Nebraska Corn Improver's Association

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Officers for 1917-1918	1
Letter of Transmissal	4
Table of Contents	5
Copy of Program	6
Food Production During the War--Tuesday Forenoon Session
Meat as a Factor in Food Production During the War--H. J. Gramlich, Lincoln	7
Dairy Products as Factors in Food Production During the War--J. H. Frandsen, Lincoln	14
Food Problems from the Chemist's Viewpoint--F. W. Upson, Lincoln	21
General Discussion--Led by E. P. Brown, Davey	27
Corn and Corn Shows--Tuesday Afternoon Session
The Seed Corn and Spring Wheat Situation--W. W. Burr, Lincoln	29
The Seed Corn Problem--T. A. Kiesselbach, Lincoln	35
The Value of Continuing Competitive Corn Exhibits--F. J. Rist, Humbolt	48
The Futility of the "Pretty Ear" Corn Show--Erwin Hopt, Lincoln	51
General Discussion--Led by Chas. Grau, Bennington	60
The Land Problem--Wednesday Forenoon Session
Is There a Land Problem --H. Clyde Filley, Lincoln	63
The Remedy for Land Monopoly--L. S. Herron, Omaha	72
General Discussion of Land Question--Led by C. H. Gustafson, Omaha	81
Common Ground on the Land Question--Geo. O. Virtue, Lincoln	83
Crops, Soils and Climate--Wednesday Afternoon Session
Relation of Climate to Crops--G. A. Loveland, Lincoln	92
Size of Farm in the Great Plains as Determined by Rainfall and Other Factors--R. A. Spafford, Lincoln	100
Emergency and Special Purpose Crops--L. L. Zook, North Platte	125
Corn as a Factor in the Development of Agriculture in Nebraska--S. C. Bassett, Gibbon	132
Annual Business Meeting	139
Treasurer's Report	141
The Corn Show	143
Prize Winners in Corn Show	145
Constitution and By-Laws	147
Membership List, 1918 (Note - these pages not included in the Table of Names)	149

Table of Illustrations

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LEE SMITH (1863-1916) (Portrait)	2
WILLIAM ERNST (1845-1917) (Portrait)	3
It required ... increased weight on a good type of steer.	8
Excessively fattened beef. Too much tallow for most tastes	11
A pound of pork may be produced from ...	12
Transforming the sun's energy into vegetable foods	22
(Herd of Swine)	27
The individual ear germinator's test. Discarding ears which will not grow A close view into the individual ear germination tester	33
Average date of the first killing frost in autumn (Loveland)	37
(Growth of a kernel of corn)	39
Rough and smooth ears of Nebraska White Prize Corn.	43
A general germination test is always desirable before planting corn	47
(10 ears of prize corn)	50
Mean annual temperature in Nebraska	92
Hours of sunshine in Nebraska	93
Thunderheads--A welcome sight in summer	98
FIG. 1.--Areas in Nebraska which have a fairly uniform type of farming	104
FIG. 2.--The size-of-farm lines for 1910 plotted on a diagram ...	107
FIG. 3.--A cross- section measurement of size of farm ...	108
FIG. 4.--The relation of the size of farm to the total annual growth of crops and pasture.	109
(Figures 5-18--a set of statistical illustrations)	111-124
Corn and wheat. Nebraska's two most important grain crops	127
A Field of Soy Beans	130
Seed of Several Soy Bean Varieties	131
Illustration of well matured corn types grown ...	138
Grand Champion ten ears the show of 1918, ...	144
Grand champion single ear of the show, 1918, ...	146