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...Rome its milk-giving she-wolf, to crumbling Athens its Pallas Athene. The goddess of Chicago is Ceres, deity of grain, harvest, plenty. Last week a glittering aluminum Ceres took her place on the city's skyline, poising her twinkling magnificence on top of Chicago's tallest office pylon, the new 44-story, 609 ft. Board of Trade building.* Designed by Sculptor John H. Storrs, Ceres of Chicago went up to her perch in 40 pieces and was hurriedly assembled, a bit late for the Boards opening day ceremonies...
...fill their depleted beds, the oystermen of Delaware Bay, N. J., go to 1,000,000 acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded...
...study plant life. Outdoors and indoors, under sunlight and artificial light, in natural and laboratory atmospheres, the institute men study how and why plants thrive or fail. Thus Dr. Crocker, as the seed specialist, discovered that most seeds sprout quickly if they are kept dry and cold between harvest and planting, knowledge which benefits farmers incalculably. Other information is that extra carbon dioxide, such as can be washed out of factory coal smoke, speeds up the growth of the plants...
Sirs: I and others are advocating a national Indian holiday, to occur each year, preferably in the month of October at the time of the Harvest moon or during our glorious Indian summer. I notice whenever you mention the Indians that you are uniformly fair and impartial and I trust that your great newsmagazine will see fit to say a word in favor of this program. A people from whom we obtained a continent and who furnished 30,000 young men in the World War, it seems to me, are highly deserving of an annual holiday...
...lookout posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate...