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...three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of oppossums, wodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, raccoons, crayfish and sheep. Each winter the farmers of Wake-field and Reading, donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY MAINTAINS LARGE COLLECTION OF ANIMALS FOR RESEARCH | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

...Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield and Beading donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zoos Consisting of Almost Every Known Living Organism Maintained Throughout University by Research Fanatics | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

They do their work most thoroughly and with a goodly will. Without them what could we do with the fruit skins and the swill? They are the benefactors of mankind and play a heavy part, Though they annoy us in the morning with their very early start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: For White Wings | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Buffalo Mary Kascmarek, 2, was placed by some older children in a cardboard packing-case near the curb. Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill. When the wind blew back his wagon tarpaulin, the garbageman discovered Mary Kascmarek, wiped her off, took her home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swill | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...comprising Rum Row lurks twelve miles off New York Harbor. But no one on the tug M. Moran, which towed the E, or on barge P, which was part of the tow, had seen anything untoward happen. A Federal inspector stationed on the M. Moran to see that the swill was dumped out far enough had nothing to report, but was exonerated by the harbor authorities because after the dumping he slept "as is the custom of Federal inspectors on such duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scow E | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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