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...bottomlands in bayou country, in cultivated groves across the southern U. S. last week began the harvest of what promises to be the shortest pecan* crop in more than a decade. Government estimates for the new crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were...
...when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before...
...optimistic, mild-mannered gentleman with red-gold hair and a lofty brow, Judge Hoyt divides his time between a Hudson River estate and a Georgia pecan plantation, likes books, privacy and decorum. Last week when a tactless newshawk reminded him of his prize-winning predictions for Publisher Hearst, the new Alcohol Administrator declared with some feeling: "Whatever I wrote about the liquor problem in 1929 is water under the bridge, and I don't want to talk about...
...generations in Texas, lived modestly, saved out of their income even when it was only $5,000 a year. She worked, and still, from habit, works as his secretary at the Capitol. They "put by," and their fortune grew. Now they have their 350 acres in Uvalde, including a pecan plantation. In their safe deposit box are said to be mortgages on every church in Uvalde, and stock in many a local bank...
...from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...