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...Lewis's "Arrowsmith", needs to further declamation. Likewise, the restricted field of Dr. Rothney's experiment in no way justifies his broad conclusion. In his haste to augment educational knowledge, he has forgotten the classic warning to those who would prove their point by logical argment, that "because a cow is an animal, it does not follow that all animals are cows...
There are two ways of measuring a cow's production: by actual amount of milk given or by the milk's butterfat content. World records for total milk production and total butterfat production have always been held by different cows. Last week a purebred Holstein on Carnation Co.'s experimental dairy farm near Seattle finished a year's test which set new world records in both classifications. The cow: Carnation Ormsby Butter King, known to her attendant as Daisy. In 365 days Daisy produced 38,606.6 Ib. of milk and 1,420 Ib. of butterfat. That...
...half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small slice of industrial war was sufficiently effective to cow 17,000 Pekinese for a day & a night...
Gaunt Mrs. Charlie Jones, who bought a house and cow with $1,600 she received as compensation for the deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed for the cow...
...truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said...