RS 13/5/54
Arthur L. Bakke (1886-1972)

Papers, 1914-1972

Special Collections Department
 403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

  Descriptive summary

creator:

Arthur L. Bakke (1886-1972)

title:

Papers

dates:

1914-1972

extent:

5.65 Linear Feet (11 boxes)

collection number:

RS 13/5/54

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

  Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Arthur L. Bakke  Papers, RS 13/5/54, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Arthur L. Bakke was born in Horace, South Dakota on June 26, 1886. In 1893 he moved with his family to Forest City, Iowa where he graduated from high school.He then enrolled in Iowa State College and received a B.S. degree in 1909 and a M.S. in 1911. In 1917 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. As a plant physiologist and instructor, Dr. Bakke spent two years, 1909 and 1910, at Elgin Academy (Illinois). From there he went to Iowa State as an instructor and became a full professor in 1925. He spent the remainder of his career at Iowa State.

Bakke devoted his professional energies to weed control. He made significant contributions to weed control in Iowa with his studies in root reserves in perennial weeds, notably European bind weed and leafy surge, and with his early work with sodium chlorate and Atlacide. In 1944 Bakke was helpful in the organization of the North Central Weed Control Conference, and served as the organization’s Research Committee Chairman as well as in other capacities. In 1954 he was elected honorary member of the organization. Bakke was also active in the development of the American Society of Plant Physiologists. He died on December 25, 1972 in Ames, Iowa and is buried in the Iowa State University Cemetery.

 

 

Collection description

The Arthur L. Bakke Papers include biographical information, clippings, ISU committee files, correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, manuscripts translated from Danish, Iowa State University committee papers, experiment station bulletins, and photographs. The personal material includes Bakke's B.S. and M.S. diplomas from Iowa State and his Ph.D. diploma received from the University of Chicago. The largest part of the collection is Bakke's personal and professional correspondence. Included are letters from the Ames Land Company; C. E. Brindley, an economics professor who was a partner in a land venture and eventually owed Bakke money; Iowa State University librarian Charles Brown; R. E. Buchanan, Hahn Muscatine Company, a gravel firm in which Bakke invested, the Osborn Research Club, Louis H. Pammel, Raymond A. Pearson, H. S. Smith related to the experiment station at Hawarden (1936 1940), E. W. Stanton, and genealogy from the Studt family, his mother's family. Other correspondents include C. R. Ball, S. A. Beach, E. A. Bessy, R. K. Bliss, John M. Coulter, Charles F. Curtiss, Henry Gilman, R. B. Hibbard, Harold D. Hughes, L. W. Kephart, Burton E. Livingston, Irving E. Melhus, Raymond J. Pool, S. C. Salmon,Charles H. Schull, William Trelease, and R. B. Wylie.


The correspondence files contain agricultural advice and information related to the effects of artificial light on crops (1919), European Bindweed and other weeds, and related to the early use of 2 4 D. Included are Bakke’s publications related to the transpiring power of plants, soil nutrients, weed control, and small grains. There are also drafts of his research and unpublished material including a "Report of the Winneshiek Drainage Project," a plan by the U.S. War Dept. to drain Mississippi River bottom lands. The brochures are related to scientific equipment available from many manufacturing corporations of the day. Notebooks for work at Hawarden and other projects include financial books kept by Bakke and colleagues. The notebooks include Hawarden notes and expenses for 1935 1944. The ISU committee files relate to the Fraternity Committee (1921 26), the Short Course Committee, and the State Fair Committee (1920 27).
 

 

Box/File                                                                                                          Date

 

Personal Information

 

1/1                   Biography; honors; list of publications; newspaper clipping;

miscellaneous.                                                                                  1916-72

 

Published Papers By A. L. Bakke (and others, chronologically arranged)

 

1/2                   "The Effect of City Smoke on Vegetation", Bulletin No. 145,

Iowa State Agriculture Experiment Station.                                   10/1913

“Studies on the Transpiring Power of Plants as Indicated

                        by the Method of Standardized Hygrometric Paper,” reprinted

                        from The Journal of Ecology,  v. 2 (3).                                            9/1914

“The Index of Foliar Transpiring Power as an Indicator of

Permanent Wilting,” reprinted from The Botanical Gazette,

v. 60 (4).                                                                                             10/1915

