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Various Breeds. Looking for heavier, meatier animals, the rancher turned to the foreign breeds that were trickling into the country as early as 1783: first the Shorthorn (Durham), then the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus from Britain, and from India the hardy Brahman. But no breed possessed all virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal...
...beef in the least time, cattlemen intermix genetic strains, carefully card-indexing the good and bad points of the progeny, unceasingly experiment with new vaccines and antibiotics. The competition for prize bulls has become fantastic; one Texas breeder paid $100,000 for a one-third interest in an Aberdeen-Angus bull, figured the money well spent since the bull's first two offspring sold for $6,850 and $8,250. Artificial insemination is bringing down the price and increasing the range of a prize bull's capacities. Instead of servicing only two cows a week, a bull...
...dairy farming. During the Depression, Phil took a year away from the University of Florida to drive milk trucks for his father. Later the elder Graham helped introduce beef cattle to Florida. Today, at 71, he runs a 7,000-acre empire with 2,500 head of dairy and Angus cattle, smack at the edge of the booming Miami environs, where 162 acres that he gave Phil are now being negotiated for sale at $3,000 an acre, which works...
...Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced by his Vandyke beard, produced a distinctly undiplomatic effect, and veteran Foreign Service...
Familiar Problems. Few if any other U.S. diplomats had ever faced an ordeal like Angus Ward's. He had spent nearly a month on a bread-and-hot-water diet, two weeks of it in semi-freezing solitary confinement, and throughout had stubbornly refused to give the Reds a "confession." Ironically enough, this very nearly ruined his career. Irritated by the controversial publicity he had received, Foreign Service brass was inclined to regard Ward as a nuisance, and in September 1950 he was named consul general in Nairobi, a job that made little use of his peculiar qualifications...