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...Romance of Rosy Ridge (MGM) presents Van Johnson as a plumpish Barefoot Boy who wanders into Missouri's Ozarks and settles down with some folks named MacBean to help with the harvesting. Besides being useful around the house and barnyard, Van is quite a man with the mouth organ, the banjo, his larynx, and the ladies...
Thirty Horses, Ten Cats. Willie's 30-horse stable at Bay Meadows has a barnyard look about it. He owns two goats, two ducks, one dog, one rooster and ten cats. He says it settles his horses to look out of the door and "see something moving around...
...Japanese silkworms, once bitter enemies, were being urged to kiss and make up. Two Chinese strains had produced a promising cocoon called "Airplane No. 1" (developed for wartime parachutes but never used). But, like most silkworms, he was finicky. Out of the laboratory, he evinced a strong distaste for barnyard smells, changes in room temperature. U.S. Military Government silk experts were keeping a paternal eye on a new cloth developed by a farmer in Nagano prefecture, but the Nagano worm seemed unwilling to recognize the vital international issues at stake. With 30% to 60% of a job done, he would...
...clue to Goodpasture's revolutionary discovery came from research on a common barnyard disease, fowlpox, which farmers know as "sore head." With an associate, Dr. Alice Miles Woodruff, he hit on the idea of cultivating fowlpox virus in a fertile egg. It was cheaper than the rats, guinea pigs and monkeys which scientists had used previously; it was a sterile medium enclosed in a naturally sterile container. After purchasing an incubator from a mail-order house and a few dozen fertile eggs from a Nashville hatchery, Dr. Goodpasture set to work...
...uninspected barnyard slaughterhouses, the seller might suggest to the buyer: "Bet you $100 you can't hit the barn door with your hat at 100 yards...