Word: mutton
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...favorite foods were dates, pumpkin, mutton. He slept on his right side, with his most holy hand supporting his most holy cheek. No flies, it is said, ever alighted...
...gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing processes that they averaged 19 Ibs. heavier than two-gland rams; yielded half a pound more wool per clipping. The mutton increase, if "glanding" were continued, would be about...
...much more mutton...
...better or worse, the 69th Congress stuck at its mutton as the month simmered away...
...meat costs less to raise per lb. than beef, mutton or pork. Matured bull elk weigh 700 lb. to half a ton, females 600 to 800 lb. They mature in 16 to 18 months as against four years for cattle. Cattle herds increase 30% in good years; the acknowledged ratio for elk is 90%. The females calve in their third year, commonly twinning...