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Grass. by United States.Department of Agriculture.(CARDINAL)138479;
"For further reference": pages 855-878.GRASS IN THE NATION'S LIFE -- A Permanent Agriculture -- Our Aim: An Introduction / P. V. Cardon -- In Praise of Blue Grass / John James Ingalls -- The Meek That Inherit the Earth / Agnes Chase -- The Settlement of Grasslands / Everett E. Edwards -- A Billion Acres of Grasslands / H. H. Wooten / C. P. Barnes -- The Help the Government Offers / Neil W. Johnson / Charles W. Loomer -- Soil, Grass, and Conservation -- Environment of Natural Grassland / C. P. Barnes -- Grass and the Soil / Charles E. Kellogg -- How Soils Develop Under Grass / James Thorp -- The Tools of Flood Control / Hugh H. Bennett -- Grasses That Fix Sand Dunes / Charles J. Whitfield / Robert L. Brown -- Forage for Livestock -- Plus and Minus: An Overall View / N. R. Ellis / L. A. Moore / M. A. Hein -- Soils, Crops, Minerals, and Animals / C. F. Huffman / N. R. Ellis / L. A. Moore -- Grassland Crops as Feed for Horses / I. P. Earle -- The Vital 10 Percent for Poultry / H. R. Bird -- Sheep, Goats, and Grasslands / C. E. Holscher / D. A. Spencer -- The Use of Forage in Feeding Hogs / John H. Zeller -- Grass for the Production of Beef / W. H. Black / D. A. Savage -- Dairy Cattle Must Have Good Forage / L. A. Moore -- The Use and Value of Pastures -- Pastures on the Dairy Farm / R. E. Wagner / J. B. Shepherd -- The Management of Grazing / E. Marion Brown -- Management of Irrigated Pastures / D. W. Thorne -- Grass in Natural Forested Areas / Richard Bradfield -- Soil Management on Farm Pastures / Horace J. Harper -- Pasture in a Conservation Farm Plan / Harry H. Gardner / John P. Jones -- Storage of Forage -- Principles of Making Hay / R. E. Hodgson / R. E. Davis / W. H. Hosterman / T. E. Hienton -- Equipment for Making Hay / R. B. Gray -- The Costs and Ways of Making Hay / Albert P. Brodell / Martin R. Cooper -- Ensiling Hay and Pasture Crops / J. B. Shepherd / R. E. Hodgson / N. R. Ellis / J. R. McCalmont -- Grass and Rotations -- Grass and Yields of Cash Crops / R. E. Uhland -- Rotations for Problem Fields / R. Y. Bailey / W. M. Nixon -- Fertilizers for Grass in Rotations / W. V. Bartholomew -- The Range, A Major Resource -- How Range Forage Grows / William G. McGinnies / John L. Retzer -- The Major Range Types / E. J. Woolfolk / D. F. Costello / B. W. Allred -- Grazing on Range Lands / W. R. Chapline -- Planning Range Conservation / W. T. White / W. R. Frandsen / C. V. Jensen -- Management That Restores the Range / R. S. Campbell / Lincoln Ellison / R. G. Renner -- Restoring the Range by Reseeding / C. Kenneth Pearse / A. Perry Plummer / D. A. Savage -- Guard First the Bottom Land / R. V. Boyle / J. S. McCorkle -- Spacing Water Holes to Save Grass / B. W. Allred / Howard Matson -- Grass and Water and Trees / Chas. A. Connaughton -- Wildlife, a Resource of the Range / R. J. Costley / P. F. Allan / Odell Julander / D. I. Rasmussen -- Rodents, Rabbits, and Grasslands / E. R. Kalmbach -- How To Control Noxious Plants / Joseph F. Pechanec / Charles E. Fisher / Kenneth W. Parker -- Enemies of Grass -- Some Diseases of Forage Grasses / J. Lewis Allison -- Some Diseases of Forage Legumes / Howard W. Johnson -- Some of the Insects / C. M. Packard -- Points To Be Stressed - What Makes a Nutritious Forage? / J. T. Sullivan / H. L. Wilkins -- Manure and Grass-Farming / Firman E. Bear / Carl B. Bender -- Grass for Happier Living -- Sod Is Ideal for Playing Fields / Fanny-Fern Davis / George E. Harrington -- Pointers on Making Good Lawns / Fred V. Grau / Marvin H. Ferguson -- Greenswards in the Cooler Regions / H. B. Musser / J. A. De France -- Greenswards in the Warmer Regions / G. W. Burton / D. G. Sturkie -- Safety and Beauty for Highways / Frank H. Brant / Marvin H. Ferguson -- Airfields and Flight Strips / Ralph H. Morrish / Alton E. Rabbitt / Golf Is Played on Grass / Fred V. Grau / O. J. Noer -- The Search for Better Grass -- The Breeder's Ways and Means / D. C. Smith -- The Need for See Is Urgent / E. A. Hollowell / H. M. Tysdal -- Wanted: A Paragon for the Range / Wesley Keller -- Immigrants to Our Grasslands / C. O. Erlanson -- Domesticated Grasses in Conservation / A. L. Hafenrichter / A. D. Stoesz -- Improved Varieties of Alfalfa / H. M. Tysdal -- Clovers That Make a Crop / E. A. Hollowell -- The Other Pasture Legumes / Roland McKee -- Developing Grasses for Special Uses / H. B. Musser / G. W. Burton / H. A. Schoth -- Some Aspects of Economics -- The Long-Time Outlook / Reed A. Phillips -- Marketing and Transportation / Knute Bjorka / W. F. Finner -- Adjustments That Seem Necessary / C. W. Crickman --GRASS IN THE TEN REGIONS -- The Northeastern States -- Grassland Is Well Suited / Vance G. Sprague / Merton S. Parsons -- Permanent Pastures / Vance G. Sprague -- Semipermanent Pastures / Vance G. Sprague -- Annual or Temporary Pastures / Vance G. Sprague -- For Beef Cattle and Other Stock / Vance G. Sprague -- Hay Lands in the Northeast / Vance G. Sprague -- Grass for Conservation / E. B. Coffman -- Forage as a Part of Farming / Merton S. Parsons / Irving F. Fellows -- Principles and Problems / Vance G. Sprague / Merton S. Parsons -- Corn Belt and Lake States / Henry L. Ahlgren -- This Prosperous, Blessed Land -- First, the Care of the Soil -- Native Forages and New Forages -- Mixtures of Grasses and Legumes -- Getting Grass and Legumes To Grow -- How To Manage Grasslands -- Some Dangers To Guard Against -- The Processing and Use of Forage -- Grass and Legume Seed Production -- Grasslands in the South -- A Wide and Versatile Empire / Roy L. Lovvorn -- Starting and Maintaining Good Pastures / Hugh W. Bennett / Roy L. Lovvorn -- Hay and Supplemental Grazing / T. H. Rogers / George E. Ritchey -- Use and Importance of Pastures / J. C. Lowery / E. N. Fergus -- Grazing on Forested Lands / John T. Cassady / W. O. Shepherd -- This Is Our Unfinished Business / W. W. Woodhouse, Jr. / R. E. Blaser -- The Northern Great Plains -- Where Elbowroom Is Ample / George A. Rogler / Leon C. Hurtt -- The Place of Grassland Farming / M. M. Kelso -- The Types of Plains Vegetation / Leon C. Hurtt -- For a Better Range Management / Leon C. Hurtt -- Cultivated Grasses for Pastures / George A. Rogler -- Management of Seeded Pastures / George A. Rogler -- Hay, Fodder, and Silage Crops / L. C. Newell -- The Southern Great Plains -- The Region and Its Needs / D. A. Savage / D. F. Costello -- Dry-Land Pastures on the Plains / D. A. Savage / James E. Smith / D. F. Costello -- Range Management / D. A. Savage / D. F. Costello -- The Production of Seed / D. A. Savage / James E. Smith -- The Mountain Region -- Grass and Water Keep the Keys / George Stewart -- Pastures and Natural Meadows / George Stewart -- Cultivated Forage Crops / Wesley Keller / H. R. Hochmuth -- The Foundation of the Range / Raymond Price / Kenneth W. Parker / A. C. Hull, Jr. -- Range Practices and Problems / Raymond Price / Kenneth W. Parker / A. C. Hull, Jr. -- Grass as a Savings Account / Raymond Price / Kenneth W. Parker / A. C. Hull, Jr. -- Improvement Through Reseeding / George Stewart / Wesley Keller -- Conservation Problems and Practices / Raymond Price -- The Pacific Coast States -- The Range in California / M. W. Talbot / A. W. Sampson -- Forage Crops in California / B. A. Madsen / R. Merton Love -- Trees, Grass, and Water / Joseph F. Pechanec -- Grassland in Western Washington / E. J. Kreizinger / Alvin G. Law -- The Use of Logged-Off Land / H. B. Howell / Our Newest Farming Country / H. A. Schoth -- Grasslands in Alaska / O. S. Aamodt / G. W. Gasser -- Grasslands in Hawaii / J. C. Ripperton -- Grasslands in Puerto Rico / Ray C. Roberts -- Grass: Green, Grain, Grow -- The Family Tree of Gramineae / William A. Dayton -- The Main Grasses for Farm and Home / Max M. Hoover / M. A. Hein / William A. Dayton / C. O. Erlanson -- The Legumes of Many Uses / Roland McKee -- A General View of the Leguminosae -- The Main Species of Legumes -- Cousins and Companions -- Weeds Are Plants Our of Place / William A. Dayton -- Poisonous Plants / William A. Dayton -- Grasses Can Be Ornamental / Roland McKee -- Bamboos for Farm and Home / F. A. McClure -- GRASS IN CHARTS AND TABLES -- Data on the Seed and Culture of Common Grasses and Legumes -- Data on Grasslands in the Corn Belt and Lake States -- Pasture and Forage Crops Recommended for the Southern States -- The Great Plains: Tables of Seeding and Other Information -- Hawaii: Pasture Species, Their Forage Value and Distribution -- The Mountain Region: Recommendations for Seeding and Other Data -- Some Factors That Affect the Future of Grassland Farming -- Where To Write for Information on Activities Relating Grasslands -- List of Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States
