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...Moines, a small but red-eyed turkey gobbler was mated with a large chicken. Eggs were laid, hatched, and a barnyard hybrid stepped forth which the breeder, one Roy Beck, called a turken. "Its meat combines the delicacy of chicken with the flavor of turkey." "Turkens will bring 70c to 80c a pound next November," said Breeder Beck...
...which he predicts that "New York, Wall Street, Morgan and Dawes are driving the world, and especially England, straight into the arms of Red revolution. The U. S. can expand only at the expense of other exporting countries, especially England . . . The Communist International is almost conservative as a breeder of revolutions compared with Wall Street...
Still later he lunched with C.W. Barren, Publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Barron is a large breeder of Guernsey cattle, and Mrs. Coolidge asked him why it is that some cows' horns curl up and other cows' horns curl down...
...judges looked upon a certain Shorthorn bull and gasped. His name was Faithful. "Superb," said one. "Unmatched is Faithful." cried another. "Of all the bulls that ever bos has borne there was never a more shapely specimen to gladden human eyes," exclaimed a third. Shortly afterward Senor Bartolome Ginocchio, breeder of fine cattle, looked upon Faithful, and his cockles of heart rose up with pleasure, and straightway there was no thought in him but to have Faithful for his own. So he went to the owner and a bargain was struck. The price was $60,000-the highest price ever...
...Indeed, as a breeder of litigation, commas may be compared to the countless wigglers that in our youth we watched coming up to breathe in the family rainbarrel. To carry the simile one step further, it [the comma] should be abolished...