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Bulletin No. 252 - Groundwater: Part I: Fundamental Principles Governing Its Physical Control, Willard Gardner, T. R. Collier, Doris Farr

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This article does not purport to present detailed specifications for engineering structures nor to enlighten engineers specifically as to devices or methods appropriate to the control of groundwater. It is the aim rather to discuss fundamental principles and to indicate applications.

Bulletin No. 251 - Apricot Varieties, Francis M. Coe

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While this publication has as its primary purpose the presentation of data as a progress report on the apricot variety testing work of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, study of the apricot varieties being grown in the state and of the literature showed such a confusion of varietal nomenclature in orchards, nurseries, and even in the literature on apricot varieties, that it was considered desirable to review the literature and to describe the varieties at hand more completely than is usual with a report of this kind in the hope that by so doing the apricot variety situation might be …

Bulletin No. 250 - Summary Report Of Progress: July 1, 1932 To June 30, 1934, P. V. Cardon

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During the past biennium various members of the Utah Station Staff have been actively engaged in the national and state recovery and emergency programs. P. V. Cardon, the director, served as a member of the National Advisory Committee, Division of Subsistence Homesteads, Department of the Interior, from November 1, 1933 to April 10, 1934, acting as western representative of that division. Effective April 25, 1934, under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Land-Policy Section, Planning Division, he was appointed Regional Director of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. On April 27, 1934, Professor George D. Clyde, Station Irrigation and Drainage Engineer, …

Bulletin No. 249 - Farm Versus Village Living In Utah, Joseph A. Geddes

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This is the first of a series of bulletins based on a study of Utah village life begun in 1927. The purpose of the investigation was to determine, under prevailing conditions, whether for farm people farm living is less desirable than village living. Four type villages were selected in as many counties for field studies.

Bulletin No. 248 - Results Of Seven Years Of Egg-Laying Contests, Byron Alder

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The Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contests were begun on November 1, 1924, and continued until October 23, 1931. Up until this time the interest in poultry-breeding for egg production in this intermountain section was extremely limited; furthermore, there were few flocks on which trap nest and pedigree breeding records were kept.

The primary object in conducting these contests was to stimulate an interest in the breeding of better poultry. An egg-laying contest makes it possible for the poultry raiser, trying to get started in poultry-breedng work on a limited scale, to obtain accurate individual egg records of some of his pullets …

Bulletin No. 247 - Effect Of Manure And Of Phosphorus Fertilizer On The Yield And Composition Of Alfalfa Hay, D. W. Pittman

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It has frequently been observed by practical stockmen that alfalfa hay produced on poor unproductive land has a much lower feeding value than hay produced on good productive land. Some have also observed that by the use of a supplemental feed rich in phosphorus (such as steamed bone-meal), the feeding value of this poor quality alfalfa hay may be improved, indicating that phosphorus deficiency is at least one cause of its low feeding value.

Bulletin No. 246 - Food Habits Of Rural School Children In Relation To Their Physical Well-Being, Almeda Perry Brown

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A study of school children's diet and of their physical status was made in six rural Utah communities, similar in size, and in social, economic, and physical characteristics.

Bulletin No. 245 - Cherry Pollination Studies In Utah, Francis M. Coe

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The cherry is rapidly becoming Utah's most important fruit crop. According to the 1930 census, there were 110,050 bearing and 114,230 non-bearing cherry trees in Utah orchards. Most of these trees are sweet cherries, the newer plantings consisting mainly of Bing and Lambert trees, although Napoleon predominated in the older plantings.

The problem of pollination is of more importance with the cherry than with other- fruits, because of the large number of individual fruits required to make a crop and because of the self-sterility and intersterility shown by the major commercial sweet varieties.

As has been shown by the investigations …