Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Useful to farmers as a cheap feed for livestock are shorts, a mixture of bran and other coarse material left when flour is milled from wheat. When corn is dear, many a Southerner ferments shorts with sugar to make "corn liquor." Last week Senator Arthur Capper complained that one of his constituents in Kansas went to a local AAA office, asked for shorts for his hogs. Instead of giving help and sympathy, the young college woman whom AAA had put in charge replied to him: "Oh yeah? What about some step-ins for your cows while...
Different horse trainers have different methods of breaking a colt. A good way, if the animal seems tractable, is to gentle it with words, feed it sugar to gain its confidence, saddle it deftly before it grows excited, then mount and show it who is master. Last week Franklin Roosevelt, who is the U. S.'s most expert political horseman, set out to break a new Congress...
...birth to a girl in the large house near Los Angeles which Cinemactor Noah Beery used to own. Four hours later Mrs. Estes answered her telephone. Next day she was up & around the house. The second day she took her new baby motoring. Four days later she began to feed the infant the juice of raw vegetables. Last week, dressed in trousers and zipper shirt, she sat down on an iron lawn chair and posed for a picture with her 72-year-old husband and the ten children she has borne during 15 years of marriage...
...Otis Moore, overseer of the President's nearby 1,700-acre farm. On his hilly, meagre land the President turned loose 35 head of scrub cattle and two thoroughbred bulls five years ago. The breed improved, and last spring his herd of 100 dropped 50 calves. Since his feed crop could only winter 100 head, it was decided to market 50. Last week Overseer Moore reported that the best price to be had was 2½ cents a lb. As he and Mr. Roosevelt agreed that this was "terrible," they postponed their plans to sell...
Well primed with pumpkin pie and Pilgrim punch at a party given by sardonic John C. Wiley, charge d'affaires of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow last week, the New York Times correspondent cabled: "Russians raise pumpkins only as feed for pigs and consider it shameful for human beings to eat them...