Stabilized gas laser oscillators Final report, 24 Jun. 1964 - 21 Jun. 1966

Phase-locking scheme for frequency-stabilized gas laser oscillator

Farm Mortgage Experience of Life Insurance Companies Lending in South Dakota (supplement to circular 7)

This circular is the second report on the farm mortgage experience of life insurance companies and is intended to supplement and bring up-to-date information contained in South Dakota Experiment Station Circular 7. Since life insurance companies are the most important source of farm mortgage credit in South Dakota, it is important that information on their experience be made available. This information should be valuable both as a basis for a future loaning policy and as a background for the solution of South Dakota\u27s present serious farm mortgage problem

Farm Mortgage Foreclosures in South Dakota, 1921 - 1932

The purpose of this circular is to make available more complete figures on farm mortgage foreclosures from 1921 to 1931 inclusive for 44 counties were previously published in South Dakota Experiment Station circular 9. Since that time data have been collected for the missing counties and for the year 1932. While the complete figures for all counties show approximately the same trend as was shown by the figures for the 44 counties, it is thought to be worthwhile to publish the complete figures. Because farm foreclosures are such a clear indication of the financial distress in agriculture, it is essential that this information be made available in order that we may have a better picture of the situation and a more adequate basis for future action on the farm mortgage problem. The information on farm foreclosures was obtained by sending questionnaires to the county Register of Deeds in each of the 64 organized counties in the state.1 Replies were received from a large number of county registers of deeds, and the information for the rest of the counties was secured directly by a member of the department or in some cases by the county extension agent. The registers of deeds were asked to report the number and acreage of foreclosures instituted for the years 1913, 1918, and 1921-1932 inclusive

Farm Mortgage Experience of Life Insurance Companies Lending in South Dakota

Life insurance funds play an important part in supplying farm mortgage credit. This source of credit has increased rapidly during the last twenty years and is now one of the principal sources of farm mortgage loans in the United States. The life insurance companies have found an important outlet for their funds in South Dakota; approximately five per cent of their total farm mortgage loans on December 31, 1931 had been made in this state.\u27 Because of the nature of the institution of life insurance, its investments should be conservative. It is with this view in mind that the state insurance laws are designed to regulate the investments of the life insurance companies. Investments of the well-established life insurance companies have generally been made on a conservative basis. There are times, however, when an accumulation of distressed conditions which cannot be foreseen will change what was considered a most conservative investment into one of high risk. Such have been the conditions in agriculture the last few years. It is the object of this study to discover the effects of the adverse agricultural conditions of recent years on the farm mortgage holdings of life insurance companies in South Dakota. In a later bulletin from this department the experiences of other agencies supplying farm mortgage funds will be discussed and compared with the lending experiences of life insurance companies

Scanning micro-raman spectroscopy on carbon-rich residues of primitive chondrites: A tool for chondrite classification and stardust analysis

We present results obtained by Raman spectroscopy of various organic residues of primitive chondrites in order to better characterize the microstructural state of the organic matter. These results will be correlated with the petographic classification of the chondrites

Some Aspects of the Farm Mortgage Situation in South Dakota and their Relation to a Future Land Use Policy

The purpose of this circular is to bring together in more available form some facts and figures regarding the development of the present farm mortgage situation in South Dakota and to point out their relationship to a future land use policy. It is hoped that each topic covered in the discussion will contribute something to a better understanding of farm mortgage credit conditions in the state, More knowledge of the present situation is essential if an intelligent attack is to be made on this important problem. It has not been possible to analyze thoroughly each problem considered. Such conclusions as are offered will therefore have to be considered as more or less tentative. If the discussion that follows will be of assistance in furnishing some background for intelligent action on these timely and most important problems the undertaking will have served its main purpose