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Circular No. 61 - Rules And Regulations For The Third Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest, Byron Alder

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This contest is located on a part of the Utah Agricultural College Farm near the experimental poultry yards. It is managed by the Poultry Department with an experienced poultry raiser in direct charge of the feeding and care ,of the hens in the contest. The buildings, grounds, and fences were built and furnished by the Experiment Station.

Circular No. 60 - Seed-Potato Treatment: For The Control Of Four Common Diseases Rhizoctonia, Scab, Blackleg, Dry-Rot, B. L. Richards

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Potato diseases are a constant menace to the Utah potato crop. During the 4-year period from 1920 to 1924 losses sustained from disease averaged 19.5 per cent, or approximately one-fifth of the entire state crop. This means that every year a large percentage of the seed planted is useless and that one-fifth of every acre planted to potatoes is wasted. Again, labor in the way of planting and in cultivation is used to poor advantage, and finally the grower suffers a direct financial loss which frequently eats up his expected profit.

Circular No. 59 - Control Of Stinking Smut Of Wheat With Copper Carbonate, B. L. Richards, A. F. Bracken

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Stinking smut or bunt of wheat is an ever-present and destructive disease in the wheat fields of Utah. During the past season (1925) this disease was especially prevalent, causing losses in certain fields of from 25 to 50 per cent, not counting the loss to the grower in reduced grade of grain. In the threshing of smutty wheat there is also the risk of loss from smut explosion. Almost every season cases of this sort are reported. In addition of all of the wheat tested by the U. S. Grain Inspector at Logan for Northern Utah and Southern Idaho 30 …

Circular No. 58 - Potato Production In Utah, George Stewart

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Potatoes were the first crop planted in Utah. In July 1847, the Mormon pioneers turned the water from City Creek over the parched land near what is now the center of Salt Lake City. The ground was then broken and sown at once to potatoes. Only a small yield was obtained but this helped materially to eke out the meagre food supply until the harvest of 1848. During the several hard years that followed potatoes were among the most important foods for the pioneer settlers. Since then they have held a prominent place in the agriculture of the state.

Circular No. 57 - Economy In Harvesting Sugar-Beets, George Stewart

UAES Circulars

During sugar-beet harvest the farmer has two big opportunities to increase his income from the beet crop. No great amount of extra labor is entailed in either case, and yet the profits are written in large figures. To neglect getting the most from beets at harvest time after a toilsome and expensive production seems wasteful. Farmers are urged to give full consideration to these two phases of beet harvest: (1) The making of beet-top silage from fresh beet tops. Large yields of good quality feed may thus be secured. (2) The preventing of losses in tonnage due to evaporation. Poor …

Circular No. 56 - Summary Of Publications

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Circular No. 56 contains summaries of publications of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station' issued since September, 1924. The publications of this Station are no longer sent to a general mailing list (except in case of libraries) but are sent only on request. Therefore, copies of any of the publications listed will be sent without charge to those requesting them as long as the supply is available. However, in case of abstracts of scientific and technical papers the supply is very limited and the requests for these should be limited as far as possible only to those who are especially …

Circular No. 55 - Rules And Regulations For The Second Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest, Byron Alder

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The support given the first Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest by the poultry breeders of this section and the very unusual records obtained during this contest to date seem to justify this announcement of the rules and regulations for the second contest to begin November 1, 1925. The contest is located on a part of the Utah Agricultural College Farm near the experimental poultry yards. It is managed by the Poultry Department with an experienced poultry raiser in direct charge of the feeding and care of the hens in the contest. The buildings, grounds, and fences were built and furnished by …

Bulletin No. 194 - The Influence Of Storage On The Composition Of Flour, J. E. Greaves, C. T. Hirst

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There is quite a general belief among millers, bakers, and the laity that flour improves on ageing. However, there is no definite information as to the time requisite for this improvement nor whether it reaches a maximum and then deteriorates. The information is no more exact as to the changes which occur during the ageing process or the conditions which govern them. We have found no reference in the literature where bad effects have resulted from storage, provided a highly-milled, sound flour is stored in dry, well-ventilated rooms free from odors (20). The results which have been reported point to …

Circular No. 54 - The More Important Insects Injurious To The Sugar-Beet In Utah, I. M. Hawley

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Insects destroy many sugar-beets in Utah. In some years the incomes of the farmers of the state are greatly reduced because of the ravages of these pests. This circular has been written in the hope that the more important information about the insect pests of this valuable crop may be more readily available to the beet growers of the state.

The insects treated in this paper are grouped under two main heads. In the first division are included those insects affecting the tops or foliage of the beet. In the second division are those insects that feed on the roots.

