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Title
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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1931 Omaha, Nebraska Sept. 5 - Oct 10, 1931 I took up and carried home on September 5th, a sod of white clover ( Trifolium repens L.) plants from a lawn which I had had under observation for several weeks, near the corner of Martha and S. 29th Streets. The square of sod taken was cut with great care, 6 by 7 inches, and 3 inches deep to favor the roots. This bluegrass-and-clover lawn was well kept and often watered, and was subject to frequent cutting with a lawn mower. The clover colony which interested me was a small part of a small area from which bluegrass had been entirely crowded out, and lay in such position, just inside the curbing, that persons leaving or entering their cars were quite likely to step on the plants. - These inconsequential points are recorded for the reason that they are the only known unusual stimuli to which the plants had been subjected, and may conceivably have some bearing upon the abnormality of this little clover colony. At the time of taking up this small sod, September 5th, after it had been spared mowing at my request for about a month, it showed nearly as many four-leaved and five-leaved clovers as of the normal three-leaved form. It was not practicable to examine the youngest of the unopened leaves, as they might be injured by the process; but as careful a check of them as I could make, using a slightly blunted No. 10 needle with its head set into a delicately tapered pine handle for convenience, disclosed a total, of opened and determinable opening leaves, of between 60 and 70 4's, and over 40 5's. The normal leaves (having 3 leaflets) were not
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Rights
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes