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...gives briefs, reviews, interpretations and general surveys of laws pertaining to every human activity above the earth. Though designed primarily to discuss and report radio and aviation law. within its purview come all things which pertain to the air-air rights for buildings above railroad tracks, the migration of fowl, the calling of hogs at a state line...
...body cells called monocytes. The bacillus lives parasitically within the monocyte. Each has its individual living chemistry. Together they have a third metabolism which causes the tubercles of tuberculosis to grow. This third chemistry varies with the strain of the bacillus and its animal host (man, cow, fowl, fish). But always typical compounds result-of fats with sugars, albumins with sugars. The fats and albumins in all types uf tuberculosis are very much alike. But the sugars differ greatly. Hence the sugars are suspected of bearing a close relation to the disease and it is the sugars which tuberculesis researchers...
...Department of Agriculture becomes increasingly alarmed at the high mortality rate of wild fowl (TIME, Dec. 16); Its advisory council of sportsmen persistently urge a lowering of the bag limit, more game preserves. Last week impetus was given to their cause by an announcement from the National Association of Audubon societies that great numbers of water fowl are being destroyed by oil on coastal waters. The oil residue, which comes from coastwise ships, gathers in the bays and inlets where the ducks rest. Once it reaches a duck, the oil glues his feathers together and, unable to swim, he dies...
...Transvaal, South Africa, one F. A. Welthagen, hunter, sat down on the banks of the Brak River to wait for guinea fowl. Seven lions appeared, drank. Welthagen raised his gun, shot one who was drinking, another who was regarding him, another who ran toward him, a fourth who retreated-all in two minutes...
...good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...