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...summer of 1925 I offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...
...Bermuda, a ten-piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...
Most of his daytime dresses stopped at the calf, about where they had been two years ago. One black silk number called the Quartier Latin barely covered the model's knees. Dior, who boasts he does the biggest U.S. business in Paris, thought he knew what U.S. women wanted...
...were particularly interested in the line: "As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground." Up here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...
...noon on the range, Bob Kleberg and the vaqueros sit down in a range shack, where a freshly killed calf has been barbecued, or gather at the chuck wagon for smoke-tanged frijoles, slabs of pork, biting hot wild peppers, bread baked in dutch ovens over wood coals, coffee and molasses (eaten with the meat...