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Bulletin No. 302 - Nutritional Inadequacy Of Beet Molasses Rations For Swine, Russel A. Rasmussen, Harry H. Smith, Ralph W. Phillips, Ton J. Cunha

UAES Bulletins

The feeding of large amounts of beet molasses to young hogs causes a condition that is characterized by a wobbly gait, and that is frequently fatal. Hog raisers have apparently recognized this condition for a number of years, since a number of farmers have reported it in their animals. Some farmers have also reported breeding failures and abortions when beet molasses was fed to brood sows. Consequently, beet molasses has not been considered a good hog feed by Utah raisers.

Beet molasses is a relatively cheap source of carbohydrates and could be used advantageously in pork production if the cause …

Vegetation Of The Northern Part Of Cherry County, Nebraska, William L. Tolstead

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Agricultural practices in the Great Plains of North America are now in a period of adjustment from a traditional agriculture initiated by pioneer farmers to a grazing economy based upon potentialities of climate and soil. The attainment of a proper system of land use has been retarded in many localities by the lack of definite information concerning the vegetation and its indicator significance. In this study of the vegetation of Cherry County, Nebraska, the interrelations between the plants and their environments are discussed, the dominant species are described, and changes in grasslands caused by seasons, grazing, and climatic cycles are …

Role Of Seedlings In Recovery Of Midwestern Ranges From Drought, J. E. Weaver, Irene Mueller

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

An extensive survey of the degree of deterioration of midwestern ranges was made in 1939 (Weaver and Albertson, '40). Decreases in the basal cover of the grasses from extreme drought, overstocking, and damage by dust were appalling. Basal cover of the native grass had decreased to 1 percent in one-fourth of the ranges examined and it was 21 percent or more in only 16 percent. Little, if any, improvement occurred during the following year; instead certain large areas suffered distinct losses as a result of severe late summer drought. The perennial grasses over large areas in southwestern Kansas, for example, …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, June 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 6

The Cliff Swallow, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Damage to Young Trees, F.I. Rockwell
Questions and Answers, S.A. McCrory
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Growing the Pasque, C.A. Barr
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Fruit and Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Letter From Nebraska, Otto Pfeiffer

Alfalfa Breeding, H. M. Tysdal, T. A. Kiesselbach, H. M. Westover

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Interest in the principles of alfalfa breeding has increased greatly with the growing "forage consciousness" of the country at large and the more specific interest developed through cooperation in the Alfalfa Improvement Conference. As is true of many other forage crops, information on the breeding behavior of alfalfa is meager. During the past few years, however, the genetics and principles of reproduction of this crop have come to be better understood and it is the purpose of this paper to bring together the available information pertaining to the improvement of alfalfa and to add certain suggestions with respect to future …

Bulletin No. 301 - Economic Analysis Of The Weber Central Dairy Association, Walter U. Fuhriman, Harold H. Culter, W. Preston Thomas

UAES Bulletins

At the request of the dairymen in the Ogden milk shed the Department of Agricultural Economics, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, made an analysis of 162 dairy farms in the Ogden area for the years 1937, 1938 and 1939. The study covered the entire farm business and a detailed analysis of the dairy enterprise.

Since production of dairy products is closely associated with, and is affected by, the marketing institutions which provide outlets for these products, an analysis of marketing phases was made through a study of Weber Central Dairy Association , one of the larger dairies of the area . …

Leoti For Starch, R. L. Cushing

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The popular forage crop, Leoti sorghum, has possibilities of becoming an important special purpose grain crop for industrial utilization. Investigations of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry have shown that starch manufactured from the waxy grain of this variety has properties similar to those of tapioca starch. Tapioca starch, made from the roots of the cassava plant, has been imported by the United States to the extent of 175,000 tons annually. The chief source of supply, the Dutch East Indies, has been eliminated by the war, and domestic substitutes are being urgently sought by the industry. This type of starch is …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, May 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 5

The Shoveller, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba Newsletter, W.R. Leslie
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Victory Gardens, F.I. Rockwell
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley

A Study Of Origins And Ecological Features Of Hardy, Cultivated, Herbaceous Plants Of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dorothy Elaine Witheck

