Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calico dresses, five dolls and 15 baby rattles, kissed 150 babies, kindled 25 fires, put up 14 cook stoves, cut 15 cords of stove wood, promised twelve pups-the old female had only six. Carried 75 buckets of water, picked 25 gallons of blackberries, hauled 100 bags of dairy feed, unloaded 20 tons of lime; shook hands 9,000 times, told 500 lies, talked enough to make 10,000 volumes; attended 27 revivals, was baptised seven times by immersion and twice by some other way, contributed to foreign missions, walked 500 miles, knocked on 2,000 doors...
...Milkman Wagner, who has dabbled in horses since 1945 and bought Hi-Lo's Forbes as a two-year-old (for $275) from a relative, is not yet ready to declare his independence of cows. "I've been working eight years to feed my horses, now one of them is feeding me," he grants. But he adds worriedly: "A horse can go lame just standing in a stable...
...Feed and Grain Dealer R. C. Young of Lubbock was even more specific. He complained that some of the richest men in Lubbock and Crosby counties were turning up at his warehouse to pay $35 a ton for emergency feed, which he estimated cost the Government at least $70 a ton. "Some of these fellows," said Young, "have more oil wells than most of us have dollars.'' Among them, said he, was Rancher J. S. Bridwell, who is reportedly worth $18 million, and who got a month's supply (21 tons) of cottonseed meal at the Government...
...first, the Department of Agriculture tried getting the ranchers to sign a statement that they could not afford to buy feed at the prevailing price (in the case of cottonseed meal, $66 a ton). But Texas cattlemen refused to put their names to any "pauper's oath." Two days later the ruling was "clarified" so that local relief committees were given broad license to decide who could pay and who could not. The allotments of feed were put on a per-cow basis, with little attention paid to ability to pay. Said Lubbock County Agent D. W. Sherrill...
...Them Eat Cake. In Bernalillo, N.Mex., blaming county officials for denying him funds and local grocers for refusing him credit, Sheriff Dick Montoya announced that he had no food to feed his prisoners, released all five inmates of the Sandoval County jail...