnows, Pimpephales Promelas, In A South Dakota Prairie Wetland, Ronald D. Payer

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Estimates of production and population densities were obtained for an autochthonous population of fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, in a South Dakota prairie wetland. The study was conducted from May to September of 1976. Population estimates were obtained using a Schnabel-type mark and recapture model. Fish were marked either by fin clipping or granular fluorescent pigments driven into the dermal tissue. Production estimates were derived both arithmetically and graphically. The estimated population of adult fathead minnows declined from 194 in May and June to 26 in July. Production by adults was estimated at 0.10 kg, or 0.0007 gm/m²/yr. The population …

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Digestibility Of Common Forage Plants And Energetic Requirements Of The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, Maureen A. Beckstead Jan 1977

Digestibility Of Common Forage Plants And Energetic Requirements Of The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, Maureen A. Beckstead

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Black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) assimilated 51.5 percent of the wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium) they consumed; thus, they would have to consume 0.148 kcal · g-1 · day-l in order to obtain the 0.076 kcal · g-1 · day-1 they would require to maintain their weight. Prairie dogs assimilated 31.5 percent of the buffalograss/blue grama mixture (Buchloe dactyloides/Bouteloua gracilis) they were fed. They would have to consume 0.229 kcal · g-1 · day-1 of this forage to assimilate 0.072 kcal · g-1 · day-1 and maintain their weight. The proximate composition of forages fed in feeding trials was similar to that …

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Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Of The Unchannelized Missouri River In South Dakota, James R. Clapp Jan 1977

Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Of The Unchannelized Missouri River In South Dakota, James R. Clapp

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Areas of eight habitats were identified, delineated, and measured along the unchannelized Missouri River in South Dakota. Agricultural and urban developments existed on 60 percent of the land within 1 km of the river. Six habitat types made up the non-developed land in the study area: cottonwood-dogwood (16 percent), cottonwood-willow (9 percent), elm-oak (7 percent), cattail marsh (3 percent), sand dune (3 percent), and sand bar (1 percent). All non-developed habitats except sand bar were sampled to obtain vegetative composition and to determine their value to wildlife. The value of each habitat to nine faunal groups of wildlife was subjectively …

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Biology Of The Porcupine (Erethizon Dorsatum) In Northwestern South Dakota, Judith Johnson Jan 1977

Biology Of The Porcupine (Erethizon Dorsatum) In Northwestern South Dakota, Judith Johnson

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The summer home ranges, food habits, cover preferences, population dynamics, metabolic rates, growth rates, and taxonomic characteristics were determined for porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) in northwestern South Dakota. The summer home ranges were 158.2 ha for adult females, 90.4 ha for juveniles, and 57.9 ha for adult males. The population was 34 percent adult males, 16 percent juvenile males, 34 percent adult females, and 15 percent juvenile females. The preferred daytime cover choice was silver buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea), followed by snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis), earth dens, forbs, and low brush. Shrubs were the most important item in the diet, then trees, forbs, …

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Soil Salinity And Water Movement Through Soils As A Consequence Of Manure Applications, Ronald R. Schnabel Jan 1977

Soil Salinity And Water Movement Through Soils As A Consequence Of Manure Applications, Ronald R. Schnabel

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The objectives of this investigation were: 1) to determine if under dryland conditions the salts present in manure applied to the land would accumulate in the root zone to levels high enough to seriously limit crop production, 2) to determine if the ratio of monovalent to divalent cations present in the manure would upset the balance of these cations in the soil and cause soil structure problems, and 3) to determine if the salts and organic matter added by the manure would affect the soil’s ability to transmit water.

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A Comparison Of Enrollment In Physical Education Courses And Leisure Time Physical Activity Patterns Among Selected South Dakota State University Graduates, Le Anne Elhoff Dobratz Jan 1977

A Comparison Of Enrollment In Physical Education Courses And Leisure Time Physical Activity Patterns Among Selected South Dakota State University Graduates, Le Anne Elhoff Dobratz

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A survey was conducted to determine whether enrollment in the required Fitness and Lifetime Activity courses at South Dakota State University had influenced members of the graduating classes of this institution in their selection of leisure time physical activities. Two hundred eight questionnaires were mailed to selected 1970 graduates of South Dakota State University and 206 to members of the 1972 class. Sixty-one percent of the questionnaires were received from the class of 1970, while a sixty-six percent rate of return was realized for the class of 1972. More than one-third of the respondents from both graduating classes (38% from …

