Three administrative problems of Jonathan Belcher, royal governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay

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Y chromosome variants in cattle Bos taurus and Bos indicus

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Indian Affairs in Dakota. Memorial and Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota Relative to Indian Affairs in Said Territory

This Memorial and Resolution of the legislature of the Territory of Dakota, referred to the United States (US) House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed January 28, 1868, states the position of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory regarding several matters involving relations and bureaucratic arrangement between the US government and local tribes and Dakota Territory and those tribes, and argues for Dakota Territory playing a greater role in the management of the tribal affairs and the administration of US obligations, including procurement and transportation of Indian goods. Among changes argued for in the document are that the parts of the territory west of Nebraska and south of Montana be organized into a new territory, being almost wholly unconnected and having no interests in common with the other settled portion of the Territory, and that, If the system of small reservations is to be abandoned, and the Indians consolidated and given a territory in Dakota for their exclusive use and benefit, that territory should be located north of the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude. This section of country is capable of containing and supporting all the Indians in Dakota. The document also cites the abundance of timber, gold and other valuable resources south of the 45th parallel as grounds for protesting a proposed plan to include the Black Hills in the Indian territory to be created for the exclusive benefit and habitation of the Indians that portion of Dakota known as the Black Hills.https://commons.und.edu/indigenous-gov-docs/1014/thumbnail.jp

Phosphorus characterization in feces from broiler chicks fed low-phytate barley diets

The inclusion of low phytate grains in poultry diets can reduce the phosphorus (P) content of poultry feces, but their influence on fecal P composition is not well established. To assess this, 100 male broiler chicks (21 days old) were fed dietary treatments based on either a wild-type barley or one of three low phytate mutant barleys with 59, 62 and 99% reductions in phytate P, compared with the normal barley diet. The birds were housed in raised-floor battery cages with mesh grate floors above fecal collection trays with five birds per pen and five pens per treatment. The birds were fed for 9 days and feces were collected twice a day during the last 2 days of the experiment. Total P concentrations were 14-24% lower in feces from birds fed low phytate barley diets compared with those fed the normal barley diet. Phosphorus digestibility increased (P < 0.05) as phytate in the barley diet decreased. Phosphate was the major P fraction in the feces (69-75% extracted P) regardless of the type of barley fed. Phytate constituted only 3-12% of the P in the feces, indicating its hydrolysis in the bird. Overall, these results suggest that feeding low-phytate barley diets can reduce P concentrations in poultry feces without causing significant changes in P composition