Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important and joyful impression of our trip," said Matskevich, "was our meetings with the average Americans. These meetings left an unblemished spot in our hearts." Matskevich was impressed, he said, by hybridization of corn, poultry and hogs, mechanization of small tasks on the farm, fattening of cattle on feed lots and home-economics teaching in land-grant colleges. He liked U.S. farm machinery so well that he hoped to place some orders right away; he had already sent one member of his delegation back down to Texas for some breeding stock of Santa Gertrudis cattle. "Sometimes there...
...Virginia and Kentucky still maintain hunts, riding even in the East and South is no longer primarily a pink-coated, exclusive affair; it has acquired much of the West's dungaree-clad casualness. The better-heeled riders maintain their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from Connecticut to California...
...early August. For the second time Mrs. Kane began to take tucks in his uniform, and Peter noticed a big difference in his life: "Before, I used to sit around and give orders. I'd tell the kids, move a chair here, and mow the lawn, and feed the chickens. Now I get up and do it myself...
...salesmanship. As general sales manager of the Commodity Stabilization Service, he appointed Frank C. Daniels, 59, of Binghamton. N.Y., who has spent most of his life selling farm products. Before he came to the C.S.S. as a consultant last year, he was secretary and general manager of Cooperative Feed Dealers, Inc., of Binghamton, a commercial agricultural supply distribution organization. Salesman Daniels is expected to recruit a staff of commodity sales specialists from private industry, and to begin a worldwide huckstering program...
Each year the chapter buys from 250 to 400 steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...