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...Richard Vincent Jr., famous dahlia grower; Capt. Robert Dollar, shipping...
...season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob, the U. S. Department of Agriculture would not need to keep repeating, stressing its points. Hundreds of keen chemists, bacteriologists, plant pathologists bend busily over microscope and petrie dish in the many mellow brick laboratory buildings of Washington. Eagerly they experiment with farm problems; clearly, carefully they describe...
...doubt one of the very best varsities ever produced, regarding both field tonnage and percentage of sucrose in the juice. The average yield of cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs from 1,000 to 1,100 arrobas...
...Secret Hour. There is no denying the cinemart of Pola Negri, but it is a shame to see her put into cotton stockings and handing out coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack...
Procedure: 1.) German Hop Grower makes contract with French Hop Merchant to ship hops at the supposedly current price per hop; 2.) Payment to German Hop Grower is made by the German Government, which is credited by the Reparations Commission with having paid this sum to the French Government; 3.) French Government eventually receives payment from French Hop Merchant after he sells the hops...