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The present number of the animals is comfortably low. But the survivors are multiplying like rabbits, and their offspring are apt to be resistant to myxomatosis. Forgetting their sentimental attachment to the rabbits of child literature, platoons of Englishmen, organized in 200 government-approved rabbit-clearance societies, are now using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Better Without Flopsy ( | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

The fishermen can blame themselves for part of the trouble. For years U.S. fleets fished with such predatory methods that the Government now permits no salmon fishing outside the three-mile limit, this year outlawed the use of fish traps at the mouth of spawning rivers. But the U.S. has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Fight for the Fisheries | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

By pushing other buttons. Farmer North shot in supplementary vitamins, mineral and hormone nutrients. Then he cut in the big noisemaker. In a channel in front of the silos a snakelike auger began to turn. As it writhed, it propelled the feed up a steep incline and sent it tumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

A pub-loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road from Farnham | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Herring Herding | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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