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Adjusting Corn Belt Farming to Meet Corn-Borer Conditions

Description: "The European corn borer is recognized as a dangerous enemy of the corn crop.... Its eradication is considered economically impossible but it is believed that the injury may be kept at a point so low that little commercial damage will occur during normal seasons. This can be done by using control measures and practices that have proved to be effective.... On some farms some changes in the crops grown and in their sequence will aid materially in controlling the borer and may prove profitable eve… more
Date: 1932
Creator: Myres, Kenneth Hayes, 1898-
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Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report. Volume 1: Fremont Quadrangle (Nebraska and Iowa), Lincoln Quadrangle (Nebraska), Manhattan Quadrangle (Kansas), and Hutchinson Quadrangle (Kansas)

Description: First volume of a report documenting a high-sensitivity airborne radiometric and magnetic survey of four quadrangles in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas including documentation about data collection and analysis.
Date: November 1977
Creator: GeoMetrics, Inc.
Location: None
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Disaster Tax Relief for the Midwest

Description: The Midwestern Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2008 is intended to assist with the recovery from the severe weather that affected the Midwest during the summer of 2008. The Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster Relief Act of 2008 includes some similar provisions, but these are not limited to the Midwest disaster. The disaster relief in the three bills is similar to that provided to assist with the recovery from the 2005 hurricanes and the 2007 Kansas tornadoes. This report broadly discusses the disas… more
Date: August 20, 2008
Creator: Lunder, Erika

[Fremont Quadrangle: Well Water Data]

Description: Data gathered at well water sites in the Fremont quadrangle, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.
Date: July 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Location: None
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Grain Farming in the Corn Belt with Live Stock as a Side Line

Description: "This bulletin is written to suggest to the corn-belt farmer of the Middle West -- especially the farmer whose soil has been run down by continuous grain farming -- some ways of coordinating and 'cashing in' the scientific advice offered him in hundreds of bulletins already published.... Briefly, these are the conclusions reached by our most successful corn-belt farmer and agricultural experts: To make a money-maker of a farm that has become a losing proposition through steady grain farming you… more
Date: 1916
Creator: Vrooman, Carl Schurz, 1872-1966
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The Hard Red Winter Wheats

Description: This bulletin discusses the classes and varieties of hard red winter wheats and the areas in which they are successfully grown. Among the varieties discussed are Turkey, Kharkof, Kanred, Blackhull, Minturki, and Baeska.
Date: 1922
Creator: Clark, J. Allen (Jacob Allen), b. 1888 & Martin, John H. (John Holmes), 1893-
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Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance Basic Data for Sioux City NTMS Quadrangle, Nebraska and Iowa

Description: "Results of a reconnaissance geochemical survey are reported for the Sioux City Quadrangle, Nebraska; Iowa; South Dakota. Statistical data and areal distributions for uranium and uranium-related variables are presented for 119 groundwater and 542 stream sediment samples. Also included is a brief discussion on location and geologic setting."
Date: August 31, 1981
Creator: National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program
Location: None
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