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1921 Little International Agricultural Exposition Catalog, Little International Agricultural Exposition South Dakota State University

Little International "Little I" Agricultural Exposition Catalogs

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Bulletin No. 179 - Apple Candy: A Commercial Use For Cull Apples, T. H. Abell

UAES Bulletins

Utah annually produces many tons of apples that never reach the consumer. These apples remain on the farm for various rwasons: (1) because there are not adequate marketing facilities, (2) because the fruit is of inferior quality, (3) because orchard units are too small for buyers to consider, and (4) because home orchards are so large that the crop cannot be utilized. On the other hand, apples of inferior quality go to the market alongside apples of high quality. The result is a lowering of the price of apples in general and dissatisfaction on the part of the retailer and …

Note On The Habits Of The Bee, Anthidium Manicatum, E. E. Green

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Description D'Une Espece Congolaise Du Genre "Montezumia" (Hymenopteres, Vespides) Suivie De Remarques Taxonomiques Sur Ce Groupe, Joseph Bequaert

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Parmi les Vespides assez nombreux que mon frère, le Dr MICHEL BEQUAERT, a bien voulu recueillir à mon intention au Katanga, se trouve un spécimen d'une espèce apparemment inédite du genre Montezumi·a. Je crois devoir la signaler sans retard, car elle constitue une addition des plus intéressante à la faune du Congo belge.

Real Sociedad Espanola De Historia Natural, Enrique Asensio

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Labro alargado, obtuso. Mandíbulas dentadas. Celdilla radial grande, estrechada al extremo. Dos cubitales casi iguales. Segundo nervio transverso-discoidal más hacia el ápice del ala que el segun-do t ransverso-cubital. Escudet e y postescudete sin dientes. Uñas con pulvillum. Abdonien corto, grueso, sin escobill a ventral en las, inerme en los (sólo en St. signata con una espina.)

Bulletin No 69 - The Poison Plants Of Western Australia, D. A. Herbert

Bulletins 1 - 2999

Up to the present no publication dealing with the whole of the known i)01S0fl plaits of Western Australia has been written. This Bulletin contains the collected accounts of various authors and correspondents which have been published at different times and contains a large amount of original information gathered both from field experience and from laboratory experiments. The work is not complete. A number of plants from distant districts have not been obtainable or obtainable only in amounts insufficient for exhaustive tests. These plants are comparatively few, however, and in Section 13 of this publication those which are suspected, but against …

Bulletin No 84 - Tomatoes - Their Culture In Western Australia, H. D. Larwood

Bulletins 1 - 2999

The use of the tomato has become so general during recent years that it is now in great demand as one of the most popular and wholesome articles of diet.

The plant is heat-loving, but is easily destroyed by host. In temperate regions it is seasonable during the summer months. With suitable methods an early crop can be produced several weeks earlier than the main crop, and several months before stone fruits are available; because of this the "early' crop of tomatoes is usually a most profitable one. "Early" tomatoes placed oni the market during September and October often realise …

Lignum-Vitae: A Study Of The Woods Of The Zygophyllaceae With Reference To The True Lignum-Vitae Of Commerce--Its Sources, Properties, Uses, And Substitutes, Samuel J. Record

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

The true lignum-vitae of commerce belongs to the family Zygophyllaceae, of which only three genera, namely, Guaiacum, Porlieria, and Bulnesia, have representatives of tree size, and these are confined to the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. Porlieria is of no commerical importance.

The Apple-Tree Tent Caterpillar, A. L. Quaintance

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

The Apple-Tree Tent Caterpillar makes the unsightly nests or tents to be seen in the spring in trees along roadways, fences, and streams, and' in orchards. It varies greatly in abundance from year to year or over longer periods. Wild cherry is the favorite food plant, but many other plants are attacked, including several orchard fruits, especially the apple. During years when caterpillars are abundant the trees may be so completely stripped of their foliage that larvae are forced to hunt other food plants and hence are to be seen in numbers crawling over the ground and fences and elsewhere. …

Un Linguatulide Nouveau Parasite D’Un Batracien, Louis Gedoelst

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Parmi des matériaux parasitqlogiques rec;us de l'Indian Museum de Calcutta et comprenant essentiellement des larves de dipteres, nous avons trouvé un objet d'un particulier intérêt, dont nous donnons la description ci-après.

