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Concerning the Aug. 22 report that the President's 13-month-old gift-heifer, Irvington Roamiss Pear, "reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves, and gamboled into the pasture," we wonder if this is not a slight exaggeration. The three of us represent over 47 years of accumulated farming experience, but none of us ever witnessed such an event...
...cluster of reporters stood behind the big off-white barn one afternoon last week and watched while Irvington Roamiss Pear, a purebred Holstein heifer, got a thorough grooming. While they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation...
...Heifers & Ducks. Ike indicated a near by pasture and said: "Let's take her down there and turn her loose." The President unfastened the gate himself, and slapped Irvington Roamiss Pear on the rump. "O.K., you're loose now, baby," he said. The heifer reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves and gamboled into the pasture...
From 8 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon, the 80 contestants shuffled silently around the stock. There were 13 classes to be judged, with four animals in each class. The trick was to rank them in their proper order. For Eddie, the Shorthorn heifers seemed easy. One looked a bit long-bodied; another was too narrow through the quarters; a third stood out as "a thick, typy heifer that had a lot of bloom." Each heifer had a number on its back, and Eddie jotted down in his notebook how he thought they should rank...
...head. The lessons stuck, and he now astounds people with his memory for figures and lightning-like calculations. Schoolmate Sid Richardson, who is five years older, spent his spare time trading cattle. Sid taught Clint so much about cattle trading that Murchison was able to run a crippled heifer into $1,500 by the time he entered Texas' Trinity University...