Hi everyone, Sean with Jaspys casebricks.com here doing 2021 Panini Don Russ football hybrid 10 box break pick a team number one where we're also giving away $1,500 in break credit. So the way this works, no vet commonship for the break, exceptions, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, and then second year quarterbacks as far as Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Tua Tagawa Loa and Jalen Hurts. There's your six exceptions for the no vet commonship. The image variations, the no helmets, if they have that in hybrid, which I'm sure they probably do, those will ship as well. We'll set those aside to go. But that's it. As far as the $1,500 break credit, how to be entered to win $1,500 in break credit by two or more teams, this break get entered to win top three names, each win $500 in break credit, no max entries, two teams, one entry, four teams, two entries, six teams, three entries, if you have six teams, three entries, you could theoretically win $1,500 in break credit, all three $500 spots. And there you go. Here is our list of customers and respective teams from Ryan Harold and the Cardinals, down to Faith Benson and Washington. And here's our case. Since this is pick and team one, this is the first 10 box break from a sealed case. Here's our customer list that we just looked at online in person. Last pot Mojo, Mac and the Jets. Let's pop this case open. Try to keep it intact as far as box wise inside. So we can do it easy dice roll to separate the boxes. There you go. So we'll go left side, right side for the randomizer or the dice roll 123 on the dice for the left 456 on the dice for the right. Here we go. Good luck guys. It's a six. So we're going to go boxes on the right. These boxes here will be for pick your team number two. So to designate that these are all from the same case, I'm just going to put a two right over the D. That way you guys know these are all from the same case. And I guess we put it to the left of the D. So it's more visible, but whatever. As long as it's on there and you guys know that that means that these are all from the same case. So when we do pick your team two, and then I think I'll do it probably the same way I was doing the hobby boxes where I just do half at the same time just stack them. Sounds reasonable. This is our first look at this. So I have no clue. Josh Jacobs is out versus the Steelers. Steelers were already dogs. That does not help cause. That's actually still a lot of cards. I thought maybe it'd be considerably less than the Hobby Box, but it is not. Hobby breaks were taking us about an hour, 50 minutes to an hour. So we're still looking for ultra rare downtown inserts. Obviously H2 should have the discos. It might actually be. So Hobby Boxes are 18 packs. We were doing six box breaks. Six times 18 is about 120, roughly 108 packs. This is 100 packs. So this might end up being around the same time as a hobby. Six box break, a hobby. So scenarios to clinch the eight seat and WNBA. Washington Mystics, they win Sunday versus the Lynx. We do have WNBA Prism in store for personal breaks over on Instagram. Potentially on Loop as well. Live on both tonight. As we're over here on YouTube as well. WNBA Prism. Pulled some nice stuff out of there so far. Nice Asia Wilson. Mojo Auto, 25. A big fan of Liz Candidge and Sue Byrd. Yeah, Last Pop Mojo goes to Mac and the Jets. May we bless you. Wait, may Last Pop Mojo bless you with lots and lots of Zachary Wilson's. Braves have a 79% chance to win the division. Go for the Braves, by the way. Okay, less about the rest. I'm rooting for everybody. I hope I pull a major one of one auto for every single person and have this be like a freak case of hybrid and then drive everybody to sell out the rest of the teams available in the second half and success begets success. You know, attempted to just rip all 10 boxes and just go through them all afterwards. But I said five will stick with five. Cool. Good luck guys. First five boxes. You got Joe Namath, no helmet for the Jets. Rondell Moore, press proof red. Najee Harris, the rookies for the Steelers and Tyler Vale. Tua Tagavilo, a no helmet and Jamar Chase, rated rookie for the Bangles, Sean Matik. DK Metcalf, no helmet for the Seahawks. Jaylen Hertz, second year. Julio Jones, no helmet. Deandre Hopkins, no helmet, Cardinals. Derek Henry, no helmet for the Titans. Tom Brady, Buccaneers, Sean Matik and Jaylen Waddle, elite series rookie for the Dolphins. Sean Matik, Gronk, no helmet for the Buccaneers and Tom Brady, Patriots edition for Sean Matik. Henry Ruggs, no helmet for the Raiders and Des Fitzpatrick to 100 for the Titans and Ben Hoda. So, does every box come with an optic preview? This one is Pete Warner for the Saints. These are non-numbered green optic preview. H2 Exclusive Optic Rated Rookie Preview Green Parallels. Two of them per box on average. Nice. So, the Saints, Faith Benson, Pete Warner. I like those. Travis Kelsey, no helmet for the Chiefs. Well, our first box is one of those on average, I guess, because we got one. So, I didn't move the box. So, let's take a look real quick. So, unwrap two H2 Exclusive Optic Rated Rookie Preview Green Parallels per box on average. So, that's the on average stuff there. Same thing on the last side. And then, obviously, you can hit autos, but it doesn't guarantee, right? And then, I'm guessing there's still the case of the downtown. This one looks like there's two. I see two green optics. There you go. Joe Burrow, second year, Bangles. Peyton Manning, no helmet, Colts. Tom Brady, Buccaneers. Sean Maddock. DeAndre Hopkins, no helmet for the Cardinals. Gronk, no helmet, Buccaneers. Tom Brady, Patriots edition, Sean Maddock. Tom Brady, Buccaneers edition, Sean Maddock again. Henry Ruggs, no helmet for the Raiders.  Ryan Herald. Ezekiel Elliott, no helmet for the Cowboys. And our green optic is Greg Rousseau. The Bills, I believe out of Miami. Buffalo Bills, Ryan Herald. And Jalen Hertz, second year. Tommy Trumbull, Optic Rated Rookie Preview, that is for the Carolina Panthers. And Oliver Soria. Oliver with the Panthers this time, huh? Travis Kelsey, no helmet for the Chiefs. Tuataga-Vailoa, second year for the Dolphins. And Tua, no helmet for the Dolphins. Julio Jones, no helmet for the Falcons and Mack Jones, Rated Rookie. Patriots, Sean Maddock. That is Michael Carter, Rated Rookie to 500 for the Jets. And Mike McCarthy. Travis Etn, the Rookies for the Jaguars. Or Sean Maddock, it's Great Iron Kings Rookies, not the Rookies. DK Metcalf, no helmet for the Seahawks. And nice Trevor Lawrence. Pressproof Red for the Jaguars. Sean Maddock. Russell Wilson, no helmet for the Seahawks. And Devonta Smith, Rated Rookie for the Eagles. Travis Melberg. Cadarius Tony, Rated Rookie. Pressproof for the Giants. Travis Melberg. He is already upset in New York. That is not good. He's two games into his rookie season. Adam Thelon, no helmet for the Vikings. And Terrace Marshall Jr., die cut to 75 for the Panthers. Oliver Soria. Jaylin Ramsey, no helmet for the Rams. And Kenneth Gainwald of 500 for the Eagles. Travis Melberg. DeAndre Swift, no helmet for the Lions and Kyle Trask for the Buccaneers. Sean Maddock. Does it, Ryan? I'll check with Nick. Justin Herbert, no helmet for the Chargers. And Kellyn Maugham, the Rookies for the Vikings and Sean Maddock. Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs. Oliver Soria. George Kittle, no helmet for the 49ers. Ben Hodaap. And Jaylin Hertz, Pressproof for the Eagles. Mack Jones, Elite Series Rookie. Patriots, Sean Maddock. Aaron Rodgers, no helmet for the Packers. And Shee Smith, Optic Rated Rookie for the Panthers and Oliver Soria. Davis Mills, Optic Rated Rookie for the Texans. And Travis Melberg. Taysom Hill, no helmet for the Saints. Dak Prescott, no helmet for the Cowboys. And Trevor Lawrence, the Rookies for the Jags and Sean Maddock. Jaylin Ramsey, no helmet for the Rams. And Jamar Chase, Rated Rookie for the Bengals and Sean Maddock. Tom Brady Buccaneers, Sean Maddock, Larry Fitzgerald, no helmet for the Cardinals. Josh Allen, no helmet for the Bills. And JK Dobbins, Gold of 50 for the Ravens and Rick Thomas. Travis Etienne, Elite Series Rookie, Jaguar, Sean Maddock. Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs, Oliver Soria and Justin Jefferson, no helmet for the Vikings. Emmett Smith, the 500 for the Cowboys, Travis Melberg. Dak Prescott, no helmet for the Cowboys. And very nice, Justin Fields, Rated Rookie, Optic Bears. Ryan Harold. There you go, Ryan, congrats, man. That's a very nice card. See if we can find more Rookie quarterbacks. Brett Favre, no helmet for the Packers. And Frank Darby, Optic Rated Rookie for the Falcons and Travis Melberg. DeAndre Swift, no helmet for the Lions. Tyreek Hill, no helmet for the Chiefs. And Travis Etienne, Rated Rookie for the Jaguars and Sean Maddock. Joe Montana, no helmet. 49ers and Tom Brady Pressproof, Bucketing Ears, Sean Maddock. Jamar Chase, the Rookies. Bangles, Sean Maddock. TJ Watt, no helmet for the Patriots. Khalil Mack, no helmet for the Bears. And Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs and Oliver Soria. Justin Jefferson, no helmet for the Vikings. And Kelvin Joseph, Optic Rated Rookie for the Cowboys. That is Travis Melberg. Vaughn Miller, no helmet for the Broncos. And Kyle Trask, the Rookies for the Buccaneers, Sean Maddock. Khalil Mack, no helmet for the Bears. And Ian Book, Optic Rated Rookie for the Saints. Second one, I think, there for Faith. Not both Ian Book, but second Rated Rookie, Optic. The Green. Gronk, no helmet for the Buccaneers. And Simi Fahoko, Optic Rated Rookie. Green for the Cowboys. Travis Melberg. Henry Ruggs, no helmet for the Raiders. Travis Kelsey, no helmet for the Chiefs. And the Rookies, Zach Wilson. Jets, Mike McCarthy. Tuataga Vailoa, no helmet for the Dolphins. DK Metcalf, no helmet for the Seahawks. And Kyle Trask, Rated Rookie for the Buccaneers. Sean Maddock. Joseph Osai, a 500 for the Bangles and Sean Maddock. Tom Brady, Patriots Edition. That is Sean Maddock. And Deandre Hopkins, no helmet for the Cardinals. Devonta Smith, Rated Rookie, Eagles. Travis Melberg. And Carlos Boogie-Basham, to 100 for the Bills. Ryan Harold. There you go. That's the first five boxes. Halfway through the break. Another five boxes to go. And then, giveaway, 1500 bucks. Not too shabby. Second half of the break. You got Kelvin Joseph, Optic Rated Rookie for the Cowboys. Travis Melberg, to get us started. Joe Nameth, no helmet for the Jets. And Alvin Kamara, no helmet for the Saints. Josh Jacobs, no helmet for the Raiders and Trevor Lawrence. Rated Rookie for the Jags. Sean Maddock. Trey Lance, the Rookies for the 49ers. Ben Hodape. Tom Brady, Bucketier, Sean Maddock. Jonathan Taylor, no helmet for the Colts. Kyle Pitts, Rated Rookie for the Falcons. And Travis Melberg and Logan Thomas, to 500 for Washington. Faith Benson. Kallen Mann, Great Iron Kings, Rookie for the Vikings. Sean Maddock. Aaron Donald, no helmet for the Rams. And Xavin Collins, Optic Rated Rookie for the Cardinals. Ryan Harreld, Kylin Murray, no helmet for the Cardinals. Vinnie, I got to go through orders and see after this. Nothing was sold out when I started this. Christian McCaffrey, no helmet for the Panthers. But hopefully we have plenty of stuff to do after this. Tom Brady, Bucketiers, Sean Maddock, Press Proof and Justin Fields. Rated Rookie, Canvas. That is for the Bears. Ryan Harreld. About four and a half boxes until we figure out. Aaron Rodgers, no helmet for the Packers. Justin Herbert, no helmet for the Chargers. And Miles Garrett, to 75 for the Browns. That is Faith Benson. Dometric Felton, Optic Rated Rookie for the Browns. That is Faith Benson. Drew Brees, no helmet for the Saints. No, I guess not, Ryan. It doesn't say anything about it on the box. I'm assuming that it's like maybe a couple in a case or maybe they're just none. But it doesn't mention anything on the box, as far as autos. Najee Harris, Rated Rookie, Canvas for the Steelers. Tyler Vail. Saquon Barkley, no helmet for the Giants. Tom Brady, Bucketiers. Sean Maddock. And Kellan Mann, Rated Rookie for the Vikings and Sean Maddock. Randy Moss, no helmet for the Vikings. And Barry Sanders, die cut to 75 for the Lions and Rick Thomas. Yeah, I think you mentioned that that was the wrong one, right? So I'll have to change that for the other ones. Alex Leatherwood, Optic Rated Rookie for the Raiders. And Travis Melbert, Tua Taga Vailoa, second year for the Dolphins. And Barry Sanders, no helmet for the Lions. Darius Leonard, no helmet for the Colts. Chase Young, no helmet for the Washington and Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs and Oliver Soria. Randy Moss. Jaylen Hertz, no helmet for the Eagles. And Kellan Mann, Rated Rookie to 500 for the Vikings and Sean Maddock. Three boxes left, guys. Dak Prescott, no helmet for the Cowboys. And Najee Harris, Rated Rookie for the Steelers. Tyler Vail. Javon Holland, Optic Rated Rookie for the Dolphins. Sean Maddock. And Amir Smith-Marcette, Optic Rated Rookie for the Vikings. Sean Maddock. George Kittle, no helmet for the 49ers. Jaylen Waddle, Rated Rookie for the Dolphins and Sean Maddock. Russell Wilson, no helmet for the Seahawks. Adam Thielen, no helmet for the Vikings. Cadarius Tony, the Rookies for the Giants. And Travis Melbert. Taysom Hill, no helmet for the Saints. And Mack Jones, Rated Rookie to 500 for the Patriots. Sean Maddock, maybe second