And B. E. Livingston, “Further Studies on Foliar Transpiring

Power in Plants,” Physiological Researches, v. 2 (2).                  8/1916

And G. E. Corson, “The Use of Iron in Nutrient Solution

For Plants,” reprinted from the Iowa Academy of Science,

Proceedings, v. 24.                                                                           1917

And G. D. Fuller, “Raunkiaer’s ‘Life Forms,’ ‘Leaf-size

classes,’ and ‘Statistical Methods,’” reprinted from The

                        Plant World, v. 21 (2 & 3).                                                                2 & 3/1918

“Determination of Wilting,” reprinted from The Botanical


 

1/2                   Gazette, v. 66 (2).                                                                              8/1918

And W. A. Radspinner and T. J. Maney, “Determination

of the Hardiness of the Apple,” reprinted from the American

Society for Horticultural Science, Proceedings.                1          920

And L. H. Pammel, “The Effect of Weeds upon Crop

Production,” Iowa Academy of Science, v. 29.                              1922

And L. W. Erdman, “Plant Nutrition,” reprinted from American

Journal of Botany, v. 10.                                                                   1/1923

And H. H. Plagge, "The Extent to Which Weeds Modify the

Transpiration of Cereals,"  Research Bulletin No. 96, Iowa

State Agricultural Experiment Station                                             6/1926

And H. W. Richey and K. Reeves, "Germination and

Storage of Apple Seeds,"  Research Bulletin No. 97,

Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station                                    10/1926

And Stuart Dunn, “Adsorption as a Means of Determining

Relative Hardiness in the Apple,” reprinted from Plant

Physiology, v. 1 (2).                                                                           1926

And J. M. Aikman, “Ethylene Glycol as an Atmometer

Reagent to Measure the Evaporation Environment at

Temperatures Below Freezing,” reprinted from Science

v. 68 (1755).                                                                                      8/17/1928

And A. T. Erwin, “Hydration in Sweet Corn Seed,” reprinted

from Iowa State College Journal of Science, v. 5 (1).                   1930

"European Bindweed," Circular No. 124, Iowa State Agricul-

 tural Experiment Station                                                                  5/1930

And N. L. Noecker, "The Relation of Moisture to Respiration

and Heating in Stored Oats,"  Research Bulletin No. 165,

Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station.                                   6/1933

And H. Stiles, “Thermal Conductivity of Stored Oats

with Different Moisture Content,” reprinted from Plant

Physiology, v. 10.                                                                              1935

"Leafy Spurge, Euphorbia Esula L.," Research Bulletin

No. 198, Iowa State Agricultural Experiment Station.                   5/1936

"Control of Leafy Spurge Euphorbia Esula L.,"  Research

Bulletin No. 222, Iowa State Agricultural Experiment

Station.                                                                                               10/1937

And R. M. Hixon, "Portable Field Drier,"  reprinted from

1/2                   Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, V.31,No.3.          3/1939

"The Soil Moisture Relationship of European Bindweed

Growing in Corn,"  reprinted from Journal of the American

                        Society of Agronomy, V.31,No.4.                                                    4/1939

“The Use of Tetrachlorethane in the Eradication of the

European Bindweed,” reprinted from the Journal of the

American Society of Agronomy, v. 33 (8).                         8/1941

And N. D. Render, “Presence of Anti-Hemorrhagic Material

in Roots of European Bindweed (Convolvulus Arvensis L.),”

reprinted from the American Journal of Botany, v. 29 (5).            5/1942

And E. P. Sylwester, “The Control of Poison Ivy,” reprinted

from Iowa Academy of Science, Proceedings, v. 63.                   12/6/1956

"The Effect of Smoke and Gases upon Vegetation," Iowa

Academy of Science.                                                                       n.d.

"The Late Blight of Barley (Helminthosporium Teres Sacc),"

Iowa Academy of Science.                                                              n.d.

 

Unpublished (not research oriented) Papers by A. L. Bakke (or presented by him, alphabetically arranged).

 

1/3                   "Bacteriology & Hygiene."                                                               n.d.

"Botany"                                                                                             n.d.

"The Control of Algal Growth in Our Lakes."                                  n.d.

"Gleanings From the Desert."                                                         n.d.

"How Plants Feed the Atmosphere."                                              n.d.

"Literature of Horticulture"; Delivered before Graduate

Horticultural Seminar.                                                                       4/23/1923

"More Botany in our Public Schools."                                             n.d.

