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...summary: HARVARD YALE Leekley, Eaton l.f. r.g. Carmody, Cook Dorn, Eby r.f. l.g. Brockelman Barbee c. c. Simmen, Bryan Coombs, Vogel l.g. r.r. Billhardt Malick r.g. l.f. Ward, McNulty, Fodder...
Score--Harvard 30, Yale 12. Goals from the floor, Leekley 3, Dorn 3, Barbee 2, Coombs, Ward, Billhardt. Goals from fouls, Leekley 4, Coombs 3, Barbee 2 Billhardt 2, Dorn, Eby, Malick. Fodder, Simmen, Brockelman, Carmody, Cook. Referees, Kelleher, and Hoyt. Time of haives--20 minutes...
...agricultural experiment station of Pennsylvania State College, veterinarians trussed up Jessie, two-year-old heifer, and plugged her as though she were a watermelon. Dr. S. L. Bechtel of the station had noted that Heifer Jessie's milk contained Vitamin B, although none of the fodder she ate carried any. The question whether Jessie manufactured her own Vitamin B was very important...
...operation was under local anesthetic. Heifer Jessie did not wince as the veterinarians scoured a patch of hide and cut a window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary...
...dropped the nursery business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...