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Mr. Burpee at once launched a feverish program of hybridization. Forty thousand cross-breedings were made in eleven months. To keep the new generations growing continuously under the best possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone...
*Before carnauba wax was first used commercially about 50 years ago beeswax was used for polishes. Today most beeswax goes into Catholic altar candles, which must be at least 51% beeswax to meet an old Church law based on the supposed virginity of bees. No such rule governs votive candles...
While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with...
"Yes," slashed back Senator Glass, "I think they might be. ... I am not facetious about it; I am serious about it. I do not want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass...
"Egregious Fiction," Idaho's William Edgar Borah, turned 70 last month, has spent his life cultivating not bees or apples but constitutional philosophy. He was primed & cocked last week when the Senate arrived at consideration of the AAAmendment which would deny processors the right to sue for recovery of...