Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger figure. Declared he: "Who said $25,000,000 was enough? Some one down at the budget bureau who is only...
...months Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board has been begging U. S. farmers to feed the country's wheat surplus to their cows, hogs, sheep, horses, hens. Last week the Farm Board issued a pamphlet, "Practical Experiences in Feeding Wheat," to persuade farmers that Mr. Legge was right. This pamphlet received front-page publicity in scores of newspapers, urban as well as rural. But what put it over was not Chairman Legge's eloquence or the testimony of farmers with contented wheat-fed cows. The news-value was in a little item written for the first...
...Mapes Ellis, professor of physiology at the University of Missouri, would carry on a winter's research in mussel-raising for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. Fresh water mussels, source of pearl buttons, spend the first six weeks of their lives attached to fish upon which they feed. After that the buttons-to-be break away, support themselves. Dr. Ellis has found a nutrient medium to take the place of the fish, containing all the substances a growing mussel needs. Next spring fishery officials hope to plant in the Mississippi valley 60 million juvenile mussels raised...
Disposal. Nor did Chairman Legge seem worried as to what was to be done with all the Government's wheat. He laughed when asked once more about a big rumored sale to Italy, called it "unfortunately untrue." He stressed the Board's efforts to get farmers to feed wheat to their livestock, saying: "Why, one active energetic pig will eat as much wheat as a family of five persons. First give the pig a chance and there will be no surplus wheat in this country...
...offices fortnight ago in Manhattan. Unlike most other bird societies, its aim is propagation of birds rather than conservation. The members believe that U. S. game birds are being destroyed by "vermin" and starved, not shot to death. Land drainage, which has dried up the marshy places where ducks feed, is partly responsible for the fact that there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated a plan for farmers to raise wild fowl...