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An investigation begun in 1937 by the United States and the Oklahoma Geological Surveys, has shown that the depth to the water table in the Oklahoma Panhandle ranges from less than 25 feet in parts of major valleys to about 3oo feet in parts of the uplands. In 8 upland areas the depth is between 50 and 100 feet. The thi kness of the zone of saturation differs widely in these areas, the most promising of which totals about 80 square miles in northeastern Texas County. The pervious sands and gravels of the Ogallala formation, of Pliocene age, furnish most of the ground water, and one well yielding 960 gallons a minute from them has been used for irrigation since x937. The formation ranges from less than xoo to more than 500 feet thick, the differences being due to relief on the pre-Ogallala topography and to post-Ogallala erosion. The alluvium is also an important source of water, as are the Dakota and Cheyenne sandstones, of Cretaceous age. A few wells yield water of variable quality from Jurassic and Triassic rocks, and many wells in the valleys of the eastern part of the area yield small supplies of highly mineralized water from Permian red beds. © 1940 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc

","language":"English","publisher":"Society of Economic Geologists ","doi":"10.2113/gsecongeo.35.4.534","issn":"03610128","usgsCitation":"Schoff, S., 1940, Ground water in the Oklahoma Panhandle: Economic Geology, v. 35, no. 4, p. 534-545, https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.35.4.534.","productDescription":"12 p. ","startPage":"534","endPage":"545","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":370293,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States ","state":"Oklahoma","otherGeospatial":"Panhandle ","geographicExtents":"{\"type\":\"FeatureCollection\",\"features\":[{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"type\":\"Polygon\",\"coordinates\":[[[-100.9441,36.9988],[-100.6337,36.9986],[-100.1079,36.9983],[-100.0902,36.9983],[-100.0024,36.9985],[-100.004,36.8538],[-100.0044,36.76],[-100.0045,36.5917],[-100.0044,36.5849],[-100.0038,36.4998],[-100.1458,36.4998],[-100.3204,36.4999],[-100.5459,36.4994],[-100.7022,36.5],[-100.8939,36.4998],[-100.9524,36.4998],[-101.0908,36.5003],[-101.6255,36.5025],[-101.87,36.5034],[-102.1618,36.5004],[-103.0007,36.5013],[-103.0007,36.5905],[-103.0007,36.6732],[-103.0007,36.7643],[-103.0008,36.9341],[-103.0009,36.999],[-102.7973,36.9988],[-102.7859,36.9988],[-102.7808,36.9986],[-102.7016,36.9958],[-102.6943,36.9957],[-102.6757,36.9956],[-102.5627,36.9962],[-102.5372,36.9963],[-102.5034,36.9963],[-102.4775,36.9963],[-102.4577,36.9961],[-102.3931,36.9955],[-102.351,36.9951],[-102.3247,36.9948],[-102.0423,36.9922],[-102.0417,36.9922],[-102.0281,36.9925],[-101.9881,36.9925],[-101.918,36.9929],[-101.5552,36.9951],[-101.544,36.9952],[-101.2679,36.9967],[-101.0671,36.9978],[-100.9536,36.9988],[-100.9441,36.9988]]]},\"properties\":{\"name\":\"Beaver\",\"state\":\"OK\"}}]}","volume":"35","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"1940-06-01","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Schoff, S.L.","contributorId":107365,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Schoff","given":"S.L.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":777542,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":1014313,"text":"1014313 - 1940 - Scyphidia micropteri, a new protozoan parasite of largemouth and smallmouth black bass","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-12-14T19:33:34.924728","indexId":"1014313","displayToPublicDate":"1939-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1940","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3624,"text":"Transactions of the American Fisheries Society","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Scyphidia micropteri, a new protozoan parasite of largemouth and smallmouth black bass","docAbstract":"

