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Bulletin No. 258 - Alfalfa-Seed Investigations In Utah, John W. Carlson

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For many years alfalfa-seed production problems have engaged the attention of investigators in various parts of the world. Those factors which are regarded as of greatest importance in seed-setting are general climate, current weather, air humidity, soil moisture, and insect relationships within the various alfalfa-seed districts. Some attention in research has been given to pollen fertility and ovule sterility, as well as to general flower dynamics in relation to environmental conditions. Efforts have been made to develop strains of alfalfa having pollen that is resistant to injury by moisture or having self-tripping flowers or autogamous strains of alfalfa whose flowers …

Bulletin No. 263 - Relative Produciton Of Feed Grain From Spring-Grown Cereals In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

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Nearly one-third of the cropped acreage of Utah is devoted to cereals. Except for wheat, most of these crops are fed locally. In addition to this, an average of over a million bushels of corn, barley, and oats is shipped into the state each year to be used in various livestock and poultry industries.

The purpose of this publication is to show the comparative amount of feed produced by the different crops--wheat, oats, barley, and corn--under similar conditions as determined for the specified four years by acre-yields obtained in various agricultural regions of the state. One should bear clearly in …

Bulletin No. 260 - Oat Varietal Tests In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

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The United States Census Report for 1930 shows that approximately 25 per cent of Utah farmers were growing oats at that time. Leading counties in oat production were Sanpete, Utah, Emery, Cache, and Weber, each of which produced over 100,000 bushels. Sanpete County produced over 200,000 bushels, whereas Boxelder, Sevier, Duchesne, and Salt Lake Counties produced slightly less than 100,000 bushels each.

Bulletin No. 261 - Barley Varietal Tests In Utah, R. W. Woodward, D. C. Tingey

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In 1929 approximately one-fourth of the farmers of Utah were growing barley, with an average of 6.3 acres to the farm. Cache, Sanpete, Sevier, and Utah Counties each produced over 100,000 bushels. According to the United States Fifteenth Census Report (1930), Davis, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, and Weber Counties each produced from 40,000 to 70,000 bushels.

Bulletin No. 262 - Comparative Yields Of Spring Wheat Varieties In Utah, D. C. Tingey, R. W. Woodward

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Wheat was one of the first crops grown by early Utah settlers. It has since occupied an important place in the agriculture of the state. While wheat is almost the only crop grown successfully on dry-lands, it is also important under irrigation. Thirty per cent of the wheat acreage of Utah in 1929 was spring-sown, which produced 44 per cent of the state's production. Eighty-seven per cent of the spring wheat acreage was grown under irrigation, this acreage producing 92.3 per cent of the total spring wheat crop. Thirty-eight per cent of Utah farmers were growing spring wheat in 1929; …

Bulletin No. 264 - Relief Wheat, D. C. Tingey, R. W. Woodward

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Relief, a new variety of hard red winter wheat resistant to most forms of covered smut occurring in Utah, was bred by the Department of Agronomy, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Produced by hybridization, it resulted from a response to an urgent need for some more effective means of controlling the serious disease of wheat known as covered smut or bunt. In addition to being resistant to forms of covered smut which have caused such heavy losses to wheat farmers of central and northern Utah and southern Idaho, experiments have also shown that it appears equal in all other respects (such …

Bulletin No. 259 - Drainage Of Land Overlying An Artesian Groudwater Reservoir: Final Report, O. W. Israelsen, W. W. Mclaughlin

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This bulletin constitutes a final report of some phases of cooperative drainage studies in Cache Valley, Utah. The drainage problem in Cache Valley is typical, in many respects, of drainage problems in other irrigated valleys of Utah and the West in general. Application of the principles indicated by the problems will doubtless add materially to the productivity of the land in the several communities concerned and will also contribute to the advancement of public welfare in the general improvement of health, economic, and social conditions. Alkali and water-logging affecting large areas are causes not only of low productivity of the …

Bulletin No. 257 - Factors Promoting Positive Health In School Children, Almeda Perry Brown

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It is necessary only to observe groups of rural children to become convinced that too many of them are deprived of their rightful heritage of positive health.

Why children playing together, working together, under conditions which apparently vary but little, should exhibit such wide variation in health conditions, is a question of vital importance to all concerned with the care of children.

