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Make Your Own Knitting Needles, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Make Your Own Knitting Needles, Debra Proctor

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Making your own knitting needles can be fun. Yarn will not slip as easily on wooden knitting needles, making them a good choice for beginners.


Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Using Low Moisture Blocks To Improve Livestock Distribution And Forage Utilization, Usu Extension

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Do you often eat at the same restaurants even if your town is loaded with places to eat? People frequent the same restaurants for a variety of reasons from the quality and type of food, to cost, to distance from home, to simply being unfamiliar with the alternatives.


Basic Crochet Slipper, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Basic Crochet Slipper, Debra Proctor

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Basic Crochet Slipper


Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Considerations For Knit Fabrics, Usu Extension

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There are a number of characteristics of a knit fabric that will influence the pattern used and the sewing techniques chosen. Knits can vary from light weight to bulky weight and from tightly to loosely knit.


Cuffed Knit Slippers, Debra Proctor Jan 2000

Cuffed Knit Slippers, Debra Proctor

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Cuffed Knit Slippers.


Fleece Facts, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Fleece Facts, Usu Extension

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Launder and choose the side of fleece you like best for the outside, unless it is a water resistant or wind proof fleece and then it should have a definite right and wrong side.


Panel Quilt With Prairie Points, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams Jan 2000

Panel Quilt With Prairie Points, Debra Proctor, Kami Williams

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This pattern is for a quick and easy wall hanging using a pre-printed panel for the center and added borders to make it the desired size. It has wider borders on the sides to trick the eye into thinking that the borders are the same size on all four sides to balance the prairie points.


Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Livestock As A Tool For Biodiversity In The Sagebrush Steppe, Usu Extension

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Biodiversity, or the variety of plant and animal species in a given location, has declined in many areas in the West. For example, woody plants, such as sagebrush and juniper now dominate many western landscapes.


Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Meat And Dairy Goats In Cache County, Usu Extension

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Cache County, like other counties in the Western United States, is experiencing a major transition in land use. Though we still have a host of relatively large acreage, well managed crop and livestock farms, the number of smaller acreages is increasing.


Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Reducing Losses Due To Tall Larkspur Poisoning, Usu Extension

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Tall larkspur reduces pasture use and can cause death in cattle. In the West, overingestion of tall larkspur causes average death losses of 4-5%, but can exceed 15% on some ranches. In addition, the presence of tall larkspur in some pastures may force ranchers to avoid those pastures during peak forage growth in late spring and early summer.


Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell Jan 2000

Reducing The Incidence Of Dark Cutting Beef In Junior Livestock Shows, Lyle N. Holmgren, Dale R. Zobell

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4-H and FFA livestock shows place cattle in a surrounding where they are stressed physically and psychologically. They are exposed to physical exertion, unfamiliar smells, tastes, sounds, people, cattle and other animals Owners of beef cattle who place them in these situations need to understand that stress can be reduced or eliminated with proper care and management.


Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides Jan 2000

Saltcedar, Tamarisk, Ruth Richards, Ralph Whitesides

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Saltcedar is diffi cult to control. Single treatment approaches to control saltcedar have not proven feasible because no method completely eliminates saltcedar or its regeneration.


Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Saving Utah's Landscape, Squarrose Knapweed, Usu Extension

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What began in the 1950s as a small patch of weeds near a grain elevator in Juab County, turned into a serious environmental problem that impacts the state’s wildlife, grazing and tourist industries. In the early 1990s, it was estimated that squarrose knapweed infested nearly 200,000 acres of rangeland in central Utah.


Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Structure Determines Experience, Experience Determines Structure, Usu Extension

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Why do animals eat certain foods and live in certain locations? Your first thought might be, they’re born that way or it’s in their genes. While it’s true that every animal is born with a set of genes that helps determine how they look and what they need, genetics is only part of the story.


Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension Jan 2000

Structure, Quality And Skills Interact To Influence Forage Intake, Usu Extension

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In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists manage for correct plant density and height to ensure herbivores maximize intake.


The Role Of Composting And Soil And Manure Testing In Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning., Rich Koenig Jan 2000

The Role Of Composting And Soil And Manure Testing In Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning., Rich Koenig

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What is comprehensive nutrient management planning?


Energy Conservation With Irrigation Water Management, Robert Hill May 1999

Energy Conservation With Irrigation Water Management, Robert Hill

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Irrigators in Utah experienced rapidly increasing energy costs from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s. These costs remain relatively high. Those who are pumping from deep wells are particularly interested in ways to cut back on energy use without doing away with profitability or production


How Good Is Your Water Measurement?, Robert Hill May 1999

How Good Is Your Water Measurement?, Robert Hill

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Accurate water measurement is essential to maintaining equity of water delivery within an irrigation company or water districts. Good management of our scarce water resource is dependent upon quantifying supplies and uses with accurate measurement techniques. State water rights adjudication and management procedures often require installation of water measurement devices and keeping records of flows.


Pesticide Use On Utah's Small Grain Crops, Howard Deer, Alan H. Roe Oct 1997

Pesticide Use On Utah's Small Grain Crops, Howard Deer, Alan H. Roe

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Data from usable pesticide survey responses was entered in a computer database and checked for entry errors. A database record was stored for each unique combination of grower, crop, pesticide, and target pest(s). All character data (such as brand names) were standardized for consistent usage and spelling. Specific methods used to enter and standardize data and to perform calculations are described below:


Noxious Weeds...A Biological Wildfire, Steven A. Dewey Aug 1995

Noxious Weeds...A Biological Wildfire, Steven A. Dewey

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Invasive noxious weeds have been described as a raging biological wildfire—out of control, and spreading rapidly. The devastation from these alien plants includes enormous economic losses to agriculture and irreparable ecological damage to wildlands


Vertebrate Animal Pest Control, Usu Extension Jun 1995

Vertebrate Animal Pest Control, Usu Extension

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Vertebrate pest control deals with animals possessing a backbone. Vertebrate pests include any vertebrate, native or introduced, domestic or wild, which affects human health, well-being, or conflicts in some way with human activities. This conflict can be either real or perceived.


Mormon Crickets: A Brighter Side, Charles Macvean Jul 1991

Mormon Crickets: A Brighter Side, Charles Macvean

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In a recent appraisal of Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex Haldeman), Raffelson (1989) reminds us that these insects are a subject of great concern and dislike among Western ranchers and farmers.