Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though unwilling to view the figures as indicating a trend, von Stade termed the present number of drop-outs "fantastically small" compared with most colleges...
Contrasting the consistent decline of Freshman withdrawals in recent years is the marked increase in total resignations from the college. According to former Dean Leighton, the number of drop-outs from all four classes has risen from 2.7 percent to 4.5 percent since...
...Council. Manufacturers are having to destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most exposed age group: children under one year old (only 29% vaccinated), while fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with 27 million (60%) unvaccinated. Besides nationwide campaigns, authorities decided on crash programs in known soft spots where epidemics like last year's in Detroit are feared, especially in low-income groups...
...laying pullets are sold to other farmers who do nothing but produce eggs for the table in a completely automatic fashion. The hens are kept in individual cages. They stick their heads out to feed from a continuously filled feed trough, turn around to a drinking fountain, drop their eggs on the inclined wire floor. The eggs roll outside through an automatic counter onto a conveyor belt that takes them to a human sorter who puts them in boxes. Another conveyor belt takes away the droppings. One man can easily take care of 7,000 birds with an output...
Fewer Farms. Where all this is leading to is obvious to farm experts. The number of farmers will steadily drop as more mechanization and automation increase the investment needed to farm. Economists of the Department of Agriculture estimate that the 3,100,000 commercial farms of 1954 may well be 2,000,000 by 1975. But they see rising prices for land and even used equipment making it easy for farmers to sell out at good prices. Those who stay in will have bigger markets. In 1940 each U.S. farmer fed himself and ten others. He now feeds 20 others...