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The Business Of Farming In Northeastern South Dakota, H. D. Mccollough

SDSU Extension Circulars

How shall one go about it to make money from farming in Northeastern South Dakota? What size of farm is desirable and what combination of crops and livestock will pay best? In an effort to find an answer to these questions and to build up some standards by which the farmers in the Northeastern part of the State might measure their business, the Demonstrator cooperated with the County Agents in Clark and Day Counties, and with the Smith-Hughes Agricultural Instructor at Sisseton, in summarizing 16 farm account books that had been kept by farmers. The averages for these 16 farms …

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

UAES Circulars

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

UAES Circulars

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 …

The Business Of Farming In Southeastern South Dakota, H. D. Mccollough

SDSU Extension Circulars

How shall one go about it to make money from farming in Southeastern South Dakota? What size of farm is desirable and what combination of crops and livestock will pay best? In an effort to find an answer to these questions and to build up some standards by which the farmers in the Southeastern part of the State might measure their business the Demonstrator cooperated with the County Agents in Clay, Minnehaha, Lake and Union Counties, and with the Smith-Hughes Agricultural Instructor at Letcher, in summarizing 21 farm account books that had been kept by farmers. The average for these …

Effect Of Environment On Potato Degeneration Diseases, R. W. Goss

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

During recent years much of the investigational work on the degeneration diseases of the potato has been directed toward the separation and identification of a number of diseases formerly grouped under the general names of mosaic, leaf roll, and "running out". Extensive studies have also been made on methods of transmission, host range, overwintering and the identification of the evasive causal factor. Investigations of this type, however, have progressed slowly because of the necessity of developing new methods of research, because of the complexity of the problem, and because of the lack of knowledge regarding the causal factors. Meanwhile there …

A List Of Nebraska Mosses, Katharine A. Wolfe

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

The present paper is the result of investigations carried on from the spring of 1921 to the present time. Most of the species from Lincoln and Weeping Water, and some from Peru and Platte River, which were new to the state, were collected by the writer, while credit is due to Dr. Elda R. Walker, Miss Leva B. Walker, Miss Dorothy Duff, Miss Julia Joyce Harper, Mr. N. F. Petersen, Mr. S. G. Oyler, and Mr. A. E. Holch for collections from Cherry County, Peru, Platte River, and Plainview, Nebraska.

All identifications, including the specimens originally in the Herbarium of …

The Hemotoxins Of Intestinal Parasites: A Critical Summary With Notes Of Some Cases, Joseph Mellick Leidy Ii

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

The mechanical and reflex disturbances produced by animal parasites in the intestinal canal and other organs of the body have long been recognized by pathologists and clinicians. The researches of economic parasitologists and the occasional reports by clinical observers indicate the presence of other factors deserving of further investigation. That certain parasitic worms secrete substances that effect the blood of their hosts deleteriously has been shown conclusively by the researches of Tallqvist, Schwartz, Schaumann and others. The broad tapeworm of man which is known to produce severe anaemia contains a hemolytic agent according to the experiments and researches of Schaumann …

Bovine Tuberculosis, L. Van Es

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Tuberculosis affects all species of domestic mammals although with different degrees of intensity and frequency. Cattle and swine furnish the greatest number of cases.

Letter To J. B. Hobdy. Letter From J. B. Hobdy To Whom It May Concern, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, J. B. Hobdy

Documents

Letter to J. B. Hobdy, thanking him for testimonial. Letter from J. B. Hobdy To Whom It May Concern, praising S. B. Simmons' performance as an Itinerant Teacher-Trainer.

A Preliminary List Of The Flora Of The Perkiomen Region, Whorten A. Kline, Thomas R. Brendle, Joseph R. Mumbauer

Faculty Monographs and Chapters

41 page annotated list of vascular plants collected by the authors in and around the Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. "About the year 1915 Dr. Kline, Brendle and Mumbauer began to make weekly collecting trips. This preliminary catalogue rests mostly upon the work done on these trips." [from the Foreword]

Nursery Investigations With Special Reference To Damping-Off, J W. Toumey, T T. Li

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

The object of this investigation is therefore fourfold: 1. To determine an effective means of control of damping-off in the School of Forestry Nursery. 2. To determine the effects of different soil sanitation agents on the germination and later growth of coniferous stock. 3. To determine the effects of different sanitation agents on the germination and growth of weeds. 4. To determine the effects of different sanitation agents on the physical characteristics of the soil.

Phases Of Poultry Work (Feeding), Clara M. Sutter

SDSU Extension Circulars

In this circular, created by the Agriculture Extension Service at South Dakota State College, the information provided focuses on the phases of poultry work in regards to feeding procedures. This information is given through the guidance of the Agriculture Department.

Take The Gamble Out Of Farm Leases, South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension

SDSU Extension Circulars

Prices and costs are so uncertain that many farm leases, particularly those requiring the payment of cash, should be revised before March first, according to specialists in land economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. In a review of the situation by the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics it is pointed out that we may not have seen the last of radical price changes, such as lead to unexpected losses or gains to landlord, tenant, or both when bound by inflexible cash features in their lease contract. The more widespread instances in which the lease is inflexible …

Ice Cream Ingredients, H. P. Davis, B. Masurovsky, J. A. Luithly

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Ice cream is truly a frozen dairy product although other products than cream may enter into its make-up. The different ingredients that go into the ice cream mix exist in different qualities, grades, concentrations, and forms and it is desirable, therefore, for the ice cream maker to know something of them if a successful product is to be made.

