Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bee-loud news buzzed from Moscow last week. Soviet scientists reported that they had found a way to make bees produce honey heavy with vitamins or with such medicines as quinine, sulfidin. The whole thing is managed by diet.
Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were...
Beekeeping is a low-cost cinch, for a hive of bees requires only eight hours of care annually, as compared with an hour and a half daily for the family cow. And two or three mature doe rabbits will keep rabbit meat flowing to the table with almost beltline regularity...
Unlike many a war-baby boss, Austin does not worry over absenteeism. His workers wander off at any time to do chores, tend their bees, chickens and strawberry plants. Nor does he worry over profits. Said he: "We aren't exactly doing this to make money. What would we...
This was the sort of talk the Hollywood pashas had heard for years from' fourth-raters and sour-grape sideliners. If a proved professional talked like that it was just a come-on. The proper reaction was either to snort your opinion and move off or to up your...