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...acres in the soil bank and a severe drought pinching the Southwest, technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat as livestock feeds. Result: bigger corn and wheat surpluses. "As soon as they plaster a patch on one place," says an Illinois farm-organization official, "something squirts out in another...
...combat one of the worst U.S. outbreaks of anthrax in a quarter-century, Oklahoma threw National Guard roadblocks around Craig and Ottawa counties to prevent shipments of livestock, began vaccination of more than 60,000 cattle. Veterinarians working 16-hour days each vaccinated 788 to 1,000 animals a day. At least 200 cattle were dead of the disease; so far, no cases have spread to humans...
MEAT PRICES, which accounted for 20% of cost-of-living index boost since December, will stay high for another year. Livestock herds are low, will not reach another cyclical peak until...
Silverstein has apparently spared no expense in achieving a stunning and fast-paced audio-visual spectacle, such as delighted the court of Louis XIV for whom it was created. Not only do we have live musicians, but we also have livestock, not to mention a whole harem of scantily clad Turkish dancers. And it would be hard to imagine a more lavish set of costumes than William D. Roberts has designed...
Judging from the past showing of livestock and dairy production in Khrushchev's Russia, which in some categories is still below Czarist levels, Soviet specialists in the West doubt that Khrushchev can meet his exuberant boasts. Elsewhere in his speech Comrade Khrushchev quoted an old Russian proverb: "A dog barks and the wind carries the sound away...