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...Iowa who churn butter from the state's 5,000,000-odd cows, the word oleomargarine induces not the scientific but the fighting temper. Last week, Iowa State College, which Hawkeyes proudly call a cow college, faced the consequences of having shared the butter-makers' feelings. The college was charged with having sidetracked a Rockefeller Foundation-supported study which said a good word for margarine. The American Association of University Professors threatened to investigate...
When buttermakers in the Iowa Farm Bureau bellowed that such a disinterested oleopus as Brownlee's might befit scholarly Harvard but was disloyal in a cow college, Iowa State President Charles Edwin Friley junked the Brownlee pamphlet. When he spoke of drafting a revised text, the packer-minded Chicago Journal of Commerce said he was trying to "bamboozle" the public...
...Pentagon Building kibitzers. One cartoon showed a two-star general, breakfasting in bed. Another, in which an emaciated corporal pointed at a well-fed Army cook, had the caption: "He still insists he doesn't use saltpeter." The editorial gently poked a particularly sensitive sacred cow, the American Legion (". . . Men . . . joined the Legion to apply pressure to get things done politically...
Rifles and Quicklime. John Mohler's most dramatic battles were fought against foot-& -mouth disease. When a tuberculous cow is dead, the chief danger of spreading TB is past. Not so with foot-& -mouth disease, which is caused by a nonfilterable virus carried from place to place by cattle or humans, by flying crows, by a piece of barnyard straw wafted in the wind...
...case, he first made them bathe their feet in disinfectant. His doctor's tools were trench-digging machines and rifles, crowbars and pickaxes, vats of formaldehyde and carloads of quicklime. His white-suited crews moved across the country, singling out the infected herds. Wherever there was a cow with ropy spittle, dollar-size blisters in its mouth and rotting hoofs, the whole herd was liquidated. Trench diggers dug the graves, the cattle were herded in, the rifles crackled. When the cows were dead their hides were slashed, the bodies covered with lime, the graves covered up. Not a trace...