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Indexes of the influence of weather on corn yields in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)
in Missouri corn yields from 1930 through 1962. Weekly precipitation was the weather basis for the indexes. If a suitable method can be discovered which would incorporate other meteorological factors, as well as precipitation, perhaps the weather indexes can...
Study of levels of living in three southeast Missouri counties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1937)
Preliminary statement: Purpose: The purpose of the study was to ascertain something of the levels of living of farm and village families in a selected area in Southeast Missouri. Particular emphasis is given to the tenure groups: owner, renter...
Place names in the southwest counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1930)
Counties: Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk...
"This thesis is a record of a careful research into the origin of the place-names in eight of the counties in the southwest part of Missouri. These counties are Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk. These counties lie...
"This thesis is a record of a careful research into the origin of the place-names in eight of the counties in the southwest part of Missouri. These counties are Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk. These counties lie...
Place names of St. Louis and Jefferson County
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
"Strangely fascinating are place-name, not only by their euphony, but by their romantic associations." So attractive is the study of place-name that it develops in the student a curiosity concerning the origin of all names. ...
A critical study of the chemical and physical factors involved in cake making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
There is no specific history as to how and when the first cake was made. However, it is reasonable to suppose that it developed logically from bread making at an early date, when some clever cook found that the addition ...
A study of the relationship between selected educational experiences of vocational agriculture students and their enrolling in a College of Agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)
in the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University. The study attempted to determine whether or not attendance at the Kansas State University agricultural science days, judging contests, state FFA conventions and other events on the campus tended to attract...
Edwin Sutherland and the origins of differential association theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1984)
concludes that Sutherland’s theory was conceived, developed and accepted, based on three factors. First, he was an active member of a group of University of Chicago sociologists Including W. I. Thomas, Robert E. Park, Clifford R. Shaw, and Henry D. Mc...
The use of fats in cooking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
The cost of food is the all important question at the present time. Our people must be fed. The problem is to discover what available foods will give the most nutritive value at a minimum cost. When we observe that a pound ...
Roy Wilkins as a journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"This study is primarily concerned with an observation of Wilkins' journalistic image as reflected in his newspaper, magazine and syndicated columns concerning the racial and economic problems of the Negro American. A ...
Sex variability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
. It is a matter which experience alone can demonstrate in detail. It lays the axe at the root of many pseudo-scientific superetitions. Yet there are certain general conclusions which have again and again presented themselves, even when we have been occupied...
An analysis of livestock marketing patterns in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1960)
"Missouri is fortunate in its strategic location near the heart of the grain belt east of the Great plains cattle producing areas and on the western fringe of concentrated centers of population. A combination of favorable factors have contributed...
Federal crop insurance -- a case study in Audrain County, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
in Missouri. The importance of Missouri commodities for the entire United States is summarized in Table 2. As the table indicates, corn, wheat, and soybeans account for a large portion of the number of crops insured by the FCIC in the United States."--Introduction....
Estimation of demand parameters : an empirical analysis of consumer behavior in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
is insufficient for the estimation of a large number of the required parameters. Recent studies of the theory of consumer behavior have provided a number of empirically useful hypotheses concerning the separability of the consumer’s utility functions...
Milk supply response in Greater Kansas City marketing area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)
The growth of the dairy industry has been an important factor in the agricultural development of the United States. Missouri has shared in this development. The sale of dairy products has contributed nine to thirteen percent of the total income from...
Irrigation practices and costs in southeastern Missouri - 1959
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)
Field crop irrigation is a relatively new production technique in Missouri. Prior to this investigation, only United information was available concerning costs and returns. The research reported here was assigned to determine (1) the costs...
The middlewestern wool manufacture 1860-1914
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)
Varietal resistance of oats to Puccinia Coronifera
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Oats grow best in a cool, rather moist climate, and are most largely produced in the North Temperate Zone. Among the leading countries in the production of this crop are the United States, European Russia, Germany, France, ...
Effect of antemortem stress on postmortem beef and lamb carcass characteristics.
(University of Missouri., 1959)
"The objectives of this investigation were to deter mine (1) the effect of antemortem stress on the color of lamb carcasses; (2) the recovery period required to replenish the glycogen stores of cattle following antemortem ...
Early roads in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1936)
"The objectives of this study are to present a brief survey of some of the outstanding Indian trails of the State, an abbreviated account of the development of the important traces of the French and Spanish regimes, and a ...
Cheyenne and Sioux Indian relations along the Oregon Trail
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1941)
close by another massacre, that of Little Thunder's band by the expedition of General Harney. No sooner had peace been established with the Sioux than serious trouble w1th the Cheyenne began. The series of depredations by them 1n the neighborhood of Fort...