Etude De La Mer : Faune Et Flore De La Manche Et De L'Océan V. 1, Mathurin Méheut, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Nature

Volume 1 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.

Bulletin 118 - Pigs And Pig Raising, P. G. Hampshire

Bulletins 1 - 2999

The importance of the development of pig-raising as one of the primary industries of Western Australia cannot be too greatly stressed.

In Western Australia we have a deficiency in production of bacon and hams equal nearly £200.00 per annum. When this exceedingly profitable market has been satisfied, export markets are geographically very favourable to Western Australia pig raisers as compared to the rest of Australia.

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

Bulletins 1 - 2999

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

Bulletins 1 - 2999

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

Bulletin 122 - Fruit-Fly: Description And Control, L. J. Newman

Bulletins 1 - 2999

IT is a fundamental principle of Economic Entomology that, in order to successfully combat an insect, the life history of that insect must be worked out. A feature common to all insects is a series of stages involving distinct changes of form which succeed each other in a definite order.

An insect like the fruit-fly affords no exception to this universal rule. Beginning with the fly, we have in regular succession—Egg, Larva, Pupa, and finally the fly again. These stages represent what is known as the life cycle of time insect. Each change—such as larva to pupa, pupa to fly—is …

Bulletin No. 3: Catalogue Of The Flowering Plants And Ferns Of Springfield, Massachusetts, Growing Without Cultivation, Luman Andrews, A Committee Of The Springfield Botanical Society

Public Domain Books

No abstract provided.

A Preliminary Report On The Nebraska State Museum, Erwin H. Barbour

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

The Nebraska State Museum has been established a sufficient number of years to make it widely known throughout the state, both by reputation and by personal visits. Incident to a growing clientele and an expanding correspondence, it is expedient that a concise circular letter be issued in bulletin form. Such a pamphlet can be promptly forwarded to inquirers and will offer obvious advantages over individual replies.

Root Behavior And Crop Yield Under Irrigation, Frank C. Jean, John E. Weaver

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884–1956)

More than half of the surface of the earth receives insufficient precipitation
for the most favorable growth of crops. The, best method of making up this deficiency is through the application of water by irrigation. Hence the economical use of irrigation water is one of the chief problems of agriculture in arid regions. Since much more land is available than can be irrigated by the supply of water, even when methods of greatest economy are employed, the welfare of these regions demands that the irrigation water be used as efficiently as possible (cf. Harris, 1916). It has been estimated that …

Ec24-721 Dairy Barns For Nebraska, Oscar W. Sjogren, Ivan D. Wood

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The increasing interest shown among the farmers thruout this state in the betterment of dairy stock, and the tendency to give more attention to dairying on the farms, is bringing to the Agricultural College a great many requests for plans and suggestions for dairy barn construction. It is impossible to give every one of these inquiries individual attention to the extent of drawing a detailed plan to suit the conditions in each case. It is hoped therefore, that the material contained in this bulletin will offer helpful suggestions and answer many questions in the minds of prospective dairy men and …

Hemlock: Its Place In The Silviculture Of The Southern New England Forest, Perry H. Merrill, Ralph C. Hawley

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

Eastern hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis) has been considered in the past of negligible value as a timber tree in comparison with its associates. This idea persists in spite of the fact that either virgin or second growth hemlock of merchantable size is readily salable for a variety of products.

Etude De La Mer : Faune Et Flore De La Manche Et De L'Océan V. 2, Mathurin Méheut, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Nature

Volume 2 of 2 : illus. (some color) ; 37 cm. Edition: Nouv. éd. Includes index. Gift of Edwin C. Parker.

Trematodes From The Rat, Horace Wesley Stunkard, Chilson B. Haviland

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Occasional examinations of rats for animal parasites have been carried on for over a hundred years. Later, knowledge of the importance of rats as reservoirs of infection and as agents in the transfer of parasitic diseases has led to the regular and careful examination of large numbers in various parts of the world. Among the more recent publications dealing with the parasites of rats may be mentioned Shipley (1908), Moll (1917), Chandler (1921), Balfour (1922), Baylis (1922), Stevenson (1922), Hegner (1923), and Lavier (1924). Notwithstanding the many investigations, only a single trematode parasite has previously been discovered and concerning it …

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 …

Development Of Root And Shoot Of Winter Wheat Under Field Environment, J. E. Weaver, Joseph Kramer, Maud Reed

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Numerous studies have been made on the winter killing of cereals, but few data are available on their actual growth rates during fall, winter, and early spring. No attempt has been made to correlate growth with environmental conditions, at least in the great wheat belt of the Mississippi Valley and Great Plains. During the fall of 1921 a study of the development of winter wheat both above and below ground was begun. A strain of Turkey Red winter wheat recently developed at the Kansas Agricultural College and known as Kanred was grown.

A plat of one tenth acre of fertile …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Re: Evolution Taught At Wku, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from WKU president Henry Cherry to Charles McKinney regarding evolution being taught at WKU.