Til U USD AY, JULY 2, 1936
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THREE
Dr. Keim Explains Details of
State Bindweed Experiment
Necessity of Eliminating
Destruction of Crops
Entails Research.
(Editor's note: Bindweed Infestation la
regarded today as one of Nebraska's most
serious problems. In the following article,
details of an extensive experiment are
outlined by a well known authority.)
BY DR. F. D. KEIM.
(Chairman, Agronomy Department, Uni
versity of Nebraska College of Agriculture.)
With more and more farmers
rapidly realizing the danger of
bindweed infestation which now
covers approximately 400,000 acres
of good Nebraska land, the neces
sity of having more research data
on means of eradication has in
creased. As a result a bindweed expe
riment, historically of great im
portance because it is the first
time such a comprehensive inves
tigation has been attempted out
state, has just been started near
York. This cooperative project is
being carried on by the U. S. de
partment of agriculture and the
department of agronomy of the
University of Nebraska college of
agriculture. It has for its purpose
the assembling and collection of
most recent data on perennial
weed eradication.
Answers Questions.
It is to be hoped that the expe
riment will answer many ques
tions. Here are only a few of the
more important ones. How often
is it necessary to cultivate in or
der to give greatest efficiency in
eradication? What about time of
plowing? When should sodium
chlorate be applied? What about
AMEN WILL TRY FOR
U. S. BASEBALL T
Nebraska Player Goes to
Baltimore to Seek
Olympic Berth.
University of Nebraska's star
first-baseman, Paul Amen, ar
rived in Baltimore, Ohio late Tues
day to participate in the tryouts
for the Olympic baseball team.
Thirty or 40 amateur baseball
artists were expected to be on
hand Thursday when the elimina
tion for the team is to start.
Sponsors of the effort to make
bast ball an Olympic sport, the
amateur baseball congress has
planned an extensive training and
tryout program which will last
about 12 days.
At the end of this period of elim
ination, two complete teams will
be selected to go to Berlin with
the othor members of the Ameri
can Olympic team. Les Mann of
Miami, executive vice of the base
ball congress is in charge of all
the affairs.
Alt ho the teams selected will
not engage in any competition in
connection with the other regular
Olympic events, an attempt to es
tablish baseball as was basketball
introduced that year is the goal of
the congress in assembling the
amateur baseball star3 in the
United States.
Educational Press
Association Issues
Twelfth Yearbook
Charles A. Bowers, secretary of
the Nebraska State Teachers' as
sociation an l editor of the Ne
braska Educational Journal, is
president of the Educational Tress
Association of America, which has
just released its Twelfth year
book. The Yearbook includes a list of
educational periodicals classified
according to the principal field of
education with which each is con
cerned, as administration and su
pervision, rural education, social
studies, journals of state teachers'
associations, and so on.
The Yearbook also contains a
list of the sixty educational books
of I'.lXi prepared annually J or the
American Library association by
the Journal of the National Kdu
cution association. A third feature
of the Yearbook Is a special ar
ticle on the Horace Mann Cen
tennial, which begins October 1,
30.16. It was on July 1, 1837 that
Horace Mann resigned ns presi
dent of the Massachusetts senate
to become secretary of the newly
created slate board of education
and the most influential leader in
the movement for free public
schools.
. Mr. Lowers was elected presi
1
the depth of plowing and cultiva
tion? These and many other simi
lar questions will be closely studied
in the project which is being con
ducted on the York farm by Louis
Evans, Kansas State college grad
uate student.
The possibility of growing a
crop of rye for pasture in the late
fall and early spring and the pos
sibility of growing a crop of feed
such as sudan grass, cane or mil
let while eradication is being car
ried on is also being included in
the experiment. In other words
plowing and cultivation will start
early in the spring, then along in
June a feed crop will be planted.
As soon as it is harvested in the
fall, cultivation will begin and con
tinue until snow flies.
Smother Crops.
Use of smother crops such as
cane, millet, hemp and alfalfa ure
also included in this investigation.
With much interest in such means
for eradicating the pest, the re
sults will be interesting and vitally
important.
