VACCINATE TREES TO KILL INSECT PESTS
Paine, Robert F.
Vaccinate Trees to Kill Insect Pests Scientists in Germany Try New Plan to Eradicate Destruction of Trees; Do Flowers Recognize People? By ROBERT F. PAINE Robert F. Paine, director of the Paine...
...Meanwhile, the sources of helium are being examined, with a view toward increased production, if new uses swing the demand for the gas upward...
...FLOWERS' FEELINGS JAGADIS BOSE, India's most distinguished scientist, has certainly got London's scientists much interested, especially the professional florists...
...Long fins, thin as tissue, propel them through the water...
...The difference is due to the scientific development and application of power...
...As usual, the South American field produced an overwhelming majority of the stones— 3,202,100 carats...
...FUTURE PLANES LEON KIRSTE, the celebrated French expert, says that the future commercial airplane will b,e ten times as large as that of today but that the limit of weight thereof will be not over 55 tons...
...Where are the largest springs in this nation located...
...Why is the United States government examining for sources of helium...
...Canada showed an increased desire for this type of decoration and the re...
...He has concluded that the phenomena are caused by masses of heated rock at an unknown depth underground...
...At what speed can aeroplanes be operated successfully...
...Great Britain trli off in diamond buying, last year, and France likewise slumped...
...The United States appears to be among the most fortunate lands in point of quantity of helium available...
...Centrifugal force at a speed of more ths...
...Further research is expected to result in more improvements...
...The canal freighter of 1810 carried a cargo so light that the mule-driver could lighten the craft by sincere cussing, when the same stranded on a subme^jed island of weeds...
...So many of these discussions refer to problems of everyday life, to new discoveries and to findings by government officers that it is believed a presentation of his observations will prove of timely interest.—Managing Editor...
...but the tonnage will largely depend upon the fellow who is to invent a much lighter fuel...
...Parachute jumpers have probably attained a greater speed than this in some of the longer drops but, Major Bauer points out, it is the turns which men cannot survive at great speed...
...Milady's demand for glittering personal decorations is, apparently, not decreasing with the years nor, as has been said, is the public "fed up" on diamond jewelry...
...A new "vaccination" is necessary from time to time, as is the case when humans have been vaccinated...
...E. T. Allen, of the Carnegie Institute, has announced his theory of the action of steam jets and hot springs, after a long study in Yellowstone Park...
...What was the output of diamonds last year...
...They come from Yom-akoshomura, where hundreds of fish are bred with the idea of producing beautiful colors...
...Why did Japan send colored goldfish to this country ? What will probably be the weight of the largest aeroplane built...
...If the way is difficult, however, and water obstructs the passage, it condenses and hot springs, rather than geysers, result at the surface...
...The present world's speed record is 278 miles per hour...
...Major Bauer believes that point may be reached somewhere after 300 miles per hour...
...Science has yet much to do with gasoline and electricity...
...Bigger planes, surely...
...Several produce nearly 1,000 cubic feet per second...
...The nucleus imported is expected to found a large family, capable of a determined effort to destroy every Asiatic beetle in the country...
...Nevertheless, the Bureau of Fisheries is happy in the receipt of these beautiful fish from across the sea...
...Meanwhile, however, man goes on trying to outdo all previous triumphs of speed...
...A GERMAN gardener has discovered a method of treating trees for insect pests which is said to be an improvement over ordinary spraying...
...Other parts of Africa, South America and Borneo contributed the remain e...
...SPEED MAJOR L. H. BAUER, Army Medical Corps physician, has been recently credited with the statement that man will soon reach the maximum airplane "speed the human body can stand...
...Eleven springs which supply the Snake River in Idaho feed out enough water daily to furnish every inhabitant of every city in the United States of 100,000 or more inhabitants with 120 gallons per day per person...
...Sixteen of these large springs are located in Oregon, 15 in Idaho, 11 in Florida, 7 in California, 7 in Missouri, 4 in Texas, 3 in Montana and one each in Alabama and Arkansas...
...Why are Asiatic wasps imported to this country...
...NEW USE FOR HELIUM THE United States Bureau of Mines is now engaged in a study of helium, in connection with the creation of artificial atmospheres...
