Busy Days on University Heights Fruit Farm Near Darby
The 2000 acre University Heights farm west of Darby cultivates mainly McIntosh Red apples with 1500 workers. Machines now grade and pack, handling 1500 boxes daily. culls become vinegar. Most laborers are Bitter Root valley residents. last year a strike was narrowly avoided. Secretary Barklow estimates the year’s crop at 35 carloads.
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University Heights
Darby
E. F E. Barklow
Bic
Ranch operations amid pests and weather on forest reserve
The ranch raises 600 tons of mixed hay and keeps 1500 sheep and hogs on the forest reserve in summer. Three hog cars sold this fall and about 200 sows and pigs remain on pasture. An apiary yields about five tons of honey yearly, but this year foul brood cut production to four tons. The Colorado leaf roller damaged 400 to 6500 acres of fruit, while hail and late fall rains hindered harvests and frost was light.
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Colorado
Paris Climate Said to Change Hair and Brain
Paris scholars claim the city air can bleach dark hair and gray eyes while enlarging brains. They say bones shorten limbs and chests deepen, creating a purported purely Parisian race of French men and women.
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Paris
MacAuliffe
Marie
French Academy of Sciences
Madaime
The Black Cap Custom in English Death Sentences
The article explains how judges wear a black cap before delivering a death sentence. It notes the cap as a mourning gesture reflecting the judge's role in a life forfeiture.
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England
Fac
China Well Manned In Wartime Perspective
Basil Matthews argues in British Review of Reviews that if China used 10 percent of its population in war and incurs casualties at a rate of one million per year, it would take 50 years to destroy its first armies. During that period two additional Chinese forces of 50 million would rise to confront the foe.
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China
Basil Mathews
British Review of Reviews
Quebec plans tree planting and patrols amid forest protection drive
The Quebec government intends to plant two pines or spruces for every tree cut and currently has six hydroplanes patrolling forests. It supports private forest protection as three million trees are planted this year and seven lumber associations are formed for timber development. Snitzbergen receives four months of sunlight annually.
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Quebec
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