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...respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB WHITE HENS OR PULLETS AND TWO SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. HOGS NOT NEEDED. Replied the Chief of Naval Operation to the Governor of the Virgin Islands: NAVY DEPARTMENT IS HAVING DIFFICULTY FINDING A MILKING BULL. NUMEROUS FARMERS WHO HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED INSIST THAT THERE IS NONE SUCH. THERE...
...will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results are tested twice daily by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb, connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
Fact: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia, law for the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, prescribes that one pound of crude ergot be used to make one pint of fluid extract of ergot which when injected into a white leghorn rooster will tint its comb bluish. Spanish ergot satisfies the formula. Russian ergot as imported into the U. S. docs not. Drug manufacturers have been cleaning Russian ergot of its contaminations and using two pounds of it to make a pint of extract. This Russian extract colors the cock's comb as does the Spanish...
Last week Vienna police heard that a comb manufacturer in the suburb of Meidling had a curious and profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing replica after replica of the Monte Carlo Casino's 100-franc chips. Anxiously the comb-maker regarded his visitors. When they inquired about the order, he spoke tremblingly of one Simon Rappaport, Polish merchant from Dombrowa...
...will be impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color. The results can easily be tested by comparing a test-tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition the floor of the tank will be periodically subjected to the suction of a large curry comb. connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...