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...Nebraska backwards), Omaha's autumnal jamboree, is held in conjunction with a huge livestock show...
Miss Dockery's livestock used to stray over upon the "Glenburney" plantation. Once Miss Merrill was supposed to have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...
Charles Henry Sivift, 59, was elected president of Compania Swift Internacional at a directors' meeting in Buenos Aires, succeeding his brother, the late Edward Foster Swift, whom he also succeeded as chairman of Swift & Co, Swift Internacional raises livestock in South America. New Zealand, Australia. It sells mostly in Europe; by a trade agreement formed in 1927 Swift Internacional, Armour, and English-owned Union Cold Storage share 69% of the South American-European beef trade. Son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became...
...tour of Illinois and Iowa he found an average of 18 horses at field work for every tractor in operation. Half the tractors were idle. Horses and mules brought better prices proportionately than other livestock. More colts were being raised than for several years. Manufacturers of harness reported mounting sales. Purebred Percherons were bringing from $300 for mares to $1,000 for stallions. Medium weight animals (1,400 to 1,500 lb.) were most in demand. Blacksmiths who had become garagemen were becoming blacksmiths again. Low crop prices have made home-grown feeds for horses more economical than fuel...
Outside of the livestock breeding world one often hears the word thoroughbred incorrectly used in place of the words pure bred...