Copyright (c) 2013 University of Rhode Island All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs Recent documents in Special Collections Publications en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 09:55:32 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/20 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/20 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:03:03 PDT Robert E. Gough American history http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/19 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/19 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:23:52 PST John Caldwell Colt http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/18 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/18 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:33:56 PST Richard Vangermeersch American history http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/17 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/17 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:43:37 PST This is a study of the effect which crop plants have on the growth and yields of those crops which follow. The study began in 1907; this bulletin reports the results from 1930 to 1942. Millet, mangels and rutabagas generally seem to be harmful to crops which follow them. Carrots, mangels and millet were least favorable of all crops to mangels. Potatoes did poorest when following potatoes, rutabagas, or millet. Rutabagas yielded low following rutabagas, mangels and millet. Onions were unfavorably affect by preceding crops of mangels, cabbage, or rutabagas. There is no simple explanation for the effect of crops on those which follow. The relationships are complex and interdependent, and are associated with the physical, chemical and microbial conditions of the soil. Well fertilized crops in moderately to strongly acid soils apparently produce unfavorable conditions for a succeeding crop for one or more of the following reasons: 1. They deplete basic nutrients with a consequent increase in H-ion concentration, accompanied by possibly harmful concentrations of aluminum or other elements. 2. Unless organic matter is provided, an adequate quantity of water stable aggregates is not maintained so that the soil becomes compact and possesses a poor physical condition unsuitable for maximum crop growth. 3. After certain crops, conditions are more favorable for the growth of plant pathogens and the development of seedling root rot. 4. The chemical, physical and biological conditions of the soil are intimately related and interdependent so that an improvement in one may produce some improvement in the others

]]> Theodore Eugene Odland et al. Agriculture http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/16 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/16 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:43:36 PST Alfred Pancoast Boller Architecture http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/15 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/15 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:43:24 PST Henry Edles http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/14 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/14 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:15:31 PST Fifty-three years of crop rotation studies, started in 1894, were concluded in the fall of 1946. These experiments were on Bridgehampton very fine sandy loam soil that was originally acid and produced meager crops. Within a very few years it became evident that the yields of crops could be materially increased by the use of agricultural lime and chemical fertilizers. The records of the last 17 years of the experiments are reported in this bulletin and comparisons are made with results from former years. The 3 rotations described in this bulletin are known as rotations B, E, and F. B was a 6-year sequence: 1 year of potatoes followed by a year of ensilage corn and 4 years of alfalfa-timothy hay. Rotations E and F were 5-year sequences in which potatoes were followed by Rhode Island White Flint corn and 3 years of hay. Rotation E contained alfalfa, red clover and alsike clover as well as timothy and redtop in the grass seed mixture. The meadow seeding for rotation F consisted of timothy and redtop grasses. The average yields of Irish Cobbler potatoes were: 222 bushels per acre on the "clover rotation," 246 bushels per acre on the "alfalfa rotation" and 294 bushels per acre on the "timothy-redtop" rotation. The superior yields of potatoes after the non-legume hay is thought to result, in part, from a more favorable supply and balance of potassium, calcium and magnesium left by the grass crop. Rhode Island White Flint corn yielded slightly more grain when grown after the legume-grass hay rather than grass hay alone. The supply of available nitrogen seemed to be a controlling factor influencing the yield of corn. The alfalfa-timothy seeding outyielded the general legume hay mixture during the second and third years. The non-legume seeding produced the smallest amount of hay with the least feed value. The general legume mixture usually produced more hay the first year because the biennial clovers that it contained appeared to mature more quickly than the alfalfa. The average net returns per acre were figured for 2 periods of 5 years, 1935-1939 and 1942-1946. During the first period these net returns per acre were $40.77, $24.46 and $10.93 for rotations B, E, and F, respectively. During the second period the net returns were $61.44, $34.52 and $39.85 respectively for these rotations.

]]> Theodore Eugene Odland et al. Agriculture http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/13 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/13 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:38:58 PST An account of the Indians of New England by Daniel Gookin, a magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Published in 1792.

]]> Daniel Gookin American history Anthropology Culture History Lifestyles Multiculturalism & pluralism Race relations Religion Social life & customs Society http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/12 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/12 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:17:24 PDT Sydney S. Rider American history Criminal justice Criminal law http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/11 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/11 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:41:36 PDT Reviews concerns about increase of nitrogen in Rhode Island salt ponds as a result of human activities.

