Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breeder Prentice bought his first bull two decades ago. A handsome, impeccably pedigreed creature, it cost Breeder Prentice $10,000 and turned out to be sterile. That was probably the first come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn...
...quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance was obvious from her output. The problem remained how to evaluate the bull's transmitting capacity. The Prentice group chose the method of systematically comparing the yield of bulls' daughters with the yield of their dams. In such wise Mr. Prentice's geneticist-in-chief arrived at Mount Hope's crowning achievement-the Mount Hope Bull Index...
...First bull index published in any trade paper, the Mount Hope formula appeared in 1928. It was in two forms. The Commercial Form, for dairymen unwilling or unable to deal with fractions, simply placed the milk ability of the progeny halfway between the inheritances of the parents. Thus if the dam's production was 8,000 lb. and the daughter's 10,000, the bull's index was 12,000. The index was of course computed on the basis of as many dam-daughter comparisons as possible...
...trustful discussion" invoked by France and Britain. With masterly omission, he ignored the Eastern Locarno and the Austrian pacts. With sure intuition, the Little Man grown big sensed that he might insert discord between Britain and France by accepting, only that part of their declaration upon which John Bull sets most store: the Air Pact against unprovoked aerial aggression. Accepting this "in principle," the Realmleader declared that his Government "is therefore willing to seek, in free accord with the powers concerned, ways and means by which such a convention can be realized...
When a Hamburg bull-fiddler and his 44-year-old wife produced a lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who lived to grow a beard which was worthy of his name. At the end of this I season that name will have added luster, for Arturo Toscanini is conducting the New York Philharmonic in no less than 18 all-Brahms concerts...