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North Carolina's bright-leaf tobacco, "the golden weed" that normally puts $150,000,000 a year in the pockets of Tidewater farmers, was irreparably damaged. Forest fires, raging over 400,000 acres from the Blue Ridge to the coast, sent up white columns of smoke that were visible from the sea. In Jacksonville, N.C. an artesian well that had poured out 49 gallons of water a minute for 27 years went...
Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...
Concentration of gold (if any) in horsetail ash will be far higher than in the soil it sprouted from. Hence it is practical in some cases to harvest and replant horsetail weed over low-grade surface ore fields rather than mine them. And seed selection may breed a still more efficient horsetail. At present a ton of horsetail from low-grade gold fields will yield as much as 4½ oz. of gold, worth $157.50. Value of a ton of good timothy...
Purpose of this routine: to weed out the impossibles before students go on to more advanced training at Pensacola or at the Navy's two new training bases at Jacksonville and Corpus Christi. Since it costs the Navy some $15,000 to educate a pilot for officer duty with the fleet, it pays the Navy to pick & choose...
...Meagres sometimes sound like a hurdy-gurdy. You can hear a South American catfish "growl" for a hundred feet when he breaks water. Even Homer's fabled song of the sirens is fishy to Interior: it was probably just a shoal of weakfish warbling their weed notes wild...