Patent Office Undered Snowed Under by Patent Activity
The United States patent office reports an unprecedented surge in invention activity. With 111 757 applications pending, six years behind, divisions such as carbon chemistry and dyeing handle the bulk as aviation and refrigeration spur new devices.
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Washington
United States Patent Office
Department of Commerce
Patent Office
Congress
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
George P. Wagner
New York City
Air Line Transportation Company
Philadelphia
Wagner
Walter I. O'Neill
New York ‘City
J. A. Colwell
Division of Aeronautics
Robert S. Ormand
Bessemer City
N. C
Post Office Department
Claude A. Bulkeley
Lachlan W
Child
Buffalo
Niagara Blower Company
Max Alex
Davenport
Iowa
James D. Huston
Imperial
Calif
Sigurd Mattias Backstrom
Stockholm
Sweden
Electrolux Server Corporation
C. H. Shaffer
W. N. Holmes
Anthony G. Petris
South
Chicago
Petris
Gustaf David Sundstrand
Sundstrand Engineering Company
Rockford
George W. Bruce
Osseo
Minn
Bruce Manufacturing Company
Minneapolis
Knut Leopold Moritz
Umea
Welcome Stranger Adds City Directories at Oakland Corners
Oakland installs a novelty for strangers with chained city directories at principal street corners. Each directory holds steel leaf maps and directions to points of interest for visitors and newcomers.
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Oakland
Calif
Wind brakes used on Sunbeam racer for Kaye Don
England engineers install wind brakes on the Sunbeam racing car built for Kaye Don. The car aims to break the world land speed record at Daytona, Florida, early this year.
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Wolverhampton
England
Kaye Don
Don
Daytona
Fla
Soy Beans Rise in Popularity Across the Country
Soy beans are gaining traction in U S farming with a 25 percent rise in northern state acreage and total U S plantings reaching 534 000 acres in 1924 up from 452 000 in 1923. States like Missouri show 50 percent growth as seedsmen race to test climate and soil suitability for this new crop.
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Missouri
United States
Essential for Success Bees Must Have Spring Honey
The article stresses beekeepers open hives early in spring and ensure stores. It advises two to three frames of sealed honey to prevent starvation and support brood rearing, enabling strong hives to produce large honey yields.
Italian broccoli enters Illinois family garden at UIUC
The University of Illinois introduces Italian broccoli a cabbage family plant that yields two to three crops per season. Dr Lee A Sommers notes its hardiness tolerance to higher temperatures and its delicate flavor similar to cauliflower. Plants mature about 60 to 70 days after field set with marketable heads followed by smaller side heads and a cauliflower like serving method.
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Illinois
University of Illinois
Lee A. Sommers
University
Poisoned Wheat Aims to Control Gophers This Spring
Early April is ideal for gopher control with poisoned wheat. One bushel of strychnine poisoned wheat can kill 600 or more pocket gophers. If six gophers per acre exist, this treatment could cover 100 or more acres. Mounds may be dragged to protect alfalfa plants.
Sweet clover uses in hay pasture and soil improvement
Sweet clover serves as hay pasture and soil improver. It underperforms alfalfa and red clover as hay but excels for grazing in its second season. It also boosts soil quality and can serve as both pasture and soil conditioner simultaneously. In some areas sugar beet yields rose similarly whether the crop was pastured before turning under or fully tilled.
Home grown wood as NC home fuel urged by extension forester
North Carolina forest official R W Graeber of NC State ext forester argues for using home grown wood as fuel. He notes 50 million cords available this year and says dry wood beats coal in heating value and costs, with economic benefits staying in state and forests being managed to improve future timber.
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R. W. Graeber
North Carolina State College
North Carolina
Graeber
Mr. Graeber
Agricultural hints for clover oats and sowing timing
The guide notes clover may be more valuable than timothy for hay, oats and barley will supply most grain for dairy feed, and asparagus grows with strong salt use. Seed sweet clover from early spring to May, with later sowing reducing weeds. Garden seeds should be sown thinly to ease thinning.
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United States Border Patrol
Detroit
America
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