Rapid acid production by lactic streptococci used in the manufacture of fermented dairy products is essential to the economy of the
industry and to the public health of consumers.
There remains to
developed, however, an adequate laboratory procedure to detect and
distinguish between slow and fast strains of these bacteria....
Verticillium dahliae Kleb. causes a wilt disease of peppermint.
Attempts to control the disease by soil fumigation, crop rotation,
flaming of stubble, and deep plowing have met with only limited success.
Development of resistant varieties through conventional breeding
procedures is difficult because commercial peppermint is male-sterile.
Several strains of commercial...
This thesis investigated the methods of failure in the webs of
built up girders. The beams had rectangular holes five and one-half
inches wide and seven and one-half inches high with rounded corners
in a web fourteen inches deep between flanges. The longitudinal
position of the hole edge varied from...
An experiment was conducted during the period November 1967
to November 1968 at Oregon State University (OSU) and the Umatilla
Branch Experiment Station (BES) at Hermiston, two trials at each
location, to answer several questions: (1) could comparable rations
for swine be formulated by a computer on a least-cost basis;...