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...meat for family meals, heats herd house with wood, and uses cowboys on horseback to trail his herd down a the summer ranges. But now he rides in a Ford pickup, with a CB radio crackling away. He relies on machines - swathers, balers and stackers - to get the hay in. He is constantly on the phone to his accountant in Helena, and spends hours hunched over the kitchen table with his pocket calculator. "Ranching is a lot, lot more than raising cattle nowadays," says Hanson. "It involves accounting, mechanics, sophisticated farming . . . and luck...
...devastated villages into muddy swamps. "What the people in Rome and Naples seem to have forgotten is that we are all farmers here," explained Felice Imbriani, mayor of Conza della Campania, some 60 miles east of Naples. "What we need are trailers for ourselves and somewhere to store the hay and animals from our destroyed barns. We are determined to stay through the winter...
...some hearing loss (attributed by his doctor, John Reynolds of Los Angeles, to age, and by Reagan to the noise of a revolver fired too close to his ear while he filmed a movie in the 1930s. He also has an arthritic right thumb, and suffers from hay fever. Reagan rides and uses an exercise wheel regularly. According to his doctor, the wheel has contributed to "his upper torso and chest muscles [being] really well preserved...
...state study of employee ailments found, in addition to the skin cancer cases, ten cases of ovarian cysts, four of breast cysts, five of cervical polyps, eight of fibroids, 12 of anemia, five of tuberculosis, ten of pneumonia, 13.of bronchitus and 15 of hay fever...
...because of burnt pastures and a shortage of feed. Farther north, the Dakotas and eastern Montana have been enduring a drought for almost a year. In Montana, range lands were devastated, and crop losses were estimated at up to 90%. Worst off: winter and spring wheat, barley, oats and hay...