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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defending the negative viewpoint against a visiting Princeton team will be David Funk, NROTC, Elton C. McNeil '49, and Monroe S. Singer '47; this contest will begin at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
Mueller said yesterday that specific plans for the research are still being formulated, but that work will begin as soon as administrative details can be adjusted. Although the long term purpose of the experiments will be to learn more about all filterable viruses, the poliomyelitis virus will receive particular attention at some point in the investigation...
Further hampered by the loss of stroke Torby Ross, who was laid low by German Measles, the Varsity will at least be competing under favorable weather conditions, promised as fair and cool with gentle, variable winds. The afternoon's competition will begin at 4:45 o'clock when Bert Haines' first and second shells of 150 pounders face M.I.T. and Tabor Academy on a 1 5-16 mile course. At 5:10 o'clock the Crimson, Cornell, M.I.T., and Princeton Jayvees will christen the 1 3/4 mile course...
Every winter the Kuesters carry over as breeders about 40 of .the likeliest looking gilts (young females) and sows. Some are at Dale's, more than half at Gus's. In early April, at evening feeding, the Kuesters begin to sidle up to these elite pigs and delicately strip their swelling teats. If a drop of milk shows, the sow will probably farrow during the night. So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows...
Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...