Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voted 48 to 37 to. substitute the Underwood Bill (providing for leasing the Muscle Shoals plant to private operators) for the Norris Bill (providing for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant). The effect of this vote was to eliminate the Norris Bill from consideration. It did not constitute passage of the Underwood Bill...
Potato Sap. By extracting a small amount of sap from a healthy potato plant and injecting it into a tobacco plant, the latter was found to become diseased. This disease from this plant could be transmitted to an unlimited number of other plants, showing that it was not merely a case of poisoning. -Dr. James Johnson, University of Wisconsin...
Mathematicians, physicists, opticians, chemists, electrochemists, astronomers, geologists, geographers, seismologists, zoologists, eugenicists, mammalogists, botanists, phytopathologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, historians, philologists, paleontologists, microscopists, anthropologists, physiologists, psychologists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, mining and metallurgical engineers, civil engineers, illuminating engineers, ceramicists, medics, anatomists, bacteriologists, agronomists, foresters, horticulturalists, educators, political scientists and simple naturalists-all assembled last week in Washington to hear and to tell (in accordance with their discoveries, observations, deductions) the truth...
...Plant Sprays.. Copper hydroxide used as a spray is 15 times more effective as a fungicide than Bordeaux mixture commonly used on plants, and moreover leaves no stain. It may be the active ingredient of Bordeaux mixture.-Dr. Henry D. Hooker, University of Missouri...
More. Experiments conducted on plant lice and similar animals tend to show that sex is neither entirely hereditary nor environmental, but is determined by the effect of bodily activity.-Dr. A. Franklin Shull, University of Michigan...