Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owns 85; he rents the rest from his father, a fertilizer salesman, for $1,150 (plus three butchered hogs and a calf) a year. He has bought nearly $15,000 worth of equipment, ranging from a $2,800 John Deere tractor to a $125 mule-drawn wagon. His livestock is valued at more than $16,000 and includes 71 head of beef cattle, 30 of them fine purebred Aberdeen-Angus, plus seven registered Duroc-Jersey sows and about 80 sheep. He has won more than 170 prizes at local, county, state and national fairs and expositions...
...Rule of Thumb. Basic to Joe Moore's childhood was the ownership of livestock. Beginning when he was four, Joe and his sister, Donneita, shared ownership of lambs deserted by their mothers, feeding them by bottle until they were old enough to go on grass. Already, Joe's hearty appetite for cold cash was apparent: he even made a tidy profit out of his habit of sucking his thumb. For months, both his mother and grandmother put dimes under his pillow every time he went to sleep without his thumb in his mouth. Finally grandmother Carver said...
...matter of course, Joe joined the F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper than bearings...
...finest animal Joe has ever owned. To fatten Big Boy for showing, Joe fed him three times a day; he washed him every Saturday, groomed his hide with oil and got grandmother Carver to put a good square plait in his tail. Result: at the 1949 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, Big Boy won 16th place among the nation's best Angus, and Joe, kissing Big Boy's poll, got his picture in the Chicago Tribune...
...farms we visited I believe we were given accurate information. For proper appraisal, however, we should have had more basic economic data than the Russians were willing to provide. Quite early in our trip we asked for. and were promised, data on grain and livestock production, prices, payments for machine-tractor station services, farm employment and farm income. These were never given...