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...Yangtze. American businessmen may now sell to China a wide variety of goods. If the Chinese have the cash-and inclination-they will be able to plow their fields with American farm tractors, use U.S.-made fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides and even import American livestock for breeding purposes. They can equip their offices with U.S.-made desks, typewriters, check writers, telephones and simple calculators, outfit their factories with American forklift vehicles and a wide assortment of U.S. machinery...
...simply goes out of business when he gets too old to handle the chores himself-as is happening to two of Erv's neighbors. Also, inflation does not stop at the city limits. The Walters receive the same price for their crops that they did in 1953 (though livestock prices are now higher), but a tractor that cost $2,300 then now costs...
Artificial insemination, once the exclusive province of livestock breeders, also offers escape from some genetic mishaps. An estimated 25,000 women whose husbands are either sterile or carry genetic flaws have been artificially inseminated in the U.S. each year, many of them with sperm provided by anonymous donors whose pedigrees have been carefully checked for hereditary defects. Some 10,000 children are born annually of such conceptions...
...Darlac Province, the lack of planning resulted in heavy losses of livestock, rice, and other valuable possessions in the process of moving to the relocation sites, according to one official who has interviewed the relocated Montagnards. Only a fraction of the water buffalo, cattle and other animals could be brought with the people, because of the hurried moves by truck and U. S. Chinook helicopters. Virtually all the hardwood furniture found in Montagnard long-houses had to be left behind. Cattle and ceremonial gongs were stolen by ARVN troops and later sold in a nearby Vietnamese market town...
Since arriving in Buon Kli B relocation site, the Montagnards have lost virtually all of the remaining livestock. Only one cow was visible during a walking tour of Buon Wing A. one of the four hamlets at the site, and it appeared to be sick. When asked where their livestock was, people answered that they had all died...