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...celebration provided good bucolic fare. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...
...plenty of cotton, wheat or corn-on-the-hoof-and most of them can be induced to work a few extra hours to raise a bit more to help the church. The Lord's Acre Plan asks churchgoing farmers to till an acre or so, or raise extra livestock, and give the extra cash to the church...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran begged farmers to stop throwing "one of the most valuable foods - dried skim milk" - to the pigs. In fact, he said, "we have given our livestock the best part of many foods." Other experts urged that more dried eggs be produced, that farm lands be devoted to mass cultivation of vitamin-rich peanuts and soybeans...
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio paid $38,963 damages last year for livestock hit by its trains. Last week its officers blinked at an unprecedented letter. Wrote honest W. D. Myers of Deemer, Miss.: "It was my cow that got out of place and there will be no claim filed...
Since the Nazification of Europe, longtime foes of the South American steer, like Wyoming's Senator O'Mahoney and the American National Livestock Association, have switched to approving Army & Navy purchases from Argentina. Administration Senators were determined to knock out the Scrugham amendment this week...