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Echinococcus From Dogs In Pretoria And Vicinity, R. J. Ortlepp

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Discusses the discovery of Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch, 1786), Rud., 1805; Echinococcus cameroni n. sp. syn. E. granulosus of Cameron, 1926, from Vulpes vulpes; not E. granulosus (Batsch) Rud. 1805; and Echinococcus lycaontis sp. n. from stray dogs in Pretori, South Africa.

Effects Of Inflation And Deflation Upon Nebraska Agriculture, 1914 To 1932, H. Clyde Filley

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

This study attempts to give the effects of war-time inflation and the subsequent deflation upon Nebraska agriculture. It presents statistical evidence of what happened. It is too late to prevent the present depression. Information concerning the situation may aid in promoting recovery. It is hoped that a knowledge of the inflation of 1916 to 1920 and the depression following may aid in avoiding the making of similar errors in the future.

History Of Farm Land Prices In Eleven Nebraska Counties 1873-1933, Eleanor H. Hinman

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The subject of farm land price is intimately intertwined with the economic and social welfare of farm people, and even with the financial structure of the nation. A detailed, year-by-year record of farm land sales and prices from several typical Nebraska farming areas over a 61-year period may throw light on the behavior of land values in the counties studied and in similar farming areas, and may help towards supplying a better basis for land price analysis and forecasting than now exists. This bulletin presents such a record for 11 Nebraska counties. It is based on 76,544 true sales of …

A New Giant Camel, Titanotylopus Nebraskensis, Gen. Et Sp. Nov., Erwin H. Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The purpose of this bulletin is to figure and describe a .amel brought to light in the field season of 1933, which seems to be the giant of all camels found in the State. The specimen consists of the right ramus with the symphysial portion. The mandible is 26% inches long, or about the length of one's outstretched arm to the finger tips. This jaw is nine inches longer than that of Camelops kansanus. Such an extraordinary jaw indicates a camel nearly twice as large as Alticamelus altus. In reference to its unusual size we are proposing for it the …

A New Rhinoceros Mount, Trigonias Osborni, Erwin H. Barbour

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

On February 9, 1934, a pair of rhinoceroses, Trigonias osborni, was installed in the Founder's Room in Morrill Hall, the Nebraska State Museum. They are figured and accorded brief consideration here in order to maintain the printed records of such acquisitions in the Nebraska State Museum. The two skeletons, carefully posed, were put in the south wall case to be associated with a pair of Diceratherium from Morrill County. and the mounted skeletons of two Brown County Te leo ceras. In this gallery two long built-in wall cases insure ample facilities for the proper installation of six rhinoceroses, for each …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1934) 2(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Notes on Some Logan County Birds. By Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Glandon ........................................31

General Notes ........................................... 37

Editorial Page .......................................... 40

The 1934 Migration Season ............................... 42

Here and There with the N. O. U. Members ................. 51

Principal Ornithological Organizations of the United States .. 52

The Prairie, J. E. Weaver, T. J. Fitzpatrick

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

This research is the third of a series of investigations of the prairie. The first dealt with the environment of the prairie (Weaver and Himmel, 1931). The second was concerned with the ecology and relative importance of the dominant grasses (Weaver and Fitzpatrick, 1932). The present study treats of the structure of the vegetation in the several types of prairie, the secondary grasses, the ecology of the forbs, together with a general survey of contacts, invasion, and succession. These investigations have resulted from years of intimate association with the great grasslands of North America. They were made in an endeavor …

A New Ovibovine, Symbos Convexifrons, Sp. Nov., Erwin H. Barbour

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

In Bulletin 25, entitled The Musk-oxen of Nebraska, the writer figured and briefly catalogued the ovibovines of this State as known at that date. In the meantime an interesting new form unlike that of any species falling within our experience presents itself from the Pleistocene of Cherry County, Nebraska. The new specimen cannot be assigned a place in any of the four following genera: Preptoceras, Euceratherium, Ovibos, or Bootherium, but may possibly be referable to the genus Symbos, to which we are assigning it provisionally. It is so unlike Symbos, however, that it may be a distinct genus. …

