Bulletin (University of Missouri. Agricultural Experiment Station) [1888-1967]
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Item Research : the key to the development of Missouri's forest resources and wood-using industries(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1963) Berry, F. H.; Brinkman, Kenneth A.; Bretz, T. W.; Buchanan, W. D.; Cox, G. S.; Crosby, J. S.; Ehrenreich, J. H.; Farrell, J. H.; McGinnis, E. A. Jr.; Nash, A. J.; Paulsell, L. K.; Polk, R. B.; Ralston, R. A.; Smith, R. C.; Westveld, R. H."The progress we make depends on research and education. Evidence of the importance of research is available in every field of endeavor. An increase in corn yields in Missouri of approximately 100 percent in the last 30 years is a result of comprehensive research in plant breeding and soil fertilization. In the field of medicine the numerous antibiotics, which each year save thousands of lives, would not be available today if scientific research had not been carried out for many years. We would not have the enjoyment of television if large sums of money, invested years ago without immediate return, had not been spent for electronics research. Pulpmills, non-existent in the South in 1925 and numbering 25 twenty years ago and 81 today, might not have been built so soon if research on the pulping qualities of southern pines had not been initiated 35 years ago in a small laboratory in Savannah, Georgia. Research on the pulping qualities of hardwood, too, has resulted in their rapidly increasing use in paper manufacture. Between 1954 and 1959 the quantity of hardwood roundwood used by the pulp industry in the South increased from 14 to 19 percent of the total round-wood used. The relatively small investments in forestry research in Missouri have yielded significant results. Research on the culture and marketing of Christmas trees increased the planting of Christmas-tree species from 6,000 trees in 1956 to nearly 800,000 trees in 1958. Within a few years Missouri-grown trees will be supplying the more than one million trees bought each year by Missourians. Missouri lands will be producing a new crop worth $2 to $3 million annually. In the field of wood products, research has demonstrated the practicability of producing paneling at a profit from low-grade oak lumber. A strong consumer interest has sprung up for this paneling, providing a new market for oak lumber opened by wood products investigations. Research has also led the way in intensifying the management of young pine plantations and natural stands. Marketing studies demonstrated the economic feasibility of harvesting posts, poles and piling from these young stands and thus opened the opportunity for intensive management of the pine resource. Research-developed techniques, using hormone-type chemicals to control unwanted brush and inferior trees, make possible greater pine yields per acre with minimum investments in cultural work. These same techniques make feasible the conversion of low-quality hardwood sites to pine forests as economic considerations become more favorable. These examples of the contributions of research in developing new products, in making possible greater yields from the land, and in developing new industries, demonstrate that everyone benefits from research. The progress that will be made in Missouri in growing high-quality forest products, in combating damage to timber by fire, insects, and disease, in rehabilitating our forests, and in attracting new wood-using industries in competition with other timber-producing states will depend on how well the research and educational efforts in forestry and wood products are financed and directed. Forest research, especially in land management, takes time. Studies initiated today may take as long as 20 years or more to bear fruit because trees may not be harvested until they are 100 years old. Even though Missouri's forests are producing at no more than one-fourth of their growth capacity and the quality of most of the wood is poor, wood-using industries contribute a great deal to the state's economy. More than $300 million dollars annually in payrolls, in value added by manufacture, and in capital improvements to plants and mills comes from forest-based industries. The $110 million annual payroll of these industries provides full-time jobs for about 27,000 persons and part-time employment to thousands more in the forests and mills. The forests contribute substantially to the tourist industry because of the appeal which trees lend to the rolling hills and the streams which flow through the forests. Expenditures by tourists increased from $200 million in 1951 to more than $600 million in 1959, and the number of visits to the state parks rose from 3,365,000 in 1958 to 7,362,000 in 1961. If research is to be properly directed, a periodic review of the problems and the existing programs is necessary. This can be accomplished most effectively through a joint effort of the agencies engaged in research. Such a review has been made in Missouri for the first time by the two public agencies doing the forestry research and is presented in this report."