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...cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced...
What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...
...streets. Here & there growers plowed their crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable to harvest his 155-acre stand, watched 2,800 bu. bring $100 at auction-about 3½? per bu. or less than the cost of the seed. Declared Governor Woodring: "There is panic in the midst of plenty...
...migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements are due to the heat of the sun. They are thermotropic...
...Congress, some 400,000 individual farmers had received $47,064,319 up to last week. Arkansas led with $9,292,000. The Department of Agriculture appealed to the Department of Justice for legal help because in some cases a farmer's creditor has tried to seize his seed loan while it lay on deposit in his bank. Last week the Treasury was astir with plans and proposals for handling a deficit which threatened to repeat itself next year. Secretary Mellon announced an $800,000,000 18-year bond issue at 3⅛%. Its size was the largest, its interest...