Some Digenetic Trematodes From Deep-Water Fish Of Tortugas, Florida, Harold W. Manter

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Introduction (first two paragraphs)

The parasitic fauna of ocean depths is practically unknown. Although an extensive fish population occurs at all depths, very little study has yet been made on the helminths of these fish. During the summers of 1930, 1931, and 1932 excellent opportunity was offered for the collection of parasites from fish trawled from depths varying from 40 to 582 fathoms at Tortugas, Florida. A considerable number of systematic hauls by the staff and crew of the Tortugas Biological Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington yielded an abundance and considerable variety of fish, some of rare forms, …

Annual Report: 1934

Cherry County (Nebraska) Extension: Historical Documents

At the close of the year, the Extension Organization is found to be operating cooperatively through the following groups, namely: Cherry County Board of Commissioners; A.A.A. Wheat Control Association; A.A.A. Corn-Hog Control Association; Cherry County Drouth Committee, including a farm credit committee; and the A.A.A. Cattle Buying Organization.

Most of the work during 1934 concerned itself with the development of the A.A.A. Corn Hog program and later the Emergency Drouth Relief Activities. The first five months were spent, mainly, in developing the Corn-Hog organization. the period from June to the close of the year was given mainly to Drouth Relief, …

Rb34-6 The Relation Of Drouth To Water-Use In Nebraska, G.E. Condra

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Three severe drouths have occurred in Nebraska and adjacent states within the past eighty years, and less severe ones have come at moderately regular intervals. Their influence on the agricultural development of the state is well known, but their relation to water supply in general is not so well understood.

This research bulletin is a brief review of the relation of drouth to soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater supplies.

Cephalosporium Wilt And Die-Back Of The White Elm, R. W. Goss, Paul Raymond Frink

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

A new disease of the white elm has been found to be common in eastern Nebraska. The causal organism has been isolated and its pathogenicity proved by inoculation. The fungus belongs to the genus Cephalosporium and is considered to be the same as that described by Curtis May of Ohio and found by him in specimens obtained in Iowa, Missouri, New York, and Washington, D.C. The morphology and cultural characters of the organism are described.

Forty-Seventh Annual Report Of The Agricultural Experiment Station Of Nebraska February 1, 1934, W.W. Burr

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

This report is for the most part a record of the achievements of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933. The reports from the substations extend to January 1, 1934. A financial statement showing the receipts and expenditures of the Experiment Station is included.

The projects are grouped and discussed under subject headings. Little or no progress has been made on some projects, while others, on which attention has been concentrated, have been advanced rapidly or completed. Curtailment of appropriations and a reduction in cash funds due to the low prices of agricultural products …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (January 1934) 2(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Twenty-one Years of Bird Study at Red Cloud, Nebraska. By J. M. Bates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

General Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5

Editorial Page..... . . …

The Nebraska Meteor And Meteorite Of August 8, 1933, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

At approximately 10:30 a. m., mountain standard time, on August 8, 1933, a large meteor, traveling in a westerly direction, exploded over the panhandle of Nebraska. The phenomenon was witnessed by many citizens throughout the region, and by a number of students from the University of Nebraska, who were engaged at the time in palaeontological field work in northwestern Nebraska .

A Mounted Skeleton Of Megabelodon Lulli, Erwin Hinckley Barbour

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A skeleton of Megabelodon lulli, partly composite, was mounted in the laboratory May 31, 1933, and was formally installed and placed on exhibition in Elephant Hall, June 7, 1933.

Ec34-48 Farm Sheep Facts, M.A. Alexander, W.W. Derrick

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The farm flock and the fattening of western feeder lambs are the only methods of sheep production of importance in Nebraska. The farm flock is not a major enterprise on Nebraska farms. It serves as a side line on farms having a well-drained place which sheep may call their own.

This 1934 extension circular contains information on: Nebraska Sheep-industry facts; market, ewe, ram, and lamb facts; shearing and wool facts; two parasites and one pest; grading and marketing wool; and scouring and carding wool for home use.