Bachelors’ Theses

Gardeners have always been interested in herbaceous plants, chiefly because of their beauty and usefulness. As a result of the great popularity, a large number of attractive varieties have been produced through centuries of' cultivation, selection and breeding. Very early agricultural and medical demands stimulated an interest in the plants, and as early as 372-287 B.C. Theophrastus, a pupil of Aristotle, described about 460 cultivated plants and classified them as herbs, undershrubs, shrubs and trees. Much of the work accomplished by the ancient Greeks was lost and it was not until the sixteenth century that renewed enthusiasm for the study …

The Influence Of Some Alkali Salts In The Presence Of Various Concentrations Of Calcium On The Growth Of Sporobolus Cryptandrus, Vaughn A. Clayton

Theses and Dissertations

This study deals with the reactions of Sporobolus cryptandrus to various concentrations of Utah's most common alkali salts. Its purpose is to determine the effects of various concentrations of sodium chloride, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulphate on the growth and fruiting of Sporobolus cryptandrus, and to determine to what extent, if any, various levels of calcium exert a protective influence against the toxicity of these three salts. In addition to the experimental work a field of study was conducted for the purpose of determining the concentrations of total salts found in soils supporting a good growth of Sporobolus cryptandrus.

Competition Of Western Wheat Grass With Relict Vegetation Of Prairie, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Many profound changes in mid-continental grasslands have resulted from the recent extended drought. In the prairies of eastern Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota, the earlier continuous stands of bluestem (Andropogon scoparius and A. furcatus) have often been greatly fragmented and now occur as relict patches a few square feet to many square rods in extent. Loss of approximately 95 per cent of little bluestem has left the prairie cover very open. Over large areas, except for weeds and a few surviving grasses and forbs, the soil was bared (Weaver, Stoddart and Noll, 1935; Weaver and Albertson, 1939). Grasses …

Stem Blight Of Alfalfa In Utah: A Complex Of Two Distinct Diseases, William E. Rader

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In 1908, Sackett described for the first time what appeared to be a new bacterial disease of alfalfa in Colorado. To this particular disease he applied the name “stem blight" and attributed the cause to a bacterium, Pseudomonas medicaginis n. sp. For some two decades or more Sackett's work on this disease was accepted. During this time stem blight, which was first thought to be indigenous to the western United State, was reported from nine states east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1933, Johnson and Valleau described a disease of alfalfa, characterized by stem lesions very similar in appearance to …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, April 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 4

The Gadwall, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Book Reviews, F.X. Wallner
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons

Plant Diseases Common, Destructive, Preventable In South Dakota, W.F. Buckhholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Plant Pathology Pamphlets (1942-1962)

Abundant agricultural production is a victory goal and in South Dakota is based on an abundance of feed, forage and cash field crops and an adequate home vegetable and fruit supply. On the other hand, soil conservation and the maintenance of South Dakota’s agricultural productivity depends on a practice of moderate rather than wholesale over-cropping of cultivated land. Shortages of labor and machinery place a definite limit on the amount of really good farming that can be done it South Dakota for the duration of the war. One of the ways to insure maximum crop production from a minimum of …

The Relations Of Vegetative Composition And Cattle Grazing On Nebraska Range Land, T. E. Brinegar, F. D. Keim

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The objectives of the studies reported in this paper were: (1) to obtain an analysis of the vegetation in tall and short grass range lands, (2) to observe the activities of cattle on the range, and (3) to determine the effects of grazing upon vegetation.