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Principles of energy / by Renneboog, Richard,editor.(CARDINAL)891845; Grey House Publishing, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)381300; Salem Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)521037;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Aerobic cellular respiration -- Air conditioning -- Alternative energy -- Ampere, Andre-Marie -- Animal power -- Atomic Energy Commission -- Batteries -- Biodiesel -- Biomass energy -- Boilers -- Breeder reactors -- Building envelope -- Capacity (electricity) -- Cellulosic ethanol -- Chernobyl -- China Syndrome (nuclear meltdown) -- Clausius, Rudolf -- Climate and weather -- Climate neutrality -- Coal and energy production -- Cogeneration and electricity generation -- Cold fusion -- Communication to garner support for energy development -- Computers and energy use -- Corn ethanol -- Dams -- Daylighting -- Demand-Side Management (DSM) -- Diesel, Rudolf -- Einstein, Albert -- Electric grids -- Electric potential -- Electricity energy transmission, secondary -- Embodied energy -- Energy and power -- Energy conservation -- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 -- Energy intensity -- Energy payback -- Energy policy -- Energy poverty -- Energy storage techniques -- Enthalpy -- Entropy -- Exergy -- External combustion engine -- Faraday, Michael -- Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFV) -- Flywheels -- Fossil fuels -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Frequency -- Fuel cells and energy efficiency -- Fundamentals of energy -- Gas energy transmission -- Gasoline and other petroleum fuels -- Geothermal and hydrothermal energy -- Geothermal energy -- Gibbs, Josiah Willard -- Green buildings -- Green energy certification -- Greenhouse gases and human industry -- Heat transfer -- Helmholtz, Hermann von -- Hertz, Heinrich -- High-intensity Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and energy conservation -- Hybrid vehicles and energy security -- Industrial Revolution and machine power -- Internal combustion engine -- Isotopes, radioactive -- Isotopes, stable -- Joule, James -- Kinetic energy -- Liquid fluid energy transmission -- Mechanical energy transmission -- Natural energy flows -- Natural gas -- Nuclear power plants -- Ocean current energy -- Ocean thermal energy conversion -- Ocean wave energy -- Oil and petroleum -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Otto, Nikolaus -- Photovoltaics (PVs) -- Potential energy -- Propane -- Rankine, William -- Renewable energy -- Renewable energy resources -- Rotational power -- Sadi Carnot -- Solar concentrator -- Solar energy -- Solar thermal systems -- Steam and steam turbines -- Steam engines -- Stirling, Robert -- Sugar beet ethanol -- Sugarcane ethanol -- Sun Day -- Tesla, Nikola -- Thermochemistry -- Thermodynamics and energy -- Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) -- Thomson, Joseph John -- Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) -- Tidal power generation -- Units of measurement -- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- Volta, Alessandro -- Waste heat recovery -- Watt, James -- Watt -- Wave properties -- Wavelength -- Westinghouse, George -- Wheat ethanol -- Willis Carrier and air conditioning -- Wind energy -- Work and energy -- Work-energy theorem.Energy, the capacity of an object to do work, is one of the most fundamental principles, affecting nearly every aspect of life on this planet. This volume in the Principles of Science series provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to energy, covering basic concepts, possibilities, ethical issues, and potential consequences of energy.
Subjects: Reference works.; Force and energy.; Power (Mechanics); Power resources.;
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Physics for future presidents : the science behind the headlines / by Muller, R.(Richard)(CARDINAL)749215;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index.Learn the science behind the headlines in this work that outlines the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming.
Subjects: Physics; Science and state.; Science in mass media.;
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