Potatoes Breeders Seek Ring Rot Resistant Varieties
U S Department of Agriculture breeders report test plantings showing resistance to ring rot in some hybrids and seedlings. Trials with four varieties inoculated reveal a few uninjured lines, including cross offspring from President and Katahdin. Resistance appears heritable and promising for future commercial quality.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Canada
Maine
R. M. Salter
Bureau of Plant Industry
Ireland
England
Alfalfa's Rise As Food And Industrial Resource
Alfalfa, once found mainly in Asia and Europe, has grown in US and Canada fields over two decades. Farmers favored it for vitamins and potential industrial uses. A pilot plant will extract pigments from dried leaves for soaps foods and medicines. Michigan State scientists explore plastics from alfalfa as soybeans are used. Alfalfa meal remains the main product for animal feeds and potential human foods through carotene and tonic experiments.
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United States
Canada
Asia
Europe
Michigan State College
Rural Briefs on Fruit Maturity and Clover Seed Output
Fruit should be fully grown and well colored but not overripe for storage. This year crimson clover seed production may reach about double the 1941 record. With good care of eggs on the farm especially in summer poultrymen can expect better returns. Buy War Bounds.
Great Lakes Naval Training Center World’s Largest Facility
Thousands march toward Great Lakes Illinois as the naval training station expands to host 11 camps named for navy heroes. It anchors the Ninth Naval District serving 13 Midwest states with extensive facilities, medical care, and a full kitchen and mess system to feed tens of thousands of recruits.
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Great Lakes Naval, Training Center
Great Midwest Plains
Pearl Harbor
Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Ill
Uncle Sam
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Navy
Barry
Bronson
Luce
Paul Jones
Perry
Dewey
Lawrence
Porter
Moffet
Morrow
McIntire
William Howard Taft
U. S. Naval Hospital
Naval Hospital
America
Archangel Gains Busy Status as Northern Port War War Now
The article notes Archangel's rising activity this summer amid German bombing raids on Murmansk. Archangel lies 300 miles farther from the pole, 500 miles closer to Moscow by rail, with a frozen harbor October to June and icebreakers keeping it open part of that period. The Baltic White Sea canal links Archangel with the Baltic Sea in normal summers, completed in 1933.
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Russia
Murmansk
Archangel
White Sea
North Pole
Moscow
National Geographic Society
Baltic Sea
Baltic-White Sea
Early US Army Bombers Track Into Modern Era
The article traces naval and air corps bomber evolution from the USD-9A De Haviland of 1918 with a 400 hp Liberty engine to the Glenn Martin bomber, LB-2, and the 1920s B-3A and Atlantic SB-2. It highlights performance, weights, bomb loads, and a 1934 Martin B-10 Alaska flight of 8,290 miles in 51 hours 30 minutes.
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America
Glenn Martin
U. S. Army Air Corps Engineers
Western Front
Army Air Corps
Army
Washington
D. C
Fairbanks
Alaska
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Sewing Circle patterns for children and bias cut skirt
Pattern No 8166 comes in sizes for 1 2 3 4 and 5 year olds with yardage for sizes 2 years 314 yards of 35 or 39 inch material 134 yards for trim romper. Pattern No 8164 offers sizes 32 to 44 with bias cut skirt requiring 414 yards of 35 inch material and 2 yards for trim. Send your order to.
Wrap Over Frock Pattern No 8164 Teaches Easy Comfort
A simple wrap over frock shown as Pattern No 8164 offers a cool casual style. It fastens with two waist buttons, making it easy to slip on after a hard day. The design promises practical appeal for hurried morning wear and adds a jewel like wardrobe staple.
Common knowledge quiz questions
Answers cover symbols meals and measurements. IHS represents the Illuminating Health Society in some contexts. Al fresco means outdoors. A meter is about 1.094 yards. Atlantis is said to be in the Atlantic Ocean. Didactic writing aims to instruct. A mammal among barracuda porpoise and shark is the porpoise. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was reportedly drafted in 1775 by local figures. The Suez Canal is about 120 miles long. A gross ton equals 2 240 avoirdupois pounds.
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Atlantis
Suez Canal
Jesus
Europe
North Carolina
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