Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...
Dairyman Poth's original story of his cow Alta Clover's bearing six calves at once was a good one and he is still sticking to it, but he has no witnesses to the multiple birth...
...Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1925-29) Governor of West Virginia and a cattleman himself, declared that the largest birth he ever heard of was quadruplets. Benjamin F. Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither would the Department of Agriculture. Nobody there had ever heard of sextuple calves. Consensus was that Dairyman Poth...
...Rhinebeck, N. Y., a few miles up the Albany Post Road from Hyde Park. One visit to the Fair, for any Dutchess County squire, amounts almost to an obligation. Last week, the President made two. First afternoon, his car drew up under a canopy where the prize-winning cow and calf were brought over to be patted and he held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded a trophy, which he and Mrs. Roosevelt give...