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I have improved our corn

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

I have improved our corn

 I have improved our corn in all foui respects, although it still lodges in windstorms more than hybrid com does. But, since I harvest by hand, I can still gel the care off lodged stalks, which is not so true of mechanical harvesters.

Another drawback of our OP corn is that it does not germinate as well as hybrid com until the soil is thoroughly wanned up in the spring. But that is actually an advantage because early planting is risky and encourages weeds to grow fastei than the corn, making early weeding more difficult. The small produce! does not need to be in a hum and risk planting corn until the soil temperature has wanned up to at least  heading for 70 .

Don’t expect open-pollinated varieties to reproduce “true” to the plant from which you saved the seed. All sorts of little varia-tions in ear size, kernel shape, color, ease of shelling, chcwability, and maturity dates will come from saved seed. This is part of the fun of it. for me. II the seed came exactly true, as in cloning, there would be no chance for improvement. But the process of selection is slow going. Remembei that corn started out many centui ies ago as a grain no bigger than a head of wheat. So every year I watch closely for “perfect” eais, that is. ears over a foot long with twenty-two or more rows of kernels; wit.li the rows of kernels slightly separated from each Other on the COb for better drying; with no sign of fungal diseases; with stalks that do not fall over in strong winds; and with ears that turn down on the stalk as they mature so that rainwater can’t get into them and that then are easily husked by hand. Saving out these best ears every year is a keenly enjoyable pastime because of the potential it suggests.

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Pandemic influenza potentially poses a much greater threat than SARS.

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Pandemic influenza potentially poses a much greater threat than SARS. Such pandemics occur on average around three times a century, when a strain of avian influenza acquires the ability to infect and pass efficiently between humans59. Since 1997, when the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus was isolated in humans, it has caused at least 308 deaths. All the victims appear to have contracted the disease through close contact with infected animals, and there have been no confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission. However, should the virus mutate so as to acquire the ability to pass readily between humans, the consequences could be grave. The H1N1 pandemic of 1918-19 is estimated to have killed between 20 and 50 million people.

Airlines carry two billion passengers each year, potentially enabling disease to travel from one country to another in a matter of hours. This raises the question of what measures could be introduced to slow the spread of disease. One approach would be to seek to isolate the source of an outbreak by stopping all travel in or out of the affected region. This might only delay the spread of a pandemic by a few weeks, but the time gained might be crucial in allowing for the development of a vaccine. At the same time the cost to the global economy of a suspension of air travel to, say, south-east Asia, would be enormous.

An alternative approach, introduced at the time of the SARS epidemic, is airport screening to “filter out” infected passengers. However, when we asked Professor Bagshaw his opinion on screening procedures at airports he said that that they were not robust enough. He added, “putting a thermometer in somebody’s ear is not very helpful” in detecting individuals in the early stages of influenza (Q 163). This bears out our conclusion in our recent report on Pandemic Influenza that airport screening procedures were unlikely to be effective in preventing a global influenza pandemic.

We received very little evidence of the extent and level of contingency planning for a possible pandemic, as it affects the airline industry. The airlines reassured us that they had contingency plans in preparedness for a pandemic and that these plans were regularly tested (QQ 60-61). They told us that international organisations such as the WHO, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) “have developed protocols and guidance for airlines and for airports” (Q 60). Airlines also work with the DfT, the DH and the AHU in pandemic planning. However, in the absence of details of such plans we are unable to reach any conclusion as to their likely effectiveness. We therefore confine ourselves to two basic recommendations to the airlines and the Government detailed at the end of this section.

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The farm owner knocked on my door

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

 The farm owner knocked on my door

The farm owner knocked on my door and I invited him in.

“You’ve got it nice in here,” he said. “Yes, sir, you’ve got it nice.”He slipped in the seat beside the table. This table can be low-ered at night and the cushions can be convened to make a double bed. “Nice,” he said again.

