Word: beese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At last, announced the persistent U.S. Department of Agriculture last week, there is a quick, sure method of hybridizing bees.
Chief trouble with bees as breeding material is their system of mating. Mating never takes place within the hive. Indoors, drones (males) and virgin queens ignore one another completely.
No Interest. This mating system favors cross-fertilization between colonies, but is hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just...
Buzz Off. In Atlanta, a swarm of bees, settled in a packing crate at an ordnance depot, were quickly sold (for $2.05) as surplus property.
The Bees & Flowers. Sex arouses the most curiosity about Summerhill. It is discussed freely and unemotionally. There is no specific sex instruction, but a child is given simple, straightforward answers to anything he asks about. Headmaster Neill is convinced that guilt connected with masturbation is at the root of most...