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Mercury-Selenium-Arsenic Interrelationships In Broiler-Type Growing Hicks, Jiing-Chnan Chern Jan 1977

Mercury-Selenium-Arsenic Interrelationships In Broiler-Type Growing Hicks, Jiing-Chnan Chern

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Mercury contamination of many marine coastal environments and some inland waters has resulted from discharger of mercury contained in industrial waters. In addition, the extensive use of mercury compounds as agricultural seed dressings, fungicides in paints, a slimicide in paper and pulp manufacturing and other uses have added to the environmental mercury burden. Even though a ban on the discharge of mercury is in effect, and agricultural and domestic uses of mercury have been greatly restricted, the problem continues. It has been estimated that it may be hundreds of years before the Great Lakes, contaminated by mercury from the chlorine-caustic …

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The Relationship Between Soil Test And Small Grain Response To P Fertilization In South Dakota Field Experiments, Paul Elias Fixen Jan 1977

The Relationship Between Soil Test And Small Grain Response To P Fertilization In South Dakota Field Experiments, Paul Elias Fixen

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Phosphorus is one of the two most limiting nutrients to crop production in South Dakota. Because of this fact, many recommendations for P fertilizer are made each day by the South Dakota State University Soil Test Lab. Nearly 65,000 tons of available O are marketed each year in South Dakota as commercial fertilizer. This amounts to over 18 million dollars or expense for South Dakota farmers. Therefore, it becomes essential that recommendations for phosphorus fertilizer be as accurate as our knowledge of the soil-plant system allows. Those recommendations are currently based on the results of the Modified Bray 1, 1:7 …

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Supplemental Space Heating Using A Solar Energy-Intensifier-Thermal Energy Storage System, James L. Julson Jan 1977

Supplemental Space Heating Using A Solar Energy-Intensifier-Thermal Energy Storage System, James L. Julson

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Many variations of solar concentrators, solar collectors, and solar thermal energy storage units are currently being investigated for use in agricultural space heating applications. However, limited data are available on the use of solar concentrators and thermal storage systems for specific agricultural applications in most climatic areas. Since useful alternate energy sources are of such great importance, research was conducted with the following objectives: 1. Evaluate the thermal efficiency and energy collecting capabilities of a solar energy-intensifier under actual climatic conditions. 2. Study the temperature and energy storage characteristics of a native stone thermal energy storage unit used with a …

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A Study Of Factors Associated With Community Satisfaction Among Residents Of A South Dakota Community, Javan E. Dargan Jan 1977

A Study Of Factors Associated With Community Satisfaction Among Residents Of A South Dakota Community, Javan E. Dargan

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This exploratory case study examined the extent of community satisfaction in a South Dakota town, herein called Dakota Town. The purposes of this study were (1) to examine the attitudes of residents toward their community, (2) to examine the attitudes of residents toward their community’s subsystems, (3) to examine the factors associated with the residents’ overall satisfaction with their community, (4) to examine the factors associated with the residents’ satisfaction with the subsystems of their community, and (5) to examine the extent to which variations in the attitudes toward community subsystems explain variations in community satisfaction. Social systems theory and …

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The Investigation Of Several Species Of Bacillus To Determine Their Potential As Biocontrol Organisms On Wheat, Venance H. Lengkeek Jan 1977

The Investigation Of Several Species Of Bacillus To Determine Their Potential As Biocontrol Organisms On Wheat, Venance H. Lengkeek

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Of twenty Bacillus species tested, only five were capable of I vitro inhibition of several wheat pathogens. The mode of inhibition of these five Bacillus species was due to the production of an extra cellular peptide antibiotic which caused disruption of the plasma membrane. Various other physical and chemical characteristics of the antibiotics were also investigated. When applied as seed treatments on spring wheat, the five Bacillus species did not produce significant yield differences. Low soil temperatures at spring wheat planting may have been responsible for the failure of response. The five Bacillus species, B. subtilis var. niger (originally received …

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Services, Practices, Characteristics And Other Factors Affecting A Farmer's Selection Of A Farm Supply Or Marketing Firm, Karla Jean Nelson Kraner Jan 1977

Services, Practices, Characteristics And Other Factors Affecting A Farmer's Selection Of A Farm Supply Or Marketing Firm, Karla Jean Nelson Kraner

