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Banana Tree Dwarfed to
Facilitate Harvesting
A banana "tree” will grow to a
.height of 30 feet, and with leaves 10
feet long, but on plantations it is
much shorter to facilitate har
vesting. Bananas are a commercial
proposition to grow, for on the land
inquired to grow a hundred pounds
cf potatoes you can grow as much)
as four thousand pounds of bananas,
notes a writer in London Answers
Magazine. 1
Apart from this, the plants need
very little attention and little effort
is necessary to cultivate further
trunks.
The fruit we know can either be
eaten fresh or in a dried state; bev
erages are also made from bananas,
and the dried fruit can be ground
into an excellent flour. In the trop- j
acal countries where the plant is
■cultivated, the ten-foot leaves are j
aused for thatching roofs.
The common banana we eat
grows on a tree which is only one
■of a family. In East Africa, one
•variety grows fruit to the tre
mendous size of two feet long and
about nine or ten inches round, but
it only grows one to every bunch
of r.he other tree, and the fruit has
4o be cooked.
Another member of the same fam
ily gives us the famous Manila
hemp, which is made from the fibers
in the leaves.
After only a short history, the ba
nana has become Britain's most
popular fruit food, imports jumping
.about 70 per cent even in the last
nine years. Unlike apples, lemons,
arid oranges, which are often con
sumed in cooked and liquid forms,
She banana is mostly eaten in its
natural state.
By (he way, no banana trees have
ibeeu grown from seed in living
znemory. It has been so scientifi
cally cultivated that seeds aren't ]
aaecc.ssary,
■Name Sylvester of Latin
Origin, Authority Says
The name Sylvester, sometimes
-spelled with an i for the second let
ter, is of Latin origin and means
“‘forest dweller,” "of the woods,” or,
an a general sense, “country bred.”
This name has been borhe by two
popes, in the Fourth and Tenth cen
fiiries, and by two anti-popes (elect
•in opposition to those regularly !
vftosen) in the Eleventh and Twelfth
reninries, according to Florence A.
Owtes in the Cleveland Plain
Dn»Jrr.
Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (1707-8 G)
Suss'd to colonize a part of Maine
•asafi the city of Gardiner, Maine, is
aunod for him. He was a loyalist
the Revolutionary war and
meanoved to Halifax and later to
CxtSland, being one of those who
-swere proscribed in 1778. But he re
turned to America about a year be
come his death. To him goes credit
So r introducing inoculation for
smallpox.
I Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was
» Hew England Presbyterian min
rr>t«r, a temperance lecturer and an
siifwcatte of vegetarianism. His
.•hcory was that a diet of vegeta
bles 'prevented a craving for liquor,
and he recommended using an un
bolted wheat flour for bread. Gra
ham flour and bread perpetuate his
came.
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Use of the ‘Chile Wheel*
The only "Chile Wheel" south of
Sonora is on the Nelson mining
•claim in the Greenhorn mountains,
miles cast of Bakersfield and two
miles east of the Oak Flat ranger
station, says the Los Angeles Times.
tl was used to crush gold-bearing
quuurtz and was introduced into Cali
fornia by Chilean miners, hence the
.name. An upright was fitted into
a square hole and atop this was a
Jbeam with a wheel on one end. To
4he other end was hitched a horse
or mule, which moved the wheel
unround in a rock-lined circular
trench with a sort of rocker move
ment. This "wheel” is of granite
and is six feet in diameter, nine
• inches in thickness at the rim and
M inches in thickness at the hub.
It weighs approximately 3,500
pounds.
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The Lurcher Dog
According to Webster, a lurcher
is a poacher. Consequently any
A»f that aids his master in bagging
g.*me on land where hunting is for
bidden is called a lurcher. Lur
chers are frequently found near es
tates; in England where game is
plentiful and hunting forbidden ex
cept fbr the owner and his guests.
The favorite dog with the poacher
cs usually a cross between a collie
and a greyhound because a speedy
and silent retrieve of the game is
essential to the poacher if he is to
slay out of jail. Lurchers work in
peril since, while they are faithful
to lawbreaking masters, they are
apt to be shot on sight by game
keepers of the estates they poach
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Jitterbug Bees
If you see a honeybee doing the
liula-hula, prick up your ears and
maybe you’ll hear some gossip hot
from the hive, says Country Home
jMagazine. Scientists have discov
ered that bees don’t talk with the
buzz of their wings, but with the
of their bodies. Ac
cording to Dr. J. E. Eckert, bee
specialist at the University of Cali
fornia, there's a word for every wig
gle. Most of the bees’ undulations,
performed in the air, tell other bees
•where to locate a new supply of
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1 Tis said that the little things
in life count, the only trouble!
being that they don’t add up
fast enough to suit some peo-1
pie.
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I up stray cattle. So now it’s go
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High blood pressure Is normal for
some persons, according to T>r. O. H.
I’erry Pepper, of Philadelphia.
A harmless but effective new pain
killer has been announced by Dr. ,J.
Krevln I.elr, of the Medical Center,
Jersey City.
Invention of a new high temperature
blast furnace which yields both iron I
and cement from a single process Is
claimed by Soviet scientists.
Dr. B. H. Winter, of the University
of Rochester, claims eggs can be made
to hatch hens by the injection of a
costly hormone extracted from n p\\s.
| America Has Five Breeds
Of Popular Draft Horses
We have in America five well
known breeds, and all are so much
alike that only an expert can tell
them apart, relates Capt. Maxwell
M. Corpening in the Chicago Trib
une.
The Shire, Suffolk, and Clydes
dale belong to the English group.
The Belgian, as its name discloses,
comes from Belgium, the Percher
on from France. Bred nearest the
fountainhead of all oyr draft breeds,
the Belgian is the largest of the lot.
Reared on low land eminently suit
able for production of big horses,
the Belgian has little to do from
foalhood upward but to eat and
grow. The Belgian government has
played the leading role in improving
its heavy horses.
Undoubtedly the Percheron
springs from the same fountainhead
in Flanders as does the Belgian.
I The accepted belief among histori
ans is that on defeat of the Moors
by Charles Martel in 732 the eastern
stallions of the invaders were
crossed with the larger horses of
the low countries and the founda
tion of the Percheron laid in that
manner. Arabian and Andalusian
blood has since been infused.
Characteristic of of the Brit
ish group—the Shire and Clydesdale
is the long hair on the lower legs.
This is said to be true of any horse
raised in the lowlands. The start
i of the Clydesdale occurred in 1750
when John Patterson imported from
England into Scotland a black
Flemish stallion. To this horse all
the good Clydesdales may be traced.
The Shire is traced back to the
same black horse of Flanders.
Larger Animals Do Not
Produce the Most Young
The larger the animal in size the
smaller is the litter as a rule. Thus
the average number of young born
by the opossum is 18; of the rab
bit, from six to eight; of the pig,
ten, and of the monkey, man, cow,
horse, walrus, camel and elephant, I
but one.
Also, states an authority in the
New York Times, the larger the lit
ter the higher is the mortality. The
opossum, for example, is never able
to rear more than 13 of her 18 off
spring, with the probability that not
more than 11 or 12 will survive. The
trouble is that the opossum has only |
12 serviceable nipples, instead of'
the 18 required for her brood. But
to make up for the deficiency she
has an incubator in the form of a
pouch in which the piematurely
born can develop. At that it Is a
struggle for survival, with. 18 im
mature creatures clawing for food.
Once a successful clawer has seized
a nipple, he never lets go for six
weeks, which explains why half a
dozen of the feebler young must die.
Twinning runs in families, so that
it is probably a genetic trait.
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