Word: cowman
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...natural world about her in fresh images, e.g., "The fir trees, seen from above, are as neat and composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain as she observes that "the cowman now feels closer to his electric milking-machine than to his cows, and for every laborer who can thatch a hayrick there are a dozen who can take a tractor to pieces...
...Cowman's Beef...
...Beef? Beef prices have never been supported, but as the biggest cattle shipments in a year poured into Kansas City last week, and beef prices began to drop, CCC officials shuddered at one cowman's threat: "If they are going to support wheat and hogs, then by God they had better do something for beef...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...registered Hereford breeders. President Mitchell was chiefly concerned about tariffs and quotas, for particularly painful to cattlemen are Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade pacts, which tend to lower the fences against foreign meat. Cried President Mitchell: "South America is the only fly in the cowman's ointment. Otherwise he is riding high and handsome. This Argentine business is Secretary Hull's idea to promote peace and world markets. He is a high-class gentleman but he is making a mistake...