half, then. Remember, this is only the first half. Deandre Swift, no helmet for the Lions. Jaylen Ramsey, no helmet for the Rams. Larry Fitzgerald, no helmet for the Cardinals. Josh Allen, no helmet for the Bills. And Tom Brady, Buccaneers, Sean Maddock. Ryan Fitzpatrick to 100 for Washington and Faith Benson. And Najee Harris, Great Iron King's Rookie for the Steelers and Tyler Vale. But Ryan, arguably, you pretty much have the nicest card so far from this eight boxes we've done, that Optic Rated Rookie green of Justin Fields. Sure, that's probably a pretty nice little card. But we still got two more boxes to go. And then, obviously, the second half of this case as well is in the store. And pick your team number two. Aaron Rodgers, no helmet for the Packers. Tuataga by Lois, second year for the Dolphins. And Justin Herbert, no helmet for the Chargers. George Kittle, no helmet for the 49ers. And Phillip Rivers to 75. Dicut for the Chargers. Damian Cortez. Deandre Swift, no helmet for the Lions. And Aziz Ojalari to 500 for the Giants, Travis Melberg. Tom Brady, Buccaneers, Sean Maddock. Kyler Murray, no helmet, Cardinals. And Larry Roundtree, Optic Rated Rookie for the Chargers and Damian Cortez. Christian McCaffrey, no helmet for the Panthers. And Cadarius Tony, the Rookies for the Giants. That is Travis Melberg. Russell Wilson, no helmet for the Seahawks. And Trey Lance, Rated Rookie, Optic 49ers. Ben Hodape, congrats Ben. Adam Thielen, no helmet for the Vikings. Taysom Hill, no helmet for the Saints. And a Trey Lance, Rated Rookie for the 49ers. Ben Hodape. Devonta Smith, Great Iron Kings, Rookie. Eagles, Travis Melberg. Dak Prescott, no helmet for the Cowboys. Fox, guys, good luck. Let's close it out with another big rookie quarterback. Larry Fitzgerald, no helmet for the Cardinals. And Elijah Moore, Optic Rated Rookie Preview for the Jets, Mike McCarthy. There you go, Mack. That's a nice one. I like him a lot. Let's see if we can find his quarterback for you as well. Josh Allen, no helmet for the Bills. And Tom Brady Buccaneers, Sean Maddock. Travis Etienne, Rated Rookie for the Jags, Sean Maddock. And Tom Brady Buccaneers, Sean Maddock. Brett Favre, no helmet for the Packers. Cadarius, Tony, Rated Rookie. Canvas for the Giants, Travis Melberg. Tyree Hill, no helmet for the Chiefs. And Joe Montana, no helmet for the 49ers. DeMarcus Lawrence, the 50 for the Cowboys, Travis Melberg. He is out for two months roughly. No, so probably the second half, Ryan. TJ Watt, no helmet for the Steelers. And Panay Suwel, Optic Rated Rookie for the Lions. And Rick Thomas. Khalil Mack, no helmet for the Bears. And Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs and Oliver Soria. Yeah, there's still a full and another half case. Vaughn Miller, no helmet for the Broncos. And Devonta Smith, Rated Rookie. For the Eagles, Travis Melberg. Ezekiel, no helmet for the Cowboys. And CD Lambs of 500 for the Cowboys, Travis Melberg. Justin Jefferson, no helmet for the Vikings. And there you go. That wraps up the first 10 boxes. That was Pick Your Team number one. We have another half case of this. No downtown hit. And if there are any autos in Iverd, we did not hit one. So maybe the second half is stacked up to be pretty loaded. Let's see. But if downtown is a case hit in Iverd, just like it is in Hobbit, then obviously it should be in that second half right there. But what we're going to do before we go, give away $1,500 in break credit. So let's pop back up here. Ryan down to faith. Copy that customer list over. And as it says here, top three each $500 in break credit. So I'm going to alphabetize this. So Ben, you've got one entry. Faith with four, you got two. Jeremy, thank you guys both for getting in. Mike as well. Oliver, you get one. Rick, you've got one. And Ryan with three, you get one. Sean B, you've got one. And Sean M, I think it's three. Travis, you've got three. And Tyler, thanks for getting in. So from Ben down to Travis, you got 13 entries for the break credit. Top three $500 each. Dice roll. Top three names after six and a one, seven times $500 in break credit each. Good luck. Seventh and final time. Congrats. Faith, Sean and Ryan. $500 each for all three of you. Seven times on the randomizer. Seven times on the dice. Faith, Sean, Ryan. And congrats guys. That is 2021 Polini Don Russ football. H2 hybrid 10 box break. Pick a team number one from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you next time.


There's a ride over there too, I bet you didn't even notice. What is it? Oh, tea cups? Oh, so you pointed it out? Does that mean you want to do it? It is? The rides seem to be pretty well maintained here. Okay, so what do we think? What? Oh, hi. I'm riding a spinning ride. I think we're at Maria Land, but we're moving in D7. Oh. Oh, it's gonna stay if you don't do restraint checks. Oh, I think they're coming to do restraint checks. I can already tell we're gonna flip like crazy. Cricket doesn't react well on spinning rides. Yeah, on Spinnovator, that was definitely my regret. I like Spinnovator.  I'm going to. I have a good, like, the longer and half of space. Why is there a missing light? Okay, guys, ready? Yes. No, we weren't. I think he was worried about you. Okay, so we're right on back right here. I was gonna say, if you don't do restraint checks. But yeah, I was like, I thought that panel was really simple. It's kind of like the kiddie rides operated. Really? Yeah. That's how many buns we have, like four or five, so. Well, it's like, what is it? Oh, yeah. You're going too fast. Oh, we're gonna go up, so. What's going on? Yeah, it's very busy, so. Okay, fine. That was amazing. I like that. Could you consider this a thing? Yes, until that last little bit there. Yeah. That got intense there. I think he turned up the intensity. So what did you think of Magic Experience? That's what this thing is called? I literally had to double check when we got off. It is a magical experience. Was it? No, it's fun. It was like a family flat and then at the end. And then he pressed overdrive. Something happened. He hit overdrive when he saw our amusement insiders, sweaters, and like, we went crazy. What color would you say that color? The color? The back camera's been through a lot today. It has been through a lot today. I'm gonna have to buy another one, watch. So do you know where we're heading? Two G7 R2s. G7 X R2 spare me. I don't know where we're going because there's no signs. We're walking in the middle of the road. You know where we're going. All right, fine. I'll go there. How many people can it fit on the side? That's what we're going. Is the drop tower spitting? Did you mean the platform 2? You meant the platform 2. That's even more GB. What's that?


