Word: barne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next pre-sunup chore was an esthetic delight; it dealt with 20 top-quality Angus steers soon to be translated into dollars and cents at the Tennessee Fat Cattle Show. Joe snapped on the lights in the main barn, climbed into the loft and scooped measured feed mixtures into the chute leading to the cattle shed below...
Swinging down from the loft, Joe took a shaker of sulfa powder to the barn's northeast stall and tenderly dusted the mangled ankle flesh of a calf. A few weeks before, the calf had been taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle...
While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...
Home Run in Heaven. He was the nation's favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high...
...multiple story garage on the Brattle Square lot and utilization of all other available space in the area would also brighten the picture, while a 1500-2000 car garage over the MTA car barn would be a major step toward a long-range solution, Morton said...