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...same day controls on the prices and uses of cereals and livestock feeds will also end. This should mean more eggs, ham and bacon, because British farmers will be able to raise as many hens and pigs as they choose, and feed them as they please. Prices will probably go up, but should more honestly reflect real costs. Taxpayers will save about ?30 million a year now spent on subsidies, plus the salaries of some 1,200 clerks, inspectors and other bureaucrats now to be lopped off the Food Ministry's payroll...
...Hereford show bull, H. C. Larry Domino 12th won ribbons wherever he appeared, from champion of Chicago's International Livestock Show in 1947 to reserve champion of the American Royal Show in Kansas City. Last week his owner, C. A. Smith of West Virginia's Hillcrest Farms, sold a half interest in Larry Domino to E. C. McCormick, an Ohio insurance executive and owner of McCormick Hereford Farms in Medina. The price: $105,000, the largest sum ever paid for half a bull...
...were the bargains confined to soft goods. With Kentucky warehouses jammed with straight bourbons, National Distillers cut its prices of Old Grand-Dad and Old Taylor $6.25 a case (probable retail cut: 76? a fifth). Retail meat prices finally reflected some of the drops in livestock prices which had fallen 20% since August. In big ads in Chicago and New York, A & P compared last year's retail prices with 1953's (e.g., $1.08 for sirloin steak in New York v. 89? now, $1.15 for rib lamb chops v. 75? now and 90? for boneless chuck...
Fleece-Lined. In Chicago, when police caught Raymond Conners at the International Livestock Exposition with a lamb hidden under his coat, he explained: "It was wandering in the aisles and I just wanted to keep it warm...
...Commons, Oliver Lyttelton's oblique comment on all this unpleasantness was: "The situation in Kenya has, to some extent, changed for the worse." With Lyttelton's approval, Sir Evelyn Baring, governor of Kenya, last week assumed emergency powers to punish whole villages (by confiscating of crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from...