The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-05-30

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The safest key to the past is the
present.
The octopus, thus named because it
has eight tentacles instead of the
popular belief that it has ten.
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To account for the rapid growth of
young birds. it has been found that
young robin will eat and digest three
times its weight in worms every "a
hours.
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The old fashioned drug store leech,
extensively used years ago for draw
ing the blood from the tissues of pa
tients, is flat worm with sucking
disc for attaching to other animals, to
suck their blood. 1t pierces the skin,
fills with blood and drops off. A leech
will take enough food at one meal to
last at least year. It takes from two
to three years to grow an inch long
and If fed internationally it will live
Is or 20 years.
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As an example of animal copart-
nership, the hermit crab and the sea
anemone are given. The hermit crab
which selects an empty mollusk she'll
Tor Its home, will grasp an anemone
In its claw and place same on the back
Of the shell for an outer defense. The
sea anemone is equipped with sting
ing cells, which affords protection
against animals and fish which live
on crabs. When the crab moves to a
new home it will carry partner
anemone along as a defense.
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Experts of the Bureau of Fisheries
nave found method of rehabilitating
the sponge fishing grounds. Most of
these grounds have suffered from
reckless everlasting and have been
swept barren. Propagation by bud
ding and fertilization of eggs was
found failure. The new method con-
aists of cutting living sponges into
small pieces and anchoring the pieces
with-small, weights. These, placed in
the warm shallow sponge grounds, is
renewing the industry
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The U. S. Biological Survey, under
an act of Congress-, has recently Great
ed the Migratory Bird Conservation
commission for the purpose of pass
ing on all lands recommended by the
survey as bird refugees. Areas that
have been adapted as refugees by mi
gratory bird life, as well as areas that
have formerly acted as refugees, are
to be acquired by the government.
Many marshes and lowlands that have
been drained will again be put in shape
to make a suitable nesting region for
the rearing Of migratory birds.
The Meteor Orator of Arizona, once
thought to have been caused by steam
or volcanic expansion, is again the
scene of activity, both from COM
mercial standpoint as we'll as scien-
tific. The orator is mile in diameter
and the walls are $40 feet high. Scat
tered around the orator for several
miles are fragments of meteors found
on the surface. The ore being a nick
eliferious iron. The commercial in
terests are thnneling and drilling to
locate the main body of ore that has !
Embedded itself under the surface by
impact several hundred feet. The
scientists are interested because it will |
show the composition of large celestial |
bodies that reach the earth.
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An interesting astronomical ques-
ton that has not been answered:
Was the moon celstial body captur-
ed by the attraction of the earth or
was it part of the earth and drawn
away from the earth by the attraction
of some passing star? Both theo
ries have their advocates.
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The theory that mountain building
rs caused by the contraction and cool
ing of the earth, has met with con-
siderable opposition Another school
of biologists claim that the force of
contraction is not sufficient to cause
plateau and mountain lifting to the
extent of thousands of feet. Their
claim is that the centrifugal force of
the rotating earth in conjunction with
the tidal force, is the only energy Of
the earth that is capable of produc
ing the effects shown on the surface
of the earth. They further argue
that a sphere as large as the earth
which rotates at the rate of better
than 1000 miles per hour, will tend
to pile up the land and water on the
equator. The diameter of the earth
now being 27 miles greater at the
'quator than at the poles.