It was with the hope of finding some of the causes behind these variations that the present study was initiated. That the problem is complex and intricate was fully realized, and no hope was entertained that its solution …

Bulletin No. 256 - Drainage And Irrigation, Soil, Economic, And Social Conditions, Delta Area, Utah: Division 2: Soil Conditions, D. S. Jennings, J. Darrel Peterson

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Project 90-A Study of Factors Influencing the Financial Condition of Certain Utah Irrigation and Drainage Projects-was undertaken in 1928 as an intensified study of local areas. This study was divided among four departments, with a project leader for each particular phase of the study. These four project leaders, guided by the Station Director, have constituted a committee in immediate charge of this project. Subprojects and their respective leaders are: A-Engineering and Engineering Economic Aspects, O. W. Israelsen; B-Soil Productivity Aspects , D. S. Jennings; C- Contributing Sociological Aspects, J. A. Geddes; and D-Economic Aspects, W. Preston Thomas.

Bulletin No. 255 - Drainage And Irrigation, Soil, Economic, And Social Conditions, Delta Area, Utah: Division 1: Drainage And Irrigation Conditions, O. W. Israelsen

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Project 90-A Study of Factors Influencing the Financial Condition of Certain Utah Irrigation and Drainage Projects-has been Conducted cooperatively since 1928 by four different departments, each represented by a man in charge of one phase of the problem. These four department representatives have constituted a committee in immediate charge of this project, guided by the Station Director. Subprojects and their respective leaders are: A: Engineering and Engineering Economic Aspects, O. W. Israelsen; B: Soil Productivity Aspects, D. S. Jennings; C: Contributing Sociological Aspects, J. A. Geddes; and D: Economic Aspects, W. Preston Thomas.

Bulletin No. 253 - Cherries Of Utah, Fancis M. Coe

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In the production of cherries, as with all fruit plants, growers are dealing with clonal varieties which are individuals, and as such differ from each other in their characteristics. Since these characteristics vitally affect the value of each variety and returns from its culture, the importance of complete information on these characteristics for a given region is evident.

All varieties now grown, unfortunately, have faults or fail to reach the ideal in one or more important characters. They may lack size, productivity, hardiness, or quality. They may lack vigor or be susceptible to diseases and insects. They may ripen at …

Bulletin No. 254 - Summer And Winter Rations For Fattening Hogs, H. H. Smith, E. J. Maynard

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Practically all of the 85,000 hogs on the farms of Utah (as of August 1, 1934) are in the irrigated sections of the state where they fit in well with dairying. Utah, however, is a hog-deficient area and produces about 109,000 hogs less than are slaughtered in the state for its own use. Large amounts of milk by-products such as skim milk, buttermilk, and whey are produced in Utah. Large amounts of alfalfa are also grown in the irrigated sections, thus providing excellent pasture for the growing out and feeding of market hogs. Barley is the principal feeding grain grown …

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. 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. 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 …

Bulletin No. 244 - Economic Factors Affectin Poultry Production And Marketing In Utah: 1929, 1930, And 1931, W. Preston Thomas, Marion Clawson

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Since 1929 the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Divisions of Farm Management and Costs and of Cooperative Marketing of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture have been cooperating in conducting a study of the economic factors affecting the production and marketing of poultry products in Utah. Under the arrangement, as entered into by these three groups, the Agricultural Economics Department of the Experiment Station and the Division of Farm Management and Costs of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics agreed to study the trends in production, feed supply, …

Bulletin No. 243 - Distribution And Damage By Jointwork Flies In Utah, G. F. Knowlton, Melvin J. Janes

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The purpose of this investigation has been to determine the distribution and extent of injury of some of the more important jointworm flies attacking small grains. These obscure enemies exact a yearly toll by causing a subtle shrinkage in the weight and a decrease in quality of grain yields and, incidentally, a shrinkage in the profits derived from the farmer's labors, In general, jointworm flies may be controlled by simple, previously-known methods of improved farm practices, requiring no additional outlay in cash but a better timing and proper execution of good farm practices.

