Word: herefords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each calf's enthusiasm for the mixture. Such attention pays off: only a few days before, he had spotted a white-faced black steer (a grade cross between Hereford and Angus) mincing at the feed. Although the calf's nose was not running, Joe figured it might have a cold, or, worse yet, be "one of them that just never does eat like he oughta." With the help of his old high-school vocational agriculture teacher, who substitutes...
...oldest: England's Three Choirs Festival held this year in Hereford, which is some 250 years...
Before the Experts. As the hours ticked away, Eddie judged the Quarter Horse studs, Angus heifers, Hereford bulls, Hereford heifers, Angus steers. At each class he stood back, then circled around the animals, felt for firmness and fat. He passed to the Southdown fat lambs, the Rambouillet ewes, the Hampshire ewes. Finally he moved to the swine area for the Duroc fat barrows, the Berkshire fat barrows and the Poland gilts. Of all the classes, the fat lambs troubled him most ("and I raise them at home...
...Bucher (TIME, Jan. 12, 1948). Oldest festival of all is England's Three Choirs Festival, this year of Worcester (Sept. 5-10); it began about 1715 and has been going (with time out for wars) ever since. Using some 300 singers from Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, the program is designed to satisfy British love of massed voices, but also includes visiting big-name instrumentalists...
...highest price ever paid at a livestock show. At Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, a Hereford steer brought...