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Only 33 miles west of Dallas, Fort Worth, where blustery Publisher Amon G. Carter of the Star-Telegram gives $20 Stetson hats to distinguished guests, prides itself on being a thoroughgoing Western cow town. Boasting itself the Southwest's No. 1 grain and livestock market, Fort Worth likes the virile stench of its stockyards, hates cultured Dallas, of late years has found the excitement of its annual rodeo surpassed by the excitement of watching its fast, rangy Texas Christian University football team play Dallas' fast, rangy Southern Methodists...
...diggers explored a fort called Cahercommaun, a ruin of massive masonry on the brink of a precipice, built about 900 A. D. Inside this were walled compartments into which livestock could have been driven to safety when marauders approached. In the citadel was a silver and gold brooch, and a skull impaled on an iron hook, as if the head had been on display after being cut off. Another find of this period was a gaming board, with rows of holes to receive pegs, a circle marking the centre hole. A long, quizzical face was carved...
...sell no less than $1,850,000,000 worth of meat, butter, eggs, fertilizer, byproducts. The earnings amounted to only 1.7? per $1 of sale, but packers have long since grown accustomed to getting along on this modest ratio. The year was marked by a shortage of livestock. During 1935 only 29,266,000 little pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply was off about 18%. The result was marked advance in meat prices. Between October 1934 and October 1935 beef went up (wholesale) 40%, lamb 30%, cured pork 40% and fresh pork...
...Bellevue & Cascade of Iowa which operated, intermittently, 35.7 miles of track. Bellevue & Cascade had only one locomotive, a 50-year-oldster whose axle broke in 1934. Since that accident, claimed angry farmers, the train jumped the track so often and killed so many cattle that no farmer would ship livestock on it. The Interstate Commerce Commission gave permission for the mileage to be abandoned...
...lumbermen, cattlemen and dairymen joined in the grumble and the National Grange in session at Sacramento voted a unanimous protest regardless of the fact that the reduced duty will apply only to relatively small quotas of cattle and cream imports. In Denver, Fernand E. Mollin, secretary of the American Livestock Association, declared that it did not matter how limited the tariff reduction was. Groaned he: "The damage is done! The precedent is established!" Senator McNary of Oregon Announced that he was leaving for Washington to lodge a protest with the President...