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Tuesday, October 8, 19S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE - Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Keeping up with the outdoor world . . . Some super-duper strawberries and blackberries have been brought to this coun try from the lowlands and high lands of Chile, Ecuador and Co lombia. One of these two-inch long strawberries came from within 1,500 feet of the perman ent snowline of the towering Andes. If crosses can be obtain ed between these and our local varieties we may soon have dis ease resistant berries able to withstand cold, dry mountain climates and in some instances heavy rainfall, predicts G. M. Darrow, horticulturist with the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. A wind meter designed for the sportsman can be held in the hand and read like a thermom eter. It registers wind speeds up to 60 mph. Last year more than IVz mil lion people swam, fished, boat ed, picknicked and studied na ture in our national wildlife refuges. Smelling booze on a person's breath is no positive proof of drinking, says Dr. Herman A. Heise of Milwaukee, and neith er does the absence of an alco holic breath prove that a person has not been drinking. How come? In the concentra tion that alcohol occurs in the breath it has no odor and the sniffer only catches the flavor of the drink. Also pure alco hol could be inbibed and there would be no tell-tale odor. Selfish fur farmers imported the South American nutria, bet ter known as the "king-sized muskrat." During the past few years the fur has been falling off in favor. So what happens? Some "escape" from their Louisiana fur farms. The fe males go right on producing about two batches a year of five to six young. They have now spread from the delta of the Mississippi to the mouth of the Rio Grande and are now on the west coast eating waterfowl out of house and home. In case you're interested: It takes a little more than ' AV2 quarts of milk to make a pound of cheese on the average; almost 10 quarts to make a pound of butter. Plastic Table For you beach hounds: there is now a plastic table which when inflated measures about 30 inches square and keeps food a foot off the ground. A Swedish scientist has come up with a machine which will take the core-boring of a tree and automatically count the number of concentric rings (its age) and measure width between 1 rings (annual growth). For some time it has been known that you can give a fe male chicken or turkey a shot of male sex hormone, testoster one phenylacetate and soon have it sounding like a male. Now they're trying it on canaries. Given a shot, a normally song less female canary can be made to warble her pretty little head off . . and then when the effect wears off go back to her cheer less chirp. It takes about 12 days for the hormone to take hold; about five weeks to wear off. The Mayas, Aztecs and other pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas did not have steel saw or axes but yet were able to cut wood in vast quantities. The stone axes will do it, but its mighty laborious work. Now, af ter studying the paintings of old Aztec war clubs, Dr. J. Ogden Outwater Jr., of the University of Vermont, came up with a new idea: he inserted pieces of ordinary bottle glass in a wood en "blade" and made some saws which cut wood easily. Of course these early people had no empty beer bottles lying around but they did have obsidian a natur al volcanic glass. What's more, piles of such obsidian flakes shaped like glass-saw teeth have been found. Could this be the answer? (Copyright, 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Sydnicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care of the Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Rhode Island has a population density of 90 or more persons per square mile and is the only state to have this ratio in every one of its counties. Men Old at 50 or 60! Recharge Body's Batteries -Feel Younger: Fast! 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