A small urn‐shaped peritrichous protozoan, apparently an undescribed species, was found on the gills and bodies of largemouth and smallmouth black bass in ponds at Leetown, West Virginia. A heavy mortality among a lot of fingerling largemouth bass probably resulted from suffocation due to the organisms on the gills. Specimens of the parasite, preserved in formalin, measured about 57 microns in length and 24 microns in maximum width. The base of the animal consists of a circular disc about 6 microns in diameter. No evidence was found that the sucker‐like attachment disc penetrated the epidermal cells of the host causing necrotic tissue. The anterior or upper end of the animal has a ciliary disc and two rows of cilia. The body is without cilia and is annulared. The macronucleus is very large, has the shape of an inverted cone and occupies much of the lower half of the body. The small micronucleus apparently lies in the slightly concave surface of the upper part of the macronucleus, although there is doubt on this point. This new species was named Scyphidia micropteri after Micropterus, the generic name of the smallmouth black bass, one of its hosts. The species recently was found by Dr. H. S. Davis on gills of largemouth black bass collected in Radnor Lake, Tennessee, which indicates a wide geographical distribution of the parasite.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Fisheries Society","doi":"10.1577/1548-8659(1939)69[169:SMANPP]2.0.CO;2","usgsCitation":"Surber, E.W., 1940, Scyphidia micropteri, a new protozoan parasite of largemouth and smallmouth black bass: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, v. 69, no. 1, p. 169-175, https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1939)69[169:SMANPP]2.0.CO;2.","productDescription":"7 p.","startPage":"169","endPage":"175","numberOfPages":"7","costCenters":[{"id":365,"text":"Leetown Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":131973,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"69","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a0ce4b07f02db5fc6cc","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Surber, E. 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It had long been the custom for families to come from considerable distances on horseback and in wagons and camp near the springs, in order to drink the water. In course of time a primitive town, known as Sulphur Springs, grew up near a group of springs known since as Pavilion Springs at the mouth of Sulphur Creek, now known as Travertine Creek. This town was still in existence at the time of my first visit to the locality in July, 1901. At this time, in company with Joseph A. Taff, of the United States Geological Survey, I spent a week riding over the country making a preliminary survey looking toward the setting aside of the area for a National Park.\r\n\r\nAfter the establishment of the National Park, the old town of Sulphur Springs was abandoned, and when the present boundaries of the park had been established the present town of Sulphur, now county seat of Murray County, grew up.\r\n\r\nIn July 1906, on request of Superintendent Joseph F. Swords, I visited the park and made an examination of the various springs and submitted a report, dated August 15, 1906, to Secretary of the Interior E.A. Hitchcock. Copies of this report are on file in the Regional Office and at Platt National Park. In this report I set forth the approximate amount of flow of the various springs, the character of the water in each, and the conditions of the springs as of that date. I also made certain recommendations regarding proposed improvements of each spring.\r\n\r\nIn this report I say: 'In the town of Sulphur, four wells have been drilled to a depth of between 450 and 500 feet in which artesian water has been secured. These wells are said to flow 200,000 gallons each per day.'\r\n\r\nI also say: 'From a study of the log of one of these wells, it appears that the artesian water is derived from the upper part of the Simpson sandstone. It is very probable that the water of the springs is derived from the same source.'\r\n\r\nThis early was recognized the relation between the water from the mineral springs and that from the artesian wells.\r\n\r\nAs the years have passed, other wells have been drilled in the town of Sulphur, chiefly to supply water for mineral baths and for swimming pools, so that to date more than 30 wells have been drilled. The exact number is not known. The custom has usually been to turn the wells loose and permit them to flow at full capacity, although some of the wells have been 'valved in' and the flow reduced. An estimate furnished me by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in 1937, referred to later in this report, indicated that at that time 16 wells were flowing approximately 28,800,000 gallons of water per day, practically all of which ran to waste.\r\n\r\nFor many years geologists in Oklahoma and elsewhere have watched this unrestricted waste of water from the artesian wells at Sulphur with growing concern. Remembering the history of other artesian basins throughout the world, these geologists believed that in all probability it was only a question of time until the water in the Sulphur artesian basin would begin to fail. On two different occasions the State Geologist of Oklahoma, bearing these conditions in mind, has prepared and had introduced into the State Legislature a bill which, if enacted into law, would have regulated the flow of water in artesian wells throughout the State. Both bills died in committee.\r\n\r\nPartly on account of the drought of the past three years, the matter has been brought to a head. In September 1938, Buffalo and Antelope Springs at the hea","language":"English","doi":"10.3133/ofr3914","usgsCitation":"Gould, C.N., and Schoff, S.L., 1939, Geological report on water conditions at Platt National Park, Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 39-14, 38 leaves, [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr3914.","productDescription":"38 leaves, [10] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":183448,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg"}],"noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4adce4b07f02db68647d","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Gould, Charles Newton","contributorId":37309,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Gould","given":"Charles","email":"","middleInitial":"Newton","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":258160,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Schoff, Stuart Leeson","contributorId":57951,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Schoff","given":"Stuart","email":"","middleInitial":"Leeson","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":258161,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}} ,{"id":1238,"text":"wsp842 - 1939 - Floods in the Canadian and Pecos River basins of New Mexico, May and June 1937","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2022-01-31T22:12:44.831439","indexId":"wsp842","displayToPublicDate":"1994-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":341,"text":"Water Supply Paper","code":"WSP","active":false,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"842","title":"Floods in the Canadian and Pecos River basins of New Mexico, May and June 1937","docAbstract":"In May and June floods occurred in the Canadian and Pecos River Basins of New Mexico that were unusually high and in many places were record breaking. \r\n\r\nThe floods were caused by heavy rains that occurred over the eastern part of the State from May 23 to June 4 in a series of intense and intermittent storms. During these storms of the cloudburst type as much as 12 inches of rain fell in the 13-day period, and a fall of 7 inches in 2 hours and 40 minutes was reported from the vicinity of Clayton. Heavy rains also fell in the mountainous region west of Roswell, amounting to as much as l0 inches at some places. Much of the region that had excessive rainfall is relatively flat and has no well-defined drainage system. From these areas there was very little run-off and practically no water was contributed to the major streams. \r\n\r\nHail fell at many places in eastern New Mexico, causing damage to crops, livestock, and other property. Hail fell somewhere in the Canadian and Pecos River Basins almost every day during the storm period, but the duration of the fall was generally short. The largest hailstones were reported from Clayton, where one stone measured 8 inches in circumference and weighed 9 ounces; at Centerville, where reports state that some stones were 9 to 10 inches in circumference; and near Roswell, where it was reported that six stones would fill a gallon bucket. The Canadian River flood reached a peak at Logan of 110,000 second-feet, which has been exceeded in this century only by the floods of 1904, 1909, and 1914. The total run-off at Logan for the flood period has been computed as 653,800 acre-feet. \r\n\r\nAt Santa Rosa the Pecos River reached a maximum discharge of 88,200 second-feet, which is greater than any previously recorded. This flood was partly stored in the Alamogordo Reservoir; the peak below the reservoir was only 25,200 second-feet. \r\n\r\nThe Pecos River flood at Roswell reached a maximum discharge of more than 80,000 second-feet. This water came mostly from tributaries that have .their sources in the mountainous area west of Roswell. The Cienaga del Macho, ordinarily a small dry creek, discharged about 49,800 second-feet at its peak. The Rio Hondo experienced several flood peaks, the largest at Roswell probably being near 20,000 second-feet. Berrendo Creek, which enters the Rio Hondo near Roswell, had a computed peak discharge of 37,700 second-feet. \r\n\r\nRoswell was subjected to several floods that inundated large areas of the town. Considerable damage was done by the water, which covered nearly all the area occupied by the town. \r\n\r\nLake McMillan, an artificial reservoir on the Pecos River about 12 miles above Carlsbad, was put to a severe strain by the large quantity of water passing through it, but no serious damage resulted. The capacity of the lake at spillway level is about 39,000 acre-feet, but at the peak of the flood the lake held about 86,000 acre-feet. The total quantity of water passing through the lake during the flood period was more than 440,000 acre-feet. \r\n\r\nThis report presents data pertinent to the floods of May and June 1937, including results of peak discharge determinations made at about 14 miscellaneous places, records of peak stages and discharges and of mean daily discharges during the flood period at 23 regular river-measurement stations, records of rainfall at about 190 places, an isohyetal map showing rainfall over the entire State and two isohyetal maps showing rainfall over the Canadian and Pecos River Basins, and a discussion of the weather conditions during the flood period, including an upper-air wind and pressure chart of the United States for May 28, 1937. In addition to the information listed above the report includes a summary of records of past floods at all places in New Mexico at which authentic records were available.","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","doi":"10.3133/wsp842","usgsCitation":"Dalrymple, T., 1939, Floods in the Canadian and Pecos River basins of New Mexico, May and June 1937: U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 842, iv, 68 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp842.","productDescription":"iv, 68 p.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":395197,"rank":3,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index Page"},"url":"https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_24657.htm"},{"id":26167,"rank":300,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/0842/report.pdf","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"}},{"id":138090,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/0842/report-thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New Mexico","otherGeospatial":"Canadian and Pecos River basins","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -109,\n 32\n ],\n [\n -103,\n 32\n ],\n [\n -103,\n 37\n ],\n [\n -109,\n 37\n ],\n [\n -109,\n 32\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4b28e4b07f02db6b1170","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Dalrymple, Tate","contributorId":59420,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Dalrymple","given":"Tate","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":143423,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214135,"text":"70214135 - 1939 - Fluctuations in artesian pressure produced by passing railroad‐trains as shown in a well on Long Island, New York","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-23T18:33:10.237891","indexId":"70214135","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-23T13:26:13","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Fluctuations in artesian pressure produced by passing railroad‐trains as shown in a well on Long Island, New York","docAbstract":"