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The difference between success and failure of a business can often be attributed to whether or not the customer is served in the manner he or she wants. Therefore, it is very important for farm supply and marketing firms to know what services, practices and products their customers want and to do all within reason to serve those needs. Sometimes distinctions must be made between customer wants and customer needs and sometimes it is not reasonable to try to serve every nee, but most of a customer’s needs must be met or he or she will shop elsewhere. This is …

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Design And Testing Of A Solar Energy-Intensifier For Drying Shelled Corn, Steven E. Saienga Jan 1977

Design And Testing Of A Solar Energy-Intensifier For Drying Shelled Corn, Steven E. Saienga

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Agricultural crop drying provides numerous applications where low to moderate temperature rises can provide a large percentage of the grain drying requirements. The application of solar energy to grain drying depends on the capability of the solar energy system to provide temperature rises and enough heat to increase the rate at which moisture is removed from the wet grain. Current investigations of solar energy utilization for agricultural applications include many variations of solar collectors and solar concentrators. However, data available on the use of solar concentrators for specific agricultural applications in most climatic areas are limited. Because of the great …

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Winter Operating Constraints Of A High-Rate Infiltration-Percolation Treatment System For Wastewater, Eugene A. Miller Jan 1977

Winter Operating Constraints Of A High-Rate Infiltration-Percolation Treatment System For Wastewater, Eugene A. Miller

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In order to comply with the federal Water Pollution Control act Amendments of 1972, many small communities in South Dakota are faced with the probability of having to update the quality of wastewater that is being discharged. Many of these communities presently use low-cost lagoons or stabilization ponds that provide various degrees of wastewater treatment. With lack of trained personnel for routine operation and maintenance and the inherent financial problems due to a limited tax base, small communities have a definite need for a simple and inexpensive form of wastewater treatment that ill upgrade effluents from stabilization ponds to meet …

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Solar Energy For Supplemental Heating Of Livestock Buildings, David P. Yexley Jan 1977

Solar Energy For Supplemental Heating Of Livestock Buildings, David P. Yexley

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The cost of energy spans a wide range at various geographic locations, Solar energy has not generally been competitive with other energy sources because of high initial capital costs per unit of energy return for most collector systems. These costs must be justified so that the benefits of the virtually free primary fuel source can become economically attractive. Therefore the objectives of this study were established as follows: 1. Design and compare the efficiencies and total energy supplied by three types of low cost, low temperature rise bare plate solar collectors. 2. Evaluate the performance of solar collectors that can …

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Dick And Jane Grow Up : Trends In Fiction For Young Adults, Nancy Veglahn Jan 1977

Dick And Jane Grow Up : Trends In Fiction For Young Adults, Nancy Veglahn

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The YA novel may be defined, then, as a work of fiction intended and published especially for readers between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. The distinction is to some degree an artificial one created by the realities of publishing. If a book is purchased by the juvenile division of a publishing company, it is presented as a YA novel. The same book might conceivably have been bought and published by the adult division of the same company, in which case it would be considered an adult book. There is some crossing back and forth across these artificial barriers. YA …

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The Use Of Plant Tissue Culture Techniques For Studying The Growth Of Morel, James Wassom Jan 1977

The Use Of Plant Tissue Culture Techniques For Studying The Growth Of Morel, James Wassom

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Like all mushrooms, the morel mushroom is a fungus. Morels are the fruiting bodies produced by members of the genus, Morchella, Morels are often considered to be a class with truffles by mushroom hunters. Unlike other mushrooms, the morel is not toadstool shaped, but looks like a sponge on a stalk, this makes it easy to identify. There are no poisonous mushrooms that resemble morels. Morels are widely distributed. Morels are known to occur in North America, Europe, and Israel. They are found in a wide variety of topographies, from mountains to plains. They can be found on grasslands, orchards, …

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Food, Growth, And Reproduction Of White Crappies (Pomixis Annularis) And Black Crappies (P. Nigromaculatus) In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Thomas R. Busiahn Jan 1977

Food, Growth, And Reproduction Of White Crappies (Pomixis Annularis) And Black Crappies (P. Nigromaculatus) In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Thomas R. Busiahn

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The food habits, food selectivity, growth, condition, and population structures of the white crappies (Pomoxis annularis) and black crappies (P. nigromaculatus) in Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, were studied from May, 1975, to May, 1976. The total food volume of 173 adult white crappies consisted of 59.0% plankton1o crustaceans, 25.2 % insects, 14.5 % fish, and 1.3 % miscellaneous organisms. The food volume of 39 adult black crappies consisted of 39.0 % planktonic crustaceans, 3.5 % insects, 57.8 % fish, and 0.7 % miscellaneous organisms. Both species selected Daphnia pulex over other zooplankton and probably contributed to its decline from 193.8/l …

