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Reason for all this was simple. Packers, who must sell at a ceiling price, refused to pay the high prices asked for cattle on the hoof. Cattlemen, blessed with the best pasture land in years because of the drenching spring rains, were content to let stock graze and fatten. Only hopeful note: when the hot drought days scorch the pasture lands, cattlemen will stampede to the markets, easing shortages in thousands of city butcher shops...
...Cattlemen, ready to sell their cattle at the East St. Louis stockyards for lack of feed, turned out the cattle to graze on the lush green grass which had come up in the wake of spring floods...
While the committee deliberated, OPA decreed emergency rationing of meat in Los Angeles (as in San Francisco and Rhode Island) to alleviate suffering, started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...
...Demchok, on the border of Kashmir, the caravan met a band of soldiers, wearily prepared to fight yet another battle. Then, at a parley, they learned they were facing British border troops from Kashmir. All the Kazaks wanted, they told the Kashmir officials, was a place to graze, land where they could live. To reach their final camp the Kazaks had a last ordeal-to lead their camels and herd their sheep over the 11,300-foot Zoji-la Pass. When the great caravan pitched its tattered tents at Muzaffarabad, only 3,500 Kazaks were left...
...Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering. Winter wheat is beginning to sprout. Ruined rye crops are brown with rot. . . . Cavalry and artillery horses graze quietly. Crows and magpies peck at the blood-soaked earth...