Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...10¢ a pound. But dog acts often require many animals. Last fortnight Bill Blomberg, vaudeville performer, stationed his 32 unemployed Alaskan huskies with Roofer McHugh, fed them about 50 Ib. of meat three times a week. Elephants eat the most. They need at least a $2.50 bale of hay every day. Living in Roofer McHugh's stable last week were an unemployed boxing kangaroo, four elephants, five ponies, one mule, 33 dogs, three monkeys...
...lilies, potatoes and kale, but few onions. "Bermuda onions" for U. S. markets are grown in Texas, Florida. Bicycles are essential to the Bermudians and to all but the richest visitors, because no automobiles are allowed on the islands.* Carriage horses are expensive to rent or keep (oats and hay must be imported from New York). Nowhere outside of Holland is the population so cycle-minded. Largest town is Hamilton where stands the Sessions House, Bermuda's parliament; the Cathedral; the cinema (Mechanics Hall). Here dock the liners from New York and Liverpool and here are the great hotels...
...Polo solo, assisted by a learned "advisory council" and with contributions as before from wise young Robert F. Kelley of the New York Times, famed Horse Artist Paul Brown. Reading with even deeper interest, expecting to collect dividends, will be Editor Vischer's investing friends, who include John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, A. Charles Schwartz...
Officials of The Bronx Zoo, New York City, last week made their annual measurement of Khartoum, world's biggest captive elephant. They used a special elephant-gauge designed for surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only one quarter-inch. This brings him to 10 ft. 84 in., one half-inch short of the world's elephant record for all time held by the late Jumbo, famed Victorian elephant...
Only ten States (in the Southeast) are comparatively free from mice. In the other 38 States, 1,000 mice allowed to run on the 65 million acres of hay raised per year would chew up 30 million dollars worth of hay. They kill trees, chew up gardens, nibble at stored grain. It is estimated that Connecticut has lost $500,000 in fruit crops during years when mice were plentiful. Sick mice infect pigs with erysipelas; pigs pass it on to humans...