Perhaps one of the chief interests of ground‐water hydrologists is the study of water‐level fluctuations. Since the beginning of the science of hydrology attempts have been made to interpret these phenomena and determine their significance. On the basis of actual observations and “with special reference to Long Island, New York,” Veatch [see 1 of “References” at end of paper] in 1906 considered in some detail several different causes of water‐level fluctuations. He placed the known causes under two general headings, natural and human. However, considering proximate rather than ultimate causes a further classification might be, and indeed often is, made with regard to the conditions under which the fluctuations are produced by a given agency, natural or human. Thus we speak of ”water‐table conditions“ and ”artesian conditions,“ realizing, however, that the distinction between the two is not always definite. The phenomena peculiar to artesian conditions are usually the result merely of the imperviousness of the confining beds relative to the particular aquifer under consideration. Indeed, it is recognized that perhaps even the most dense clay is not absolutely impervious to the flow of water, given a difference in head, sufficient to produce the flow, though it may be beyond the precision of the means now employed to detect the flow of water through such impervious strata.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00666","usgsCitation":"Jacob, C.E., 1939, Fluctuations in artesian pressure produced by passing railroad‐trains as shown in a well on Long Island, New York: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 666-674, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00666.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"666","endPage":"674","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378703,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New York","otherGeospatial":"Long Island","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 40.52423878069866\n ],\n [\n -72.35595703125,\n 40.52423878069866\n ],\n [\n -72.35595703125,\n 41.0130657870063\n ],\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 41.0130657870063\n ],\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 40.52423878069866\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Jacob, C. E.","contributorId":64504,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jacob","given":"C.","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799535,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214129,"text":"70214129 - 1939 - Part III—Fundamental research in geophysics relating to prospecting","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-23T16:44:37.394806","indexId":"70214129","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-23T11:39:07","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Part III—Fundamental research in geophysics relating to prospecting","docAbstract":"

In addition to projects such as those reported in parts I and II above, the Section of Geophysics of the Federal Government has undertaken a considerable amount of fundamental research.

Two such field‐projects may be mentioned, one a magnetometric study in the Comstock District of Nevada, and the other a resistivity‐study of snow and ice. In addition to the field‐problems, there have been two classes of research of a mathematical type. One of these has been the preparation of tables, scales, and charts for the important geophysical functions already known; the other has been the extension of the relations involved in the resistivity‐problem.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i003p00298","usgsCitation":"Roman, I., 1939, Part III—Fundamental research in geophysics relating to prospecting: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 3, p. 298-303, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i003p00298.","productDescription":"6 p.","startPage":"298","endPage":"303","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378697,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"3","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Roman, Irwin","contributorId":57834,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Roman","given":"Irwin","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799529,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214128,"text":"70214128 - 1939 - Report of committee on relation of inch and meter","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-23T16:37:30.972646","indexId":"70214128","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-23T11:27:53","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of committee on relation of inch and meter","docAbstract":"

Those of you who attended the annual meeting of this Section on April 27, 1938, heard a paper entitled “A method for introducing a new standard of length” that was presented by Professor Philip Klssara, calling attention to the Bill then in Congress proposing to redefine the length of the inch. The paper has been published in the “Transactions of the American Geophysical Union“ [19th Annual Meeting, 1938, pp. 94–96]. Its closing paragraph is as follows:

“As the American Geophysical Union has as one of its functions the duty of offering advice to the Congress on technical matters, I move, Mr. Chairman, that the Chairman be empowered to appoint a committee to study the matter and to report what recommendations should be made to Congress by the Union.”

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i003p00306","usgsCitation":"Wilson, R., 1939, Report of committee on relation of inch and meter: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 3, p. 306-308, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i003p00306.","productDescription":"3 p","startPage":"306","endPage":"308","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378696,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"3","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Wilson, R.M.","contributorId":100417,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Wilson","given":"R.M.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799528,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214049,"text":"70214049 - 1939 - Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-21T19:44:38.413547","indexId":"70214049","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T14:31:24","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff","docAbstract":"

In the prediction of spring runoff from precipitation‐records or snow‐surveys, one of the factors which seems to require consideration is the amount of water held in ground‐storage. The determination of the quantity of water in ground‐storage is a difficult problem involving soil‐sampling, measurements of ground‐water wells, and measurements of the flow of small streams and springs. It has occurred to the writer that selected stream‐flow records for either the late fall or early spring might provide a better index of the ground‐water available for spring runoff than that obtained by other methods. This would involve a comparison of runoff in the fall with runoff in the spring, and might eliminate uncertainties in the relation of a reservoir‐level in the fall with runoff in the spring. Such a method would be especially desirable because of the availability of stream‐flow records. The discussion which follows is more an explanation of the method to be used than an attempt to develop an accurate formula for the prediction of spring runoff.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i001p00117","usgsCitation":"Eagle, H., 1939, Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 1, p. 117-221, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i001p00117.","productDescription":"5 p.","startPage":"117","endPage":"221","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378635,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Eagle, H.C.","contributorId":241010,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Eagle","given":"H.C.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799333,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214042,"text":"70214042 - 1939 - Report of committee on glaciers, April 1939","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-22T14:00:03.67803","indexId":"70214042","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T12:55:36","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of committee on glaciers, April 1939","docAbstract":"

The Committee on Glaciers at present is constituted as follows:

Harry Fielding Reid—Professor‐Emeritus of Geology, Johns Hopkins University (former member of the International Glacier Commission), 608 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland

William H. Hobbs—Professor‐Emeritus of Geology, University of Michigan (until recently Vice‐ President of the International Glacier Commission, at present associate member), Ann Arbor, Michigan

J. E. Church—Professor of Classics, University of Nevada (President of the International Commission of Snow, and Chairman of the Committee on Snow of the Section of Hydrology, American Geophysical Union), Reno, Nevada

Colonel Lawrence Martin—Chief of the Division of Maps, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. Wm. Osgood Field, Jr.—Explorer, 18 West Twelfth Street, New York, N.Y.

