The passing of the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution has given to individual states the authority to regulate the sale, distribution and taxation of domestically produced wines, and made the wine trade potentially significant as a means of augmenting state revenues. In the state of Oregon, table wines...
The quality and cost of wood particle composites are substantially
determined by how the adhesive that bonds the composite is
distributed on the particles. Distribution of the adhesive is controlled
by the method of application. Currently the adhesive is applied by
spraying it onto the particles. It was hypothesized that...
Difficulties have been encountered in gluing some Southeast
Asian woods using phenolic resin. Extractives in veneers from the
trade groups yellow, white, and red meranti (Shorea, Parashorea,
and Pentacme spp. ), keruing (Dipterocarpus spp. ), and kapur
(Dryobalanops spp. ) were suspected to be able to modify resin cure
and...
Hill plots and near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy were
investigated as breeding tools to facilitate doubled haploid recurrent
selection for malting quality characters in spring barley. Main
objectives of this research were to i) compare hill and row plot
expression of agronomic and malting quality traits in an array of...
A study was completed to determine the extent of the
protein changes occurring in ground beef stored at
2°C for 10 days.
Sections of semitendinosus muscle were obtained
immediately after the slaughter of three beef animals.
Each section was divided into two equal portions, one of
which was ground and...
An average stand diameter yield table and a diameter growth
per decade table are presented for unmanaged stands of quaking
aspen in southwest Colorado. The yield table presents yields per
tree for the following utilization standards: 1. total cubic-foot
volume minus the stump, 2. cubic-foot volume to a 4-inch top,...
The vegetation of a 420 square mile area of the
Oregon Coastal Mountain Range was mapped using data from
the multispectral scanner system aboard Landsat.
Advantages of this mapping system include rapid synoptic
coverage of the same geographic area at different
periods in time at a reduced cost compared to...
Ten wheat crosses (four winter x spring and six winter x winter)
involving F₃ and F₄ generations and their respective winter parents
were used to determine whether the early generation selection would
be effective for kernel hardness and grain protein content. In
1980, twenty individual F₂ plants were selected with...
Past research has implied that differences in blender performance
between commercial and laboratory particleboard blenders
may not be attributed to resin distribution between screen fractions,
as is commonly believed in the industry today, but to which particles
within a screen fraction have resin and which do note
To test this,...
The fundamental objective of this analysis was to isolate and
identify the factors governing the demand for domestically produced
rainbow trout in a representative west coast market, and assess the
impact on that demand, if any, of the introduction of pansize salmon.
The approach taken in this market demand study...
The study evaluates the use of Competitive Stress Index (CSI) as a
quantitative measure of stand density in a young-growth Douglas-fir
stand in Western Oregon which had been subjected to various thinning
regimes. Operational applications of the index are examined and new
methodologies presented for the analysis of tree and...
The relationships of several wood quality traits with seed origin
and phenological characteristics, measured at a young age, were
tested from six seed sources in a young Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga
menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) provenance plantation. The wood quality
traits measured were wood density, uniformity of wood density,
percentage latewood, fiber length,...
Two experiments were conducted on wine grapes 'Chardonnay' and
'Gewurtztraminer' (Vitis vinifera L.) in 1986 and 1987 to
investigate the performance of grapes in competition with perennial
ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) 'Manhattan 11' sod, the competition
between sod and grapes for nutrients and moisture and the effects
of nitrogen fertilization...
The effects of some soil- and foliar-borne biotic factors on
grain yield and the components of yield were evaluated using five
winter wheat varieties sown at two dates. Within each planting date,
varieties were grown under four different combinations of two soil
treatments (fumigation and nonfumigation) and two foliar treatments...
