Word: bran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus began the career of W. C. Fields. He slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...
...Bran Bait. Stay-at-home grasshoppers are common all over the U.S., but the migrating types from the range lands do the most damage. After they reach maturity they rise in roaring clouds, fly hundreds of miles and utterly destroy any crop they settle...
...took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...
...nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...
...pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal of the day-a feast of hamburger, vegetables, bran and dog biscuit. Once in a while they get canned peaches...