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¶ In Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo.
¶ By radiating his poultry pen with ultraviolet light, a farmer near Niles Center, Ill., raised chickens whose flesh was all white meat.
¶ Sir Frederick Hobday of the Wye Agricultural College, Ashford, Kent, found that the spread of foot-rot among British sheep was checked by shoeing the sheep with tight-fitting rubber boots.
¶ Shown at London's International Inventors' Exhibition were shoes with collapsible 18-inch stilts folding into the soles, for short persons who wish to see over the heads of a crowd at a parade; a breakfast eggcup adjustable for large or small eggs; an electrically lighted dog harness to prevent dogs from being struck by automobiles at night.
¶A South African named R. H. Harris offered to the British Government the patent rights on his method for exterminating the tsetse fly. The device consists of a dummy bullock with an electric light shining through a hole in its side. When the fly approaches to bite the bullock, it is attracted by the light, enters the dummy, cannot get out.
¶The American Bituminous Coal Merchants Association announced lump coal wrapped in Cellophane, to keep cellars clean and enable housewives to put coal into furnaces without soiling their hands.
¶A press agent's release from Dictograph Silent Radio Company began thus: "Tomorrow's radio has arrived and is announced today. It is the first silent radio ever introduced on the market as such."