Word: dairyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollander Pieter Poth, 53, has been a dairyman all his life. He owns a 300-acre dairy farm two-and-a-half miles out of Clarksburg, W. Va. Dairyman Poth's farm is the largest around Clarksburg, completely equipped, immaculately clean throughout. His 105 cows supply a large part of the milk for Clarksburg's 30,000 people. Last week it was no novelty to Dairyman Poth to see that one of his Holsteins, named Alta Clover, was about to calve. Patting her sleek sides, he guessed that she might even have twins. He penned...
Next morning when Dairyman Poth went into his barn, he found that during the night Alta Clover, without assistance, had given birth to sextuplets: five heifers and one bull-four spotted black and white and two nearly all white, all six fully developed, healthy. Stunned, Dairyman Poth put them with a Guernsey and another Holstein to help the mother nurse her herd...
When news of the extraordinary birth reached Clarksburg, busy Dairyman Poth had to stop work to show the sextuplets to scores of visitors. Said he, "I was so completely surprised I could hardly believe my eyes. I didn't think it was possible. I want to raise the heifer calves, but I don't know whether I will raise the bull." He said he valued the mother at $300, the calves at $15 each. However, the whole little herd may be valueless. In multiple mixed births, the calves are usually free-martins (hermaphrodites), useless for milking or breeding...
...paper the dairyman read that the Department of Commerce had just announced the discovery by a German of a new method of keeping milk for a long time without refrigeration. By sealing the containers with oxygen, a shipment of fresh milk from Rotterdam to Capetown and back was found after 60 days' travel to be "unchanged in taste, nourishing qualities or chemical consistency." Plain was the possibility of future importations of fresh milk from Europe or South America by this method...
...legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed it bad enough to risk the physical and financial hazards of a milk strike...