Earl A. Trager—Chief of the Naturalist Division, National Park Service, Washington, D. C.

Glenn L. Parker—District Engineer, Water Resources Branch, United States Geological Survey, 406 Federal Building, Tacoma, Washington

Oliver Kehrlein—Chairman, Committee on Glacier Studies, Sierra Club, 1050 Mills Tower, San Francisco, California

Kenneth N. Phillips—Associate Hydraulic Engineer, Water Resources Branch, United States Geological Survey, Chairman, Research Committee of the Mazamas, 606 Post‐Office Building, Portland, Oregon

William S. Cooper—Professor of Botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Gerald FitzGerald, Senior Topographic Engineer, Alaska Branch, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.

Laurence M. Gould, Professor of Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

François E. Matthes, Chairman, Senior Geologist, Section of Glacial Geology, United States Geological Survey (titular member of the International Glacier Commission), Washington, D.C.

In 1938, as in previous years, the Committee devoted its energies primarily to the collecting of data on the variations in length and volume of American glaciers, it being felt that the maintenance of a continuous record of these variations is of prime importance, not only to hydrology and glaciology, but, as has become increasingly evident recently, also to climatology, geomorphology, geography, ecology, history, and archaeology. As the time available for the work of the Committee is limited and does not permit covering the entire field of glaciology, it seems best to devote it before all else to this line of research which yields results of value to so many different sciences. Besides, the gathering of data on glacier‐oscillations is not a one‐man job that can be taken up or dropped at convenience from time to time, but is an organized and far‐flung enterprise whose success depends upon the faithful cooperation of many volunteer workers located in different parts of the country. Such an enterprise, once launched, must be kept running or it will disintegrate and the precious enthusiasm of the field‐workers will be lost.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00518","usgsCitation":"Matthes, F., 1939, Report of committee on glaciers, April 1939: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 518-523, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00518.","productDescription":"6 p.","startPage":"518","endPage":"523","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378630,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Matthes, Francois E.","contributorId":240914,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Matthes","given":"Francois E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799327,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":1000440,"text":"1000440 - 1939 - The age, growth, sexual maturity, and sex ratio of the common whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill), of Lake Huron","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2012-02-02T00:04:13","indexId":"1000440","displayToPublicDate":"1939-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3008,"text":"Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"The age, growth, sexual maturity, and sex ratio of the common whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill), of Lake Huron","docAbstract":"During five years (1939-43) of nutritional research on pen-reared bobwhite quail at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Bowie, Maryland, observations on picking among birds of all ages showed the following results: 1. Picking occurred on all grains tested: corn, wheat, oats, oat groats, barley, millet, buckwheat, kaffir, and mixtures of cereals. The lowest incidence was with buckwheat as the sole grain in a growing diet....2. Picking occurred on all levels of fiber from one to 11per cent in a growing diet....3. Picking occurred on various grinds of corn, barley, and oats, but was least when these cereals were ground in a hammer mill with 3/32 inch mesh screen....4. The incidence was as high on diets containing animal protein as on those containing no animal protein. ....5. After picking began, the addition of one or two per cent of salt to the diet for several days was effective, in many instances, in checking the disorder. Results at the Refuge and the answers to questionnaires from 222 private propagators of gamebirds showed that in two-thirds. of the cases, treatment with an increased quantity of salt successfully stopped the trouble. As a preventative, however, salt was of little value. Picking occurred on both low and high levels of salt.....6. Supplementing the regular diet with certain feed concentrates such as fishmeal, soybean oil meal, liver meal, or chopped greens offered in a separate feeder for a day or two, was as efficacious as the addition of salt.....7. More picking occurred among quail chicks on a 22 per cent level of protein than on higher levels.....8. There was less picking on diets relished by the birds than on those seemingly unpalatable.....9. There was no correlation. between the amount of floor space per chick and the incidence of picking.....10. Increasing the feeding and drinking space seemed to have a marked beneficial effect.....11. Some adult birds on wire floors resorted to self-picking of their feet after the toes were frost-bitten.","largerWorkType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"largerWorkTitle":"Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters","largerWorkSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"language":"English","collaboration":"Out-of-print","usgsCitation":"Van Oosten, J., 1939, The age, growth, sexual maturity, and sex ratio of the common whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchill), of Lake Huron: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, v. 24, no. Part 2, p. 195-221.","productDescription":"p. 195-221","startPage":"195","endPage":"221","numberOfPages":"26","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":129285,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"24","issue":"Part 2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4aaae4b07f02db6697db","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Van Oosten, John","contributorId":23479,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Van Oosten","given":"John","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308553,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":1000399,"text":"1000399 - 1939 - Migratory fish, a problem of interstate cooperation?","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2012-02-02T00:04:15","indexId":"1000399","displayToPublicDate":"1939-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3637,"text":"Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Migratory fish, a problem of interstate cooperation?","docAbstract":"Bobwhite quail chicks, when given a choice of balanced diets in which the essential difference was the protein supplement, showed preferences for one diet containing 49 per cent peanut oil meal, another containing a mixture of 9 per cent meat and bone scraps (50% protein) with 38 per cent soybean oil meal, and a third (control) diet containing a mixture of 16 per cent dried buttermilk with 42 per cent soybean oil meal, in contrast to diets containing sardine meal or menhaden fish meal. ....Feeding tests during the first five weeks of life showed that diets containing 14 per cent sardine fish meal consistently gave high live weights, low mortality, and high efficiency of feed utilization. Diets with 9 to 10 per cent menhaden meal produced nearly as good results....Live weights, survival, and efficiency of feed utilization were markedly better on a diet containing 9 per cent meat and bone scrap (50% protein) than on one with 9 per cent meat scrap (55% protein), but not as good as with diets containing fish meal without meat....The chicks grew and survived more successfully on diets containing either soybean oil meal or peanut oil meal as the sole protein supplement, than on diets containing either linseed oil meal, cottonseed oil meal, or dried buttermilk as the sole protein concentrate. None of these was as satisfactory as the diets containing fish meal.....All chicks died on diets containing either linseed oil meal, cottonseed oil meal, or dried buttermilk as the sole source of protein. All three of these concentrates, however, gave satisfactory results, when used as 10 per cent of the diet. In fact, survival and efficiency of feed utilization were nearly as good on a diet containing 10 per cent dried buttermilk, 10 per cent linseed oil meal, 10 per cent peanut oil meal, and 27 per cent soybean oil meal, as on diets containing fish meal. ","largerWorkType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"largerWorkTitle":"Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference","largerWorkSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"language":"English","collaboration":"Out-of-print","usgsCitation":"Van Oosten, J., Adams, W., Finley, W.L., and Westerman, F.A., 1939, Migratory fish, a problem of interstate cooperation?: Transactions of the North American Wildlife Conference, v. 4, p. 25-43.","productDescription":"p. 25-43","startPage":"25","endPage":"43","numberOfPages":"18","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":130289,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a60e4b07f02db6355b8","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Van Oosten, John","contributorId":23479,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Van Oosten","given":"John","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308507,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Adams, William C.","contributorId":55774,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Adams","given":"William C.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308508,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Finley, William L.","contributorId":21905,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Finley","given":"William","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308506,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Westerman, Fred A.","contributorId":102836,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Westerman","given":"Fred","email":"","middleInitial":"A.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308509,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}} ,{"id":70164438,"text":"70164438 - 1939 - The age, growth, and feeding habits of the whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchell), of Lake Champlain","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-02-04T09:59:11","indexId":"70164438","displayToPublicDate":"1939-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3624,"text":"Transactions of the American Fisheries Society","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"The age, growth, and feeding habits of the whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis (Mitchell), of Lake Champlain","docAbstract":"

