LOWLY EEL IS A MYSTERY TO SCIENCE
Lowly Eel is a Mystery to Science ?~vJSE of the most ancient of fishes, the iowly eel, has been somewhat of a mystery to science for many years. Only in comparatively recent times, has much been...
...Now, it is believed eels spawn and die as do the Pacific sa'imon...
...Eels have been found miles from the nearest watercourse when on such a migration...
...Unlike the salmon, death is supposed to take place at sea...
...Only in comparatively recent times, has much been learned concerning the actual life habits of this snakelike denizen of our water...
...PARACHUTES SOME day the parachute will be the life-saver of the liner of the air...
...They are a voracious fish, feeding, mostly at night, on insects, frogs, aquatic vegetation and small fry...
...The ancients worshipped th» eel but did not understand it...
...All youT modern aviator needs to do is leap into space — the parachute strapped to his body does the rest...
...a thing many accidents on land or sea never afford...
...The standard army parachute, Viinch has been adopted by the Navy, the Air Mail Service and many other flying organizations, lias been brought to a point where it is practically infallible...
...Salt Lak^, in the northern part of Catron county, New Mexico, is another wonder that nature has given America, being a lake within a lake...
...Already a surprising number of lives have been saved by means of the aerial life-preserver...
...He always has a second chance...
...His crop was 90 bushels to the acre, and he had a good profit, despite the very "low price of oats...
...Forty to fifty bushels an acre is considered a good crop by most farmers...
...Many theories were advanced on the propagation of eels but it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was found they spawn like other fishes...
...Since the beginning of farming history, farmers have sowed oat seed broadcast...
...Eels thrive in the temperate climate of North America and also in the Tropics to the southward...
...The main body lies in the crater of an extinct volcano and in its center is a smaller crater in which is another lake...
...The present work being done by the Parachute Branch of the Engineering Division of the United States Army Air Service is, therefore, of great importance...
...In fact, an air traveller has more chance to escape alive than has a railroad or a steamship passenger in case of a severe accident...
...Oddly enough, they can cross land in migrations to other streams...
...But A. W. Crow, of Rocky Ford, Colo., sowed his oats in rows 18 inches apart and gave them cultivation...
...This ia done at night, when the earth is covered with moisture...
Vol. 19 • June 1927 • No. 6