Bulletin No. 193 - Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1, William Peterson, G. D. Clyde, D. S. Jennings, M. D. Thomas, Karl Harris

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Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1 lies on the west side of the valley about eight miles from and a little northwest of Logan, Cache County, Utah. Figure 1 shows the location of the project with respect to Salt Lake, Ogden, Brigham City, Logan, and Cache County. Cache County, with a population in 1920 of 27,000 people, is located in the north-central part of the state and occupies the greater part of the fertile Cache Valley. Cache County Water Conservation District No.1 includes 8490.78 acres (of which 7373.38 acres are allotted water) and extends from Bear River and its …

Bulletin No. 192 - Biennial Report Of The Director: For The Years 1923 And 1924

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No report (either annual or biennial) of the work of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station has been published separately since 1906. There has been so much inquiry regarding the present status of research projects that a brief report at this time is considered opportune. The report is an attempt to give the reader a brief but concise and comprehensive survey of the research work now under way at the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station as well as a brief description of the work being attempted on each of the experimental farms.

Circular No. 53 - Summary Of Publications

UAES Circulars

This circular contains summaries of the publications of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station issued since September 1923. The publications of this Station are no longer sent to a general mailing list (except in the case of libraries) but are sent only on request. Therefore, copies of any of the publications listed will be sent without charge to those requesting them as long as the supply is available.

Bulletin No. 189 - Ridding The Land Of Wild Morning Glory, George Stewart, D. W. Pittman

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"Morning glory" is the common name for one of the worst weeds found in Utah. On account of its general resemblance to a cultivated plant spoken of as morning glory, the weed is frequently and more correctly known as the "wild morning glory." Since everyone who handles farm land knows the plant, a description of it is unnecessary. It may not be amiss, however, to mention that the name probably comes from the fact that the showy, funnel-shaped flowers are open only in the morning, being folded within the sepals after midday or earlier in hot, dry weather.

Bulletin No. 190 - Corn Silage In A Dairy Ration, W. E. Carroll

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In 1914 a study of the value of corn silage in the dairy ration was undertaken at this station. The first phase of the general question to receive attention was the effect of adding silage to a basal ration of alfalfa hay and grain.

Circular No. 52 - Rules And Regulations For The Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest, Byron Alder

UAES Circulars

The contest will be located on a part of the Utah Agricultural College Farm near the experimental poultry yards. It will be managed by the Poultry Department with an experienced poultry raiser in direct charge of the feeding and care of the hens in the contest. It is hoped that the entry fee and the sale of eggs will pay for the expense of the contest. The buildings, ground, and fences will be built and furnished by the college.

Bulletin No. 188 - Maintaining The Productivity Of Irrigated Land, D. W. Pittman

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It is almost universal history that in farming a newly developed region no attention whatever is paid to maintaining the fertility of the soil. This is natural for two very obvious reasons. In the first place the pioneer has other and more pressing problems in the "subduing" of the new land, and in the second place such virgin soils are generally blessed with a great abundance of native fertility. New lands in an arid or semiarid region are usually especially fertile because they represent a long-time accumulation of fertility which is not possible under humid conditions. Since in a humid …

Circular No. 51 - Foot-And-Mouth Disease, H. J. Frederick

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The following is printed that the seriousness of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak might be apparent to the farmers and ranchmen of Utah, that the importance of the quarantine regulations might be emphasized, that precautionary methods might be adopted by each individual concerned, that the disease might be recognized should it occur, and that each stock man of the state might see the importance of immediately reporting to the State Veterinarian or to a veterinarian in his locality or to the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station.

Circular No. 50 - Brooding And Feeding Chicks, Byron Alder

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Raising baby chicks seems a comparatively simple matter to some, yet there are more failures in poultry-keeping due to inability to raise good, vigorous pullets than to any other one cause. The number of eggs produced, the size of the eggs (within certain limits), and the profit made from a flock of hens is often determined very largely by the success in brooding the chicks and developing the pullets into strong, vigorous hens. Many who try to raise chicks are not successful because they fail to realize that a baby chick is a "real baby". They cannot survive with careless …

Circular No. 49 - This Public Domain Of Ours, George Stewart

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In Utah are somewhat more than fifty-two and a half million acres of land. Of this about five million acres are in farms, but only 1,371,000 acres, or 2.6 per cent, are irrigated. In addition there are about 344,000 acres under dry-farm culture, making a total of 1,715,000 acres of improved land. This leaves all of Utah's fifty-two and a half million acres, except about 3.5 per cent, to be utilized by some means other than crop-growing. There will be some addition of new lands not in farms and some development in unimproved farm lands, but when every development that …

Bulletin 119 - Take-All Of Wheat And Similar Diseases Of Cereals, W. M. Carne, J. G.C. Campbell

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This important disease, known also as Footrot, Blackleg, and Whiteheads, affects wheat principally, but also occurs on barley, rye, and certain grasses. In a very few instances it has been known to attack oats, but this is so rare that oats may be regarded for practical purposes as free from attack. Of the grasses attacked the most important, from a farming point of view in Western Australia, are Bailey Grass (Hordeum murinum), Silver Grass (Festuca bromoides and F. myuros), and the so-called Spear grasses (Bromus spp.). These annual grasses are very common in the wheat belt.