"Province of Plant Physiology."                                                       n.d.

"Purpose of Laboratory."                                                                 n.d.

"Role of Plant Physiology in Farm Crops Investigations";

Presented by Bakke to the Farms Crops Seminar.                      1/20/1924

"Signs of the Times," poem on Botany by Paul Laurence

Dunbar, Given by Bakke at the Botanists' dinner.             1/22/1920

"Some Botanical Features of the Desert."                         n.d.

"Temperature in Experimentation."                                     n.d.

"Water Balance of Plants."                                                              n.d.

1/3                   "Way Back When - at Iowa State"; a talk given by Bakke at a

Botany Department banquet.                                                           1947

 

Unpublished (research oriented) Papers by A. L. Bakke (and others) alphabetically arranged.

 

1/4                   "Addition of Dry Sodium Chlorate and Dry Atlacide to the

Soil in Different Ways."                                                                    n.d.

"Biochemical Laboratory Methods for phytochemistry Melting

Points."                                                                                               n.d.

"Comparison of the Absorption Occurring in Corn Stalk Tissue

and in Prepared Bio-colloids."                                                        n.d.

"Comparison of the Spray and Dry Application Methods for

Effectiveness in Killing European Bind weed."                             n.d.

And L. W. Erdman, "A Comparative Study of Sand and Solution

Cultures of Marquis Wheat."                                                            n.d.

"Comparative Water Balance of Normal and 'Curly Dwarf'

Potatoes."                                                                                          n.d.

"The Desiccation of Curly-Dwarf and Normal Potato

Tubers."                                                                                              n.d.

"Determination of Hardiness in Apples."                                       n.d.

"Dry Application of Atlacide."                                                          n.d.

"Effectiveness of Dry Sodium Chloratein Killing European

Bind weed."                                                                                       n.d.

Further Studies on the Root Reserve of the European Bindweed;

"The Effect of Reduced Light On the Root Reserves in European

Bind weed As It Has Bearing On the Action of Smother Crops,"

and "Depletion of Root Reserves in European Bind weed in

Competition with Growing Soybeans."                                           n.d.

"Investigation of the Mississippi Bottoms Between Lansing and

New Albin."                                                                                        n.d.

"Longevity of Helminthosporium Tens."                                          n.d.

And R. A. Rudnick, "Mechanical Penetration of Sweet Corn

Pericarp."                                                                                           n.d.

"Nivosal?  Important Contribution for Fire Protection."                 n.d.

"Popular Account."                                                                            n.d.

"Resistance of Plants to Overheating and to Freezing."  n.d.

1/5                   "Root Development and Fruit Production in the Tomato

Growing in the Greenhouse in Steamed and unsteamed

Soils."                                                                                                 n.d.

And J. N. Martin, "Salt Nutrition Project - Marquis Wheat."

National Research Council.  In Cooperation with the

Laboratory Plant Physiology, Department of Botany,

Iowa State College.                                                                          n.d.

"Salt Requirements of Wheat."  Given at the regular meeting

of the Osborne Research Club.                                                       2/14/1921.

And H. H. Plagge, "Studies Upon the Absorption and

Germination of Wheat Treated with Formaldehyde."                    n.d.

"The Use of Dilute Atlacide Sprays."                                              n.d.

"The Use of Dilute Sodium Chlorate Sprays."                               n.d.

And G. E. Corson, "The Use of Ferric and Ferrous Phosphate

in Nutrient Solutions."                                                                       n.d.

And E. P. Sylwester, "Weeds."                                                       n.d.

"Wilting of Plants."                                                                            n.d.

 

Papers Translated from Danish by Bakke

 

1/6                   "Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense)" a monograph by Sam

E. Lund and E. Rastrup, Authorized by the Royal Danish

Academy of Science.  (Ten Chapters).                                          n.d.

"Joachin Frederik Schouw on the Occasion of the one

hundredth anniversary of his Publication of his Plant Geography."

by Carl Christensen, with portrait.  Botanisk Tidsskrift,

v. 38: 1-56.                                                                                         1923

"Treatment of Summer Cereals with Bayer Dust."  By

Agricultural Instructor, Fischer of Biedenkopf, [illegible]   [illegible]

 

Research Plans

 

1/7                   Proposed Plan for Continuation of Present Cooperative

Work on the Eradication of Noxious Weeds.                                 1937

National Research Council Division of Agriculture, Botany

and Zoology Plan for Cooperative Research on Salt Nutrition

of Representative Agricultural Plants.                                             n.d.

