Reader Q and A on science finance and history
A column of Q and A covers topics from dairy cattle pricing in the United States to the speed of airplanes versus pigeons. It includes notes on the Agricultural Credit Corporation’s cattle purchases, the standard railroad gauge, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, compass declination, and other curious facts with brief answers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Northwest
New York
Washington, D. C
Culver City
California
United States Bureau of Standards
Bureau
College of Cardinals
Senate of
Irish Free State
Dublin
Bananas in Transit Protected by Forecasts
The United States imports about 45 million banana bunches annually. Ventilated rail cars carry the fruit with attendants or messengers adjusting vents per expected weather. A New Orleans fruit company reduced losses after installing a Weather Bureau supported alert system in 1923 guiding zone-based ventilation adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Southern Division
New Orleans
Weather Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Fruit Company
October record month for tuberculosis eradication
The U S Department of Agriculture reports October 1924 set a new national milestone in bovine TB testing with 642 602 cattle tuberculin tested. This surpasses the prior record by over 16 000. 24 440 tested positive and are removed. The total cattle under eradication supervision reaches 9 198 975 and demand for testing remains high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Agriculture
Weather forecasts via radiophone gains traction for farmers
The article argues radio broadcasting will surpass other methods for disseminating weather forecasts and warnings as receiving sets spread. It notes about 120 stations cooperate with the Weather Bureau, delivering state specific forecasts to rural areas. rural telephone systems currently remain the best method for farmers, but radio developments since 1921 are rapidly expanding access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Wisconsin At Madison
Weather Bureau
United States
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United States Department of Commerce
Arizona
New Mexico
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Woodrow Wilson
Charles & Simonson
Charles L. Tiffany
Wilson
Kirs
Tiffany
Biltmore
Iosieu
Jwt
Gee Onober
Dopes
Wollenton
George Washington
Volunteer Fire Department
Alexandria
Virginia
United States Veterans Bureau
Isle of Pines
Panama Canal
John Hay
Cuba
Jesse R. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Madison Avenue
New York City
National Democratic Club
Lyon & Healy Chicago
Knoffs
Wurlitzer Music Company
Japan
Germany
Skedes
C. D. Mitchell
Mitchell
West Side Square
Wabash
Cork’ S Insurance Agency
Walter E. Cork
Marshall
Illinois
James J. Rosh
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
J.H. Dorton
W. Graham
Arig
Keller Laboratory
Mechanicsburg
F. B. Keifer & CO
L5dc
the Herald
Marshall Herald
Marshall, Illinois
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