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Kidney disease in brook trout and its treatment

No abstract available.
Authors
S. F. Snieszko, P.J. Griffin

Infectious pancreatic necrosis in brook trout

No abstract available.

Authors
E. M. Wood, S. F. Snieszko, W. T. Yasutake

Water resources of the Indianapolis area, Indiana

Water used in the Indianapolis area comes from two sources: the White River and tributary streams and the underground reservoirs formed by the underlying glacial drift and limestone. Surface-water sources provide about 60 mgd (million gallons per day) for public supply and an additional 300 mgd is used by private industries and is returned directly to the streams. About 60 mgd is taken from ground
Authors
Claude Martin Roberts, L.E. Widman, P.N. Brown

The natural channel of Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania

This study of the channel of Brandy wine Creek, Pennsylvania, consists of three parts. The first is an analysis of the changes which take place in the width, depth, velocity, slope of the water surface, suspended load, and roughness factor with changing discharge below the bankfull stage at each of several widely separated cross sections of the channel. Expressed as functions of the discharge, it
Authors
M. G. Wolman

Studies of mosquito breeding in natural and impounded salt-marsh areas in New Jersey and Delaware in 1954

No abstract available.
Authors
H.C. Chapman, P. F. Springer, Fred Ferrigno, R.F. Darsie

Effects of chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides upon quail and pheasants

Previous studies had shown that heavy or repeated applications of DDT resulted in decreases.in bird populations, but long-range effects of this and other chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides had not been fully evaluated. Experiments were conducted to determine toxiCitY to quail and pheasants of aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, and strobane, and to determine effects of these compounds upon survival, grow
Authors
J.B. DeWitt

The role of calcium in reproduction of the ring-necked pheasant

The pheasant, in its North American range, seems to have had its greatest success in glaciated or in other areas associated with calcareous soils. Success has been slight in areas deficient in calcium.....In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, no environmental difference other than presence or absence of limestone was discovered that might explain the high population in the limestone valley and the sc
Authors
F.H. Dale