 

Research, Progress Reports (chronologically arranged) Bakke was Leader or Co-Leader

1/7                   State Investigation in Plant Culture.  Report 75.

"Experiments in Storing on Fruit in Cellars and Cold

Storage Houses."                                                                             7/1/1920

Report of the Winneshiek Drainage Project.  By A. L.

Bakke.                                                                                                ca. 1923

Project No. 35; "Studies in the Curing and Storage of Hay."       6/1926

"Determination of the most Effective Means of Eradicating

the European Bind weed, Leafy Spurge and New Noxious

Weeds, Particularly in Sioux County."                                            1930

Project No. 51; "Factors determining the Annual Spread

of Weeds."                                                                                         1933

Project No. 52; "Methods of Destroying Localized Areas of

Noxious Weeds."                                                                              1934

Project No. 304; "Methods of Destroying Localized areas

of Noxious Weeds Particularly of Creeping Jennie and

Leafy Spurge."                                                                                  1934

Project No. 192; "Curing and Storage Studies with corn

and small grains."                                                                             1934

Project No. 87; "The Relation of Moisture to Respiration

in Stored Grain."                                                                               1934

Project No. 303; "Factors Determining the Annual Spread

of Convolvulus arvensis (creeping Jennie) and Euphorbia

Esula (Leafy spurge).                                                                       1935

Project No. 472; "Physiology and Life History of Leafy

Spurge, European Bindweed, and Russian knapweed." 1935

Project No. 471; "Properties and Herbicidal action of

sodium chlorate mixtures."                                                               1935

Project No. 484; "Physiology of Field Bind weed (Convolvulus

arvensis L.) and other Noxious Weeds.                                         1935

Report of Weed Investigations of the Iowa Agricultural

Experiment Station in Co-operation with the Bureau

of Plant Industry Office of Cereal Crops and Diseases.   1937

Report of Project "To develop new methods of Eradication

of annual and perennial weeds."                                                     1944

1/7                   "Tip Burn of Potatoes."                                                                     n.d.

"Carbohydrate and Nitrogenous Reserves of Bind weed

Roots."                                                                                               n.d.

Three Photo Negatives; 2 on oats planted, one corn

planted.                                                                                              n.d.

 

Data for Research (Papers by other people, charts, notes)

 

2/1                   County Questionnaire Summary for Cerro Gordo, Marshall,

Mahaska, Pottawattamie, Hamilton and Blackhawk (exclusive

of Waterloo) counties.                                                                      n.d.

Eradication of Weeds.                                                                     n.d.

Information on the hardiness of fruit.                                               n.d.

Marquis Seedling Wheat.  By H. Dorsey                                        n.d.

Notes on Micro-chemistry.                                                               n.d.

Plant Disease Survey:  Potatoes.                                                   n.d.

Salt Nutrition Study; Record of Results.                                          n.d.

Transpiration Studies.                                                                      n.d.

2/2                   A Regional Research Project cooperative between The

State Agricultural Experiment Stations of the North Central

Region and the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and

Agricultural Engineering United States Department of

Agriculture . . . to study the eradication or control of weeds

and other undesirable plants.  Participating states include

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,

Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and

Wisconsin.  A. L. Bakke served as representative from Iowa

State College.  Papers include objectives, set up, and

resolutions.                                                                                        1940's

2/3                   Correspondence Concerning Research done at Cherokee,

Iowa (not by Bakke).                                                             1938,39,41

2/4                   Hawarden Experiment Station Records (vouchers and

receipts)                                                                                             1936-41

2/5a                Hawarden Experiment Station Records                                         1937-41

2/5b                Hawarden Experiment Station Records (vouchers for

payroll and travel)                                                                              1936-41

 

College Committees on which Bakke Served

 

Faculty Fraternity Committee

 

2/6                   Minutes of the meetings.                                                                  1921-1926

Report of National Inter-Fraternity Conference                              1923

Correspondence of the committee                                     n.d.

 

Memorial Union Committee

 

2/6                   Correspondence, Pledges, Pamphlets.                                         n.d.

 

Picture Committee

 

2/7                   Bakke as president.  Correspondence, Meeting Minutes.           n.d.

