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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...
...cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history...
...highest price ever paid at a livestock show. At Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, a Hereford steer brought...
...best time to get into the cattle business," said J. Douglas Gay Jr., newly elected president of the American Hereford Association. "When you're sleeping on the floor, you can't fall out of bed. If the cattle market is not on the bottom now, it's awfully close. The only direction...