Arizona republican., 1920-05-13
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS
0. Should corn be euItivated deep

 Iy after t is above eround?-F. R. L.
 4 The first cultivation should be quite deep, three to four inches. After ward 1t should not be more than two to two and a half inches. Some Of the corn roots soon shoot out toward the middle of the row and lie near the surface of the soil. Deep cultivation tears out these roots and reduces the yield I0f to 20 bushels an acre.
 o. What percentage of deaths are due to accidents ?-M. E. W.
 A. Insurance statistics for the United States show that the deaths of ten out of every hundred men who die or ten per cent, are due to accidents These statistics show that, on an aY- craze. every nine minutes someone Is killed by accident in the United States; every fifty-four minutes someone Is killed by a fall: every sixty three min utes someone is killed in d railroad ac- cident. every seventy two minutes someone is fatally burned: every nine ty minutes someone is drowned and every one hundred and eighty minutes someone meets death in an automobile accident
 0. Is baseball played in the Philip pines ?-W. T.
 A. This game is very popular in the islands and is played from one end of the archipelago to the other. Owing to the climate, the game may be played the year around.
 @. Are horses killed for meat in this country2--W. D. A Tn September. 1919, federal in- spection of horse slaughter began Up to the end of the year 433 horses were slaughtered and about one half the re- sulting meat was certified for export O. Can there be two full moons ip any February?-A. M. R.
 A. There have not and cannot De two full moons in the month of Feb ruary at any one place. February has at most but twenty mine days while the shortest possible intervals between successive full moons Is twenty nine days and six hours.
 O. Were there many words in the vocabulary of an unciVilized Indian tribe?--P. M. O.
 A. The Smithsonian Institution says that the old idea that the vocabulary of uncivilized tribes. especially the In- dian tribes, was very limited, has been disproven. They have every reason to believe that the vocabulary of such tribes was quite as large as that of modern languages, and that such tribes were able to express the most comp1- cated ideas.
 O. Where do we get the expression Stand patter"?-R. A. D.
 A. This is a political slang eXpres- sion and was originated by Senator
 
 of the leaders of the Republican party on the tariff question It came from stand pat" a poker term, which eX- presses the intention of the player to play the cards originally dealt him without helping his hand by drawing
 0. Is "sauIt" in sauIt sainte Marie really pronounced "Soo," and how about Mackinac?-R. c.
 A. The proper pronunciation of SauIt is "Soo" and Mackinac is spoken as though the "c'' were w
 c. How long does the average per son live?-J. M. H.
 A Statistics show that the average duration of life is now forty-eight and seven -tenths years. That it has near ly doubled within a few centuries is due to improved conditions of living, to the progress of civilization and to improved sanitary conditions.
 o. Have the Chinese much iitera- ture?-H. H. w.
 A. Chinese literature is so exten- sfve that the catalogue of books in four imperial libraries which classifies and briefly describes contents fills 200 volumes
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