Heritable Characters Of Maize: Ix. Crinkly Leaf, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

In 1910 a strain of dent corn obtained at the National Corn Exposition held at Omaha was crossed with a strain of flint corn obtained from the Department of Agronomy of the University of Nebraska. The F₁ plants of this cross were normal and no abnormalities had been observed in the parent strains. But since the latter had not been subjected to self-pollination, there is no assurance that one or other of them did not have in it the character to be described here. In the F₂ generation of this cross there occurred a tpe of plant that …

The Relative Frequency Of Crossing Over In Microspore And In Megaspore Development In Maize, R. A. Emerson, C. B. Hutchison

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

One of the early developments in the study of linkage in Drosophila was the discovery that the phenomenon of crossing over is confined to the female sex (Morgan 1912). The fact that no crossing over occurs in the male Drosophila holds true not only for sex-linked genes but for factors in the autosomes as well and is so well established that it affords a most convenient method of determining to which of the different linkage groups a new factor belongs.

The same phenomenon, but with the sexes reversed, obtains in the silkworm moth. Tanaka (1914, 1915) has found from back-cross …

Bulletin No. 177 - Some Types Of Irrigation Farming In Utah, E. B. Brossard

UAES Bulletins

As ordinarily used "type of farming" suggests general contrasts in the nature of farm business. The bases used in making these contrasts are: (1) sources of farm income, (2) number of farm enterprises, (3) amount of labor, capital, and management applied to each acre of land, and (4) farm practice with reference to maintenance of soil fertility. When based on sources of farm income, farms are classified as grain farms, hay farms, fruit farms, dairy farms, etc., according to the proportionate magnitude of the income from the different sources. When the number of farm enterprises is used as the basis, …

Bulletin No. 176 - Potato Improvement By Hill Selection, George Stewart

UAES Bulletins

Potatoes are such an important food and are grown on so many farms in Utah that any method of permanently improving the crop is highly desirable. Commercial producers can of course capitalize any practical method of potato improvement.

This field of experimentation is not new, for many workers have attempted to improve the potato crop by selection. Success, however, has been neither uniform nor always appreciable; many of the experiments were of short duration, and many were not conducted on a sufficiently large scale to be good tests. It is apparent from this meager statement that the possibilities" of potato …

Annual Report Of The Extension Division For The Year Ending June 30, 1920, C. Larsen, I. B. Johnson, W. F. Kumlien, W. W. Underwood, Harry J. Boyts, H. E. Dawes, Paul J. Scarbro, A. L. Haynes, Irene Dunne, Selma Rongstad, Geo H. Valentine, M. R. Benedict, J. C. Holmes, Ralph L. Patty, F. E. Mccall, G. S. Weaver, Manley Champlin, A. L. Ford

SDSU Extension Circulars

The past year has been filled with unusual activity and interest along the different phases of agricultural extension work. The demand for the services of the different extension workers has greatly increased, so much so that it has become a problem as to how their time may be best assigned to accomplish the most.
Extension work is based upon cooperation. The counties, state, and government cooperate in finding the problems and in solving them. Some of these agricultural and rural problems may be solved in the local community; others need the assistance of the whole county; other problems, again, are …

Circular No. 43 - Feeding Work Horses, W. E. Carroll

UAES Circulars

The intelligent feeding of the work horses of the State of Utah would save each year thousands of dollars in feed and prevent sickness and death of hundreds of horses.

In Circular 32 of this station a brief discussion is given of some of the more theoretical aspects of the feeding of farm animals as they might apply in general to all classes of livestock. Consideration is given to such questions as the composition and digestibility of feeds, the uses to which the digested portions are put in the animal body, the calculation and balancing of rations, how to judge …

Septic Tank For Sewage Disposal On The Farm, Ralph L. Patty

SDSU Extension Circulars

The purpose of this little circular is to show the plan for constructing an efficient and inexpensive septic tank for the disposal of sewage from the farm home. If properly installed, this tank will need no attention whatsoever except the removal of the greater part of the sludge every three or four years. If a larger plan for the tank is desired, it may be obtained in blueprint form for five cents (to cover the cost of the blue print paper) by addressing the Extension Division of the South Dakota State College, Brookings, S. Dak.

A Serviceable Farm Barn, Ralph L. Patty

SDSU Extension Circulars

There is a great demand for the plan of a general barn suitable for a South Dakota farm of from a quarter to a half section of land. Not only are old buildings being replaced but a very great number of larger tracts are being divided into separate farms, and entire sets of new buildings are being erected. These facts, more than any others, probably account for the large number of requests received by the Extension Division for such a plan. The plan presented in this circular is what we believe will best meet this need.

How To Select Good Layers, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Certain standard methods of selecting good laying hens have been developed as a result of observations made at the laying contests and at other places where trapnesting is being done.

