Word: herds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world, the enormous success of Farmer North and thousands like him may be even more significant. The new methods have proved just as successful abroad as in the U.S. For example, in England, Farmer Anthony Fisher tried his hand at dairying. After his herd died of foot-and-mouth disease he was about ready to quit. Hearing about the U.S. system of raising broilers, he wrote to Ralston Purina Co. to get free brochures on how to do it. He started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king...
...technique of artificial insemination helps a farmer with poor herds to upbreed his herd only by slow stages. To speed the process, Prentice experimented with the technique of artificially inseminating a prize cow, surgically removing the fertilized egg, and implanting it in a scrub cow, which merely acts as a live incubator. The calf that is born is a prize animal with none of its mother's bad blood line. Scientists see a time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle...
...along with such talk, he has an engaging ability to kid himself, and his concerns. Once he saw a nature movie about a herd of brown deer with white markings in whose midst appeared a mutation-a white deer with brown markings. "You see," purred the narrator, "he's playing right along with the other deer and they don't even seem to notice the difference." Said Belafonte with a laugh loud enough for the whole theater to hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself...
...their drive to herd China's 500 million peasants into military-style "people's communes" and in their boundless enthusiasm for economic "shock programs," the Communists have come close to negating their nation's greatest economic asset-its teeming manpower...
...choose the fellows he wants to eat with") and 100% ("Every sophomore participating in Bicker must get a bid to a club"). The creation of a "meaningful alternative" to club membership, in the words of President Goheen, makes the move to Prospect Street a matter of "voluntary choice, not herd compulsion...