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Grade A. In Little Valley, N.Y., A. L. Milks felt right at home as a director of the Dairymen's League...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...
Food for Man & Beast. Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins. With no cars to load, the grain mills at Buffalo were more than 80,000 tons behind in their shipments. Six of the largest grain and flour mills closed down...
...scale in cattle-raising since the late Tsars. But there has been little precise data on the results. Six years ago Dr. Bartlett and his group launched the first carefully controlled test of the economic advantages of artificial cow-breeding. It now includes 1,800 dairymen and 14,000 cows...
...Bartlett and his colleagues, these results forecast a germinal revolution in U.S. dairy farming. Most dairymen have fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...