Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-03
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

/ ond, 40 feet the second second, 80 feet
the third second, and so on
@. Is the United States using up It's
petroleum resources faster than other
| countries?-L. p.
A. According to a report of the Fed
eral Oil Conservation Board, the United
States, producing 70 per cent OF the
worlds crude oil production and con-
Stunning IS per cent Of the worlds total.
is eXhausting its petroleum reserves so
much faster than the rest of the world
as to endanger Americas future supply
of oil.
i O. What are some of the advantages
of the new mechanical cotton picker?--
T. r.
! A. Some of the advantages Of the
hand type" mechanical picker are:
The fields are picked cleaner than Dy
! hand; the machines are operated on
! about one gallon of gasoline daily; ma
chine operators can be ordinary hand
pickers selected from field crews. OF
| 2 bales of machine picked cotton and
10 bales of hand-picked cotton from the
| same field and ginned at the same gins,
there was an average of 3T2 pounds OF
| loss on account of trash in each of the
! f1ve 2-bale loads of hand-picked cot
ton and only SIS pounds of trash in a
2-bale load of machine-picked cotton.
In the test actual saving in the cost of
| picking and ginning and the increase in
selling price of the machine picked cot
! ton produced 5000 bale over the
| regular receipts. The test was per-
! formed in the second picking, and there
was only about 800 pounds of seed cot
ton per acre the leaves had been strip
/ ped OH by worms, and the feld was
overgroWn with weeds.
@. How is the revenue produced
which supports the Church Of England?
j. E. w.
A. The principal revenue Of the
Church OF England is obtained through
! Its large estates and endowmentS and
| from tithes. Collections are taken up
In the Church of England as elsewhere.
Q. Did Bishop Asbury marry? Where
did he die?-N. T.
A. Francis Asbury was born at Ham
stead Bridge, near Birmingham, Eng
land, in 1745. He died at Spotsylvania.
Va, in 1915. He came to America Az a
missionary in It'll. There were then
| only 316 Methodists in America. When
he died he had travelled more than
| 10000 miles. preached more than 49,
600 sermons, and ordained more than
1000 Methodist ministers. He never
married. Constant travel, limited re-
oOulSCp dllu Allo NCdl bGENlCC
were some of the reasons advanced for
his single life.
@. How many cigarettes per capita
are smoked yearly?-H. L.
A. 1t is stated that Americans smoke
cigarettes now at the rate OF 1000 per
person per year, compared with $50 per
person in 1928.
@. Please give some information
about the Society of Women Geogra-
pherS.-A. L. NJ.
A. The Society Of Women Geogra-
piers says that for active membership
in this organization only those women
are eligible who have done distinctive
work whereby they have added some
thing to the worlds store of knowledge
concerning the countries in which they
have Travelled. Among the members are
Della Akeley, who during her last expe-
dition to Africa assembled a natural his
tory collection for the Brooklyn Mu-
scum and a collection of African curios
which has been purchased by the New
ark Museum. Elizabeth Dickey in 1927
% made extended explorations in Brazil
and Venezuela. In l928-29 she accom-
panied the expedition to the Maipures
Rapid, Rio Orinoco which was led by
her husband for the Museum of the
American Indian, George Heye Founda-
ton. New York; Ruth Crosby Noble is
the discoverer of new species Of frog
which has been named in her honor
Neutrality-suspicious. Ruthae"