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Before the last star has faded on the horizon, on every day, seven days a week, Alex Johnson, 60, a husky (212 lb.), balding man from Miami, gets up, pulls on his khaki working clothes, leaves his stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired...
...practiced eye told him it had the build of a potential champ. He exclaimed "Holy cow!" The calf, duly named Holy Cow, was given to Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will use it to promote his roadside chain...
...Benson's economy-seeking victory could become the costliest cornucopia in the history of subsidies.* In recent years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold it to the Government under a slightly lower price prop, which Benson obligingly extended to such "noncompliance" corn three crops ago. After 1956 the extra price prop was never guaranteed before the crop was planted, but the farmers' expectations encouraged surplus...
Tried out in 1954 on the West Indian island of Curaçao, the scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays...
Muttering into their beards, a cluster of black-hatted Amish farmers watched sullenly in Canton, Ohio last week, while an auctioneer sold off livestock confiscated by the U.S. Government. On religious grounds, Amishmen had refused to pay the social security levy-3⅜% of their own incomes-that the law demands of farmers. To satisfy the Government's claims, federal authorities in Ohio's Wayne and Holmes counties seized 28 head of livestock from 15 Amish farmers, seized cash assets of 50 others...