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...Gunderson thinks that the statewide campaign will cost nearly half a million dollars for DDT alone. But freedom from flies will make livestock fatten faster, increase the milk yield, improve public health. "Besides," he says, "what's a man's Sunday morning sleep worth to him when there's a fly in the room...
After their month and a half of disastrous cold, snow, and coal shortage, it seemed as if most Britons were resigned to desolation and actually expected the floods which engulfed them last week. The people accepted inundated houses, loss of work and wages, huge losses in agriculture and livestock, as just added afflictions...
...Cotton. 4. Livestock...
...bushel to $2.13½. (On the basis of other futures buying, it would be down to $1.92⅝ by May and $1.75 by July.) With some 4,300,000 cattle fattening in the nation's feed lots (the alltime high, in 1943: 4,445,000), livestock prices in Chicago dropped "to $22.75 a hundredweight, the lowest since meat was decontrolled...
Early in his career, as Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture, he gambled $11,000 of state funds in the Chicago livestock market. He wanted to prove that Georgia's peanut-fed hogs were as good as the Midwest's corn-fed animals. He failed. But he bayed: "Sure I stole the money, but I stole it for you," and as a result was elected governor...