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...with feeding the world. Many a U.S. citizen has feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...
Science had proved that ticks carried the fever germs; the obvious remedy was to dip the cattle in great vats of arsenic and kill the ticks. In the South, John Mohler ran smack into cow-pasture prejudice...
...Iowa, farmers refused the tests. They argued: If a cow eats garlic, it shows up within half an hour in the cow's milk; surely the tuberculin injection would contaminate the milk. John Mohler pleaded the logic of science, finally won out. He ran 232,000,000 tests, slaughtered 3,800,000 tuberculous cows...
Life in Montana. In Broadus, Mont., local news went on, war or no war: three residents killed three rattlesnakes, a cow allowed a cat to fall asleep on her back, another cow gave birth to a three-legged calf...
...then he himself was summoned to a meeting of 100 angry Iowa milk producers. Orated Francis Johnson, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation : "The farmers are alarmed over this tendency to make Iowa State College a tax-supported Harvard. They're not ashamed of the 'cow college' label...