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...after day last week, big C82 "Flying Boxcars" with their wings and tails painted fire-engine red (for easy spotting in case of forced landings on snow) labored into the air at Fallen, Nev., heavy with bales of alfalfa hay. They rumbled over the mountains to a field at Ely, landed, picked up guides and took off again for mountain valleys...
Once dropped, the hay was ready for feeding-the tightly pressed bales frequently burst like bombs when they hit the ground, scattering loose alfalfa in sprays. In its first seven days, Operation Haylift had flown 126 "sorties," had dropped 525 tons of alfalfa, seemed on the way to saving thousands of starving animals. Other missions were flown from Denver, Ogden, Utah; Kearney, Neb.; and Rapid City...
...most cattlemen, feeding was only one of many trying problems. On the plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...
...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...
...luck with the heifers and a couple of young ones brought $325 apiece last week at a sale. We're prepared for winter-we've opened the silo and it's filled with the whole stalk of corn, ear and all. There's plenty of hay in the barn...