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)
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