Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milk Solution...
Gratified and surprised was at least one TIME reader by TIME'S straightforward reporting on New York's milk troubles and its Pisecks (Sept. 14). Even farm papers tread gingerly about the edges of the current U. S. dairy muddle, view it with nothing more vigorous than plaintive editorials. Perfectly true had TIME chosen to mention it, is the fact that New York's conditions are typical of every major milk market. New England's producers are equally bitter but less vocal...
...clawed - CLAWED - C-L-A-W-E-D ! All wires are clown. The wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL OFF THIS LINE! Not you, New York, just a minute...
...their upkeep they were kept alive, but if the money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days, or were nourished on a mixture of milk and gypsum which 'created a plaster coating on their digestive tracts. Lack of inquiry into the causes of infant mortality stimulated what Author Adamic calls a "horrid industry...
Argentine cattlemen would like to improve the milk production of their cows by breeding them with high-grade imported bulls. But bulls bought from the U. S. usually succumb to the tick fever now prevalent in Argentina. For the same reason U. S. owners are unwilling to ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls...