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Picker, In lowland fields, cotton crops ripen unevenly, cannot be picked all at the same time. The mechanical picker had to be so de-signed that it would discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders...
...Fruit Ripener: Sunshine often takes weeks to ripen green oranges, bananas, lemons. A small quantity of ethylene gas (C2H4) was released in a closed chamber containing green fruit. The fruit ripened in a few hours, was sweet, succulent. Ethylene gas may be produced cheaply in unlimited quantities. Result: Fruitgrowers may extend the season for their product, save money, avoid the dangers of disease to ripening fruit.?Dr. R. B. Harvey, College of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minn...
...sake belong to the highest class that the country can boast-clean, generous, high-minded. When this class has the opportunity to compete with the same class of representatives of another nation it cannot fail to sow the seeds of a mutual knowledge and understanding which will ripen into a lasting fine friendship between the nations...
...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...minute past twelve, when, leaping from his covers, he startled the household by rushing through the dwelling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "There's a man in the house!" We shall not reach a permanent decision in a moment, or overnight. Speculation and doubt will probably ripen into mature choice only after considerable mental cultivation. But if one remains philosophically in the waters of the Pierian bath for a while, no doubt he will finally arise to cry "Eureka...