This study is based on 120 whitefish collected in northern Lake Champlain (Missisquoi Bay) in 1930 and on 175 whitefish taken in southern Lake Champlain in 1931. Since the whitefish population had not been exploited commercially after 1912 in United States waters and after 1915 in Canadian waters, its study should be of interest in showing the characteristics of a population practically untouched by man. Data have been presented on length frequencies, age composition, growth, coefficient of condition, sex ratio, standard length-total length relationship, and feeding habits. The data indicated that the Missisquoi Bay population was disturbed (probably by the early fall seining of 1930) before our samples were taken so that the original length distributions no longer existed. The southern Lake Champlain material, however, showed a consistency which indicated that the population had not been exploited to any extensive degree, if at all. When the northern population was compared with the southern the former was found to differ from the latter in the following respects, which differences pointed to some disturbance of the northern stock in the lake

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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By possession of lower modes and smaller grand averages of length.

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By absence of very old individuals.

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By absence of a series of equally abundant age groups or, in other words, by the presence of a decided dominance of one or two age groups.

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By a radical disagreement between the sexes in their age-frequency distribution.

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By a disagreement between the sexes with respect to maximum lengths attained.

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All of the differences between the two collections could, however, not be attributed to exploitation. The following characteristics indicated the presence of two distinct populations in the lake

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Presence of a spawning ground at each end of the lake.

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Differences in calculated lengths and increments of length (growth rates).

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Differences in the actual lengths and weights of corresponding age groups at capture.

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Differences in the coefficient of condition and the length-weight relationship.

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The discovery of the presence of apparently two separate populations of whitefish in Lake Champlain was wholly unexpected by us.

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The genus Tempskya Corda, of Upper Cretaceous age in western America, is characterized by a markedly dichotomous solenostelic stem system sheathed in a felt of its own adventitious roots. A composite stemlike structure is thus formed which has been termed a false stem. 2. As primary bases for the discussion, it is assumed that the false stem is a composite \"organ\" analogous to a true stem in certain respects; that form is influenced by habit, and that lack of perfect correlation is indicative of a structural lag; and that the false stem is much more plastic than the true stem and, in consequence, a close correlation of habit and internal structure is to be expected. 3. Arguments favoring a subterranean and obliquely ascending habit for these false stemmed types are presented. Likewise, arguments suggesting an erect treefern-like habit for the radially symmetrical false stems, and a climbing habit for the dorsiventral ones are given. It is believed that the available evidence favors the erect and the liana-like habits. 4. Assuming a radial Urform, for which there is ample justification both in theoretical morphology and in the Paleozoic record, the dorsiventral morphology of fern stems may be regarded as developed towards the close of the Paleozoic as an adaptation to rigorous climates which are known to have produced striking changes in the organic landscape. 5. From one of these early dorsiventral types with a dichotomous stem system, Tempskya may have been derived through the development of the scandent and tree-climbing habit, aided by the production of a mass of adventitious roots. Thus the false stem could be developed. 6. It follows that the more primitive habit in Tempskya is logically the climbing one reflected by the dorsiventral false stem. Old age of individuals may have been characterized by self-saprophytism and finally epiphytism. 7. The radial forms, it is believed, were developed from these dorsiventral climbing types as a result of the assumption of the free, upright habit. This may have been accidental or the result of a progressive increase in rigidity of the false stem due to increase in true stem size.","largerWorkType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"largerWorkTitle":"Lloydia","largerWorkSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"language":"English","issn":"01633864","usgsCitation":"Read, C., 1939, The evolution of habit in Tempskya: Lloydia, v. 2, no. 1, p. 63-72.","startPage":"63","endPage":"72","numberOfPages":"10","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":221724,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"2","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"505babe3e4b08c986b323146","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Read, C.B.","contributorId":77202,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Read","given":"C.B.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":360324,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70206635,"text":"70206635 - 1938 - Igneous activity in the Comstock District, Nevada","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2024-09-24T17:54:41.442648","indexId":"70206635","displayToPublicDate":"1938-08-31T12:12:15","publicationYear":"1938","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Igneous activity in the Comstock District, Nevada","title":"Igneous activity in the Comstock District, Nevada","docAbstract":"

The oldest igneous rocks in the Comstock District are amphibolites probably derived from basalts and of Triassic age. These are intruded by pre‐Tertiary quartz monzonlte and by granodiorite of Sierran facies, the latter not being exposed on the surface but found on mine‐dumps. Igneous activity recorded mainly in volcanic rocks was almost continuous throughout the Tertiary. Its products, in order of age, were as follows: Eocene—Rhyolitic flows aggregating a few hundred feet in thickness: One intrusive plug of rhyolite occurs. Eocene or Miocene—Hornblende‐auglte andesite intrusive into the rhyolite, type locality American Ravine. ©1938. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

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More than 15,000 tons of manganese ore has been produced from small deposits in the Drum Mountains in west-central Utah. Lenses of rhodochrosite, now largely weathered near the surface to manganese oxides, lie parallel to the bedding of Cambrian dolomites and shales near faults that are nearly normal to bedding. Two varieties of rhodochrosite, one fine-grained, dark-gray or black, and massive, the other coarser-grained, pink, and generally occurring in veinlets in the gray variety, are present. The gray contains less MnCO 3 and FeCO 3 , but more CaCO 3 and MgCO 3 than the pink variety. The deposits are interpreted as bodies that replaced favorable dolomite or limestone beds. The gray rhodochrosite first replaced the dolomite or limestone; the pink variety later formed veinlets in the gray rhodochrosite and replaced it to a small extent.