]]> Scott W. Nixon et al. Biology Ecology Environmental protection Natural resources Oceanography http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/10 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/10 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:20:19 PDT The 'Index to the Magazine of Paragraphs, 1985-2005' was reprinted from issue no. 25, 20th Anniversary Issue and Swan Song, of the Magazine of Paragraphs. This is the index only and not the magazine itself. Located in the Poetry Collection of the Special Collections and Archives Unit of the URI Library, the index provides a searchable list of all contributors to the Magazine of Paragraphs, no. 1(1985)- no. 25(2005). No. 25 was the last issue of the magazine to be published.

]]> Literature http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/9 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/9 Thu, 03 May 2007 08:11:40 PDT Four public addresses , written by convicted murder John C. Colt from about 1836 to 1841 have not been noted in the accounting history literature. This paper explores the importance of these addresses compiled in the 10th edition of The Science of double entry book keeping and brings them into current literature.

]]> Richard Vangermeersch http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/8 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/8 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:32:03 PDT There has been recent scholarship by Bradley and Merino (1994) and Vangermeersch (2005) on this event and the subsequent eventual firing of Stuart Chase by the FTC. Bradley and Merino’s scholarship was limited to 1918 and 1919. Vangermeersch’s scholarship was limited to two narrow time periods (Oct. 20, 1919 and then from June 1920 to mid January 1921). This piece is written to extend the time frame from early 1917 through August of 1921. This piece, not only takes a broader time period, also broadens the scope of the prior scholarship. This piece examines many documents, articles, and testimony not covered by Bradley and Merino and by Vangermeersch. It also comments on the differing conclusions of Bradley and Merino with Vangermeersch’s and surmises as to the effect SC had on the ultimate result--the Packers and Stockyard Act of 1921.

]]> Richard Vangermeersch American history Federal government Federal legislation Government agencies History Politics Public policy http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/7 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/7 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:20:13 PDT I have written an academic piece, “The Marking of Stuart Chase As a ‘Red Accountant’--An Epic (1917-1921)” on Stuart Chase (SC) and Red Scare #1, 1917-1921. The current piece is a much more casual type writing and, hopefully, will be a part of the SC website. My purpose in this piece is to illustrate how SC was smeared in the Reece Committee Report of 1954 without any possibility of retort before the Committee. This piece might inspire a much more academic work on the Reece Committee--a rich topic indeed. This piece also shows that SC was a marked man by the FBI for a very long period of time.

]]> Richard Vangermeersch American history Federal government Government agencies History Politics Public policy http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/6 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/6 Thu, 03 May 2007 06:09:52 PDT There are two very specific reasons why this piece was researched and written. The first is a continuation of my work done on Stuart Chase (various publications). I am still hopeful my efforts will inspire an historian to do a 1000 page biography on Stuart Chase. The second is further example why my idea of using Verne’s book as the basis for a one-day management seminar is worth trying.

]]> Richard Vangermeersch Literature Management science http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/5 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/5 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:22:01 PDT A newsletter edited by Princess Redwing and Ernest Hazard and published by the Narragansett Tribe of Indians in 1935 and 1936. It includes short articles by a variety of writers on the culture, history, and politics of the Narragansett Indians. It also includes religious and poetic writing, lessons in the Narragansett language, advice from community leaders, and a "milestones" section documenting births, deaths, and other life transitions.

]]> Princess Redwing et al. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/4 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/4 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:48:54 PDT This document is an index to The History of Scituate, Rhode Island, by Hedley Smith. The history is an adaptation and expansion of a manuscript by Cyrus Walker (c.1900-1912) which was commissioned by the Scituate Bicentennial Committee in 1976. The book is available in the Special Collections of the University of Rhode Island Library (URI RI Collection F89 S4 S58).

]]> North Scituate Public Library Reference Staff http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/3 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/3 Fri, 12 May 2006 13:15:36 PDT Clippings from the Providence Journal, Providence Evening Bulletin, Providence Morning Herald, Manufacturers and Farmers' Journal, and Providence Morning Star, 1867-1902. Compiled by Scott Molloy, with the cooperation of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1993. Clippings are grouped by year but do not appear in exact chronological order.

]]> Scott Molloy http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/2 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/2 Thu, 11 May 2006 06:05:52 PDT First lecture of “Nonviolence: Legacies of the Past, Bridges to the Future,” URI 2000 Fall Honors Colloquium. Fall Convocation, September 12, 2000. King accepted a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.

]]> Coretta Scott King http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/1 http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/sc_pubs/1 Fri, 05 May 2006 12:30:22 PDT Pamphlet documenting Indian place names of Rhode Island compiled by Usher Parsons, M.D. for the Rhode Island Historical Society; Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers, 1861.

]]> Usher Parsons M.D.