Word: livestock
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...armed services eat almost 9% more meat and nearly 2½ more of all foods than they did as civilians; 2) Lend-Lease demand for food is the equivalent of adding 25 million people to the U.S. population; 3) years of rich harvests and low feed costs have encouraged livestock producers to increase their herds to alltime highs. Grain men last week estimated that to supplement the short stocks of feed, 470 million bu. of wheat will be fed to livestock during the crop year...
Unrationed pork would give consumers a holiday meat feast until the farmers have unloaded. But when the livestock is finally reduced in numbers to a point where it balances the amount of feed available, meat rationing will again be necessary. Food Distribution Administrator Roy E. Hendrickson estimated next year's supply of meat at twelve lb. less per capita than during...
Because U.S. and U.S.S.R. soils, climate, crops, livestock and even landscapes are much alike, scientists of both countries have been eager to exchange information. Last week at the Congress, Dr. Charles E. Kellogg, U.S. Soil Survey chief, declared: "The Russian and American peoples have a splendid record of mutual aid . . . since the American Revolution. . . . The future promises even more...
Poland, perhaps the most brutally treated of the overrun countries, first suffered confiscation of all state properties, all central stocks of textiles, food and livestock. Nine thousand factories and 60,000 commercial enterprises were taken over for exploitation by Germans. In 1942, 80% of the harvest was sent to Germany...
Governor Dwight P. Griswold of Nebraska, who had bravely wagered a hog with each of 27 other governors that Nebraska would outdo their states in the war-bond drive, was finally snatched off his hotspot by thoughtful friends. They bought 26 hogs at a livestock show, gave them to him. He may be ahead of the game. After shipping twelve hogs, he decided to postpone the rest of his pay-offs until the Treasury issued its final figures...