Word: dairymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critic. What U. S. dairymen need are not fancy animals but any sort of cow that gives high quantities of good milk. The two, says Critic Prentice, are not necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...
...Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising in dairy-farming New York State. "This championship proves," said Prizewinner Thorne, "what I have been telling Eastern Farmers all along . . . that they can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well as in dairy herds" (TIME...
...first and second cities of the land were last week having trouble about milk -New York because upState producers were on strike, Chicago because independent dairymen were bitterly opposing the Federal Government's price-fixing program...
...troughs and ditches, set up pickets to prevent non-strikers from making deliveries. Boonville, 27 mi. north of Utica, became the focal point of disorder which finally required the armed services of most of the State Police. Some 400 farmers with axes and clubs blocked the passage of two Dairymen's League trucks escorted by a score of police cars. The officers hurled tear-gas bombs, clubbed the farmers. Just outside Boonville three trucks carrying 285 cans of milk were stopped by strikers and the milk poured onto the ground. At Van Hornesville, 50 mi. from Boonville, the pickets...