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Wartime diet for growing bobwhite quail

Two experiments, using 784 bobwhite quail chicks, were conducted at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Bowie, Maryland, to find a growing diet that would meet wartime restrictions. In 1941 a diet containing 14 per cent sardine fish meal was formulated and gave satisfactory results from the standpoints of survival and growth. Since fish meal now is scarce, search was made for a diet without war-restrict
Authors
R. B. Nestler, L. Llewellyn, M. Benner

Water-table fluctuations in the Spokane Valley and contiguous area, Washington-Idaho

No abstract available.
Authors
Arthur M. Piper, George A. La Rocque

Winter protein requirements of bobwhite quail

Three experiments involving 714 bobwhite quail were conducted at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Bowie, Maryland, during the winters of 1939-1941 to determine the protein requirement of quail maintained throug'h the winter.....Considering survival, live weights, feed consumption, and subsequent reproduction by the birds, the-9 to 13 per cent levels of crude dietary protein gave as good results as hi
Authors
R. B. Nestler, W. W. Bailey, L. M. Llewellyn, M.J. Rensberger

Zinc deposits of Groundhog Basin, Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
H.R. Gault

Zinc Deposits of the Mifflin-Cokerville Area of the Wisconsin Lead-Zinc District

No abstract available.
Authors
Allen F. Agnew, Allen V. Heyl

Zinc deposits of the Mount Eielson district, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
G. D. Robinson