This community houses work produced by South Dakota State University graduate students. The collection includes both born digital ETDs, and digitized versions of printed theses and dissertations from 1883 to 2012.
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ETDS from 1949
Systems of Producing Fat Yearlings for South Dakota, William Clark McCone
A Study of the Marketing of Feeder Cattle and Calves by the Farmers and Ranchers of South Dakota, 1947, Charles C. Micheel
A Study of the Mechanical and Economical Problems Involved in Converting a Farm Tractor from Gasoline Fuel Type to a Liquified Petroleum Type, Dennis Leroy Moe
Stress Analysis by Photoelastic Methods, Herald K. Palmer
Separation of the Selenium Compounds in Seleniferous Plant Protien Hydrolysates by Paper Partition Chromatography, Arnold L. Smith
The Apparent Digestibility by Steers of a Wintering Ration Consisting of Prairie Hay Cut at Three Different Stages of Maturity Supplemented with Oats and Soybean Oil Meal, George Emmett Staples
An Amplidyne Voltage Regulator, Junis Oliver Storry
Cytological Observations of the F1 and Two Backcross Generations of T.Vulgare X Agropyron Spp., Donald L. Thompson
An Improved Method for the Determination of Crude Fiber and Nitrogen Extract of Feeds, Robert Alvin Wilcox
ETDS from 1948
Lignin, Cellulose and Crude Fiber Changes in Maturing Western Wheatgrass: (Agropyron smithii Rybd.), Chester R. Anderson
Responses of Oats and Barley to 2.4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2.4-D), Lyle A. Derscheid
The Problem of Recreation for the Blind and a Survey of Present Conditions, Howard H. Hanson
Trends in Land Use and Crop Production 12 Federal Reclamation Projects Northern Great Plains, Earl F. Hodges
The Relative Accuracy of One-Day and Three-Day Weights of Range Cows, Leroy Henry Holt
Some Effects of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid on the Nitrogen and Carbohydrate Metabolism of the Corn Plant, Clifford H. Hullinger
A Study of some Factors Influencing Alfalfa Seed Production, John Harold Miller
The Apparent Digestibility of Prairie Hay Harvested at Three Stages of Maturity, Arnold Bernard Nelson
The Yielding Ability of Bulked F2 Barley Crosses and Parents in Comparative Yield Trials, Walter Lowell Nelson
Carcass Differences in Inbred Lines and Linecrosses of Swine, Ellis Andine Pierce
The Effect of Grubs (Hypoderma lineatum and Hypoderma bovis) and Various Treatments for Grubs on Cattle in the Feed Lot, Odell L. Reinertson
ETDS from 1947
A Pathological Investigation of the Lake Poinsett Fish Disaster, Herbert Bach