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Show SEED PLANTER OF AIR NOSES IN MUD FRESNO, Calir.. Dec. 28. Forced to land in Tulare lake bottom mud, an airplane piloted by Dick Doane, fhinp for Loxls 0 Thornton of Fi no. was partly wrecked shortly after noon Wednesday, delaying' experimenting experi-menting With planting seed wheat from the air over twenty thousand acres of Kings county farm lands. Doane and a mechanic were uninjured, unin-jured, the -ship nosing over and breaking break-ing minor parts in tbe collision with 1 the ground. A second attempt t.i omplete the experiment, which is being watched With Interest by about fifty Kinps county reclamation district land owners, will be made as soon as another an-other plane from the Thornton field can be commandeered and equipped for the work. Thornton said. Land Included In the aerial seeding plan lies both wlthlr an unprotected area of thw lake and behind a levee built to hold back lake waters, according ac-cording to Harry Eastwood, author of the seeding plan and representatives representa-tives of owners In that territory. Soil Is of a rich floury nature requiring re-quiring no cultivation or turning previ-I previ-I ous to planting. Eastwood said. It 1s the belief of Eastwood, he said, that v,-raln dropped from an airplane will automatically plant 11-self 11-self by the force of gravity from 100 feet altitude. |