Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Kelly that has seen the rump of his mount. Majideh was taken to the Homestall Stud Farm in Sussex, England in 1953 to be covered by Migoli, and returned to Homestall in 1954 to drop her foal. Since a horse is considered to be bred in the country where it was foaled, Gallant Man is English...
...scene in La Paz, have disappeared. Instead of lining up for supplies of subsidized food and then rushing to sell them on the black market for a tenfold profit, Bolivians shop from plentiful stocks. The free price of bread and meat is about one-third the old black rate. Farm production will be up 59% by the end of the year. The boliviano has come down from its crazy peak of 13,000 to the dollar, and has been averaging...
...lost, a large group of local landowners were summoned to the city hall in Red-controlled Stienta and, with an angry mob howling outside, they capitulated to the Communist terms. By last week most of the farmers in the district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their...
...board chairman of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton dealers, dug into Government figures, came up with the staggering total of $1,156,000,000 as the cost this year. In a speech to the American Cotton Congress in Dallas, Fleming, a crusader for sound farm policies (TIME, April 8), pointed out that this is more than $1,000 for each of the 850,000 farms on which cotton is grown...
...years Carnation Milk advertised that its product came from contented cows. Last week Chas, Pfizer & Co. disclosed that it has found a way to make all farm animals contented by adding tranquilizers to their feed. Results: steers fed tranquilizers gained weight 12% faster than steers left to worry about life; lambs gained weight up to 28% faster. Pfizer is not yet ready to say that tranquilizers should be generally used by cattle raisers. But tests so far show improved quality with no bad effects...