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...Every good farmer should raise hogs, year in and year out," says Fred F. Devore of Omaha. Last week he thought he had found a way to aid the cashless farmer, help him build up a registered breeding herd. No philanthropist, he expects his newly-formed Pure-Bred Hog Development Association to line the pockets of himself & associates as well as the farmers...
...farming rather than law ran in the Rainey blood. Today the Majority Leader lives in a rambling frame house on a -acre farm near Carrollton. He has pure-bred Holstein-Friesians and fine Hampshire hogs. Over his place roams a herd of sacred Japanese deer, bred from a buck and two does originally obtained from the Washington zoo in exchange for one porcupine. Childless, he has built a wading pool for neighborhood children, gives them the run of his grounds for picnics and play. His milk and corn are trucked to St. Louis. He says: "I think I have...
Will Largent's steer was not the only Hereford to receive the canny favor of Judge Biggar last week. For reserve (second place) champion he chose Aster Domino, owned by Wyoming Hereford Ranch of Cheyenne; for best herd he chose a group of Herefords shown by the Oklahoma A. & M. College (Stillwater, Okla...
Still common in the Empire of Abyssinia is human slavery. Every now & then bold subjects of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie stage a slave raid into adjoining territory. Last week they raided Britain's Kenya Colony, carried off a fine herd of Kenya women & girls into slavery, left 150 Kenya men dead in their villages...
...even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...