Hello and welcome to the session, I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question. Examine the consistency of the system of equations 3x-y-2z is equal to 2, 2y-z is equal to minus 1, 3x-5y is equal to 3. Let's start the solution. The given system of equations is minus 5 minus 2z is equal to 2, 2y-z is equal to minus 1, 3x-5y is equal to 3. The system of equations can be written in the form x is equal to b, where x is equal to minus 1, minus 2, 0, 2, minus 1, 3, minus 5, 0. x is equal to x-y-z and b is equal to minus 1, 3. We see that determinant a is equal to 3 into 0 minus 5 plus 1 into 0 plus 3 and minus 2 into 0 minus 6. Which is equal to minus 15 plus 3 plus 12 which is equal to 0. This implies a is a singular matrix. As we will calculate adjoint a into b. Now for adjoint a we will find co-factors of all the elements. Now co-factor of 3 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 1 into 0 minus 5 which is equal to minus 5. Co-factor of minus 1 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 2 into 0 plus 3. That is co-factor of minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 2 into 0 plus 3 which is equal to 3. Again co-factor of minus 2 is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 3 into 0 minus 6. We can find the co-factors of all the elements as. Now matrix form y is equal to minus 5 minus 3 minus 6, 10, 6, 12, 5, 3, 6. Therefore adjoint a is equal to transpose of this. It is minus 5 minus 3 minus 6, 10, 6, 12, 5, 3, 6 which is equal to minus 5 minus 3 minus 6, 10, 6, 12, 5, 3, 6. Therefore adjoint a into v is equal to minus 5 minus 3 minus 6, 10, 6, 12, 5, 3, 6 into 2 minus 1, 3. This is equal to minus 5 into 2 minus 10, 10 into minus 1 minus 10 plus 5 into 3, 15. Again minus 3 into 2 minus 6, 6 into minus 1 minus 6 plus 3 into 3, 9. Again minus 6 into 2 minus 12 minus 12 plus 18 which is equal to 5 minus 3 and minus 6. This implies adjoint a into b is not equal to 0. Adjoint a into a 0 matrix implies the system of equations is inconsistent. Concern for the above system of equations is inconsistent. I hope the question is clear to you. Bye and have a good day.


Okay, can you guys hear me okay with this? Everything's good? Okay. Switching gears a little bit, but still staying with our grass crops. I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you all today, and I appreciate your attention while we talk about wheat for a little while. The title was New Management Strategies, and I decided to do something with you guys that I've done with our growers in the Mid-Atlantic for the last year or two, which is challenging to think about something different. Instead of management strategies, let's think about an outcome, all right? The outcome is, what does it take to grow 150 bushels a week? Anybody in the room done this on three acres, okay? Well, I think the first time I ever gave this talk, they told me we have enough trouble growing 150-bushel corn a lot of the time. You might want to put this one in the box. But I wanted to share some experiences with you guys, and so more maybe than new ideas and management is sort of our program at Virginia Tech in the way we're pushing things into Mid-Atlantic and what we've learned in the last several years. I hope to leave time for a question or two when we get to the end. So who knows what the highest wheat yield in the world is? This is official yield challenge documentation. What is it? Ballpark, 150, 170, what do you think? Well, it was in New Zealand. It's 229 bushels to the acre. Now it's been several years ago, as you can tell by the fashion styles, probably even in New Zealand. But one of the funny things, I went back and when I pulled this together, one of the more interesting things I got about this was I was trying to understand what the grower and the consultant that you see here, what they speculated to be the reason for these, especially high yields in that environment, as opposed to maybe the UK or Europe where we tend to think of really high wheat yields. You know what they said? They said that they thought they got a much higher quality and intensity of solar radiation in that part of New Zealand because they were directly under the hole in the ozone layer. That's the truth. Take that for what it's worth. We've got some 200 bushel yields documented in North America, folks. It was in British Columbia and it was one of the first examples of a systems management approach that was taken for wheat and small grains in the Northern Hemisphere here. So they had four nitrogen timings. They had three different fungicide applications and they used plant growth regulators. So it's sort of the initiation of this modern intensive management program and obviously very effective in this particular environment. The over-encompassing graphic that's been around in the Virginia Tech intensive wheat management program for some time is this one with the idea that the concept here is pretty simple. If you take the number of heads per unit area, heads per acre, multiply that by the weight per kernel and time the kernels per head, so A times B times C, you get yield, right? I mean, conceptually, this is a very simple thing to solve. The problem is in the details though because when you push one up, something else tends to go down and vice versa. So it's a matter of the yield building factors and all these things add to yield potential in wheat. So it's variety selection, getting the right genetics. It's getting the fertility out there, especially the pre-plant fertility for us at RP and K needs to be done beforehand to have time to react, et cetera. So we've got to get that done and in place and then get in a good stand. Our work would mimic some of what others would tell you in that we're looking at 55 to 60 or so percent of our yield potential for a wheat crop being set when the drill leaves the field, okay? We've done our pre-plant fertility, we've planted it, we've chosen the genetics, and we've put a lot of things in place in terms of establishing that potential and that in some ways reflects the weight that those areas ought to receive when it comes time to focus of management decisions and for the decisions that you guys as consultants help the farmers that you work with make. And then of course, once we put all that into place, we can't lose it to weeds, insects, or diseases. We have some particular challenges in wheat and other small grains because of the issues with lodging. You can put about as much nitrogen on corn as you want with very little detrimental effects to the plants themselves. Small grains aren't that way. And then we're gonna talk just a second about harvest management if we do have time. So let's think about yield in terms of the sum of component parts, all right? Because I said A times B times C equals yield, right? So let's look at our 50 bushel yields here. Just an example of what might get us there, all right? If we have 40 heads per square foot, so at the end of the season, one square foot, you look down, you count all the heads there that are harvestable. You got 40, each one of those has 26 kernels on it and each one of those kernels, a thousand of those kernels weighs 32 grams. Those three things combined together, the product of those will give you 50 bushels to the acre. Make sense? Okay. We moved to 100 bushels. These aren't necessarily direct increases from one to the other. These are instances where I have observed this. So when we look at 100 bushel wheat, this is most commonly the way we're gonna get there in Virginia and in mid-Atlantic. So we're gonna go to 60 or more heads per square foot. We're gonna go to 30 or more grains per head and that seed size, that seed weight has to go up quite a lot. There are a couple of different scenarios here for 150 bushel wheat. Again, I'm gonna tell you that we don't do it on a regular basis. We occasionally have a yield contest entry that'll mail that, but that's rare for us. 120, 130 is pretty common. But we can do it this way. With 75, 30, 32 and 40, we can do it this way by bringing the number and the weight of the kernels down and increasing the number of heads. Now what I'd say is we have documented evidence that we can do this in terms of 36 grams per thousand seed. We can easily manage 75 heads per square foot and we can easily get to 31 grains per head. So why aren't we getting 150 bushel wheat? Because we don't usually get them all. You see how I put these three boxes in these three different places? We typically don't get them all at the same time. Don't get lost here, okay?  But I think we need to, we sort of talked about how the sum of the component parts needs to come together. And Dr. Heinegger alluded to this in corn. There are some physiological aspects in terms of crop improvement and management that we've gotta deal with when we think about these crops. Where our yield potential is equal to the amount of light that the plant can use or that it receives, how much it actually uses and then how much of it converts to grain, okay? And those of us that spend our time studying these crops as scientists and typically as, and also especially as plant breeders think about these sort of things a lot. But I think that what it means is, I think the take home message here is that when we start talking about all of these theoretical implications of impacts on yield, we've gotta keep in mind that all these things say that we assume that water and nutrients would not be limiting. Well that's not the world that most of us live in especially in terms of modern agricultural production, right? I mean we are dealing with questions of field specific parameters like soils. We're dealing with seed bed and whether or not there's tillage involved for tillage and liming, variety selection, all these things, right? And so that's where we're gonna spend the rest of our time with this talk is moving away from the theoretical into the practical and the work that we've done. I spend a lot of my time on variety testing, cultivar evaluation. Why do you think the state lets me do that? For one thing is I'm a tenured professor and they don't have a whole lot to say about it as long as I don't get too far out of line. But the other