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While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...
...works thus: CAFE, a stock company incorporated in Brazil, owns good red-earth Paraguayan land half the size of Delaware, near Pedro Juan Caballero. For $15,000 the company will sell from its holdings a complete 123½-acre farm, including a nanny goat, a sow, a bee colony, gardens and 22,500 young coffee trees...
...Claire McCardell's talent but to her sharp eye for opportunity. When World War II closed down the Paris fashion market, one retailer said: "The American garment industry is now in a position to show whether it can make a silk dress or whether it will be a sow's ear." Designer McCardell made a silk dress with a special wartime twist-a long kitchen-dinner dress of tie silk, with apron to match, for women who were forced to be their own maids. When Harper's Bazaar asked her to make something in which women could...
...Sack's fumbling attempt to hush up his identity has little success. He stands exposed as a Soviet spy, smuggled to our shores to sow the seeds of sabotage...
Game of Love. First oats, as two French adolescents sow them; based on Colette's novel, Le Blé en Herbe (TIME...