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...many afflictions that plague livestock, none is as devastating as foot-and-mouth disease. Highly contagious and with no known cure, it blisters the feet, tongues and mouths of animals, and causes lameness, weight loss and, in dairy cows, reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities...
...foot-and-mouth disease has been stamped out, thanks to the Department of Agriculture's vigilant policies against importing livestock from infected areas. But elsewhere in the world, foot-and-mouth costs farmers tens of thousands of animals and billions of dollars a year. Scientists have developed vaccines against the viral disease, but these carry a risk of actually infecting the inoculated animal because they sometimes contain live viruses...
...Agriculture, however, estimates that Moscow will fall short of its goal of 236 million tons, thus forcing the U.S.S.R. soon to resume purchasing significant amounts from the U.S. Another reason why the Soviets need to import more grain: they are attempting to increase meat supplies while also enlarging their livestock herds...
...prices, and that will remove one of the key causes of recent inflation (see box). Homeownership costs, which account for about one-fourth of the consumer price index, are up from a year ago, but the increases are tapering off because sales are slow. Good crops and heavy livestock production so far this year should moderate food price increases in the months ahead. Finally, a stronger U.S. dollar will make the costs of imported goods lower and keep pressure on domestic companies to hold down their prices. Walter Heller, President Kennedy's chief economic adviser, concludes that...
...side of Las Ramblas stands the Mercado de San Jose, and enormous market with a country fair atmosphere. Fresh fruit--a pound of strawberries for 40 cents--and cheese, dried meat and livestock, and row after row of counters piled high with Spanish produce fill the lively mercado...