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...during the night Alta Clover, without assistance, had given birth to sextuplets: five heifers and one bull-four spotted black and white and two nearly all white, all six fully developed, healthy. Stunned, Dairyman Poth put them with a Guernsey and another Holstein to help the mother nurse her herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pieter Poth's Calves | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson's beasts were no less odd. He captured several varieties of frogs that changed color and one that grew hair. He got into a fight with a herd of drills, which are a kind of baboon, and they threw rocks at each other until he scared them off with a series of Rugby calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: African Treasure | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...were fought tooth & nail by competitors and the Interstate Commerce Commission was appealed to time & again to pry the New Haven loose from its subsidiary, New England Steamship Co. In recent years these efforts have subsided, as though it were not worth while to make a fuss over a herd of once glorious but now old and asthmatic white elephants. New England Steamship Co. lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of a Line | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Under the supervision of Oscar Roberson and Olaf Poison, the castrating of their large herd of bulls was accomplished Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Small-Town News | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Memphis, Tenn., Farmer Paul Schenk went into his barnyard and found his herd of goats playing shoot-the-chutes down the back of his new streamlined auto. Follow-the-leader fashion they leaped to the hood, then to the roof, slid down the back; had evidently been playing the game all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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