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...point. The-fight began last October when National Nut News published a letter from big Southland Pecan Co. of Columbus. Ga., attacking National Pecan Marketing Association, a Farm Board-sponsored cooperative, for being a Governmental agency in competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly...
Before the War, William A. Wilson was a chemist. After the War he was an invalid, unfit for strenuous work. In Springfield, Mo. he tried raising pigeons and guinea pigs, failed to make a living. Then he met H. B. Sutter, a fruit grower, who suggested raising white mice for scientific experiments. Two years ago they bought 20 mice, paired them. Every three to six weeks a white mouse produces a litter of eight to twelve white mouselets, who within three months are themselves producing litters of eight to twelve white mouselets. Last week the Wilson-Sutter mousery consisted...
...Other Income." Mushrooms grow in dark, cool places. Boston Elevated Rail way Co. last week asked for permission from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to rent a portion of on. of its subway stations to a mushroom grower. No opposition developed...
...Englishwoman, Mrs. M. Grieve, has made herself her country's great grower of herbs and other simples. Another woman, Mrs. Carl Frederick Leyel, has made herself Britain's greatest advocate of herbal medicine. Last week the two published the U. S. edition of their two-volume Modern Herbal* It is compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer...
...McKelvie, who racked his brains over these questions last week, is the latest man drafted by President Hoover to complete his Federal Farm Board (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). No wheat-grower, Mr. McKelvie publishes the Nebraska Farmer. Grumblers call him a "political farmer." Aged 50, staunchly conservative, Publisher McKelvie opposes the equalization fee, opposes debenture, urges the farmer to help himself...