piece is that your counterparts in Virginia and in our region tell me that that's one of the most important things that I can be doing to help them be profitable wheat growers. As an example, I pulled some data from the North Carolina State official variety trials from a couple of years ago and I just did some real simple math on this but this is their statewide average. This is the highest yield they had. This is the average of the 75th percentile. This is the mean, the 25th percentile and so on. The consequences of being here versus here is 11 bushels to the acre. Now, I don't know about you guys and how much you pay attention to current ag media but I bet most of you have seen or heard of the guys that do the Ag PhD program, right? Well, one of the hefty brothers came to Virginia and I always, those of you that are on the faculty at Auburn can understand this, I always dread when we bring in experts from other parts of the country to Virginia because it usually takes me somewhere between three weeks and three months to undo all the damage they do by telling us stuff that doesn't really apply to Virginia and the East Coast. But I thought that one of the things he did was hit something right on top, a nail right on the head. They wrote a book called $100 an hour jobs on a farm. He highlighted in that talk, soil sampling. But guys, if you're not spending a significant amount of time on your own looking at these variety test results and interpreting them in the best manner for your farm and for your clients, for that matter, then you're missing out a lot on a lot of opportunities. There's a whole lot of variety specific, site specific management that can be done with just a little digging into these sorts of publications. All right, off that soap box and onto the next one. We get a lot of questions about seed treatments and most of you guys know that with the increase in commodity prices, we've seen a huge number of alternatives in seed treatment options, additives, different things. I'm not gonna get into it necessarily per se in terms of endorsing products, but I wanna give you my generalized summary on this and these are products that have been around for quite some time. But we did this, summarized about 30 field trials where we had all of these and that's one of the reasons why it's not as inclusive a list as you might find if you dug a little deeper. We typically saw two and a half to three bushel advantage to the use of just sort of the run-of-the-mill first cut seed treatments. Anybody surprised by that? Probably not, right? Well, and so what it boils down to is that it's almost always at least a break-even proposition. And then in some of these instances, we had nice six, seven, eight bushel yield responses where we had some early season plant disease, Pythium and some other things. We had reduced stance. I guess my message and what I typically give to most of the growers in our part of the world is most of these things, at least at the very basic level, are always a break-even, need to be a part of the management program. Even with saved seed, we're gonna see a nice benefit to some sort of seed treatment.  I know it's a different animal for you guys down here because we can wait for the Hessian fly to get up and leave. They figure out it's about to get cold and they go somewhere else. So we wait them out and avoid them in that way. But we're playing two sides of that fence there because we need to develop adequate fall growth. The later we go, the longer it takes us to accumulate the heat necessary to get that crop out of the ground. And so nine days in September is equivalent to 12 days in October is equivalent to 19 days in November to accumulate those same number of heat units. And so it makes a big difference in terms of our growth and development. And it makes a big difference because those tillers that are developed in the fall, they tend to have more kernels per head and larger number of heads than the tillers developed in the spring. Now, can you think why that might be? Well, they're already established and they're doing their thing at that point, right? And they already have a portion of the root system associated with that tiller and you are more mature. And so those are more likely to be competitive at the end of the year. Let me give you a good example. How many of you have seen the wheat compensate to a late season freeze? So you get some freeze damage and then you get a flush of green heads, right? And what are those look like compared to the ones that were there before? Bigger or smaller? Quite a bit smaller, right? It's about that time to assimilate those nutrients back into that plant. And the ones that we developed earlier just tend to be better. An example of what this might look like, some of these plants that are coming out of winter, little barley plants for us coming out of winter where we have more root system on them. Now, the other thing that was part of our yield building factors on top was getting a good stand and planting it to the right population, right? Okay, I show this graph or this picture, a picture to show you the difference between 30 seeds per square foot and 10 seeds per square foot. I'm gonna ask you which one has better yield potential. You guys are on board with that, right? Well, and this is another good example of how those of us who are scientists sometimes have to do the things that we know are inferior just to prove how inferior they are, okay? So sometimes when it seems like we're doing crazy things like leaving a zero nitrogen check or some other things that a farmer would never do, go with us on that. It's part of this treatment comparison scheme. And it helps us build a program that allows us to do something like this. At the end of the year, we know that in Virginia, we need 60 or 70 heads at least per square foot to reach our optimum yield levels, okay? And we know that because several, I somewhat willing graduate students, put little chicken bands around hundreds of thousands of wheat tillers over the years and measured the final yield from each of those tillers. And so the first ones that came out were tagged with yellow and then orange and then green and so forth and they stayed on there all year. So we understood the contribution of that. We also understood the contribution of the density. And so if we know that we need 60 or so at the end of the year, and we know that we get more than one tiller per plant, but that the majority of the yield comes from that first tiller, most of the rest of it comes from the first two tillers. We can back calculate and say that we need 22 to 25 vigorous seedlings per square foot when the drill leaves the field in order to achieve that 60 or 70 heads at the end of the season, okay? A little more complicated than it is for corn, but not much, okay? And then knowing that germination and emergence is not 100%, that means that we're gonna put in about recommendation of about 30 to 35 seeds per square foot. You guys would probably fault me if I didn't point this out. We don't have implements that seed in square feet, they seed in rows. And so the conversion to that is in seven and a half inch rows, it's 20 to 22 seedlings per foot of row in a timely manner. We bumped that up 10% if we're two weeks late and again, if we're four weeks late. How come we don't continue that until six or eight weeks? Doesn't matter. By the time we're a month late, adding a few more seeds is not gonna help us build any more yield potential in that field. We have tapped out, we've run out of the ability to use that warmth that we have left, that heat. Now, to talk to you about seeds per square foot because that relates nicely with our heads per square foot, but it's an important component of getting that right stand. An important component of getting that right stand is to think about the variation in seeds per pound among different varieties and over years. We have some, despite preaching this and the folks for 10 years in Virginia and the folks before me doing the same thing, we don't have 100% of the adoption of this in Virginia and I suspect you guys don't either. But I think it's important to calibrate the drill to deliver the right seeding rate. In order to do that, it's gotta be done on the number of seeds and not necessarily the weight, okay? Now, let me go back and say that the rule of thumb, somebody's rule of thumb that you should plant two bushels to the acre as sort of your standby and that's what it was at one point in time in Virginia is not far off as long as everything's average, okay? If you've got 13,000 seeds per pound and you plant 120 pounds to the acre, how many seeds per square foot do you think you'd get? About 30, okay? So those rule of thumb are not too far off, but look, we go from 11,000 to 16,000 seeds among varieties within a given year and we have 11,000 to 16,000 seeds difference in one variety over years. So some of them vary more than others but it's not at all difficult to see a 15% or 20% increase or decrease in seed size. What does that mean? That means that if you plant the same variety from one year to the next, you may be spending 20% more money for sweet seed than you actually needed. It may mean something much more detrimentally that you are under seeding by 20%, you're not establishing that yield potential that you need, okay? So I think this is an important component of this early season management. I mentioned the push and push back. Here's just some examples of that and the fact that you can get to 100 bush of wheat in a lot of different ways. Let me explain to you where this came from. We did a study a few years ago where we pulled what we thought were the most commonly grown wheat varieties for the last 50 years. So we went and got seed of the things that were popular 50 years ago all the way up until about 2008 or so when we initiated the study. We planted them all in the field together. We planted one block that we treated, basically tried to keep disease free and then we had one block where we just let it fend for themselves with the idea that we wanted to separate the effect of changes in disease resistance. These are the results that we got in the different ways that