Word: breeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minks with finest fur are in Labrador, Quebec and northeastern New England. A pair of breeding minks descended from their stock costs about $300. But breeders who try to start with one pair are apt to be disappointed. Female minks are choosy. Experienced breeders advise a minimum investment of about $650, which will buy three females, two males. Better plan, say some, is to begin with $1,000 worth of breeding stock, add $300 to $500 worth during the first three years. Each female mink should produce two to ten kits a year. By the fourth year it is claimed...
...Hirst of Philadelphia argued vehemently against the subject. "An undue limitation of fecundity has been one of the precursors to the extinction of a civilization or the subjugation of a people by a more virile and prolific race. We have already gone some distance on this road. . . . If a breeder of livestock defied the laws of eugenics as we do. he would be ruined." The A. M. A. as usual pigeonholed the subject...
Young Bullitt bitterly swallowed his pride until May when he impulsively resigned from the U. S. Peace Commission after President Wilson refused to give him an audience. An admirer of Lenin, he predicted that the Reds would oversweep all Europe. He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a breeder of war hates, flayed the Polish Corridor settlement, warned of an early end to Reparations. Said Bill Bullitt: "I am going to the Riviera, lie on the sand, kick my heels in the air and let the world go to hell...
Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
Married, Leonora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, British humorist (Leave It to Psmith, Very Good, Jeeves and 37 others); and Peter Cazalet, racehorse breeder; in Shipbourne, Kent, England...