Time, rates and method of ap
plications of sodium chlorate are
other things being considered. Any
other new chemical herbicide ad
vertised as a weed killer will be
compared with the killing effects
of sodium chlorate.
The object of the whole test is
to try and reduce the cost of
eradication of bindweed and make
the procedure as practical as pos
sible for Nebraska farmers. The
work test on a 10-acre plan should
develop some data which will fur
ther the practibility of getting rid
of the weed.
dent of the Educational Press as
sociation at its annual meeting in
St. Louis in February, and by
virtue of his office, is also on the
association's executive committee.
Other officers are: Secretary, Lyle
W. Ashby, former Nebraskan, and
assistant director, Division of Pub
lications, National Education asso
ciation, and treasurer, E. T. Cam
eron of the Michigan Educational
Journal.
The Educational Press associa
tion of Ameiica was organized at
Denver in 1895, and admits to
membership those publications
which are issued for the promo
tion of public education.
TEACHERS MEET FOR
GEOGRAPHY CONCLAVE
AT 2 THIS AFTERNOON
(Continued from Page 1)
Thilip Johnston of McCook, will
lead the discussion of "The geog
raphy of some recent conservation
activities in Nebraska" at the
third meeting and the following
topics will be considered: "Power
and Irrigation," "Soil erosion con
trol," and "Shelterbclt."
Collins Leads Meeting.
At the last conference, Supcrin
dent Ray E. Collins, of Waco, will
lead a discussion of "Field Work."
The topics to be discussed are as
follows: "Preparation," 'Observa
tions in the field (rural)," 'Ob
servations in the field (urban),"
and "The teacher's personal ob
servations as they function in the
class loom."
"Intractional helps for geog
raphy teachers" was the subject
for the first conference held last
Thursday. Miss Vera Kigdon, in
structor of geography in extension,
was leafier of the discussion.
Former .Slmlcnls Accept
A'-.-l-l an I li i ps in Kansas
Elmer Heyne and Everette J.
Krcizinger have accepted assist
unlshins in the department of
agronomy at Kansas State college,
and will begin work July 1. Mr.
Heyne, since graduation in 1935,
has been connected with the soil
conservation nursery at San An
tonio, Tex. lie will assist Dr. A.
M. Bnmson in corn breeding.
Kreizinger, a graduate in ii"2,
has been athletic coach in the Ne
braska City high school for sev
eral years. He will work on al
falfa improvement with Dr. Grand
field. EVER SINCE
1904
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ANNOUNCES
HUSKER BASKETBALL
20 Games Arranged for
Nebraska, With 8
Home Contests.
Coach W. H. Browne has an
nounced the 1936-37 schedule for
the Cornhusker basketball team.
The slate lists 20 games, including
a trip to the east in which the
team will visit Cleveland, Niagara
Falls, Philadelphia and Washing
ton, D. C.
There are eight home games on
the schedule and the Cornhusker
hoopsters will meet three new op
ponents, including Montana,
coached by A. J. Lewandowski,
formr Husker, Minnesota and Ohio
State.
The first game of the season will
be played early in December at
the University of South Dakota,
which indicates that practice will
start around the first of Novem
ber. The schedule:
Dec. 11 South Dakota at Vermillion.
Dec. 19 Montana at Lincoln.
Dec. 21 Minnesota at Lincoln.
Dec. 22 Ohio Slate at Lincoln.
Dec. 26 Loyola at Chicago.
Dec. 28 Western Reserve at Cleveland.
Dec. 29 Canisius college at Buffalo,
N. Y.
Dec. 30--St. Thomas at Scranton, Pa.
Jan. 1 Temple at Philadelphia.
Jan. 2 George Washington at Wash
ington, D. C.
Jan. 9 Missouri at Columbia.
Jan. 16 Iowa Slate at Lincoln.
Jan. 18 Oklahoma at Lincoln.
Jan. 30 Kansas State at Manhattan.
Keu. 2 Kansas at Lawrence.
Feb. 12 Oklahoma at Norman.
Feb. 15 Kansas State at Lincoln.
Feb. 19 Missouri at Lincoln.
Feb. 27 Kansas at Lin.-oln.
March 3 Iowa State at Ames.
