Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understood one fact last week: there was hardly any grits to be bought anywhere in the South. With U.S. corn stocks depleted, and price ceilings making it more profitable for farmers to feed their corn to hogs than sell it to gristmills, the gastronomic customs of the South were shaken to their foundations...
...first victim. Down in the browned pasture, 40-odd cattle stood at the fence eying a distant field of ragweed, which looks green but makes no milk. This summer John Stiles, like many another drought-pinched U.S. farmer, is using up his next winter's cattle feed...
...danger. Cattle were being fed on silage. Said the Dallas News: "Unless the drought and heat are broken within a week, the crop and livestock situation could become serious. . . ." The onetime dust bowl got a good rain. But June-filled water holes in trie Panhandle were drying up; feed and water for livestock were scarce...
...years, frankly reported a "bad drought." Cotton opened prematurely. Corn was about 57% of normal. Peanuts were expected to be a total loss. Wheat was less than half of last year's production (29 million bu. v. 61 million bu.). Pastures and stock ponds dried up, made the feed shortage so acute that many cattlemen were sending their livestock to market ahead of schedule...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...