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- Cage Culture: Site Selection and Water Quality BROKEN
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Ponds are not always suitable for cage culture of fish. Before venturing into cage culture make sure your pond will support the increased biological load that cage culture will induce on its system.
- Cage Culture: Cage Culture Problems BROKEN
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Cage culture is one of the most intense forms of aquaculture. Due to its intense nature, cage culture can have problems.
- Wood Ducks in Mississippi
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Wood ducks are one of three migratory waterfowl that nest regularly in Mississippi. Along with the mallard, wood ducks are some of the most abundant ducks in Mississippi, and they make up a large percentage of waterfowl bagged in Mississippi each year. They also are excellent table fare.
- Winter Kill in Channel Catfish
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Winter Kill Syndrome is a serious disease affecting farm-raised channel catfish during colder months.
- Winter Drawdown: A Useful Management Tool for Mississippi Farm Ponds
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One of the most useful and most inexpensive pond management practices is called a "winter drawdown." This practice is the reduction of water levels in a pond to some predetermined level.
- Wildlife Plantings And Practices
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Three of the most important requirements for game and non-game wildlife are food, water, and shelter. Increasing or decreasing wildlife populations is primarily a matter of altering these basic requirements.
- Wildlife Food Planting Guide For The Southeast
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This guide has been designed for the Southeast to help landowners, recreation clubs, and hunters better manage populations of the white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, and various species of waterfowl by providing wildlife habitat and food-planting management techniques.
- Wildlife and Foresty Landowner Cooperatives
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Many forest landowners have not capitalized on the wildlife and forest resources on their lands for a variety of reasons. One approach that forest landowners can take to capitalize on these resources is to form a cooperative with adjoining neighbors.
- Wild Turkey Management In Alabama
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This publication provides information on the wild turkey relating to its life history, habitat needs, and habitat management.
- What Is A Fishing Derby?
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Rating: Votes: 24 Rate ItMost fishing derbies involve some form of competition -- the most fish, largest fish, tagged fish, largest aggregate catch, or some combination of these. Although this may be a good method for bass tournaments in which the competitors are experienced anglers, it is not a good procedure for fishing derbies with large participation of mainly young and inexperienced participants.
- Wellhead Protection
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Because of the importance of groundwater to Mississippi, protecting the underground water supplies, or aquifers, is critically important. Wellhead protection, or well protection, is also important to all well owners in the state.
- Weed Control in Christmas Tree Plantations
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Weed control in Christmas tree plantations is one of the most important cultural practices during the early life of the plantation. Successful weed control helps the grower produce high quality trees and can result in a more rapid return on initial investments.
- Using Rotenone To Renovate Fish Populations In Farm Ponds
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The ultimate fate of many farm ponds in Mississippi is an unbalanced fish population that is undesirable to fishermen, and, therefore, has little recreational fishing value. Once a fish population reaches such a condition, the best alternative is usually to eliminate the resident fish completely and to restock with a desirable combination of fish at recommended rates.
- Turtles In Mississippi Farm Ponds
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Farm ponds and lakes scattered across the Mississippi landscape provide an excellent habitat for many species of turtles.
- Tree Squirrels in Mississippi
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This publication discusses the proper habitats for fox and gray squirrels.
- Tree Seedling Availability, Planting, and Initial Care
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This publication explains the advantages and disadvantages of different types of seedlings, identifies seedling sources, suggests planting alternatives, and explains initial care requirements.
- Tree Planting Objectives and the Seedling Selection Process
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This publication discusses ways to increase seedling survival and achieve an established, well stocked forest stand.
- Tree Injection With Reduced Labor Requirements
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Rating: Votes: 16 Rate ItTree injection has historically been a labor-intensive practice, but a new method now exists that drastically reduces the amount of labor required.
- Tree Improvement in Oklahoma Woodlands
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This fact sheet summarizes the methods landowners can use to improve the quality of forest trees.
- Timber Stand Improvement
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Timber stand improvement practices are needed to remove trees of undesirable form, quality, condition, growth rate, or species. Removal of poor trees will stimulate the growth of better trees and will increase profits to private, non-industrial forestland owners.
- There Could Be A "Pot of Gold" on Your Land
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This information sheet helps landowners figure out how many acres they have in forest land, the quantity of timber, its quality, value, and other characteristics.
- The Propagation And Commercial Use Of Bobwhite Quail
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This circular is designed to assist those who have already ventured or who may venture into raising bobwhites in an effort to supply the growing demand of hunting preserves and restaurants.
- Tank Mixtures of Forestry Site Preparation Herbicides Can Be Antagonistic
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Rating: Votes: 27 Rate ItFarmers have been using tank mixes for many years, but the concept is comparatively new in forestry. The search for the optimum combination of herbicides is an ongoing process. Agricultural fields demonstrate that not all mixtures are good, and sometimes adding one chemical to another can actually decrease the effectiveness of both herbicides.
- Strip Disking and Other Valuable Bobwhite Quail Management Techniques
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In the South, habitats, whether open fields or wooded areas, that are allowed to grow up longer than three to four years without some type of soil or vegetative disturbance quickly grow out of good bobwhite habitat. Typically, management practices for open fields include prescribed burning annually or every two years, bush-hogging, disking, planting agricultural crops, and protection of some areas that grow up into brushy escape cover.
- Snakes Alive! How To Identify Snakes
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Rating: Votes: 15 Rate ItMost poisonous snakes in the United States belong to the pit viper group. The pit viper has pits on its head, vertical pupils, a triangular head, slim neck, and a heavy body with a single row of scales on the underside of the tail.
- Selling Your Timber
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This fact sheet presents guidelines to assist individuals in marketing timber from their forest lands.
- Selection of Fish for Stocking Mississippi Farm Ponds
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One of the major keys to success in farm pond management is proper selection of fish species to stock. Proper selection requires consideration of the desired outcome; that is, a pond owner must determine what he wants to experience from the fish population and then stock accordingly.
- Sealing Leaking Ponds
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Excessive seepage in ponds is generally due either to a poor site--that is, one in which the soils in the impounded area are too permeable to hold water--to improperly constructed levees or dams, or to physical damage caused by tree roots, burrowing rodents, or other factors.
- Safe Chain Saw Operation
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The chain saw is a versatile tool which can be used for many jobs. However, in the hands of a careless or inexperienced operator, they can be very hazardous.
- Protecting Your Well By Shock Chlorination
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Shock chlorination is a way to protect a private well from coliform, iron, and sulfur bacteria.