Prof. Lawrence Void of the law
college faculty is author of an ar
ticle entitled "The NRA and the
AAA Experiments in Government,
Economics, and Law," which ap
peared in the Nebraska Law Bul
letin. Among the engineering faculty
members attending the meetings
of the society for he promotion of
engineering education at Madison,
Wis., are Profs. P. K. Slaymaker,
J. P. Colbert, T. T. Askhus, O. E.
Edison, L. A. Bingham, C. M. Duff
and Dean O. J. Ferguson. Profes
sors Jiles Haney and A. A. Luebs
drove at Dallas, Tex. to attend the
summer convention of the A. S.
M. E.
Prof. A. L. Frolik received his
doctor's degree at Madison, Wis.,
June 22. His graduate work was
taken in agronomy and marsh
ecology. He and Mrs. Frolik at
tended commencement exercises at
Madison.
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Booklet Shows Nebraska's
Importance for Botanists
Dr. Winter Tells of Plants
That Grow in Various
Parts of State.
Few people realize it, but Ne
braska is one of the key states to
botanists because it lies at the
crossroads of midcontinental plant
migration. This point is empha
sized in a recent booklet published
by the University botanical survey,
Dr. R. J. Pool, director. The 203
page booklet by Dr. John Mack
Winter, professor of biology at
Peru State Teachers college, who
recently received his doctor's de
gree here, was printed by the con
servation and survey division, Dr.
George Condra, dean and director.
This latest botanical achieve
ment is one of the most complete
works yet published and repre
sents an analysis of all the flower
ing plants of the state with keys
to the families, and species and
with notes concerning their occur
rence, range, and frequency.
Various Plants Here.
Dr. Winter points out that cer
tain plants peculiar to the northern
forests enter the state in the can
yons of the northwest counties,
via the Black Hills, while the val
leys of the Missouri are the west
ern limit of a range of certain
eastern plants. Even mountain va
rieties and plants found only in
far western states are found in
the panhandle sections of Ne
braska and other species peculiar
to the south extend north into the
valley of the Republican.
In his study of Nebraska's plants.
Dr. Winter found that some of
those once common in the days
of the pioneers are now extinct,
others are fast becoming rare,
while a few entirely new species
of the flora seem to be doing well
in their environment here. This
successful invasion by new species
may be an infiltration process in
stead of a mass attack, according
to the writer. The disappearance
of an old native may be due to
the struggle for survival in lo
calities to which they are poorly
adapted, on account of changed
conditions due to the activities of
men.
Plants Now Extinct.
Among plants found within the
state in recent years are the yam,
star flower, a wild pink, a wild
indigo, and the Indian pipe. Such
plants as wild black cherry, white
oak, pin oak, trillium and papaw
are found along the lower tribu
taries of the Missouri and that
area is the extreme western limit
for a
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of these species. Those far western
species which have gained a foot
hold in the borders of western
Nebraska include certain wild
asters and shrubs. Certain moun
tain dwelling varieties adorn the
slopes of hilly sections of the state.
These include evening primroses, a
western sumac, and wild dahlias.
Northern forest species such as
buckbean, paper birch, and quak
ing aspen are sprinkled about the
canyons or meadows of the north
ern counties.
In all there are about 1,879
species of flowering plants in Ne
braska, not including many culti
vated plants that have escaped
from cultivation and have become
well established in the "wild" state.
These include 100 species of
grasses, and the following note
worthy forma:
100 species of redoes, close relatives of
KiasNes.
7 species oldenrods.
18 species HHlers.
12 species sunt lowers.
11 species sancln ushes.
10 species thistles.
3 species hickories.
7 specks oaks.
R species col tonwoods.
7 specieB williws.
3 species ashes.
3 species maples.
2 species violets.
5 species milkweeds.
13 species orchitis.
VOLD NOMINATED LAW
CONGRESS REPORTER
Prof. Lawrence Void of the Uni
versity college of law has been
nominated by the American com
mittee of the academy of compar
ative law as special reporter on
company law for the second inter
national congress of comparative
law to be held at the Hague in July
1937. Owing to prior conamitments
preparing a new book on torts,
Professor Void is unable to accept
the appointment.
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