 

Publicity Committee

 

2/7                   Bakke as Secretary                                                                          n.d.

 

Short Course Committee

 

2/7                   Meeting minutes, reports, programs.                                              n.d.

 

State Fair Committee

 

2/8                   Memoranda of Meetings, Exhibit Proposal, Floor plan of

Exhibit Space.                                                                                   1920

Fair Organization, Committee reports, Floor Plans of

Exhibit Space.                                                                                   1921

2/9                   Bakke was Committee Chairman.  Organization; Committee

Reports, Correspondence; "Little Country Theater" program;

Schedule of events - Des Moines Register, Aug. 20, 1922.        1922

2/10                Organization, Committee Reports and Suggestions,

Correspondence, Little Country Theater description and

Programs; Floor Plan of Exhibits and photographs of

exhibits.  (5 photos).                                                             1923


 

 

3/1                   Organization, Reports, Correspondence, 5 photos

(4 photographs of exhibits, one of Little Theater play).                 1924

Report, correspondence, floor plan.                                               1925

Summary of the 1927 State Fair and one Little Theater

program.  Nine Photographs of State Fair displays

(no date).                                                                                            n.d.,1927

Fraternities

 

3/2                   Pi Association of Chi Phi, Iowa State College.                             n.d.

Gamma Alpha, University of Chicago.                                           n.d.

Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society of Iowa State College.     n.d.

Sigma Xi, National.                                                                           n.d.

 

Teaching Concerns

 

3/3                   Report of Committee on Instruction in Agriculture.                        1917

Student Paper:  "Dwarf Bunt of Wheat" by S. C.

Litzenberger.                                                                                     1946

Student Paper:  "The Rest Period of Plants" by W. E.

Johns.                                                                                                 1923

Study and Experiment guides, and exam questions.                    n.d.

Lesson outline for a Study of Weeds prepared by the

Botany Department and Extension Service of Iowa State

College.                                                                                              n.d.

Candidates for the position of Assistant Professor of Plant

Physiology, Iowa State College.                                                      1927

 

Correspondence:  Received (alphabetically arranged)

 

3/4                   A - Including John M. Arthur of the Boyce Thompson Institute

for Plant Research and W. M. Atwood of Oregon Agricultural

College.                                                                                              1922-42

3/5                   Ba-Bes - Including C. R. Ball of United States Department of Agriculture;

S. A. Beach of Iowa State College; F. W. Beckman of Iowa State

College; and E. A. Bessy of Michigan Agricultural College.        1916-41

3/6                   Bet-Bu - Including S. W. Beyer, Iowa State College; R. K. Bliss, Iowa

State College; H. L. Bolley of North Dakota Agricultural

College; John E. Brindley, Iowa State College; F. E. Brown,

Iowa State College; P. E. Brown, Iowa State College; J. A.

Buchanan, Iowa State College; R. E. Buchanan, Iowa State

College; and A. Burgerstein, Vienna, Austria.                               1917-41

3/7                   Ca-Chi - Including R. T. Chamberlin, University of Chicago; Chi Phi

Fraternity.                                                                                           1914-37

3/8                   Chr-Cu - Including George H. Conant; W. F. Coover, Iowa State

College; J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago; Henry C.

Cowles, University of Chicago; and C. F. Curtiss, Iowa

State College.                                                                                   1913-41

3/9                   D -Including Carl J. Drake, Iowa State College.                            1916-41

 

4/1                   E - Including P. H. Elwood, Iowa State College; and A. T.

Erwin, Iowa State Experiment Station.                                           1917-41

4/2                   F - Including C. L. Fitch, Iowa State College.                                 1916-40

4/3                   G - Including W. G. Gaessler, I. S. C.; Gamma Alpha Fraternity;

G. M. Gillette, U. S. House of Representatives; Henry Gilman,

I. S. C.; Joseph C. Gilman, I. S. C.; Lawrenz Greene, Iowa

State Experiment Station; and F. G. Gustafson.                           1916-41

4/4                   H - Including R. B. Harvey, University of Minnesota; R. P. Hibbard,

Michigan Agricultural College; and H. D. Hughes, I. S. C.            1917-41

4/5                   I - Including International Congress of Plant Sciences, B. M.

Duggan of University of Wisconsin, chairman; and Izaac

Walton League.                                                                                 1919-41