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...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...
...Unaffected was last week's independent milk strike in Wisconsin where irate producers stopped dairy trucks, emptied milk cans into ditches, pommeled non-strikers. In Chicago milk prices jumped 1? per qt. Without a strike New York dairymen achieved the same results through the State Milk Control Board...
...idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from the Reno movement but parallel with it in purpose was last week's milk strike at Sioux City. Local dairymen were in despair about the $1 per cwt. they were being paid. That meant about 2? per qt. They too banded together to withhold milk from Sioux City distributors. Joining the other pickets along the roads, they held up milk trucks, dumped their contents into the ditches. Only hospitals could...