Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounts for more than a quarter of total U. S. farm income. Its $7,000,000,000 worth of land, buildings and herds make it the No. 1 cash venture in agriculture. For cooking, drinking, canning, butter, cheese its 26,000,000 cows yield a hundred billion pounds of milk every year. Into the midst of this great industry last week was tossed a book called Breeding Profitable Dairy Cattle* which contained the astounding charge that most U. S. milk is eked from almost medieval cattle bred by almost medieval methods, despite the fact that a much better method...
Critic. What U. S. dairymen need are not fancy animals but any sort of cow that gives high quantities of good milk. The two, says Critic Prentice, are not necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their...
...Economics, it was announced yesterday by Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy. This prize is awarded annually to a student or recent graduate of the University for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation. The prize-winning essay was entitled, "A Study of Milk Prices...
Physiologists agree that smoking does no more harm to a woman than to a man, if harm there be. According to many investigators, the only circumstances under which a woman should not smoke are while she has anesthetic gas in her lungs (she might explode), and while she produces milk for her baby. Milk drains from the blood of a smoking mother those smoke ingredients which please her, but may not agree with her nursling...
...sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, a great and subtle role of which Lotte Lehmann has proved herself the greatest interpreter...