Bulletin 121 - Mildew, Septoria, Leaf Spots And Similar Diseases Of Cereals, W. M. Carne, J. G. C. Campbell

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Mildew attacks all the cereals as well as many grasses. but as in black stem rust the fungus has developed specialised races, one attacking wheat, another barley, another rye and so on, so that the form attacking wheat will not attack oats, etc

Control Of Flowering In Teosinte: Short-Day Treatment Brings Early Flowers, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Attempts to force teosinte into flower in mid-summer, in order to facilitate hybridizing it with maize, have afforded considerable information concerning the flowering time of teosinte under diverse conditions. The possibility that some of this information may be of use to others suggests its publication. The paper is, therefore, to be considered as a help in the technique of teosinte and maize hybridization rather than a contribution ~to the solution of the physiological problems involved.

A Genetic View Of Sex Expression In The Flowering Plants, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

It seems a conservative statement to say that studies

of the past twenty years among animal forms have

tended increasingly to link the phenomena of sex inheritance

with the behavior of chromosomes. To this

result, cytology and genetics have contributed perhaps

almost equally. The number of forms in which

one sex is known to have a morphologically different

chromosome complex from the other sex are many.

That, with respect to the chromosomes, the female of

certain forms produces gametes of a single kind,

whereas the male produces two kinds, and that in

turn an egg fertilized by one kind of …

Size And Structure Of Leaves Of Cereals In Relation To Climate, William Edward Bruner, John E. Weaver

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

Although a very large amount of work has been done on the variation in form, size, and anatomical structure of native plants grown under different conditions, relatively little attention has been given to similar studies of crop plants. As far as we are able to ascertain, no investigations have been made of variation in the leaves of cereal crops grown under widely different, measured environments.

During the past few years (1920-23), in connection with studies on the development and activities of the roots of crop plants (Weaver, Jean, and Crist, 1922), plant production as a measure of environment (Weaver, 1924), …

Circular No. 48 - Rural Credits In Utah, E. B. Brossard

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The subject of rural credits is of interest to farmers, bankers, investors, and all others concerned about public welfare. This circular is written for the purpose of giving general information about agricultural credit conditions existing at the present time, with special reference to mortgage credit in Utah and the Federal Farm Loan System as now amended. The passage of the Federal Intermediate Credits Act, approved March 4, 1923 makes this an opportune time to check up on the situation.

Bulletin No. 186 - Irrigation Experiments With Sugar Beets, F. S. Harris, D. W. Pittman

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A previous bulletin of this station gives the results of an experiment on the irrigation of sugar-beets continuing for five years. Since this experiment was deemed of sufficient importance to merit our best attention and since the climatic conditions which largely determine what is the best irrigation practice may not for so short a period properly represent the average of the community, it was thought advisable to continue the experiment, with certain modifications, for an additional five years. This bulletin reports the results of these last 5-years' work together with such general conclusions as can be drawn from the entire …

Bulletin No. 187 - Irrigation Experiments With Potatoes, F. S. Harris, D. W. Pittman

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In a previous bulletin of this station are given the results of an experiment on different irrigation treatments of potatoes continued for five years. In view of the importance of the potato crop and of the importance of having it properly irrigated it was considered advisable to continue the experiment, with certain modifications based on experience, for a further period of five years. This total period of ten years should include most of the climatic variations which are common in this locality, and by eliminating the more unsatisfactory irrigation systems a closer approximation to the best system should be found. …

Bulletin No. 185 - The Influence Of Nitrogen In Soil On Azofication, J. E. Greaves, D. H. Nelson

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Many soils of the arid west have a rich active azofying flora. This is due in no small measure to their composition. They are high in calcium and magnesium carbonate and contain a good supply of available phosphorus and potassium but have a low nitrogen content. They are poor in organic carbon; hence, their native supply of energy is limited. It is well-known that a liberal supply of rapidly decaying organic matter is beneficial, and this is being supplied to some soils in the form of manures. This will increase the nitrogen content of the soil. What effect will this …

Bulletin No. 184 - A Farm-Management Study Of The Great Salt Lake Valley, George Stewart

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This survey had for its purpose the study of farm organization in Great Salt Lake Valley. It is hoped that some conclusions may have been reached as to how to improve farming conditions. The records were taken during the summer of 1915 and consequently represent the farm business for 1914. Ordinarily the period of time that has elapsed since the records were taken would be too long to justify their being published. In view of the fact, however, that the World War began in 1914 and that its effects on the prices of farm products lasted until 1921, it is …

Bulletin 115 - The Value Of Windmills For Pumping Water In Western Australia, A. H. Scott

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It is surprising to note the dearth of up-to-date reliable information dealing with actual results of modern windmills, under working conditions, though literature on thousands of other subjects less important can usually be obtained.

In this bulletin there is presented a complete and accurate record of the amount of water pumped daily by a windmill, under actual working conditions, for a period of 14 months.