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Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment...
Potato Picking Contest (Wed. 2:15 p.m., MBS). Maine's Governor Lewis O. Barrows, Idaho's Governor Barzilla W. Clark pick up freshly-dug potatoes. Tuber-by-tuber account from Fort Fairfield...
...Congress passed and President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone who had invented or discovered a new plant, provided it was asexually reproduced and not a tuber-propagated plant...
...such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...
...make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months to get a patent examined; on the average, two years to get one granted...