Bulletin No. 241 - Peach Harvesting Studies, F. M. Coe

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The purpose of the four seasons' study of maturity indexes of Elberta type peaches, made in Utah during the years 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1932 and presented in this publication, was to determine more accurately the best stage of maturity of peaches for distant shipment. In general, the procedure was: (1) To record color, pressure test, and other maturity indexes of fruit from trees under various conditions of culture, age, and vigor; (2) to classify the fruit by size and ground color; (3) to store under conditions comparable to refrigerated shipment to market; and (4) to record the appearance, quality, …

Bulletin No. 240 - Effect Of Feed, Water, And Shelter Upon Fleeces Of Utah Ewes, A. C. Esplin

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Fleeces from range-bred ewes wintered on desert ranges are compared in this bulletin with fleeces taken from ewes of the same breeding wintered under farm conditions, involving regular feeding, shelter, and free access to water. Four hundred and sixty-two fleeces are included in the comparison.

Bulletin No. 238 - Lamb-Fattening Experiments In Utah, E. J. Maynard, A. C. Esplin, S. R. Boswell

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This bulletin includes the results of Station Project 99-Fattening Lambs in Winter Drylot-which was begun at Monroe on November 15, 1928, and at Delta on November 13, 1929. The experiment was conducted for a period of four years at Monroe and for one year at Delta. Messers Alma and Milton Magelby of Monroe were closely associated with the Monroe experiment, furnishing the yards and the lambs as well as the feed used; the Monroe Lamb-feeders Association also cooperated in conducting this experiment. During the period that the Delta test was under way, Mr. J. F. Roe furnished the yards, the …

Bulletin No. 242 - Drainage Of Land Overlying An Artesian Ground-Water Reservoir: Progress Report, O. W. Israelsen, W. W. Mclaughlin

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Certain tracts of land in the West formerly used to produce grain and forage crops now produce only pasture grasses of comparatively low quality because of the water-logging and alkali accumulation which has occurred since irrigation was begun. Other tracts now producing only light crops of wild hay probably would produce profitable crops of alfalfa and clover, provided the water-table were lowered and the water-logged and alkaline condition of the soil removed. Still other areas are almost wholly nonproductive because of the concentration of excessive quantities of harmful alkali salts.

Knowledge concerning (1) the causes of water-logging, (2) economical methods …

Bulletin No. 239 - Wet Beet Pulp Compared With Corn Silage In The Dairy Ration, George Q. Bateman, George B. Caine

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Wet beet pulp coming as a by-product from the sugar-beet industry in Utah is fed in varying amounts to dairy cows. Corn silage is also used to make up part of the dairy ration. Conflicting statements as to the value of the one feed as compared to the other indicated the need of more knowledge as to the value of pulp as compared to silage in the dairy ration. For this reason a study of the problem was initiated in February, 1926.

Bulletin No. 237 - Panguitch Livestock Experimental Farm Progress Report, B. F. Hulme

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The Panguitch Experimental Livestock Farm is located three miles north of Panguitch, the county seat of Garfield County. Prior to 1909 it was held by the United States as an Indian school. In 1909 the United States Congress transferred title to the State of Utah. Two years later, in 1911 , the Utah Legislature decided that this property should "be used as an experiment station in connection with the Agricultural College of Utah ...", and control was vested in the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College.

Bulletin No. 236 - The Manufacture Of Cheese From Soft-Curd And Hard-Curd Milks, R. L. Hill, A. C. Merrill

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Little investigational work has been conducted on the effect of the hardness of curd of milk on the quality, quantity, and commercial value of cheese.

In July 1930, a preliminary report from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station was made on these researches. This report indicated that for the manufacture of cheese hard-curd milk was far superior to soft-curd milk. This research is a continuation of that project.

Hard- and soft-curd milk used in the tests reported was obtained from Holstein cows. The fat content of each milk was practically the same. While the difference in curd hardness between the soft- …

Bulletin No. 235 - Biennial Report, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station: July 1, 1930 To June 30, 1932, P. V. Cardon

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President E. G. Peterson

Sir: I have the honor to transmit the report of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station for the biennium ending June 30, 1932. This report includes the reports of the various departments as well as other information pertaining to the work of the Experiment Station during this two-year period.

Respectfully submitted, P. V. CARDON, Director.