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...Anguses were so weakened by malnutrition and weeks of slushing around in soggy pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only 10 to 15 liveborn calves per 100 cows, v. 75 in normal years. A pilot who flew over the ranch area said he saw dead and dying cattle "in every direction. It is a field day for the buzzards...
Because delivery is difficult, there are few live births in such cases; most liveborn joined twins die in infancy. But medical history records perhaps twoscore cases which have reached maturity, usually joined at or near the rump, where fewest organs are affected. Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children...
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