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...most cattlemen, feeding was only one of many trying problems. On the plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...
...then red, then grey. Dust swirled up from the drought-ridden plains, rolled over the town in a black, gritty cloud. That winter and spring there were 90 such daylight blackouts. Dust stood an inch and a half deep on the window sills. Grasshoppers and locusts moved in as cattlemen and farmers moved...
WYOMING. The edge last week lay with Democratic Governor Lester Hunt. A friendly, fast-traveling campaigner, he was winning friends among the coal miners and oil workers by plumping for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, winning friends among the sheepmen and cattlemen by promising more reclamation projects. It was the toughest kind of competition for dignified, stiff-necked Senator Edward Robertson, who had never starred at the backslapping, baby-kissing game...
Some 15 years ago, when young Pastor Marcus Bach first went to his Evangelical pulpit in the town he calls Fairfield, Kans., most of Fairfield's farmers and cattlemen were members of the Evangelical and Baptist churches. The same kinds of cars nuzzled the two churches on Sunday mornings and the same kinds of Godfearing Kansans sang and prayed inside. Why shouldn't the two become one flock? To Pastor Bach and the young Baptist preacher across the way, the 200-odd-sect division of Protestantism in the U.S. was "inherently wrong and sinful...
...first time in five years, went the once-familiar call to reduce planting. If the department has its way, farmers will plant 71.5 million acres next crop year, 8% less than this year. To build up cattle herds depleted by the heavy slaughter last year, the department also asked cattlemen to reduce slaughterings 7% next year...