...If the path to the surface is fairly easy, the steam emerges in the state in which it leaves the rocks...
...The railroad train of today carries tonnage so almighty that one has to get out the old Ray's First Arithmetic to view the ciphers necessary to express the cargo...
...Nearly all give out crystal clear wter, very fine and pure at all times...
...DIAMONDS THE world's output of diamonds reached a total of 5,649,100 carats in 1926, a gain of 28 per cent over the 1925 production...
...GEYSERS THE mystery of geysers and hot springs has, like volcanic action, long been a subject of great interest in Science...
...A wooden spigot is driven into the tree upside down and chemicals poured into the spigot, through which they enter the tree and are diffused into all its parts...
...In this country, efforts at fish raising have been confined almost entirely to the production of fish fit for food or sport...
...Then there are Marconi's vision of electric energy transmitted by radio and the mysterious, confined energy of the universal atom...
...300 miles per hour is apt to play havoc with the human body...
...Silver Spri ng, in Florida, accommodates glass bottom boats...
...In the tropics they have a bee which possesses a stinger, all right, but it is so blunt that it can't get through your skin...
...He now promises to show, by photography and use of drugs, that flowers have hearts, fall in love and the death of one may cause another to pine away and die...
...The new method is well described as "vaccinating the trees...
...Gold and silver and almost every known color mark the immigrants from the streams of Japan...
...JAPANESE GOLDFISH JAPAN has presented two hundred r.i' • ami beautiful Japanese goldfish to the United States Bureau of Fisheries as a token of appreciation for whitefish sent to Japan to become established as a source of food...
...The gift of Nippon includes some of the most exquisite little fish in existence...
...I certainly have," was his answer...
...The steam which shoots forth in the form of geysers probably finds its way upward through vents in the earth, after escaping from the rocks in which it is formed...
...This gas, heretofore used to float lighter-than-air-machines, has been found capable of other accomplishments and a number of new uses may be found for it before many months have passed...
...Most of them are now at the Department's laboratory, at Riverton, N. J., whence they are being taken to Long Island and liberated as rapidly as they reach the adult stage...
...Reports from Germany state that the discoverer of the new treatment made an extensive test before announcing the innovation...
...From test holes drilled to a depth of 650 feet, steam has poured in ever-increasing volume—thus indicating that the source is deep in the earth...
...Anyway, considering all the love that is given flowers, a response from them would add to life's beautiful things, wouldn't it...
...Experiments made by deep sea divers and underground workers have already proved that helium can be used to produce an artificial atmosphere superior to any now "on the market...
...All of these gigantic springs discharge at least 100 cubic feet per second, or more than 65 million gallons per day...
...The United States led in diamond consumption, despite the fact that prices are higher than in European countries...
...The writer recently asked one of America's greatest begonia experts, A. D. Robinson, of San Diego, if he ever thought his flowers knew him...
...The Department of Agriculture has charge of the colonization and distribution of the wasps...
...Pressure on' the brain caused by great speed can only be endured to a certain point...
...By ROBERT F. PAINE Robert F. Paine, director of the Paine Service, has prepared a series of observations on science and subjects of world-wide interest...
...IMPORTED WASPS WASPS, imported from Chosen, are being put to work on Long Island, in an attempt to prevent damage being done Long Island crops by Asiatic beetles, other foreigners, which have been rapidly spreading in this country...
...SPRINGS ACCORDING to the Geological Survey, there are sixty-five "first magnitude" springs in the United States each of which furnish enough water daily to supply New York City...
...The preparation used apparently renders the tree immune to certain insects...
...Several others are equally large and equally remarkable...
...Sometime ago, Professor Bose attracted great attention by his demonstrations that flowers reacted to certain outside influences supposed to be absolutely foreign to their world...
...What causes geysers...
...What noted flower expert believes that plants recognize their attendants...
...The Far Eastern wasps were shipped to the United States in specially prepared tins and 80 per cent reported for duty in Washington, in good condition...
...of the consuming world remained about a tv...
...TEN QUESTIONS ANSWERED In what country arc trees vaccinated instead of sprayed for insect pests...
Vol. 19 • November 1927 • No. 11
