Rice Irrigation & Harvesting with Gasoline Engines 1939 Chevrolet Newsreel

more at http://quickfound.net '"Flood! Grow Rice with Gasoline, Motor Halts Searing Heat." Rice growing and harvesting methods, inc. irrigation. ECU rice plants blowing in gentle breeze. 2 men harvesting rice with combine in large field. CU man examining engine of machine; walks o.s. CU engine (horsecarts pass in BG). Men standing on horsecarts pitching hay into thresher (many sacks of rice in FG). CU large haystack; pan to thresher spitting hay onto stack. Men piling sacks onto trailer attached to tractor; man driving tractor, turns and waves, then pulls away. VS water spouting from engine-powered irrigation pipe. VS superimposed irrigation water splashing over rice plants blowing in gentle breeze.' From Chevrolet Leader News Newsreel Vol. 5 No. 2. Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_straight-6_engine The Chevrolet inline 6 was Chevy's main engine from 1929 (when it replaced their first 4-cylinder engine, the 171-cubic-inch four), through 1954, and was the base engine starting in 1955 when they added the small block V8 to the lineup. It had finally been completely phased out by 1990 in North America, but Brazil held on to their fuel-injected straight-6 through the 1998 model year. It was replaced by more recently developed V6 and four-cylinder engines. Many popular cars and trucks, including the Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet Impala, and Chevrolet Suburban just to name a few, used the inline 6 as the base engine. Chevrolet did not offer another inline 6 until the 2002 GM Atlas engine's debut in the Chevrolet TrailBlazer... 1st Generation (1929 Stovebolt Era) "A six for the price of a four" The first mass-produced GM inline 6 was introduced in 1929 on Chevrolet cars and trucks, replacing the company's first inline-4. Richard Grant (Chevrolet marketing executive) insisted that the new design boast overhead valves. Chevrolet had long been known for its "valve-in-head" four-cylinder engines. William S. Knudsen's cast-iron wonder was produced through 1936... Second generation The next-generation Chevrolet inline 6 was introduced in 1937 and phased out in 1963 in the US, and 1964 in Brazil. It is often known as the "Blue Flame" engine, although that name was only officially applied beginning in 1953, and then only for one certain model of the engine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn), according to data for 2010. Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans... Rice cultivation is well-suited to countries and regions with low labor costs and high rainfall, as it is labor-intensive to cultivate and requires ample water. However, rice can be grown practically anywhere, even on a steep hill or mountain area with the use of water-controlling terrace systems. Although its parent species are native to Asia and certain parts of Africa, centuries of trade and exportation have made it commonplace in many cultures worldwide. The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings. This simple method requires sound planning and servicing of the water damming and channeling, but reduces the growth of less robust weed and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin. While flooding is not mandatory for the cultivation of rice, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in weed and pest control during growth periods and a different approach for fertilizing the soil...