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...Rust. Almost forgotten in last week's excitement over Canadian wheat were two big questions about U. S. wheat which have been bothering domestic experts for many a week. One was the old one about how much wheat the U. S. will produce this year. The other concerned the effect of rust on the U. S. crop. About rust and its ravages little is known except that winter wheat is seldom damaged by it because the stalks grow tough before the blight appears. But tender spring wheat is particularly susceptible this year because of late seeding. Rust reports flowed into...
Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening from front to back so that the machine straddles the row of plants. Into this opening a line of small, smooth, revolving rods project sideways. Carried on an endless belt, the rods first pass through a moistening device, then comb through the cotton plants. Because the rods...
...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...
...which way, weathervane? It would be natural to expect that it will turn in whichever way the vocal wind blows strongest. But necessity probably will intervene and rust the vano so that it will point for some time in a "sound money" direction, for the support of 22 million people requires cash, and much...
...dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi Desert by Roy Chapman Andrews. They were the earliest eggs known to Science until the return of Harvard's latest expedition from the Permian Red Beds of north central Texas. From that ancient ground Diggers Theodore White and Llewellyn Price plucked a rust-colored fossil egg, three inches long, which they estimated to be 225,000,000 years old. All evidence indicated that the egg was laid by Ophiacodon, a six-foot reptile with ponderous head and meagre limbs. Last week Harvard announced that the world's senior egg is now on exhibition...