Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crop seemed to be the second best in history, below only the record of 1948. The total of crops and livestock production together is expected to be the highest ever. In the past fiscal year, 211,299 more farms were electrified, raising the percentage of electrified farms from...
Career: He was a livestock farmer at Whitney in 1923-29, county agent for the University of Idaho extension service in Franklin County, Idaho in 1929-30, economist and marketing specialist for the university's extension service in 1930-38, executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington in 1939-44. As the council's chief operating officer, he was the agent and helper of thousands of farmers in 4,600 cooperatives (group buying and selling associations) which did an annual business of $1.3 billion. He started active church work in 1921 when he spent...
...lunch I report to the principal's office and receive detailed instructions on my outside activities for the next few days. They usually consist in working with the local or district National Committee on lists of agricultural quotas. Occasionally I make the rounds of the community to register livestock...
...with contagious brucellosis (Bang's disease) turned up at the Knoxville, Ia. sales barn for regular sale. Beardsley's explanation: a hired man failed to carry out his orders to dispose of the cattle in a way that would not risk spread of the disease. Many Iowa livestock farmers, who rank the spreading of Bang's disease only slightly below murder, were not convinced by the explanation...
There are many varieties of polls in Iowa. Most of them put Ike in the lead, but show a high percentage of undecided voters. One of the most interesting is the Hawkeye Feed & Distributing Company's feedbag poll. Dealers are selling livestock feed in sacks labeled for the candidates, letting farmers choose. Results so far: Ike 53%, Stevenson...