we achieved yield, a couple of things. One is, you know, you've got two varieties here that both produced 101 bushels to the acre. One did it with 66 heads per square foot, 33 seeds per head. The other one went to 86 and 25, okay? And you guys have all experienced this sort of variation. You walk through the field, you look at these variety plots and you see some that have big heads, but not a lot of them. You see some that have a lot of heads and they're not very big, right? The important part here though is that those are the two things that vary the most among these varieties. And so the things that we are focusing on in terms of genetic improvement would be most variation here as opposed to the harvest index or the seed weight, at least for these varieties that are at the upper yielding end of the scale. Some other components for us, and let me say that I'm not gonna get too deep into this, I'm just gonna give you the Virginia Tech program. We see a significant advantage to some nitrogen in the fall almost without fail. Every now and then we'll, most of our wheat, say 70% of our wheat is followed planting corn. 60% of it is strictly no-till. We almost always see a nice benefit to 20 to 40 pounds of nitrogen pre-plant. In fact, we see a nine pound year loss when we don't do that over about 17 or 18 studies. Now we do do some nitrate soil sampling from the top 12 inches, break them into two sets. If we can do that, especially when we have a failed corn crop or something like that scenario where we know we have a lot of residual carryover, but we're just not in a scenario where, we are in a scenario where this is pretty important to us. We don't put much more than this out there because we lose a lot of water through the soil profile and we don't grow much. I mean, that plant goes from being this big to being that big in four months, not taking up more than about 20 or 30 pounds of in. So there's no reason to put it out there and subject it to losses. We have gone through, I guess, a no-till revolution and I'll have to admit it that those of us on the university side were drugged through it by the producers who adopted it and then told us we better get with the program. So we've tried. We do see a little bit of a differential and a little lower yield on average with our no-till wheat. So this is the same site for 10 years. About a three-bushel advantage to conventional-till wheat. Our producers across the board would say that they more than make up for that by their time, labor, equipment, fuel savings. And the other side of that is there are a number of instances where our no-till yields are as good or better than our conventional-till yields and those for us are the years where we have dry springs. That soil residue cover and no-till system tends to be really beneficial for yields in those situations where we're sort of short on moisture in the springtime.  Our tillering is not as good typically with our no-till system, so we do one of two things. And this is an example of it. So here's our conventional number of tillers that we've got out there at growth stage 30 or jointing and our no-till system side by side. And we just don't get as much growth in the no-till system. Mostly, I think, because that sunlight radiation is reflected by all that residue that's on the surface, just like you hear about in the more northern corn areas, and just doesn't stay as warm at night. Same thing in terms of biomass. Now what we've come up with is a system where we're doing the one thing we know to make plants grow more at that time of year and let's give them a little more nitrogen. For us, it works out to be a deer season or Thanksgiving application. I'm sure for you guys, if you're doing something like it's gonna be later than that in the year, but the difference between our aim and our standard management at this point is only 20 pounds of nitrogen applied in late October, early November. So it's still tillering. I'm still moving on aggressively. And we can move our tiller numbers up significantly with just a little bit of nitrogen, 10 or 20% increase. So this is a place where we get into a situation where we can't plant early where tiller numbers don't look exactly as good as we'd like for them to be going into winter. And so we take a management intervention and make another application there. Now I'd say that we're not doing that in a vacuum. That number, if we put on 20 pounds there, that number's coming off what we intended to do in the springtime. Because we can't get too much nitrogen on the crop pretty easily. Something that we talk about, no statistics on this slide, but let me tell you that I stole this from the University of Kentucky. This is an average of 11 years looking at different fall weed management strategies in no-till. Obviously no weed management in wheat can be an issue, 10, 12 bushel yield losses. And they saw a nice advantage to using a burn down herbicide. And we always get this question, using a burn down herbicide, even if they don't see many weeds. Lots of things out there that you can't see at that point, there seems to be a benefit of doing it. The other thing I'd say is that, you know, my predecessor and mentor of Virginia Tech, Dr. Dan Brand always said that weed control in wheat was like football, is a fall sport. And it was best played in the fall. And this is an example of that. We've got a plot here. We were actually looking at annual bluegrass control in wheat with a product called Osprey. What you're seeing from here is the rest of the field's treated, untreated, treated, untreated strips. You're seeing some Maristail out here. Who knows how much efficacy that Osprey would have on Maristail. Very, very little, all right? What you're seeing is what the change we made to make this wheat much more competitive by taking out those early season weeds and eliminating these holes for these, you know, kind of opportunistic spring weeds to take hold. Our nitrogen plan is based on two spring applications. We got one shot at growth stage 25 based on tiller density. I said that we need, you know, that 60 or 70 heads at the end of the season. And so our management at this time dictates how much nitrogen we might put on in response to our tiller density of the number of potential heads we have out there at this time. So if we've got more than 100 tillers per square feet, we just back off and say, okay, everything looks good. There's really no need to push this anymore. That's rare. Most of the time we fall into this range and we're in a management decision of exactly how much. If our feedback tells us that we have a really weak stand, that means we've got to prioritize those fields and we've got to move on them right now. We're going to come back in about a month because we need to build that yield potential, but because 60% of our nitrogen occurs after growth stage 30, okay? I mean, look at what happens in terms of the plant growth. You know, this is the majority of the time of the season, but this is the majority of the growth. We use a tissue test based approach. So yeah, you've actually got to crawl around on the ground, cut some samples and send them to the lab. Now, most growers don't do that in every field every year. They do it in instances where they're managing some land they haven't managed before, or maybe you've got consultants do a lot of it to get a feel for what nitrogen rates are going to be sort of in the region for that year, okay? So you don't have to, I don't think you necessarily have to have a sample from every field every year and every instance to take advantage of this program. One, I guess our last couple of thoughts here. You know, the nutrient levels, as Tony was just indicating for corn, this is a dramatic multiplier. If we go from 100 bushel wheat, we're removing about 1.15 pounds of nitrogen per bushel. So we need something in the neighborhood of 120 to 150 pounds of end from soil and fertilizer, right? If we go to 150 bushel wheat, we're at that 175 to 200 pounds of nitrogen removal. And we have some real chores. We've tried to push some of this. We have some real chores trying to figure out exactly how to do this, because this won't work even for us. We can't put two shots of 90 pounds of nitrogen on wheat without getting something that looks like that. And nobody wants to do that. And so we're going to have to be inventive about how we feed this crop if we're going to push these yield levels. We're going to have to think about, maybe return to tram lines in some instances and some other products and some other things that are going to change that. We occasionally have micronutrient responses, especially in our sandy soils, especially when we do something like this where we drive pH up with, in this case, these all happen to be lime-stabilized biosolids. But we're facing some interesting implications again when you look at the uptake associated with how much more sulfur do you need? Well, maybe sulfur's never been a problem in wheat, but if this has been, 10, 12 pounds has been the ask of the system and maybe it's perfectly capable of doing it. 25 or 30 pounds is the ask of the soil system. Maybe we can't do that. I think I'm going to stop there in the interest of time, take a question or two and tell you guys that I'll be around for the rest of the day if you've got anything in specific you want to discuss. Yes, sir. I have a question. When y'all are in this part of the country, when do y'all usually plant some weeds for a wheat crop? And y'all done any studies of planting weeds behind soil veins or peanuts where you may not have to put as much nitrogen out in the fall? Yes, so our typical planting date would be the third week of October. That varies from the third week of September up until the 1st of December depending on where you stand, but that's normal. And yeah, we've done that. We don't have a lot of wheat behind peanuts. We do have a fair amount of wheat behind soybeans and we cut that back depending on the soybean yields to either no nitrogen in that situation or a minimum amount, probably what goes on with as a carrier for a burned down herbicide or something. All right, I've stumped you. Thanks for the opportunity to be here.


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He found himself slipping letting his mind relax and settle on Leora again and at three he discovered he was dictating nonsense to his secretary at that point He stopped suddenly and deliberately thought of Leora of her leaving tonight Walking out of his life forever An hour later. He was hurrying out of the passport office on his way to the steamship agency Yes, sir. I believe a mr. Mrs. Charles Moffitt a listed on tonight's sailing. Would you check it for me, please? Of course, sir Hmm midnight sailing baritain Yes, here we are mr. The Mrs. Charles Moffitt a deck cabin 12. Is there any space left on that ship? Well, as a matter of fact, sir, I have a cancellation right here. I'll take it the names Kent Buckley That's the way it is isn't it Kent You agree to be sensible to remember that she's married to respectable wealthy Charles Moffitt Surrounded by signs that say keep off the grass in big red letters But it's always been hard for you to be reasonable where the aura is concerned, hasn't it? Yes, Kent and it's certainly not reasonable for you to be taking the elevator to the 10th floor of the Park Lane Apartments that night at nine o'clock just three hours before sailing time and Walking down the corridor to Leora's door. I had to come Charles is back in the study You've got to give a hang where Charles is I just to soon have it out with him right now It could get you out of my mind, but we agreed to forget it. Did you? No, neither did I there's no sense to this Kent. We're leaving and that's why I came Leora. I'm going to What are you talking about? I got passage this afternoon.  Wait a minute Moffitt. Did you hear what I said Leora? Get away from her. I'll find yourself an answer for this one Wait a minute, but you're aware of the steamer trunks. It's big enough. Yeah, listen Leora You've got to get hold of yourself. This is going to take a nerve. Yes, Kent. All right now. Listen, I'm gonna leave now I'll meet you on the pier The trunks will be sent aboard You and I are going up the gangplank as Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moffitt They'll check until later the cabin check comes after we get to see maybe not till tomorrow morning Kent, it's gotta work You know what happens if it doesn't? All right, now listen Your husband's going to commit suicide tonight right after we sail He's going over the side If I'm right about that cabin check if it doesn't come off till tomorrow morning We'll find a way somehow. I'll see you on the dock with the prologue of tonight's story panic The signal oil company brings you another strange story by the whistler You hear people say there's a reason for everything Well, there's certainly a reason why in just 14 years the signal oil Organization has grown from a mere handful of stations in Southern, California to almost 2,000 dealers serving seven Western states from Canada to Mexico Briefly that reason is quality of product 14 years ago it was signal oil company that introduced the first guaranteed anti-knock gasoline at no extra price and Since then signal gasoline has been constantly improved to give you the benefit of every latest development in the automotive and petroleum industry In today's new signal gasoline for instance the atoms in gasoline molecules have actually been rearranged to create amazing new power Power that not only helps you enjoy quicker starting faster pickup and quieter anti-knock performance from your car But also helps you go farther than ever on each gallon of signal So you see there's good reason for the swing to signal good reason for you to get acquainted soon With the friendly station in your neighborhood Displaying signals familiar yellow and black circle side And now Back to the whistler rising terror that begins somewhere in your stomach and creeps upward towards your brain You feel it as you stand on the dock Waiting for Liora Watching the stevedores load baggage trying to recognize the tan brass bound trunk that holds the body of Charles Muffet You've got his overcoat on dark glasses his hat and muffler pulled close around your face So your features are hardly visible. You stand out of the crowd moving toward the gangplank waiting five minutes ten then Kent Get out of sight quickly. What's the matter hurry? There's no one in the freight office. Come on. What's the matter? She's here. I forgot all about her. Who's here? Alice murdered the friend of Charles. I just saw her that I remembered She's going to she's on the same ship. Good lord. Where is she now wait a minute? Let me look that woman in blue talking to the person Yeah, okay, let's share the stage. We're wait Just turning away Going back to the waiting room looking for us probably if we can get to the cabin We're in you can tell her I'm sick can't see anyone as soon as I can get away I'll leave the ship by the visitors gangplank and come back on board under my own name Understand Tickets, please here you are mr. Mrs. Charles Moffitt a big cabin 12, right? Yeah, you are come on. Thank goodness. Oh, Mr. Moffitt Yes, I'm awfully sorry, sir. I have a note here about Kevin 12 apparently the agent made an error It's been sold at two parties What do you mean? Well, would Kevin 60 be all right? It's on the same day and it's double Yeah, that'll be all right Thanks. Thank you, sir. I thought at the end of the day about the person. I don't know. It was dark He couldn't have seen my face Kevin 60 stuck again Gonna have to have a fix to keep telling myself kids have that key here about your trunks mrs. Moffitt They're on the way to the baggage room, but I can excuse me or I simply must see Charles wait a minute Charles is quite ill. He's ill gotta get below mrs. Moffitt if you'll just talk to you later Well, I'm sure Charles won't mind it. Please. I was pleased. I said Charles will he doesn't want to see anyone now You understand if he feels that way. Okay. I'll send the trunks to the front. Hello, lady I'm sure you'll feel better tomorrow. Well, of course. Good night, Lyora. I've got to sit down What about the baggage? I don't know I Couldn't hear what he was saying or something about the baggage. Well, I'll have to get it later I hope they don't make the cabin check tonight The overcoat. Oh, yeah, about three in the morning Check the deck carefully then run out and scream the Charles has jumped overboard and shoot the works collapse everything Scatter his personal stuff around the room.  And it's eating away at you as you leave the ship with the bone voyagers as you return and present your own ticket Then an hour later after the ship is pulled out you discover to your horror that they're making the cabin check Who is it can't open up quick in the cabin check right now be here at 20 minutes We got to do it now that man outside what what man he's hung around here ever since you left out there by the way He's back again. I'll have to get rid of him You know what to do. I think so. I'll wait till he's looking the other way. Nice night. Oh, you startled me. I didn't see it. Sorry Cigarette. No, thanks. I got a cigar here Buckley is my name Grayson I know you Buckley First trip no matter of fact it is. Well, I have a drink on at the bar down on the next deck. No, thanks. I don't drink. Oh Been over the ship. Yeah, nice job. But that why it's just about to take a walk around the deck How about joining me? Oh, you better stick around first is collecting the tickets. Maybe afterwards, huh? Yeah, all right Yeah, yeah What's wrong? That was the only way out wasn't it Kent Grayson and the person carry you down to the ship's hospital and the doctor examines your heart Then leaves you to rest on the couch You can almost see the person now Moving closer and closer to Leora and cabin 60. There's nothing you can do except wait And your mind takes up the rhythm of the clock He's at cabin 20 now 22 24 30 32 It's up on deck. The ship is turning around Searchlights are playing in long arcs across the water the passengers officers members of the crew stand at the railings Trying to see through the blackness and Leora's on deck outside the cabin following instructions Now mrs. Moffitt Isn't it Leora Leora doll? There was something wrong that's why he acted so strangely a while ago. Pardon me. What's your name, please? Ellis Merton I'm a friend of mr. Moffitt. You would say he was acting strangely. Yes. He was a yes Yes, that's it. He wasn't himself all afternoon. He said he was ill That's hardly a reason for suicide. I beg your pardon. Yes, mr. Moffitt had every reason for suicide My name's Grayson. I'm one of his creditors. I see I took passage on the ship because I suspected he was leaving the country to escape his financial obligations I didn't know I'm I'm sorry mrs. Moffitt. I better take you down to the dispensary mrs. Moffitt The doctor will give you a sedative Everything is going to be all right That's one important hurdle, isn't it Kent, but the rest is going to be more difficult There must be no way for anyone to connect you and Leora to link up your convenient heart attack with Charles Moffitt suicide You have to take advantage of every moment the two of you are alone together For example, as you were resting side by side on the beds in the ship's hospital The doctor goes out for a moment. Did I sound convincing wonderful? Grayson was a blessing in disguise can take our time now three more nights get into Southampton in the morning of the 16th If that trunk ever gets into customers don't even think about it. We've got to be careful. I'm worried about Grayson. I know Look, I'll be in the lounge tomorrow morning after breakfast reading a magazine. You can Mrs. Moffitt take two tablets tonight in a glass of water. Make you sleep. Thank you, doctor Mr. Buckley, I'm awfully puzzled about your heart. Oh, it's only happened once or twice seems perfectly normal Strange is here again the next morning as you sit in the ship's lounge reading a magazine Back-to-back with Leora and Alice Merton on the sofa behind you And dear I know it's hard after all I thought as much of Charles as you did But it's not going to help any to sit alone in your room and brood over it. I know it Alice I'm going to see the deck steward. Perhaps we can arrange a game of shuffleboard. I'll be right back Grayson's been talking to the doctor. Yeah, he's beginning to wonder to check the baggage clerk Send a trunk up any time I want it good Well, that's a we're ready Can't lift him alone. I know it The order here is all arranged the steward has it all ready for us, but Alice I don't know another word that nice Mrs. Broderick is going to join us and let's see we need one more What about this young man? I beg your pardon. Oh, how do you do? I'm Mrs. Merton. How do you do Kent Buckley? I'd like you to meet them. This is Moffitt. Mr. Buckley. Oh, how do you do? Hello, would you like to join us in a game of shuffleboard? Mr. Buckley? I'm sorry. Not quite up to it today. Perhaps tomorrow. All right tomorrow. It's a date Here comes another one. This is Martin getting warmed up. We'll do it during the captain's dinner. That's on the last night Why are we doing are you waiting for just a second? It's our best chance. Everyone will be there. Nobody on deck. All right Here's the last one. How I'd like it going. I don't see why to skip it for now Look leave your green person the dining room today at lunch. I'll pick it up My goodness you two seem to be old hands at this game. Oh, we've just had a run of luck Kent's never played. Oh, it's Kent is it? Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Buckley Oh Well, you're up Mrs. Merton Yes, yes it is. A gentleman found it in the dining room. Thank you very much Here you are. Oh, thank you Everyone will show a captain's dinner except the deck watches Get thrown to cabin by six Dinner starts six thirty Watch me and leave when I do Meet at cabin The waiting is the worst part of it, isn't it Kent sitting wondering what she's thinking Wondering if she'll be successful in getting the trunk to the state room A whole day of waiting then a night and another day Your 24 hours out of south hampton and the customs But you were right your best chances during the captain's dinner attended by all the passengers and officers No one to worry about except the deck watches and you've been careful to note the exact time The watch on the after deck goes down to the galley for coffee You're at the table in the dining cell on at six thirty seated next to your friend, mr. Grayson The man who represents the credit Saw you out playing shuffleboard yesterday buckley. Yeah Enjoy it. Yeah, great game Little strenuous You don't mean I mean for a man with a weak heart Oh You know if it hadn't been for that I might have been able to stop moffat before he went over the side Matter of fact, I'd intended to go into his cabin and talk things over with him That's how I happened to be standing out there on the deck Well, and then you had to go and pull a heart attack at exactly the right moment Always picked the worst time Almost peculiar the way it happened Uh, you got a cigarette. How about a cigar? Thanks? No, I better get some cigarettes. I'll be right back That's right kent make sure liora sees you leave then head for the cabin Once the body is gone grayson and the whole lot of them can be as suspicious as they choose The decks are deserted everything is right. Isn't it kent exactly right Is the trunk in the room? I had it all full time. He didn't want to send us out. Never mind that as a fan All right It can't be gone too long. Let's get going Don't touch the lights. Sorry. Thisler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story Meantime a question Have you forgotten anything lately just anything? Well, of course, we all forget occasionally But consider what might happen if even one part were forgotten when your car is lubricated Excessive wear a damaged part and your car laid up That's why your signal gasoline dealer never trusts a memory when he lubricates your car Instead he uses signals famous check chart on which the maker of your car shows every lubrication point And your signal dealer checks each point against this chart not just once But twice which is why it's called signal double check lubrication What's more your signal dealer uses nine specialized signal lubricants So each part will have the exact type of protection it needs for long trouble-free service This is just another example of the more thorough conscientious service you get at independently operated signal stations Another reason why your signal man is a mighty good man to know these days When you really want your car to go farther And now Back to the whistler Well kent the panic is back again, isn't it the blind black panic you felt when you looked down at child's Dead at your feet back in the apartment The trunk with child's body is gone Everything all the planning the careful meetings the dodging and lying was useless The trunk is gone You forget about caution now as you and leora hurry down to the baggage room on c-deck and call the clerk to the window Clerk clerk. Yes, sir. What happened to the trunk mrs. Moffatt had set up to a room this evening Oh, i'm awfully sorry, sir. Where is it? Well, it seems. Come on. Where is it? Perhaps the purser can explain excuse me. Where is it? It was in my cabinet six o'clock. It was an error on my part mrs. Moffatt I neglected to inform the clerk Inform him of what of the fact that due to mr. Moffatt's death We have to impound all his personal effects as a matter of form what i'm sorry mrs. Moffatt It's simply routine. What do you mean? We'll have to hold the trunk here till we arrive But it will be available to you after its contents are examined and itemized by the authorities So you see really there's no reason at all to become alarmed is there next monday at nine o'clock The quistler will bring you another strange tale The quistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil And fine quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer This program produced by george w allen with tonight's story by harold swanton music by wilbur hatch Is transmitted to our troops overseas by the arm forces radio service That whistle Is your signal for the signal oil program? The quistler This is marvin miller speaking Reminding you to look for those familiar yellow and black circle signs That identify those popular signal oil stations in seven western states From canada to mexico This is cbs the colombia broadcasting system


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