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• It’s DRY! Why is Death Valley so hot and dry? Don Lago describes the science behind it in his book, Death Valley Trivia. The main factor is called the “rain shadow” effect. When storms come out of the Pacific Ocean and head inland, they have to cross a series of mountain ranges, which force clouds to rise, condense, and drop their moisture. With every mountain range they cross, the clouds have less moisture left for the next one. The Sierras can get 34 feet of snow per year, but then the clouds have little moisture left for the Owens Valley just west of the Sierras; the Owens Valley gets less than 6 inches of rain per year. Clouds that make it past the Sierras then hit the Panamint Mountains and lose most of their remaining moisture. This leaves little rain for Death Valley, or for the Amargosa Range on the east side of Death Valley. While the Panamints get 15 inches of annual precipitation, the Amargosa Range gets only 3-5 inches. • The average annual rainfall in Death Valley is only 1.94 inches. By comparison, New York City receives an average of 49.64 inches of rain per year. In some years, Death Valley has recorded no rainfall at all, such as 1929 and 1953.

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• Professor tested some bees by DEERE.James JOHNGould DEERE. (continued): placing a bowl of sugar water near a beehive. • It was while living in Illinois that John noAfter it had been discovered by the bees, he ticed the problems that farmers faced when started moving it. Every few minutes he moved attempting to till soil. Because the area had theformerly dish, butbeen eachwoodland, move wasthe four times soil waslonger rich than the previous move. Thus, he moved it with hummus, which clumped and clung one to inch, then four inches, 16 inches and so the blades of the plowsthen farmers were accuson.tomed Soontohe wasWhile moving the dish more cirthan using. repairing a broken 100 feet in a single jump. The bees caught cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. Heon and were waiting for skills him when he arrived. employed his smith to fashion the steel blade into the Bee shapeFacts of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device • Number of flowers a bee must visit to make to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil one pound of honey: 2 million like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened • Number of miles the flown hive of bees to be observing test by run aimmediately putin order makefor1 his pound honey: 55,000 in antoorder ownofJohn Deere plow. • •Amount honeyDeere madegave by aup worker honey bee In shortoforder, his blacksmith and focused on making plows. The inshop a lifetime: 1/12 teaspoon companyannual grew steadily and added many em-of • Average per capita consumption ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the honey: 1.1 lbs. entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed • Average speedlack of aofhoney bee: 15 mphsent his of his own education, John childrennumber to the state’s finest schools. One of a • Average of flowers visited during his proudest days occurred when son Charles single collection trip: 50-100 earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s • Average lifespan of a worker bee: 28-35 days Commercial College in Chicago. • •Average of a queen bee:the 2 years With hislifespan son Charles managing company, John found to pursue in• Percent of the time average humanphilanthropic diet derived from terests. He co-founded insect-pollinated plants: both 33%the First National Bank First Congregational Church. • Percent ofand thatthe pollination performed by honey He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, bees: 80% where one of his first actions – the replace• Percent of the the city’s time bees 0 ment of openspend drainssleeping: with a sewer pipe system – saved countless by reduc• Number of bees in a hive: up tolives 60,000 ing the spread of disease. • Percent of body weight an average bee can car•ryThe John Deere in itsoriginal nectar load: 50% logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri• Number of eggsyears an average laysreper ca. Thirty-six later, inqueen 1912,bee it was day: 3,000 placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In thetodecades fol• Amount of food she needs eat dailythat to do so: lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took 80 times her weight over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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