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...gave ice water to her chickens three times a day, but 25 of her 88 hens died, and their production fell from 30 dozen a week to 12 dozen. Livestock owners are taking their animals to market early because the cattle are losing weight and there is not enough hay to feed them...
...Georgia, state agricultural experts calculated that the total crop loss thus far is about $450 million. Corn, which does not pollinate in triple-digit heat, is hardest hit; but soybeans, hay, fruits and vegetables, tobacco and peanuts are also being badly damaged. Marshall Spray, an Augusta game-bird farmer, has lost more than 25,000 quail since the onset of the heat wave. Said he: "If somebody doesn't help me, I'm out of business...
...dollars, he is also pretty damn good--and not the least bit bad or ugly. Billy, you see, wants everybody to think that he's an all-American guy and he's forever thanking the lil pardners and telling them to say their prayers before they hit the hay. But don't let all the saccharine on the surface spoil it for you--there's a lot more depth in this film than in anything Eastwood has done. When he pulls out his gun, more often than not, he's aiming at plates and profits--not people...
Except in the immediate vicinity of the mountain, livestock escaped almost unscathed. State officials advised ranchers to put out fresh hay so that cattle would not eat the dusty forage in the fields. Ranchers were also told not to move their herds to avoid increasing the cattle's breathing rate and thus their intake of silica-laden dust. Breeders protected valuable race horses by keeping them inside barns with towels over their noses...
...interesting sidelines showed up. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, as deft at bluegrass fiddling as at politicking, earned $3,888 from an album (Mountain Fiddler) and $1,600 from fiddle playing on TV and radio. Republican William S. Cohen, took in less than $1,000 selling hay from his Maine farm, but an impressive $12,390 in royalties on his book of poems, Of Sons & Seasons. Vermont's Pat Leahy made a $1,500 sale of photographs he shot in China. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, on the other hand, dropped...