Descriptions Records And Notes On North American Nyssonidae (Hymenoptera), James Chester Bradley

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Observaciones Sobre La Procedencia Espanola De Muchos Apidos Descritos Por Perez En "Espéces Nouvelles De Melliferes De Barbarie", José María Dumset Y Alonso

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Bulletin No. 175 - Sixteen Years Of Dry Farm Experiments In Utah, F. S. Harris, A. F. Bracken, I. J. Jensen

UAES Bulletins

The demand for reliable information on dry-farming is increasing every year. As the area that is being cropped by dry-farm methods extends to less favorable regions, it becomes necessary to utilize the most effective methods of culture. In choice dry-farm sections crops may be produced without special care; but when an attempt is made to farm where the rainfall is low or where other conditions are not favorable, it becomes necessary to use every possible means of moisture conservation in order to get satisfactory yields.

Since the demand for information is so insistent, it seems desirable at this time to …

Freezing Injury Of Seed Corn, Theodore A. Kiesselbach, J. A. Ratcliff

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Research Bulletin No. 16
The University of Nebraska Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska

Summary • Introduction • Character of corn embryo and process of germination • Freezing injury not due to arrested development of the embryo • Moisture content of corn • Old corn • New corn • Physical effects of freezing • Ice formation in kernels • Effect of freezing on color of embryo • Effect of freezing on embryonic tissues • Chemical effects of freezing • Probable cause of death from freezing • Historical review • Crushing of plant tissues or rupturing of cell structures …

Freezing Injury Of Seed Corn, T. A. Kiesselbach, J. A. Ratcliff

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The object of the investigations in this bulletin has been to determine the conditions under which freezing injury may occur to seed corn; to indicate, if possible, the vital changes in the embryo resulting in such injury; and to point out ways by which seed corn of strong vitality and satisfactory yielding capacity may be obtained.

Albert Francis Coutant [Obituary]

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Obituary of Albert Francis Coutant, parasitologist. Born Brooklyn, New York, USA, July 7, 1892 - Died April 18, 1919, Manila, Philippine Islands.

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Coutant, Albert F. 1915. The habits, life history and structure of a blood-sucking muscid larva (Protocalliphora azurea). Journal of Parasitology 1: 135-150.

Coutant, Albert F. 1916. Chenopodium poisoning: Report of case. Journal of the American Medical Association 67: 1,599-1,600.

Coutant, Albert F. 1918. An epidemic of influenza at Manila, P. I. Journal of the American Medical Association 71: 1,566-1,567.

Bulletin No. 174 - A Variety Survey And Descriptive Key Of Small Grains In Utah, George Stewart

UAES Bulletins

Standardization of the varieties of small-grains in Utah is highly important. A mixed condition of grain causes both direct loss and inconvenience. The loss comes about in two principal ways: (1) by the decreased yields resulting from mixed grain, and (2) by the lower price paid for each bushel of mixed grain. This latter loss is especially noticeable in wheat on account of the grading system which penalizes mixed wheat by reducing the grade or by barring it from one of the six market classes and designating it as "mixed" wheat. The inconvenience arises from the fact that some varieties …

Scientific Results Of The Katmai Expedition Of The National Geographic Society Xiii. Bees And Wasps, Joseph Bequaert

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Through the kindness of Prof. J as. S. Hine, I have been given the opportunity to examine the Aculeate Hymenoptera obtained by him during his two trips to Alaska in the summers of 1917 and 1919. The following list of the species collected includes also a few specimens taken at Seattle, Wash. Mr. Viereck has kindly confirmed the identification of Andrena jrigida.

Farm Building Ventilation, Ralph L. Patty

SDSU Extension Circulars

This circular is a reply to an ever-increasing number of inquiries about the ventilation of farm buildings received by the Extension Division. The plans show how satisfactory homemade ventilating systems can be installed. Complete commercial systems may also be secured today that give good satisfaction.

Barberry Eradication, A. N. Hume, Henry C. Gilbert

SDSU Extension Circulars

The work of barberry eradication has been carried on for two years. This circular is a report on the work done, with notes on black stem rust. The work is cooperative between the United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Cereal Investigations, and the South Dakota State College Extension Division and Agronomy Department. The statements and figures given herein are for the state of South Dakota unless otherwise noted. They are well founded on accurate observations, experiments, or other sources of information. More detailed information will be given to those who desire it.

Potato Seed Certification In South Dakota, Frank E. Mccall

SDSU Extension Circulars

The introduction of dangerous potato diseases, (notably powdery scab and black wart) along with Federal grade regulations and the demands of many states that potatoes for propagating purposes be certified—as to purity and freedom from diseases—has aroused unusual interest in the standardization of potato shipments from the various northern potato growing centers. Early in 1919, the potato growers of the state felt an urgent need for definite lines of potato improvement. Accordingly, a plan for inspection and certification of potato seed stock was inaugurated. This move was entirely voluntary on the part of the·potato growers and was placed under the …