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Show 1 FACTORY Magneto Research Aids Farmers The big job tauten on by farmers during the war to feed half the world even though their sons and hired hands were at the battle front, was greatly speeded by industrial in-dustrial research and invention One example was a dust-and-mois-ture-proof magneto for tractors, the product of 20 years of development develop-ment and perfection by a farm machinery manufacturer. Trees As A Crop War research led to the development develop-ment of new methods of treating soft woods with resins to produce a material comparable to hard wood and superior to it for ma.iy pur- loses, the liquid resin is forced into the pores, where it hardr.es. This process will expand th ,j:. portunity for the growing of soft v.'nods as an agricultural crop, and be particularly beneficial to the South, where soft woods e-in ,e grown quickly. High Tension Conversation By combining electronic tubes with an ordinary telephone, it is possible to use electric current wires as telephone lines. Thus telephone tel-ephone service can be brought to rural areas which have electricity but not telephones. The invention may be particularly important in eliminating replacement of tele- Phone lines. A gadget known as a ' coupler attached to a pole near the! farmer's home stops interference! I Irom power current. |