I poured him a cup of coffee. It seems to mc that coffee smells even better when the frost is in. “A little something on the side?” I asked. “Something to give it authority?”"No his is fine. This is nice.”"Not a touch of applejack? I’m tired from driving, I’d like a spot myself.”He looked at me with the contained amusement that is con-sidered taciturnity by non-Yankees. “Would you have one if I didn’t?” went farther and farther north and it got colder I was aware of more and more advertising for Florida real estate and, with the approach of the long and bitter winter, I could sec why Florida is a golden word. As 1 went along I found that more and more people lusted toward Florida and that thousands had moved there and more thousands wanted to and would. The advertising, with a side look at Federal Communications, made few claims except for the fact that the land they were selling was’in Florida. Some of them went out on a limb and promised that it was above tide level. But that didn’t matter; the very name Florida carried the message of warmth and ease and comfort. It was irresistible.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, where 1 once lived, and where the climate is as near to perfect as is conceivable, I have found that when people leave there they usu-ally go to Alaska. I’d like to sec bow long an Aroostook County man can stand Florida The trouble is that with his savings moved and invested there, he can’t very well go back. His dice arc rolled and can’t be picked up again. But I do wonder if a down-Easter, sitting on a nylon-and-aluminum chair out on a changclcssly green lawn slapping mosquitoes in the evening of a Florida October do wonder if the sub of memory doesn’t strike him high in the stomach just below the ribs where it hurts. And in the humid ever-summer I dare his picturing mind not to go back to the shout of color, to the clean rasp of frosty air, to the smell of pine wood burning and the caressing warmth of kitchens. For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

I drove as slowly as custom and the impatient law permitted. That’s the only way to sec anything. Every few miles the states provided places of rest off the roads, sheltered places sometimes near dark streams. There were painted oil drums for garbage, and picnic tables, and sometimes fireplaces or barbecue pits.

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The summer semester was in full tide

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

The summer semester was in full tide

The summer semester was in full tide: consequently the most frequent figure in and about Heidelberg was the sliidcnt. Most of the students w ere Germans, of course, but the representatives of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, composed of British and American students, had twenty-five members, and there was still much material left to draw from.

Nine-tenths of the Heiiklberg students wore no badge or uniform: the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations called “corps.” There were live corps, each with a color of its own: there were white caps, blue caps, and red. yellow , and green ones. The famous duel-lighting is confined lo the “corps” boys. The “KNEIP” seems lo be a specially of their*, loo. Kneips are held, now ami then, lo celebrate great occasions, like the election of a beer king, for instance. The solemnity is simple: the live corps assemble al night, and at a signal they all fall loading themselves with beer, out of pint-mugs, as fast as possible, and each man keeps his own count—usually by laying aside a lucifcr match for each mud he empties. The election is soon decided. When the candidate-* can hold no more, a count is instituted and the one who has drank the greatest number of pints is proclaimed king. I was told that the lasi beer king elected by the corps—or by his own capabilities—emptied his mug seventy-five limes. No stomach could hold all that quantity al one time, of course—but there arc ways of frequently creating a vacuum, w liich those w ho have been much at sea will understand.

One sees so many students abroad al all hours, lhai he presently begins lo wonder if Ihcy ever have any working-hours. Some of ihem have, some of ihcm haven’t. Each can choose for himself whether he will work or play: for German university life is a very free life: it seems lo have no restraints. The student does not live in the college buildings, but hires his ow n lodgings, in any locality he prefers, and he takes his meals w hen and w here lie pleases. He goes to bed when it suits him. and does not get up al all unless he wants lo. lie is not entered at the university for any particular length of time: so he is likely lo change about. He passes no examinations upon entering college. He merely pays a trilling fee of five or ten dollars, receives a card entitling him to the privileges of the university, and thai is Ihc end of it. He is now ready for business—or play, as he shall prefer. If he elects to work, lie finds u large list of lectures lo choose from. He selects the subjects which he will study, and enters his name for these studies: but he can skip attendance.

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