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Best Beef Breeds Sirs: In the Oct. 4 issue, story of sale at Oldfields Farm, you say the Aberdeen-Angus is now the U.S.'s best beef breed. Black Angus breed ers with about 40,000 registrations annually, who include some of the best promoters in captivity, are going to applaud you to the skies. But the Hereford boys with over 200,000 new registrations are going to tear the Time & Life Building to pieces. The Shorthorn breeders, 50,000 registrations, will start their own blitz to be joined by the Devon, Polled Hereford and Red Polled...
Senior Animal Husbandryman Black of the U.S. Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
Died. George Henry Bull, 58, beefy bon vivant, longtime president of the country's most famed racing enterprise, the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...wife of Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the [Alaska] Scouts (TIME, Aug. 9), and the picture, which you identify as him, is actually Sergeant Hiram Walker. This [mistake] has appeared in three magazines now. . . . Also, your picture of Larry ("Diamond Jim") Beloff, half-breed, is William ("Diamond Jim") Seaton. William Seaton is no more half-breed than you are and was sort of bothered about...
...students of Nobel Prize Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech, the Lindegrens had long crossbred fruit flies, which breed a new generation every three weeks. Yeast can produce a new generation in as little as 20 minutes. Yeast cells, usually having no sex, reproduce simply by splitting in two. Under certain conditions yeast develops sexual characteristics and, like other plants, reproduces by means of spores. The Lindegrens cultivated yeast with spores, opened the spore sacs and cross-fertilized them, in this way bred thousands of new varieties of yeast. Finally, they got some to the king's taste...