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Like lumbermen, cattlemen and dairymen joined in the grumble and the National Grange in session at Sacramento voted a unanimous protest regardless of the fact that the reduced duty will apply only to relatively small quotas of cattle and cream imports. In Denver, Fernand E. Mollin, secretary of the American Livestock Association, declared that it did not matter how limited the tariff reduction was. Groaned he: "The damage is done! The precedent is established!" Senator McNary of Oregon Announced that he was leaving for Washington to lodge a protest with the President...
...simultaneous release in Ottawa) the howls of aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime to spoil their "scientific" tariff. Cattlemen, Maine men (potatoes), maple syrup men joined in the chorus...
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...
First bull index published in any trade paper, the Mount Hope formula appeared in 1928. It was in two forms. The Commercial Form, for dairymen unwilling or unable to deal with fractions, simply placed the milk ability of the progeny halfway between the inheritances of the parents. Thus if the dam's production was 8,000 lb. and the daughter's 10,000, the bull's index was 12,000. The index was of course computed on the basis of as many dam-daughter comparisons as possible...
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...