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...Convalescence. "Civilians, livestock and the wounded walk in long disciplined columns over the mountains at night. I asked whether plaster was available for fractures. Yes, it could always be captured from the enemy, but plaster breaks in the movement, so broken limbs are compressed by wooden boards nailed together. Nor is there any convalescence possible in this country - a man belongs to a walking hospital or to the front...
...prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
...Portraits and Death. The Saddle & Sirloin Club was founded in 1901, to extend recognition to men who had made outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. Recognition, the founders decided, should take the form of a portrait of each member. The original portrait artist was James R. Stuart. He was followed by Arvid Nieholm. Most of their portraits were destroyed in the stockyards fire of 1934, and Robert Grafton was commissioned to redo the lost canvases. After completing 100 portraits in two years, Artist Grafton dropped dead. Saddle & Sirloin's current portraitist is Othmar Hoffler. He has been...
...Canada, worse for the U.S. Like a modern Joseph, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics warned: Canada's once-plentiful hoard of feed grain (oats and barley) had been "severely trimmed" by heavy domestic demand, exports to the U.S. Next year there will probably be little enough for Canadian livestock, let alone the U.S., which needs all the Canadian feed...
...warning that, despite recent point reductions on canned vegetables, the efforts of spare-time gardeners are still essential. (Last year 42% of the nation's vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages next winter may be "more acute," rationing stricter than before...