North And South Dakota Horticulture, March 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 3

The Herring Gull, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Save the Pembina, C.H. Bryant
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Letter from New Hampshire, Dr. A.F. Yeager
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, .F.X. Wallner
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley

Sorghum Smut Control By Seed Treatment, W.F. Buckhholtz

Agricultural Experiment Station Plant Pathology Pamphlets (1942-1962)

Sorghum smut is the black sooty degeneration of all the kernels of the sorghum ear. The ear is lost for feed in grain sorghum and smutted oars in forage result in lowered nutritive value and palatability of the fodder. It is estimated that 5-10 percent of the sorghum grown in South Dakota farmers will probably plant nearly 2,000,000 acres of sorghum, probably plant nearly 500,000 acres for grain. The grain loss from smut will probably fall between 250,000 and 500,000 bushels and the total loss at least a million bushels of feed. The loss is entirely and easily preventable. Treatment …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, February 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 2

The Long-eared Owl, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Premium List
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
The Apple, Dr. J.H. Kellogg

North And South Dakota Horticulture, January 1942, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 15, Number 1

The Goshawk, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
More About Tulips, T.W. Hobart
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
President's Corner, G.W. Gurney
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley

Bulletin No. 306 - Report Of The Agricultural Experiment Station Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, R. H. Walker

UAES Bulletins

The agricultural experiment stations have contributed in a very material way to the progress of agriculture in the United States not only by the development of better crops and livestock and production practices, but, through basic research on the many and varied problems of agriculture, they have furnished an understanding of those principles upon which progress must depend.

The permanent value of these research centers to the progress of agriculture is no better illustrated than in the present emergency. The ability of farmers to meet the tremendous additional contributions to defense in the way of increased food supplies is dependent …

History Of The Native Vegetation Of Western Kansas During Seven Years Of Continuous Drought, F. W. Albertson, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

When the pioneers came from the East to make new homes in the Great Plains region, they found a dense cover of native vegetation. It was disturbed only by buffaloes, prairie dogs, other plains animals, Indians, and prairie fires. The Federal Government required that a certain amount of land be broken and put under cultivation, whether the land was obtained as a homestead or as a timber claim (McArdle and Costello, 1936).

The practice of the settlers was to break up a small tract of the prairie on which they could grow enough winter feed to sustain their cattle, horses, …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, December 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 12

The Brown Creeper, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
50 years with Tulips, T.W. Hobart
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Index to Vol. XIV

Bulletin No. 300 - A Study Of Farm Organization By Type Of Farm In Sanpete And Sevier Counties, W. Preston Thomas, George T. Blanch, Edith Hayball

UAES Bulletins

This study is one of a series being conducted by the Department of Agricultural Economics which are designed to furnish a general description and a detailed analysis of the type of farming in various parts of Utah. The specific purpose of the general state-wide study is to: (1) locate and delineate the major type-of-farming areas of the state; (2) analyze and describe the major and some minor types of farming within each area; and (3) indicate the fundamental reasons for the principal differences which exist within and among these type-of-farming areas.

Upon the completion of the first part of the …

North And South Dakota Horticulture, November 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 11

The Red-breasted Nuthatch, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
Garden Lily Problem, Victor H. Ries
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley and W.R. Simmons
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Fall Program for Lawns, The Master Gardener
Fruit & Vegetable
Notes, F.X. Wallner

Spiranthes Cernua (L.) Rich., John Mccree Jr.

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Bulletin No. 4: The Connecticut Arboretum, Its Tenth Anniversary, George S. Avery

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

North And South Dakota Horticulture, October 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 10

The Loon, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
President's Corner, Geo W. Gurney
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Beebe's Philosophy, H.E. Beebe
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner

North And South Dakota Horticulture, September 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 9

Eared & Horned Grebes, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
President's Corner, H.E. Beebe
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Book Review, Mrs. E.W. Gould
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory
Dormant Lawn Seeding

North And South Dakota Horticulture, August 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 8

The Pied-billed Grebe, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
President's Corner, H.E. Beebe
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
Midsummer Care of Roses
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
August Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley
Questions & Answers, S.A. McCrory

North And South Dakota Horticulture, July 1941, North And South Dakota State Horticultural Societies

North and South Dakota Horticulture

Volume 14, Number 7

The Least Flycatcher, O.A. Stevens
Newslants, H.A. Graves
Manitoba News Letter, W.R. Leslie
President's Corner, H.E. Beebe
Loss of Chinese Elm, F.I. Rockwell
Secretary's Corner, W.A. Simmons
Fruit & Vegetable Notes, F.X. Wallner
July Garden Notes, W.E.H. Porter
Book Reviews, Mrs. F. Briley