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...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...
...Near East last week renewed an old medical quarrel. When Dr. Edward L. Turner of Nashville was practicing medicine in Beirut, some time ago, he noticed a curious thing: every year in the late autumn his stomach-ulcer patients got worse. Late autumn was the time of the orange harvest, and the people of Syria are great orange eaters. Hmm, said Dr. Turner...
Concentration of gold (if any) in horsetail ash will be far higher than in the soil it sprouted from. Hence it is practical in some cases to harvest and replant horsetail weed over low-grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy...
Three weeks ago Germany's Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels said: "We will start on five fronts at the same time and have the war ended before the fall harvest." The four most likely objects of attack were the fortresses of British sea power: the British Isles, Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore. And if Adolf Hitler is not too sure he can reduce the British Empire by harvest time, he may go into the Near East...
...preparing for the worst in regard to all those supplies that come to us from abroad." Then he announced that gasoline would be unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced to half a ton per home per month, that cattle would have to be slaughtered unless fodder formerly imported could be grown at home...