Rb34-71 Effects Of Inflation And Deflation Upon Nebraska Agriculture, 1914 To 1932, H. Clyde Filley

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Nebraska farmers prospered during the period which followed the depression of the nineties and preceded the beginning of the World War. To be sure the prosperity was not uniformly distributed either by years or by areas. The corn crop was unusually short in a large portion of the state in 1901 and an almost total failure in many of the southern counties in 1913. Chinch bugs did considerable injury in 1901 and the Hessian fly in 1905 and 1914. There was noticeable damage from insects in some areas in other years. No part of the state, however, suffered from long-continued …

Improving The Farm Environment For Wild Life, Wallace B. Grange, W. L. Mcatee

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

As farms replace virgin lands, whether forest or swamp, marsh or prairie, conditions affecting wild life are revolutionized. Some creatures, especially the larger ones, disappear. Others are benefited, at least during the earlier stages of agriculture, and increase in numbers. This is true of nearly all birds up to the size of the crow and of mammals to that of the rabbit. As agriculture becomes more intensive, however, and woods are cut down, hedgerows eliminated, and rough nooks here and there brought under cultivation, conditions become unfavorable for the smaller forms of wild life.

Uniform mature forest, uniform swamp, or …

Translation By Joseph Szanto Of Kotla'n, Sa'ndor And Pospech, La'szlo'. 1934. A Ha'zinyul Coccidiosisa'nak Ismerete'hez. Egyu'j Eimeria-Faj (Eimeria Piriformis Sp. N.) Ha'zinyulbo'l [= Coccidiosis Of Domestic Rabbit: A New Eimeria Species (Eimeria Piriformis Sp. N.)]. A'Llatorvosi Lapek 57(15): 215-217, Sandor Kotlan, Laszlo Pospech, Joseph Szanto

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Translation number 5, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States, January 19, 1961 (notated JS:d)

Translation by Joseph Szanto of Kotla'n, Sa'ndor and Pospech, La'szlo'. 1934. A ha'zinyul coccidiosisa'nak ismerete'hez. Egyu'j Eimeria-faj (Eimeria piriformis sp. n.) ha'zinyulbo'l [= Coccidiosis of domestic rabbit: A new Eimeria species (Eimeria piriformis sp. n.)]. A'llatorvosi Lapek 57(15): 215-217

Translation by Joseph Szanto of Kotlan, Sandor and Pospech, Laszlo. 1934. A hazinyul coccidiosisanak ismeretehez. Egyuj Eimeria-faj (Eimeria piriformis sp. n.) hazinyulbol [= Coccidiosis of domestic rabbit: A new Eimeria species (Eimeria piriformis sp. n.)]. Allatorvosi Lapek …

The Geology And Mammalian Fauna Of The Pleistocene Of Nebraska Part I Outline Of Pleistocene Geology Of Nebraska Part Ii The Pleistocene Mammals Of Nebraska, A. L. Lugn, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The object of the present paper is to provide a suitable brief statement of the present state of knowledge of the Pleistocene geology of Nebraska, for an adequate understanding of the Pleistocene Mammal list, by Mr. C. Bertrand Schultz, which forms Part II of this report. The "outline" is necessarily brief and does not contain many detailed sections, nor lengthy discussions of controversial points. It is lacking in adequate detailed descriptions of new formations and may not be entirely convincing to many readers. The only excuse which the writer can offer for the shortcomings of the following pages is the …

Relation Of The Differential Fertilization Genes, Ga Ga, To Certain Other Genes Of The Su-Tu Linkage Group Of Maize, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

The Ga, or “gamete” gene of maize can be studied only or principally by its disturbance of normal Mendelian ratios of contrasted characters differentiated by genes linked with it. The amount of this disturbance can be used as a measure of the intensity of linkage between Ga and other genes of the su-Tu group.

