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...revolution in U.S. farming has been largely a result of the science and technology promoted by the Agriculture Department: new types of machinery, higher-yielding varieties of plants, improved breeds of livestock, more effective pest control, greater use of chemical fertilizers, more efficient methods of handling and storing crops. But the revolution has also partly resulted from shifts in the structure of farming in the U.S.-toward bigger farms with far greater capital investment. Since 1940, average investment per farm in the U.S. has increased eightfold, from $6,000 to $48,000. As a result of the combined workings...
...country, with her tinted sky, her varied contours, her fertile soil, our fields full of fine corn and vines and livestock, our industry, our gifts of initiative, adaptation and self-respect, make us, above all others, a race created for brilliant deeds...
...snowbound in Greece for 48 hours. Turkish border posts could only be supplied by army tanks, and nearly 300 snowbound communities in the Italian Apennines were cut off from their supplies. Three feet of snow covered Bulgaria, and in Greece army units roamed the countryside with hay for starving livestock. Ice clogged both the Mississippi and the canals of Venice; a blizzard snapped a power cable in the Bosporus, halting all shipping between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Along the frozen Danube, Yugoslav dynamite crews blasted lanes for boats and barges...
...Deadly Mosquito. American Livestock's animal clients get into some strange accidents. Lightning is one of the most frequent killers; once a bolt running along a fence killed a whole line of cattle leaning against it. Another time, a swarm of husky Florida mosquitoes smothered a herd of cattle by clogging their noses and throats. Some animals have become so rattled at having their hoofs trimmed that they have broken their backs, and one prize Brahman bull being flown to a show in South America managed to work open the plane door and leap...
Harding and Tomson hope some day to make Animal Livestock a worldwide business; but for all their readiness to assume risks, they draw the line at such freaks as two-headed pigs and six-legged dogs. "Deformed animals aren't good physical risks," says Frank Harding, "and besides, it isn't dignified...