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...raisers commonly put a boar in with a herd of fattening sows; otherwise, on coming into heat, they would rush around and wear off a lot of market-value fat. The boar pacifies them and, in the bargain, creates the main source of Releasin...
...most outspoken foe of deportation for White House squirrels (TIME, April 4, 1955), Oregon's animal-loving Democratic Senator Richard L Neuberger leaped to the defense of a herd of Texas goats. Outraged by a report that the goats are being plugged with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move...
...growing hard. Several massacres occurred, sparked, in part, by the old slander that Jews murdered Christian children in their rituals. In 1210 King John threw all the Jews into jail and extorted a ransom for their liberation, and from then on the barons usually treated them as a herd of cattle for milking. Several times, England's Jews were "sold" by the King to British lords, who were then entitled to squeeze as much as they could from them. In 1290 Edward I gave the 16,000 of them that remained a little more than three months...
...would like to thank TIME, May 7 for the spread and the pasture scene on the Brahman herd. We have received many compliments about the picture and it was certainly a magnificent job, from making the picture to its publication. The article was excellent and I believe gives a true picture of the cattleman's problem in many details. G. A. FURGASON General Manager Norris Cattle Co. Ocala...
Cattlemen prefer to say nothing about their dwarfs and get rid of them quietly. It hurts the value of a herd if too many little monsters are staggering around the range. So no one knows how many there are. Estimates of the proportion of dwarfs in beef breeds have gone as high as 7%. Some unfortunate herds have produced 12%, and the figures might be higher if cattlemen did not conceal their monsters. Considerably less than 12% of dwarfs can bankrupt a cattleman...