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Alphe Broussard, a Lafayette cattleman and rice grower, years ago dedicated himself to buying Charolais. He wanted to cross them with Brahmas to produce Char-bray, a relatively new cattle breed that, according to preliminary tests, fattens with spectacular rapidity. At one time Broussard planned to buy an island off Alaska and keep the Charolais in quarantine there for a while. The Agriculture Department turned down the idea, but Broussard was not discouraged. He made an enticing offer to devout Henri Gilly, owner of the Mexican herd: if Gilly would sell him the cattle, Broussard would donate income from them...
...along the line there are big risks and small profits. For example, an 800-lb. grass-fed steer that costs the cattleman $160 to raise, and formerly sold at a nice profit, today usually sells for only $128. To get the cattleman's steer ready for market, and possibly make a $25 profit, a feeder must stuff it with corn for three to nine months. But to the packer who buys it weighing 1,100 Ibs. the steer represents only 660 Ibs. of salable meat. Once, such byproducts as the hide, tallow, blood, offal and stomach were very profitable...
Died. Dan McCarty, 41, Democratic governor of Florida since January, wealthy Ft. Pierce cattleman and citrus grower; following an attack of pneumonia; in Tallahassee, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres had his hands full with the aftermath of civil war, but he still found time to start turning his country into the moderately socialistic state he wanted. Figueres nationalized the banks, slapped a 10% tax on capital, raised wages by government decree. Complained one wealthy cattleman: "God made the world in six days, but look at what Figueres is trying to do in one night...
...Senator Is Born. Lyndon Johnson was born and bred to politics. His grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Indian fighter and cattleman, and his father, Sam Ealy Jr., a backslapping rancher and real-estate man, were both members of the Texas legislature. When Lyndon was born, in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees along the banks of the Pedernales River, grandfather Sam rushed out to tell the neighbors: "A United States Senator's been born today...