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...Nisbet's machine is designed not only to blow the bugs down but to bag them for good. A big fan hooked to the front of a tractor blows through a pair of pipes (one toward the cotton row on each side). The bugs blasted off the plants are caught in funnels and sacks also carried by the tractor. With this simple device Nisbet removes from a single acre of cotton hundreds of pounds of boll weevils, bollworms, hoppers, leaf worms and other insects. The machine works as well on potato plants as on cotton. Nisbet builds his blowers...
News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
...White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This 57-year-old Christian Scientist, a bachelor, secretary of the Rhodes Trust since 1925. War-time secretary to David Lloyd George, and reputedly a writer of much of the Versailles Treaty, was the new British...
...President called an old friend whom he had known as Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian...
Right End: Dave Nisbet (Washington...