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...Pork. As Ezra Benson moved across the U.S., such assistance was needed. In Chicago he trudged through the manure in the stockyards, spotted and sold (to a livestock commission buyer) a choice lot of hogs at $15.25 a hundredweight, 25? above the day's previous high. Given a stockman's cane as a souvenir of his feat, Benson later referred to the cane as a reminder that hogs should never "go below that price again." But before the week was out, the top for hogs in Chicago had slipped...
Eddie had good reason to toss and turn. To any student who intends to spend his life as a stockman, a judging contest is more than just a game. It means days of extra training (six to eight hours a week, plus special workouts during holidays); it is as nerve-racking as a final exam, as grueling in its way as a Ph.D. oral. It is also a part of U.S. education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making...
...Kansas Republican Frank Carlson, 61, a farmer-stockman who has a long record as a conservative state legislator, governor, U.S. Representative and Senator...
...flourished for him. In a frosty Pennsylvania stadium, he ate an alfresco box supper with 9,000 (see below). South of the border for one day, he offered a champagne toast to the President of Mexico. In New Orleans he took on a flaming sunburn, in Kansas City a stockman's Homburg. In Abilene he picked cornflowers from his mother's garden and gave an old girl friend a resounding and public kiss. Through it all. Ike seemed to be having the time of his life, and the cheering crowds seemed to say to opposition politicos of both...
Theft-Proof Wheat. The Roosevelt Stockman's Association put on sale confetti to foil wheat thieves. (For the last few years there have been several big wheat thefts a year in Roosevelt County, Mont.) Packaged with a code number printed on each piece of paper, the confetti is mixed with the farmer's wheat, and the code number recorded by elevator men when the wheat is traded. If the wheat is stolen, the code number makes it easy to identify when resold...