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...varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight...
...summertime this discomfort is not present, but setting the clock ahead has no effect on drying the dew off the grass, and dew immemorially has dried off about 9 a.m. Not until 10 a.m. daylight time, therefore, can much field work begin, so that whether or not they have to rise earlier to tend dairy cattle, their quitting time will be an hour later by the clock...
...flow of milk necessary for national defense. Cows do indeed take a few days to get used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime dairy farmers already rise while it is dark, and under daylight saving they will have to rise and begin their work still earlier, in the coldest part of the night...
...President was expected to win in Congress although he claimed that Daylight Saving Time would save only 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of power for defense. This amount of power totals exactly five-tenths of 1% of U.S. power production, is only about enough to run the 2,500,000 new electric refrigerators sold to citizens in the first six months...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...