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Probabilities Of Solar Weather, Hand-Hung Chen Jan 1977

Probabilities Of Solar Weather, Hand-Hung Chen

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During the last several years we have witnessed increasing costs and shortages of energy from conventional sources. This “energy crisis” promises to be with us for some time to come unless we change our way of life and in addition develop new sources of energy. The energy crisis is spurring the development of several new energy have been considered including heating and cooling of homes, domestic hot water heating, drying of agricultural products and many more. The economic feasibility of a solar system depends upon how well the system perform in the particular location in which it is to be …

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Attitude Changes In College Women Resulting From A Four Year Program In Child Development And Family Relations, Judy Youngbauer Branum Jan 1977

Attitude Changes In College Women Resulting From A Four Year Program In Child Development And Family Relations, Judy Youngbauer Branum

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The purpose of the study was to determine the attitude changes in females resulting from the four year Child Development and Family Relations (CDFR) program at South Dakota State University. If this program of study has an effect upon students’ attitudes, then there should be measurable differences between the attitudes of students beginning the CDFR program and the attitudes of those finishing the CDFR program. In order to demonstrate that a change in attitudes was due to this particular program, it was necessary that beginning and graduating students in other programs of study be tested and used as comparative groups.

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The Fate Of Nitrogen In Wastewater Applied To Rapid Infiltration-Percolation Basins, John Peter Dickinson Jan 1977

The Fate Of Nitrogen In Wastewater Applied To Rapid Infiltration-Percolation Basins, John Peter Dickinson

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The objectives of the work presented herein were to determine: 1. Changes in nitrogen species within the wastewater resulting from rapid infiltration-percolation and 2. Effects of both basin vegetative cover versus scarified surface and differential hydraulic loading rates on the nitrogen species within the effluent discharged from the pilot units.

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Control Of Phomopsis Blight Of Eastern Redcedar With Benomyl, Douglas J. Fiedler Jan 1977

Control Of Phomopsis Blight Of Eastern Redcedar With Benomyl, Douglas J. Fiedler

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Control of Phomopsis blight (P. juniperovora) of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) with benomyl was investigated using potted seedlings in a greenhouse. Benomyl sprays and drenches did not prevent infection. However, three pre-inoculation foliar sprays (600 ppm a.i.) applied at weekly intervals followed by three post-inoculation sprays gave significant control of disease progression. Benomyl drenches of 0, 6.5, 13, 40, 80, 160, 320 and 640 mg/liter pot resulted in significant blight control with the 40 to 640 mg treatments. Thin layer chromatography coupled with Penicillium bioassay determined that 3 μg of benomyl (MBC)/g plant tissue (fresh weight) was the minimal concentration …

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Inheritance Of Regrowth And Other Characters In Smooth Bromegrass, Geprge Lance Holborn Jan 1977

Inheritance Of Regrowth And Other Characters In Smooth Bromegrass, Geprge Lance Holborn

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Land utilization is becoming increasingly important; farmers and ranchers are continually striving to produce more from production sites and to realize some production from their presently non-productive areas. Progress in this direction must be forthcoming in all areas of agriculture. In the case of cool-season grass species, growth takes place in the spring and fall of the year. With the exceptions of the cool-season grass species, orchardgrass, Dactylis glomerata L., little if any mid-summer growth is produced. Orchardgrass, however, is not winter-hardy or very productive under dryland conditions in South Dakota. Currently, there are no cool-season grass varieties recommended to …

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Use Of Municipal Water Quality Data To Estimate Suitability Of Lagoon Effluents For Irrigation, Dale Allen Johnson Jan 1977

Use Of Municipal Water Quality Data To Estimate Suitability Of Lagoon Effluents For Irrigation, Dale Allen Johnson

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There are approximately 184 lagoon systems in South Dakota used to treatment of municipal waste water (4). The water quality of these lagoon systems was not available due to lack of samplings. An investigation was initiated by David Odens to determine the suitability of some of these lagoon systems for irrigation. The objectives of Odens’ investigation were as follows: “1. To evaluate the suitability of lagoon effluents for irrigation on the basis of probable water quality, 2. To classify these waters with respect to their suitability for irrigation, and 3. To estimate the quantity of lagoon effluent available for irrigation …

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