Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Rancher Bowring: "In the long run, rigid price supports take from the farmer more than he receives. They encourage him to deplete his soil. They saddle the markets with surpluses which give him no opportunity to realize full parity. They destroy the normal relationship of feed and livestock prices. They encourage the development of competitive synthetics . . . They place farmers in such a position that they lose much of their freedom to make management decisions...
...fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
Although Harvard occupied most of his time, Bate tried his hand at dairy farming in the years following the war. Commenting on this venture, he laments, "After a year, the cows began to die more and more rapidly; in fact, all the livestock was sick. The barn floor began to crumble, and the whole thing became a bottomless pit which nothing could fill." He now compromises with a small cabin in the New Hampshire woods. And a few times a year he is lured to a local movie, but returns each time reassured that he can do without the film...
...granary of unfortunate experiments, no case is more spectacular than the 1948-50 effort to support the price of potatoes. The Government bought surplus potatoes for about $1.50 a hundredweight, dyed them deep blue, then sold them back to the producers at 1? a hundredweight for fertilizer or livestock feed. Net loss: $478 million. Net result: Congress passed a law prohibiting potato price supports...
Piecework. In Eagle Pass, Texas, the News Guide carried a classified ad: "WANTED AT ONCE-Am desperate account of continued livestock thefts. Need watchman that can shoot. Will pay by hour or by head...