Contouring Uses Less Fuel and Increases Work Output
College Station report quotes Texas A and M extension expert C Hahn on contour farming saving fuel and boosting work. Kansas State College tests on 8 and 6.5 percent slopes show contour plowing yields 15 percent more work with about 9 percent less fuel, plus rain and soil retention benefits.
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College Station
C. Hahn
Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Kansas
Texas
Hahn
Kansas State College
Safety tips on lightning dangers and protection
Washington reports describe odds of dying from lightning at 300000 to 1 and 1300 injuries annually. Guidance recommends staying indoors during storms, avoiding exposed areas, seeking shelter in depressions or dense woods, lying flat if on the ground near water, and using cars or trains as shields. It also notes lightning can strike tall structures repeatedly and that larger modern buildings have fewer injuries. The piece closes by noting France has over 8 million bicycles in use, up 527000 since 1936.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Washington Monument
Empire State Building
You'd Be Surprised Six Rabbits Almost Ruined Australia
Geo. W. Stimpson recounts how New South Wales settlers released three pair of rabbits around 1850, triggering a rapid population boom that nearly gutted agriculture. Efforts failed until fences, predators, diseases, and bounty schemes were tried, culminating in exports of rabbit meat and skins as a workaround.
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Australia
New South Wales
New Zealand
Pacific
Geo. W. Stimpson
Much Needed Patents in March Show Diverse Inventions
The 45,000 plus patents expected this year include 8,220 granted by last week. March patents include David and Solomon Degelin's trouser crease sewing machine, J A Perault's hollow-soled medicated shoe, W W Kliesrath's refrigerating blanket, H F Smith's photoelectric adjustable awning, J H Cohen's heated winter fan, J L Wilson's self-resetting mouse trap, and Persifer G Spilsbury's electrically heated icicle prevention wire.
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Patent Office
David and Solomon Degelin
Rochester
N. Y
J. A. Perault
Brooklyn
W. W. Kliesrath
South Bend
Ind
H. F. Smith
Dayton
J. H. Cohen
Chicago
J. L. Wilson
Ben Hur
Persifer G. Spilsbury
Phoenix
Ariz
Home Without a Mortgage Poem by Edwin Fowler Rowles
A compact verse notes that a home needs love as well as living to become a home. It imagines a mortgage free dwelling as heavenly, but warns that escalating interest can turn the dream into a nightmare.
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Edwin Fowler Rowles
Enthusiasm as the greatest business asset
An anonymous text extols enthusiasm as the top asset surpassing money or power, saying it drives action, overcomes opposition, and spreads through your life creating results and joy. A German study notes drivers cut fuel use by about one third on express highways with fewer stops.
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Germany
Grades on Cotton Crop by U S Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Washington report says 29 percent of this year's cotton crop ginned before Oct 1 was strict middling white or better. 36 percent middling white, 16 percent strict low middling or below, 19 percent colored grades. Staple lengths: 4 percent shorter than 7/8 inch, 47 percent 7/8 to 31/32 inch, 25 percent 1 inch to 1 1/32 inch, 17 percent 11/16 to 13/32, 7 percent 1 1/16 inches or longer. 96 percent tenderable grades and staple lengths.
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Washington
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Bureau
Indelicate Scene of a Young Doctor and Mallet Anesthetic
A skillful young doctor named Hal performed an operation by slicing the palate. The anesthesia failed, described as a mere blow from a mallet, rendering the procedure poorly executed.
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Hallet
Unemployment Head Blames Women for Labor Glut
John D. Biggers as head of the unemployment census told President Roosevelt that women workers have glutted the labor market and urged the monopoly investigating committee to study the issue. He cited November figures showing 2,740,000 more women entered or became available for work since 1930,bringing totals to 39,978,000 men and 14,496,000 women aged 15 to 74 either employed or seeking work.
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Washington
John D. Biggers
Roosevelt
Toledo
Printer Assures Green Type Stock For Folder Print
A manufacturer seeks a large green folder and requires confirmation that the printer has sufficient green type to complete the job. The printer verifies stock readiness before approving the dummy for the advertising man.
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O. K
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