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...yarn as first printed in the Herald gave Wethersfield, about 20 miles from Perry where there is a beaver dam, as the residence of Herman Strutter, but as the story was relayed Wethersfield was deleted and the Perry date line stuck...
...transmitting milk ability that it is far beyond mathematical analysis. But Mr. Prentice and his staff were convinced that by assiduous testing under the general laws of genetics they could find what they wanted. They found first, as others had found, that a cow inherits productive capacity from both dam and sire. They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output...
...bull index published in any trade paper, the Mount Hope formula appeared in 1928. It was in two forms. The Commercial Form, for dairymen unwilling or unable to deal with fractions, simply placed the milk ability of the progeny halfway between the inheritances of the parents. Thus if the dam's production was 8,000 lb. and the daughter's 10,000, the bull's index was 12,000. The index was of course computed on the basis of as many dam-daughter comparisons as possible...
...State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
Cinemaddicts will find it good melodrama as well as spectacular advertising, an up-to-date revival of a time-honored cinema formula, in which implements like Diesel engines, iron lungs and Boulder Dam are more exciting than the people...