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The Little Hatchet Mountains contain two mining districts, the Eureka silver-lead-zinc district and the Sylvanite gold district, the deposits of each being associated with a mass of monzonite that intrudes Lower Cretaceous sediments. The same formations crop out in both districts, having been duplicated by a large post-ore fault, and the two monzonite masses and their accompanying mineralized zones lie at essentially the same stratigraphic position in the two fault blocks. The deposits of the Eureka district are mesothermal whereas those of the Sylvanite district are hypothermal, but the two groups are mineralogically similar in many respects.As the two monzonite exposures are several miles apart, the natural inference is that there are two separate intrusions. Contrary to this inference, the evidence of structure, mineralogy, and petrology indicates that the two monzonite masses are faulted parts of the same body and that the mineralized areas of the Eureka and Sylvanite districts were originally continuous and zonally related, the original igneous mass having been a flat-lying sill-like streamer, 7 miles or more long, that was bordered by a contact-metamorphic halo and that formed the core of a zone of mineralization.The economic implications of this interpretation are three-fold: (1) the mineralized zone is limited in thickness and is restricted, like a bedded deposit, to a particular sedimentary horizon; (2) the area between the Eureka and Sylvanite districts, hitherto considered barren, should contain mineralized ground at variable depths below the surface; and (3) the deposits change along the trend of the zone from the gold deposits of the one district to the silver-bearing base-metal deposits of the other. In structure and size the deposits in the hidden parts of the mineralized zone probably are similar to those already known. Under the alternative interpretation that the two districts are separate centers of activity, the outlook for future successful prospecting depends upon the depths at which the underlying Paleozoic limestones lie and the possibility of large deposits having been formed in them.

","language":"English","publisher":"Society of Economic Geologists","doi":"10.2113/gsecongeo.33.4.365","usgsCitation":"Lasky, S.G., 1938, Outlook for further ore discoveries in the Little Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico: Economic Geology, v. 33, no. 4, p. 365-389, https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.33.4.365.","productDescription":"25 p.","startPage":"365","endPage":"389","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":377045,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New Mexico","otherGeospatial":"Little Hatchet Mountains","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -108.56414794921875,\n 31.726999082308968\n ],\n [\n -108.37257385253905,\n 31.726999082308968\n ],\n [\n -108.37257385253905,\n 31.962648655655887\n ],\n [\n -108.56414794921875,\n 31.962648655655887\n ],\n [\n -108.56414794921875,\n 31.726999082308968\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"33","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"1938-06-01","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lasky, Samuel Grossman","contributorId":35380,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lasky","given":"Samuel","email":"","middleInitial":"Grossman","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":794875,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":1000434,"text":"1000434 - 1938 - Michigan's commercial fisheries of the Great Lakes","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2012-02-02T00:04:12","indexId":"1000434","displayToPublicDate":"1938-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1938","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2724,"text":"Michigan History Magazine","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Michigan's commercial fisheries of the Great Lakes","docAbstract":"Five races of cottontail rabbits belonging to three species occur in Virginia. One of them, the Mearns cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi), is reported here for the first time. It occurs in six southwestern counties of the state, while the eastern cottontail (S. f. mallurus) occurs in the remainder of the state with the exception of Smith and Fishermans islands off the eastern coast of Cape Charles, where it is replaced by Hitchens cottontail (S. f. hitchensi). The New England cottontail (S. transitionalis) is found on the higher mountain peaks, above 3000 feet, and the swamp rabbit (S. palustris) occurs in the Dismal Swamp region of southeastern Virginia.....The height of the breeding season for the eastern cottontail in Virginia is March and April, but breeding continues through the entire year except in December and January. The average litter size based on embryo counts was 4.7. The sex ratio of 234 specimens from all parts of the state, taken mostly in the December to February period, was 53 males to 47 females. That of a group of 145 rabbits live-trapped at Blacksburg during February and Marchwas 58 males to 42 females. The figures show that males are more active than females during the winter months, and therefore are more easily taken then....In transplanting cottontails from one section of the state to another, it is recommended that only cottontails of the same race as those originally present in the region being restocked be released there....Tularemia is not a common disease among rabbits in Virginia, but the rabbit ticks are often carriers of the disease and may transmit it to rabbits. Rabbit ticks are also found to be carriers of Rocky Mountain fever and American Q. fever. After the ticks drop off the rabbits to hibernate in the ground, which is likely to occur during mid-winter in Virginia, there is relatively little danger of humans contracting tularemia by contact with rabbits. Present laws in Virginia which prohibit rabbit hunting until the opening of the general hunting season, November 15and November 20--west and east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, respectively--protect the licensed hunters to which these regulations apply, but landowners or tenants are still allowed to take rabbits for their own use on their own land at any time. It is recommended that as a public health measure the taking of cottontails be completely prohibited to all until the opening of the general hunting season.","largerWorkType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"largerWorkTitle":"Michigan History Magazine","largerWorkSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"language":"English","collaboration":"Out-of-print","usgsCitation":"Van Oosten, J., 1938, Michigan's commercial fisheries of the Great Lakes: Michigan History Magazine, v. 22, no. 1, p. 107-145.","productDescription":"p. 107-145","startPage":"107","endPage":"145","numberOfPages":"38","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":129166,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"22","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a56e4b07f02db62ddf4","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Van Oosten, John","contributorId":23479,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Van Oosten","given":"John","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308547,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":1000208,"text":"1000208 - 1938 - Morphometry of the cisco, Leucichthys artedi (Le Sueur), in the lakes of the Northeastern Highlands, Wisconsin","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-06-19T12:58:46","indexId":"1000208","displayToPublicDate":"1937-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1938","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":2096,"text":"Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"displayTitle":"Morphometry of the cisco, Leucichthys artedi (Le Sueur), in the lakes of the Northeastern Highlands, Wisconsin","title":"Morphometry of the cisco, Leucichthys artedi (Le Sueur), in the lakes of the Northeastern Highlands, Wisconsin","docAbstract":"

In an earlier study (Hile, 1936) a detailed investigation was presented of the age and growth of the ciscoes of Trout Lake, Musckellunge Lake, Silver Lake, and Clear Lake in northeastern Wisconsin. It was demonstrated that the growth rate of the cisco varies widely from lake to lake within the same geographical area, and that these differences in growth rate show a close correlation with certain environmental conditions. The present study of the morphometry of the cisco populations of these same four lakes may be considered a continuation of the earlier investigation, since emphasis will be places on the problem of the relationship between the growth rate and morphological characteristics of the cisco. Attention will be given also to the existence of fundamental structural differences between year classes of the same population, differences that must be considered the result of variation from one calendar year to another in the environmental conditions at the time of the early growth and development of the cisco.

