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...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
Gold Dust had similar trouble with the cotton seed oil, feeds and other derivatives made by the American Cotton Oil Co. which it absorbed in 1923. The cotton oil business did not pay. Gold Dust abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating...
...twelve Federal land banks. The U. S. started these banks off with $750,000 capital each. They can loan money to help farmers to buy land; to purchase equipment, fertilizer, seed, livestock; to build buildings; to liquidate mortgages. Interest may not exceed 6%. Loans up to $25,000 are given on 50% of the appraised value of land and 20% of permanent improvements. Borrowers have to join local National Farm Loan Associations, buying stock in the banks equivalent to 5% of their loans. In this way, the U. S. has received most of its capital back and the Land Banks...
...bullet no bigger round than a seed-pearl would kill a man if projected through his heart, brain or spinal cord. But martial experience has found 30/100 of an inch to be about the ideal diameter for man-killing bullets. The prize-winning Thompson weapon is .30 calibre...