--Page 4.Item General-purpose spray mixtures for home fruit plantings(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1953) Swartwout, H. G.; Jenkins, Lee, 1901-1993"Using the more recently introduced organic insecticides and fungicides, combination sprays have been developed which are reasonably safe on all the major fruit crops of Missouri and which are reasonably effective against most of the important pests of this area. Such general-purpose spray mixtures are especially useful for small mixed fruit plantings where spraying with materials specifically suited to each crop is impractical. Usually, rather than spray each crop with a different combination of materials no spraying at all is done. General-purpose formulations are not ideal and cannot be expected to equal the control obtained in commercial spraying but when correctly applied they usually give an acceptable product for home use. As new pesticides are introduced continued improvements in the combinations of materials are made."--Page 1.Item Fertilizer inspection, analysis and use, 1943(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1944) Miller, M. F.; Haigh, L. D.; Cowan, E. W.; Long, J. H.; Albrecht, William A. (William Albert), 1888-1974Item Prevention and eradication of infectious abortion in cattle(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1930)The purpose of this bulletin is a purely practical one; namely, to give cattle breeders, herdsmen, and veterinary practitioners the-fundamental facts which are now known relating to the nature of infectious abortion in cattle, and to show how these facts may be used to prevent and eradicate this disease. The facts presented herein are quite generally accepted by investigators the world over, as having been definitely established, or as being supported by such a weight of careful experimental research and clinical observation as to justify their acceptance and practical application for the control of this disease. Many of these facts have been established or verified at this Experiment Station by the writer and his research associates, Durant and Newman; and later in conjunction with Newman and Crouch and Crisler and Uren in working out different phases of the problem. Reports of these researches have been given from time to time in the Annual Reports of the Experiment Station. From this experimental work and from various other sources the facts that the writer believes will be most helpful to the groups mentioned has been prepared for publication in the present bulletin. Undecided and questionable matters have been excluded for future research. Nothing, however, of really essential practical importance has been omitted. The experience of the author and his colleagues has amply demonstrated the practicability of the measures recommended herein for combating the Bang abortion disease in cattle-which, in the opinion of many cattle breeders and livestock sanitarians, does not hold a second place even to tuberculosis in economic loss.Item Reports on spraying for the coding moth, apple scab and black rot of the grape reports on strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, tomatoes, peas and potatoes, list of new fruits received for testing(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1891)In carrying out the objects of the organization of an "Agricultural Experiment Station," we cordially invite the co-operation of all persons interested in its success. Suggestions as to lines of experimental work, problems to be solved, inquiries relating to agriculture, horticulture, stock, and the dairy, will be cheerfully received, and answered !l,S far as possible ; but no work will be undertaken unless of public value, and the results of which we are at liberty to use for the public good. Specimens of grains and grasses, seeds of fruit and forest trees ; vegetables, plants and flowers that are true to name; varieties of beneficial and injurious insects ; samples o.f mineral waters and ores, and whatever may illustrate any department of agriculture, will be gladly received, and due acknowledgments made in animal reports. Directions for collecting, packing and shipping such specimens will be furnished on application. Bulletins will be issued at least quarterly, giving the results of experimental work as fast as completed, together with, such suggestions and information as may be thought valuable to the farmers of Missouri. The bulletins and reports of this Station are sent free to every citizen of Missouri who applies for them. Copies are sent as soon as issued to every newspaper in the State, to every Grange, Farmers' Alliance, or other Agricultural organization, whose address can be obtained. Bulletins and reports are also sent to the leading Agricultural papers of the country, and will be sent to any paper that may desire to exchange. Letters relating to ·any special line of work should be directed to the officer in charge of that division, but all general correspondence relating to the work of the Station should be addressed to EDWARD D. PORTER, Director of Experiment Station. Columbia, Boone Co., Mo.--Introductory.