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...strains have proved resistant to sulfadiazine and 21% to tetracycline; at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, no fewer than 65% of the E. coli and 92% of Proteus vulgaris resisted at least one important drug. Equally sobering, researchers note that antibiotics are now routinely put in livestock feed to suppress bacteria and stimulate the animals' growth. This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines...
Though fascinated, other experts calmly argue that laboratories are producing new antibiotics too fast for germs to catch up. Moreover, they suggest a preventive for the animal-to-man transfer problem-feed livestock different antibiotics from those given to humans. There are plenty of other drugs suitable for hogs, steers and chickens...
...seed, usually yellow in color but gold in the eyes of the farmer. It wouldn't make much of a pet, but it has about all the other qualities of Al Capp's famous Shmoo. It is crushed into edible oils for cooking and salads and into livestock feed. It goes into antiknock gasoline, linoleum, chocolate candy bars, and helps make fire extinguishers foam...
...related fields, International Harvester and Bombay's Mahindra are building a tractor plant in India, and De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association, Inc., is about to expand its Punjab seed farm. American Cyanamid is teaching livestock raising in Thailand, Venezuela and 18 other countries. Caterpillar Tractor this month began a land-development demonstration in which it will clear 250 acres of Costa Rican rain forest, build five miles of access roads for farms big enough (25 acres) to feed more than their own occupants...
...condemned property. Maureen starts tidying up the place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs. All the livestock soon plods away discreetly into the snow. Back at the ranch, the people play their own brand of choose-up partners and struggle valiantly to keep boredom at bay. They just about make...