Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author of the proposal was the Dairy Advisory Committee, an agency of dairy cooperatives. The committee found that the number of milk cows on farms has been increasing for four years, is likely to continue to increase if left unchecked, eventually bringing low prices. Chairman of the committee is Harry Hartke, a soft-spoken Kentucky farmer who is president of French Bros. Dairy Products, Cincinnati. Big, good-natured Mr. Hartke did not seem the sort of man to propose a vast cow slaughter without reason. Lumberman as well as dairyman, he had never countenanced waste. And, indeed, upon closer examination...
This simple solution of potential milk troubles-with whatever consequences it might have for the meat business-took form in the following resolution: "Be it therefore resolved, that all low producing and unprofitable cows be culled from herds and sold for slaughter, that additional heifer calves be vealed, and that each farmer reduce the size of his herd by eliminating at least one cow out of each...
...elected I will inspect every cow, male & female, for ticks. Them that's got 'em will get rid of 'em, and them that ain't got none won't git none...
...Watertown, Wis., won the Holstein grand championship with his heifer, Ruby Homstead Ebenezer. Dolly WTild Rose Pietertje de Kil, owned by Martin Warren of Iowa City, won the junior yearling class ribbon. Princess Cascade Ormsby Bess, belonging to Vincent McLaury of Celwin, Iowa, was judged the best aged cow...
...Vagabond quite frankly knows little about the Lone Star state. They raise cattle out there he has heard. Some cows they sell to the stockyards in Chicago, and some they sell to the movies. The Vagabond knows little about, the cow business, but he understands that heifer calf is better than no calf at all. He will, therefore, not talk about cows...