Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-05 | Page 4 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

FREAKS and ODDITIES ODDITIES IN IN SCIENCE NEWS NEWS- NEWS NEWS- H J Utility and beauty vie with purely scientific U interest in a unique garden on the campus of Cornell university This garden was planted months ago with seeds bulbs and cuttings from all parts of ot the world for the special benefit of the sixth international congress of ot Genetics The members of the congress were represented in the garden by their scientific discoveries far in ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance of their personal arrival at One section of the garden is devoted to new varieties of ot disease proof garden vegetables and field crops cabbages and tobacco and flax and a dozen others The idea is isto isto to produce plants plant that will tight fight the parasitic fungi on their own account and spare farmers and gardeners gardeners gar gar- ar- ar the expense and labor of putting on Bordeaux Bordeaux Bordeaux Bor Bor- deaux mixture and and- other fungicide sprays a a H Boredom causes industrial workers in En England U to lose more time from their their- jobs jobs' than all the recognized industrial diseases put together This is the result of ot the mechanization of industry ac according according according ac- ac cording to a comment In the Lancet English medical med med- ical leal Journal The vague nervous disabilities which have increased greatly in recent years are really due to ennui on the part of the machine hand it itIs itIs itis is thought This state of ot boredom so great as to cause nervous ailments alIments severe enough to lose time from work was almost unknown to the craftsman the Lancet points out