","language":"English","publisher":"Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft","doi":"10.1002/iroh.19380360103","usgsCitation":"Hile, R., 1938, Morphometry of the cisco, Leucichthys artedi (Le Sueur), in the lakes of the Northeastern Highlands, Wisconsin: Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie, v. 36, no. 1, p. 57-130, https://doi.org/10.1002/iroh.19380360103.","productDescription":"74 p.","startPage":"57","endPage":"130","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":128917,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Wisconsin","otherGeospatial":"Clear Lake, Muskellunge Lake, Silver Lake, Trout Lake","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -89.72465515136719,\n 45.99791563046376\n ],\n [\n -89.5938491821289,\n 45.99791563046376\n ],\n [\n -89.5938491821289,\n 46.08513814951614\n ],\n [\n -89.72465515136719,\n 46.08513814951614\n ],\n [\n -89.72465515136719,\n 45.99791563046376\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"36","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2007-01-08","publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4b03e4b07f02db698dbe","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Hile, Ralph","contributorId":48510,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hile","given":"Ralph","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308234,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70212780,"text":"70212780 - 1937 - Ground‐water in Utah","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-08-27T18:28:31.097458","indexId":"70212780","displayToPublicDate":"1937-08-27T13:18:40","publicationYear":"1937","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Ground‐water in Utah","docAbstract":"

In common with many of the arid and semiarid States, the prosperity of Utah probably is more dependent upon the amount of water available than upon any other natural resource. Although only about four per cent of the State is irrigated, a shortage of water for irrigation becomes a major calamity. A large part of the water‐supply for the State is derived from surface‐streams, but a most valuable supplement to this supply is the water available from underground sources. Ground‐water is used extensively for domestic, stock‐watering, and industrial purposes as well as for irrigation. The primary source of the municipal water‐supply for Salt Lake City is from streams entering the Jordan River Valley from the western slope of the Wasatch Mountains. However, since the drought‐year of 1931, a supplementary municipal supply has been obtained from ground‐water, and, among the 17 wells developed by the City during the extreme drought of 1934, one—yielding about ten cubic feet per second, or 4500 gallons a minute—is probably the largest in the State. Ogden, the second largest city in Utah, with a population of about 40,000, obtains the major part of its municipal water‐supply from a group of artesian wells in Ogden Valley about 12 miles east of the City. A considerable part of the water‐supply for the City of Brigham is obtained from wells. Springs constitute the source of most of the water‐supply for Logan, Provo, and many smaller towns and localities in the State. In nearly every developed area of the State ground‐water is used for some purpose, and in some areas the water‐supply is obtained almost entirely from wells.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR018i002p00536","usgsCitation":"Taylor, G.H., 1937, Ground‐water in Utah: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 18, no. 2, p. 536-541, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR018i002p00536.","productDescription":"6 p.","startPage":"536","endPage":"541","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":377954,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Utah","otherGeospatial":"Ground Water Provinces","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -113.84033203125,\n 38.272688535980976\n ],\n [\n -113.51074218749999,\n 37.3002752813443\n ],\n [\n -112.3681640625,\n 37.64903402157866\n ],\n [\n -111.29150390625,\n 39.977120098439634\n ],\n [\n -109.423828125,\n 40.12849105685408\n ],\n [\n -110.74218749999999,\n 40.64730356252251\n ],\n [\n -111.4453125,\n 40.863679665481676\n ],\n [\n -111.15966796875,\n 41.95131994679697\n ],\n [\n -113.99414062499999,\n 41.78769700539063\n ],\n [\n -113.84033203125,\n 40.730608477796636\n ],\n [\n -112.8076171875,\n 40.16208338164617\n ],\n [\n -113.13720703125,\n 39.13006024213511\n ],\n [\n -113.84033203125,\n 38.272688535980976\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"18","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Taylor, George H.","contributorId":24386,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Taylor","given":"George","email":"","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":797455,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70212777,"text":"70212777 - 1937 - Extraordinary topaz‐replacement body in the Brewer Mine, South Carolina","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-08-28T12:46:30.919473","indexId":"70212777","displayToPublicDate":"1937-08-27T13:00:29","publicationYear":"1937","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Extraordinary topaz‐replacement body in the Brewer Mine, South Carolina","docAbstract":"

A large body of massive topaz forms a part of the gold‐bearing lode at the Brewer Mine, South Carolina. This gold‐mine was opened 100 years ago and merits the distinction of being one of the early gold‐discoveries of the Southern Appalachian Region. The Brewer Mine is located near Jefferson, in Chesterfield County, near the northern boundary of South Carolina, and on the eastern edge of the Piedmont Province.

The country rock is described by J. T. Pardee and C. F. Park, Jr., (Gold‐deposits of the Southern Appalachians, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper, in preparation) as a quartz‐sericite schist that locally preserves the structure of a fine‐grained, waterlaid tuff, probably a rhyolite,from which it was derived. Exposures of granite that intrude the schist appear on the north and west at distances of a mile to a mile and a half.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR018i001p00243","usgsCitation":"Glass, J.J., 1937, Extraordinary topaz‐replacement body in the Brewer Mine, South Carolina: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 18, no. 1, p. 243-246, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR018i001p00243.","productDescription":"4 p.","startPage":"243","endPage":"246","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":377976,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"South Carolina","city":"Jefferson","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -80.42953491210938,\n 34.616256875628956\n ],\n [\n -80.34576416015625,\n 34.616256875628956\n ],\n [\n -80.34576416015625,\n 34.6704879985043\n ],\n [\n -80.42953491210938,\n 34.6704879985043\n ],\n [\n -80.42953491210938,\n 34.616256875628956\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"18","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Glass, Jewell J.","contributorId":106948,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Glass","given":"Jewell","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":797453,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70212772,"text":"70212772 - 1937 - Report of the committee on glaciers, 1936–37","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-08-27T16:56:49.691365","indexId":"70212772","displayToPublicDate":"1937-08-27T11:44:30","publicationYear":"1937","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of the committee on glaciers, 1936–37","docAbstract":"

The Committee was enlarged during the past year by one more member, Prof. J. E. Church of Reno, Nevada, Chairman of the Committee on Snow, who agreed to serve on it while the Chairman of the Committee on Glaciers in turn accepted membership on the Committee on Snow. Thus the two Committees, whose spheres of work are in some respects intimately related, have been brought into closer touch with each other.

