Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been selling . . As for your solution of "... a wider attempt to breed better-grade cattle with less waste . . ." one would assume that we are still marketing the scrubbiest of the old Longhorns. Have you never heard of purebred bulls? of the purebred breed associations? of the international and various livestock shows...
...rain fell, morale went up in the critically dry areas. At the Fort Worth livestock market, cattle receipts fell off because farmers could see some feed ahead for their stock. With fewer cattle on the market, prices went up. In some sections of the South, the rain came at a bad time for cotton farmers, but hardly anyone was complaining. Said L. A. Walker, a Haskell County, Texas farmer: "Sure, it'll hurt quality of cotton somewhat, but it'll more than pay for this damage in the boost it'll give pastures, small grains and even...
Benson continued the price-support programs and adopted emergency measures to help drought-stricken farmers. But to many farm-belt politicians and livestock men, that is not enough, and Benson's clear intimation that he really prefers a freer market is too much. Suddenly, reporters began badgering Benson with that ominous Washington question: "Are you going to resign?" As early as mid-September both Ike and his Secretary of Agriculture were aware of the power of the question to change the tide. In Denver to confer with the President, Benson said: "I did not go to Washington because...
...down trend cut across every major population group, but the largest defection was right where it could be expected: among farmers. Although the prices of dairy products and basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
...puffy, whisky-soaked Bonnie Brown Heady. 41. * People around Nodaway County, Mo. remembered Mrs. Heady as a pigtailed little girl on a dappled pony given her by her father, a prosperous farmer. In St. Joe, she had been known for 20 years as the attractive wife of a livestock broker, with whom she attended square dances and club meetings. A year ago, her personality seemed to change. She divorced her husband. She took to swilling a quart of liquor a day and arriving drunk at the shows where her boxer dogs were being exhibited...