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...recently broadcasted from Liege, Belgium, the announcement that Surgeon Serge Voronoff, famed French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
Physical Culture, which deals with the human breed much as the average farm journal deals with pigs, cows, horses, is sometimes spoken of as "America's largest *livestock publication." Typical of 103 pages of advertising in this July issue (replete with " muscular poses" by Earle E. Liederman, Charles Atlas, Lionel Strongfort, Prof. Titus et al.; with "beauty poses" by Annette Kellermann, Mile. Nadje, Nana Sterling et al.) : YOU CAN DEVELOP EVERY MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY TO AMAZING PROPORTIONS YOU CAN ACQUIRE SUPER STRENGTH RIP OFF YOUR SHIRT "Come to me and I'll shoot you so full...
...temperance lecture-its moral is put over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...
Captive muskrats, it has been found, become tame and. breed well in confined quarters. They require no feeding, as they live upon the vegetation of ponds and marshes. One difficulty consists in the great number of natural enemies the muskrat has; chief among these are the fox, mink, the larger hawks and owls and even the pickerel. The little animals breed rapidly enough, however, to recompense in the long run for their inability to protect themselves...
Hitherto, captured oysters have declined to breed. Where exception has been made, the young, inheriting the cold disdain of life from their ancestors, have resolutely declined to live. Along came William Firth Wells, noted oysterologist, discovered a scientific way of undermining their stubborn resistance. This is how he does...