Evening star., 1914-07-11

| forest service throughout the forest res
ervations of the far west. In connection
with the forest pictures there will be 9th
ers filmed of Indian life in the reserva-
tions.
These films are a part of the depart
ment's educational film service The ac-
tivity has only been established about six
| months. The laboratories are on the
| fourth floor Of the main building
The laboratory has just completed a
film showing the strawberry industry of
| warren county. Ky. 1t is a film 1000
feet In length and shows the strawber-
ries from the patch to the palate.
! Another film shows the congressional
| seed distribution in all its phases The
dairy industry, picturing the cooperative
| COW testing in Vermont is the subject of
another film of thousand feet
| Another film shows the preparation of
paper from the log to the sheet This
picture was made in Madison, Wis
1t is declared that the finest film is the
| great Seeing Washington reel of about
1900 feet, taken in connection with the
| Corn Club boys when they were in WASH
ington last December.
The pictures are to be shown all over
the country and will have an audience Of
many millions of people, as they are to
be shown in the regular movie thea
| ters.
/ The work turned out by the division of
publications is comparable to any done
by the great commercial f1lm makers of
this or any foreign country. Many anus
ing Incidents have happened here in
| Washington while some of the films were
being taken. Perhaps the most amusing
experience happened out at the Zoo. 1t
is said that the animals out there did
not take kindly to the moving picture
machine and its operator. The lion tried
| to eat the operator and the ostrich the
camera. but. luckily for the Department
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CRY.
Secretary Houston left Monday for a
| trip to Woods Hole, Mass. to visit his
family. He returned to the office yes
terday.
| Friends of the Secretary who are in
terested in condolences are smiling over
the fact that the first bale Of 1914 cotton
marketed in the United States was sold
July on the Cotton Exchange of Hous-
ton. Tex. 1t weighed 392 pounds and sold
| for $500. 1t came from Lyford. Tex.
| A. A. Ornlsby. assistant chief clerk re-
! turned Wednesday from a three-day fish
| ing trip at Charlottesville. Va, and other
nearby points.
L. E. McLarren. clerk in the bureau Of
chemistry. left for a trip of three months
duration Thursday.
| A. 8. Mitchell. administrative assistant
| of the bureau of chemistry, has been call
| ed to the state Of Wisconsin by the
death of his mother.
| Horace L. Stevenson has been appointed
a messenger in the bureau of chemistry.
Miss Bertha NJ. Bennett of the bureau
| of chemistry has been transferred from
Charlottesville. Va. to this city.
Wednesday for three-week vacation
| J. S. Abbott chemist in charge of the
state cooperative work, who has been
visiting a number of the state dairy and
| food commissions, has returned to Wash
| ington.
The Office of the executive officer Of the
I insecticide and fungicide board is felici-
| tating itself this week on the acquisition
of ''photostat." which Is a photograph
| ing instrument that takes pictures around
| a corner. as it were.
Heretofore all labels on barrels. boxes,
cans and other containers have been cop
| led off on a typewriter by some fair
"typist," and it was lot of work.
| Now, by the use Of the protostat, Pa
tricia, the typist, can have a bit more
leisure these hot summer days while
those barrels, boxes, cans and other con-
! tainers are rolled up in front of the pho
| tostat and have their pictures taken"
| The instrument is lighted by powerful
mercury glow lights. The lens is so ar
| ranged. by means Of hooded reflector
that it can take pictures of objects placed
beneath it, to one side. or even of fly
| on the ceiling. If that were desired
| There is no limit where this machine can
| take pictures. seemingly.
! After the sensitive paper is exposed it
| is mechanically passed from behind the
| lens into developer, then through water,
and then into hypo, and in thirty sec
onds emerges a completed negative. This
| negative in turn can then be rephoto-
| graphed and a positive secured and so on
| ad finitum.
| The hardest job the operators have been
up against SO far was to get good pic
| ture of red label with black lettering
upon it.
J. B. Kingsbury. property clerk in the
insecticide and fungicide board. is plan
ming to take his vacation soon, when he
| is to sail on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Gross for Germany. He expects to sail
| July p.
Rose A. Hayes, clerk in the division Of
publications, returned to the office Tues
day after an absence of several weeks
due to severe illness.
| Wednesday the bureau of crop esti-
| mates formerly the bureau OF StatlStlcS)
was locked up until 2:15 o'clock getting
out the estimates on wheat, corn, oats,
barley, rye, tobacco. hay. apples. etc.
The report in wheat was especially en-
couraging. 1t is estimated that the wheat
| crop will be one of the very largest ever
harvested in this country.
! F. M. Simpson reported for duty as
I market specialist in the office of mar
| kets this week. Mr.. Simpson was for
merly connected with the University of
| Illinois.
| Charles p. Bassett, specialist in CO.
operative organization, Office Of markets.
has just returned from a trip in the west
comforting with fruit and potato growers.
| Miss Fflda NJ. Daish of the Office Of
markets returned this week from her
leave of absence spent at Lake Placid,
N. Y. and at Cincinnati. Ohio.
W. H. Kerr, assistant in cooperative
| organization accounting, returned this
week from trip through Illinois. Colo
rado. California. Oregon and Washing
| ton interviewing managers Of CO.
| operative marketing associations as to
their methods of handling and market
| to their system of credit to such or
| ganiZations.
| Miss Mary E. Griffith has taken up her
| duties as editorial clerk in the office
of markets. having been transferred to
that Office July /.