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Less grain also means less food for livestock. Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter. The government has no chance of fulfilling its perennial promise to boost meat consumption, which last year was about 128 lbs. per person, one of the lowest levels in the industrialized world...
...most recent attack, safety officers shot the attacking dog three times, wounding but not killing it. University officials repeated their warning that any dog attacking livestock on university property will be shot on sight...
...full-time ranchers in sheep and cattle who are opposed to the use of toxicants [Aug. 10] in the control of predators. We have four Komondor guard dogs on the payroll, and they keep our livestock safe. If the zealots succeed in polluting the range with the chemical Compound 1080, our dogs will be the first victims, long before the wily coyote...
That the cowboy has a past at all comes as something of a revelation. He was not born in the saddle on the banks of the Red River but in Old Mexico. The grandees who first brought cattle and horses to the New World in the 1500s considered livestock tending beneath their dignity. However, the powerful padres of the Mexican mission system found the first cowboys in their congregations: Indians and Negroes. Barefoot and illiterate, these early vaqueros were often not allowed even to own the horses they rode. North of the border, cowboys were hardly better off; slaves riding...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...