Disturbance of the 3:1 ratio of starchy, Su, to sugary, su, endosperm has been most studied. In one of the early papers on Mendelian inheritance, Correns (1902) reported that, although crosses between most starchy and sugary varieties gave an F₂ ratio of …

The Vitamin A Content Of Skimmilk, Standardized Milk, And Cream From Different Breeds Of Cows, I. L. Hathaway, H. P. Davis

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

A study was made of the vitamin A content of skimmilk, of milk standardized by the addition of separated milk, and of cream. Rats whose body stores of vitamin A had been depleted by being fed a vitamin A deficient ration were fed either skimmilk, standardized milk, or cream as a source of vitamin A. Approximately 750 rats were used in nine experiments. From the results of these experiments the following conclusions were drawn: (1) that the vitamin A content of milk is associated largely with the butterfat and that separated milk containing a small quantity of fat contains only …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1933) 1(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Present Status of the Whooping Crane. By Myron H. Swenk ................................. 111

General Notes .................................... 130

Editorial Page ........................................... 136

The 1933 Migration Season ................................ 137

Here and There with the N. O. U. Members: ............... 141

A Brief Synopsis of the Birds of Nebraska. II. Grebes (Colymbidae) .............................. 142

Index .................................................. 152

Advertisement .......................................... 159

Past N. O. U. Officers Other than President ................ 160

Effect Of Frequent Clipping On The Development Of Roots And Tops Of Grasses In Prairie Sod, Harold Biswell, J. E. Weaver

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A study has been made of the regeneration of bluestem grasses in ex- closures in continuously grazed native pastures. The persistence of remnants of the bunches or mats of sod in old pastures for a long period of years is of interest, as is also their gradual but slow rate of recovery under protection when they are greatly weakened. Even in low, fertile, well watered soil, a period of three or four years must elapse before such species as Andropogon furcatus and Sorghastrum nutans produce the usual abundance of flowers stalks and large quantities of viable seed. The first summer …

Farm Mortgage History Of Eleven Southeastern Nebraska Townships 1870-1932, Eleanor H. Hinman, J. O. Rankin

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

It is believed that a study of a complete record of all farm mortgages for a typical although very limited Nebraska farming area from 1870 through 1932 may be of interest (1) as a sample of the farm mortgage history of the western part of the corn belt, (2) as a contribution to analyzing some of the sources of agricultural credit and the use made of them, (3) as an illustration of the relation of farm mortgages to land and commodity prices, farm income, and banking resources, and (4) as an example of the mortgage problems of corn belt farmers …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1933) 1(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Local Bird-Banding. By Susie Callaway ... 59

General Notes ... 61

Editorial Page ... 65

The 1933 Migration Season ... 66

Here and There with the A.O.U. Members ... 79

A Brief Synopsis of the Birds of Nebraska. 1. Loons (Gaviidae) ... 87

Minutes of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting ... 90

Report on the Thirty-first Annual Field Day ... 104

Membership Roll of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union ... 105

Addresses of Retiring Presidents of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union ... 108

White Scours Of Calves, L. Van Es

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

It becomes possible to understand some of the reasons for the occurrence of disorders among the newborn of animals kept under the usual conditions imposed by domestication. Among these, the subject of this circular, White Scours in Calves, occupies a prominent place.

The Relative Susceptibility Of Alfalfas To Wilt, George L. Peltier

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Except for alfalfa seed originating from a few old fields of Turkestan and Ladak, all varieties and strains now grown for commercial seed production in the United States, so far tested, have proved susceptible to wilt. All seed lots tested from South America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Roumania, and Ukranian S.S.R.), Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Abyssinia), and Asia (Palestine, Manchuria, China, Korea, and Chinese Turkestan) were found to be susceptible to wilt. All seed lots of Turkestan origin so far tested are as resistant as Hardistan, or more so. Seed samples from the …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1933) 1(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

A Comparison of the Bird Faunas of the Pampas of Argentina and the Plains of Nebraska. By Lawrence Bruner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

General Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 29

Editorial Page........................................... 36

The 1933 Migration Season ................................ 38

Here and There with the N. O. U. …