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...ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record 90,000 bucks had killed in Michigan by last week. In Maine, where hunting is a $4 million-a-year business, the season ended last with a record 1 7 fatalities. Game officials blamed it on the increased number of hunters. One Maine hunting columnist, Gene Letourneau, took up coon hunting...
...suggestion of how to get some meat on U.S. tables. Boldly, Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson proposed that the Government use its war powers to rustle the ranges, buy meat on the hoof (at over-ceiling prices, if necessary), then allocate the animals to legitimate slaughterhouses...
...just about every animal that could walk or crawl. Much of that meat had been eaten, but doubtless large quantities of it had been stored by buyers who foresaw the return of ceilings and shortages. The meat which was still out in the nation's pastures on the hoof was likely to stay there for many weeks...
Pipe Dream. In Washington, the War Assets Administration had a screwy suggestion for postwar use of "The Big Inch": a route for Texas jack rabbits bound on the hoof to eastern markets...
Churchill Downs in the pre-Derby dawn is a heady place. Drifting wood smoke, dampened by morning dew, cuts the sharp, ammoniac smell of the stables. From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump. Sleepy-eyed grooms and exercise boys, clutching their mugs of coffee, shuffle through the shadows...