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Meanwhile the Brethren are sending their cattle where they can. The committee chose Puerto Rico for the first shipment because there is a serious milk shortage on the island (40% of Puerto Ricans get no milk). The heifers, donated by farmer Brethren, are worth $200 to $300 apiece. The only cost to the Puerto Rican farmers who get them will be freight charges, totaling about...
Under an Almond Tree. The man behind the heifer project is 50-year-old, grey-haired Dan West, who owns a farm near Goshen, Ind., but who spends most of his time traveling around the country for the heifer program. Son of a Brethren preacher, he thought up the heifer plan under an almond tree in Murcia, Spain, where he was engaged in relief work during the Spanish Civil War. Spain's undernourished children, with less milk than a Hottentot, inspired him with the thought of importing U.S. cows to Spain...
When World War II began, West laid his idea before the Brethren and eventually the Church adopted the plan. Soon many Brethren had agreed to donate and raise a heifer for Europe. Now in the Brethren's barns (from Goshen to Westminster, Md.) are 1,000 cattle all earmarked for export to liberated countries...
...Committee has ruled that all heifers must be bred before shipping. Thus there may be two heifers or a heifer and a bull by the time the original heifer gets abroad. West says that, after the war, the Brethren will send heifers anywhere they can-to Japan and Germany, if possible. To West the project is not so much a matter of increasing depleted European dairy herds as it is a means of saving lives and helping the Brethren to practice what they preach...
...these sects was the Brethren, founded (1708) by Alexander Mack in Germany. Under Peter Becker, the Brethren migrated in mass to America in 1719. Most of them farm in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Maryland. Few sects are more respected...