Although the Committee on Glaciers has assembled considerable data on different lines of glaciologic research during the past few years, it seems best to confine this report, like the preceding ones, to a record of the variations—advance or recession—of glaciers in the continental United States and Alaska, and to reserve the other data for presentation later, in separate papers. The variations of glaciers here reported are for the 12‐month period from the autumn of 1935 to the autumn of 1936.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR018i002p00293","usgsCitation":"Matthes, F.E., 1937, Report of the committee on glaciers, 1936–37: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 18, no. 2, p. 293-299, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR018i002p00293.","productDescription":"7 p.","startPage":"293","endPage":"299","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":377941,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"18","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Matthes, Francois E.","contributorId":97963,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Matthes","given":"Francois","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":797446,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70212731,"text":"70212731 - 1937 - Report of the committee on runoff, 1936–37","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-12-10T19:54:30.338553","indexId":"70212731","displayToPublicDate":"1937-08-26T15:08:35","publicationYear":"1937","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of the committee on runoff, 1936–37","docAbstract":"

Since the last meeting of the Section of Hydrology there has been a change in the organization and membership of some of the research‐committees, one relating to rainfall, of which Merrill Bernard is Chairman, and one relating to runoff, were created to replace the one committee which had functioned heretofore on both rainfall and runoff. This action by the officers provides for greater participation of the members of the Section in committees, and is a step well worth while. The personnel of the Committee as of May 1, 1937, is as follows:



I consider it an honor to act as Chairman of the Committee on Runoff but regret, however, that I have been unable as yet to coordinate thoroughly the work of the Committee or to inform myself adequately on many runoff‐experiments and research‐problems. Consequently, my report will be very brief and informal.

","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR018i002p00301","usgsCitation":"Hoyt, W.G., 1937, Report of the committee on runoff, 1936–37: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 18, no. 2, p. 301-302, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR018i002p00301.","productDescription":"2 p.","startPage":"301","endPage":"302","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":377914,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"18","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Hoyt, W. G.","contributorId":38547,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hoyt","given":"W.","email":"","middleInitial":"G.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":797371,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70212730,"text":"70212730 - 1937 - Results to be expected from resistivity‐measurements","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-08-26T20:07:36.888585","indexId":"70212730","displayToPublicDate":"1937-08-26T15:03:35","publicationYear":"1937","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Results to be expected from resistivity‐measurements","docAbstract":"

The work described in this paper was all done in connection with dam‐site investigations and was not directly connected with hydrology. However, geophysics is coming to have a place in hydrologic investigations, and these results may throw some light on what can be accomplished by resistivity‐measurements.

We have found that,for many questions not involving exact determinations of depth, resistivity‐ measurements give conclusive answers. Ordinarily a reliable answer can be expected to the question of the existence of a buried channel if the covering is composed of unconsolidated material with a resistivity differing from that of the rock. For example, topographic surveys were made at two alternative dam‐sites on a river about four miles apart. Examination of the surface‐geology indicated that a channel burled under glacial debris possibly existed at each site, but resistivity‐measurements proved that such a channel existed at one site and not at the other. On the other hand, at another site the geologist suspected there might be an old channel on a steep side hill. Geophysical measurements showed a depth of overburden of 46 feet and showed that if a deeper channel exists it must be narrow; but they did not show positively that no such channel exists. Probably a careful survey with a large number of lines would have given a more definite answer, but the rough topography interfered with the resistivity‐work, and time and money were not available for a detailed survey. After completion of the geophysical work, the geologist located some outcrops which led him to conclude that no old channel exists at this site. At two other dam‐sites in Oregon resistivity‐measurements showed that there were no burled channels.

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The modern deep well makes it possible to determine the temperatures of the rocks to depths exceeding two miles, and the rock‐samples obtained at these great depths enable the geologist to estimate the depths to the deeply buried basement‐rocks to a rather high degree of precision. The latter estimates are now being supplemented to a certain extent by the precision‐measurements of geophysicist, so that reliable data seem to be assured even in those areas in which the basement rocks are not reached by the drill. With these two sources of information at our disposal—accurate temperature‐measurements and reliable estimates or measurements of depths to bed‐rock—it should be possible to construct a rather accurate subsurface map showing the temperatures on the boundary‐surface between the sedimentaries and the basement floor. In this paper it is proposed chiefly to outline the method of procedure by making some rough calculations of the temperatures at great depths for a few locations in the United States and for one location near Carnarvon, Cape Province, South Africa.

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From the time that western civilization established itself on the North American continent until very recent years, little thought was given to the diseases, or other forms of loss, in game. In the process of bringing civilization and the incidental domestic arts and trades to the United States it appears to have been the policy to establish domestic farm stock on the land just as abundantly as the carrying capacity of land would tolerate. And judged by the low quality of many of our present farm animals, it is evident that in many cases the land was, and is now, overstocked and undermanaged. In traveling over this country one is impressed by the lack of uniformity, imperfect physical development, and poor state of nutrition of much of the domestic livestock. It would appear that the wild animals unhampered by fencing and other restraint such as controlled mating, feed selection, and enforced habitat in contaminated or polluted environment, have a better chance for perfect growth and complete development to a size and proportion normal for those species.

While all of the factors mentioned produce a definitely deleterious result on the welfare of animal life, that of contaminated or polluted environment is by no means the least. The stunting action of disease on the growth of the young is too well known to admit of controversy. The impairment of function of vital organs due to minute cellular changes resulting from sub-acute or chronic infections prevents normal growth. Through centuries of enforced survival in densely congested pastures, pens, and stables, a certain degree of acquired resistance to many diseases has been built up in farm stock. If it were not so, very few barnyard animals would ever survive the conditions generally seen in our agricultural districts. Manure heaps, quantities of partly spoiled feed, and decaying masses of vegetation and refuse have come to be regarded as a natural part of the barnyard scene.

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