Word: cowed
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...Cross a cow with a buffalo and what do you get? Cowed and buffaloed, as frustrated cattlemen have found after many crossbreeding attempts over the past century. Instead of turning out as beefy as a black Angus and as large and hardy as a bison, the hybrid offspring were sickly and infertile. Now, a rancher in Stockton, Calif., has apparently hit on the right combination of bovines to produce a meaty, tasty, economical animal...
After 15 years of trying and more than 1,000 experimental mixed marriages, D.C. ("Bud") Basolo has produced a herd of 5,000 hardy cow-buffalo hybrids. The animals, says Buffalo Bud, are cheaper to feed and more resistant to disease than standard breeds of cattle. They fatten faster than regular steers (less than twelve months to reach market weight of 1,000 Ibs ) and reproduce readily. Basolo expects to send off a herd of 2,000 for their meat-counter debut this fall in Los Angeles...
...these days, but instead of trying to emulate Basolo's combination, cattlemen will probably find it easier to start with the hybrids themselves. Basolo is offering vials of his male animals' superior sperm to any interested rancher. Price: $7 for enough to impregnate one conventional cow...
Horse racing history is, in fact, full of brilliant and expensive matings that have gone wrong. Champion mares bred to champion stallions have dropped foals that resembled neither parent in any respect except having four legs; the offspring have been pigeontoed, rough-kneed, cow-hocked, swaybacked, puny, soft-boned and wind-broken...
...larger headlines in the Boston Chronicle of July 25, 1768 read: STRAYED. The copy beneath told of a lost "small red & white spotted cow"; the owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos...