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Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
Like most Norse runners, Strand prefers practicing on soft ground or a pine-needled trail rather than on a cinder track. Although he brought three pairs of Swedish shoes with him because he thinks U.S. track shoes are inferior, Strand ran two miles twice a day in his bare feet. Last week he made his U.S. debut...
Diminishing Returns. In Terre Haute, Ind., Candidates Perry Pine and Ivan Pugh tied at 100 votes each, asked for and got a recount, tied again...
Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
Blister rust cannot live on pine alone. The spores which leave the pine must find a temporary resting place on the leaves of currant or gooseberry bushes. There they develop as parasitic growths which generate a new and different generation of windborne spores which, in turn, infect the pines. These bushes are the chief points of attack for the conservation army. Once the host is destroyed, blister rust must ultimately...