Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high and 60 ft. long, to prepare food for the 10,000 cattle he fattens on his feed lots near Greeley, Colo. Truckloads of corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...
Nothing is allowed to impede the pursuit of perfection. Vantress discards any rooster whose offspring have high combs -a low comb means less slaughterhouse waste. Each half ounce that Vantress raises the dressing-out weight puts $30 million in the pockets of his customers. With an equal devotion to his job, Saglio recently decided that keeping chicken pedigrees in card indexes along with millions of measurement records involved the possibility of missing some choice genetic combinations. Now an IBM machine tabulates information on his birds. Tba machine decides which breeding rooster should go with which breeding...
When the birds reach market weight, Jewell sends a truck to get them-and to deliver more baby birds. At his processing plant in Gainesville it takes only 60 minutes to bleed, scald, pluck and eviscerate, separate the birds into parts. Once separated into bins, the parts are put back together, without regard to which bird they came from originally, to make a package of standard weight. He processes 50,000 birds a day, has his own trucks distributing them all over the South and the Midwest, and as far as San Francisco, from where many are shipped frozen...
...stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs never know weight-killing struggle...
Yale, supporting a 4-1 Ivy League record, has at least three wrestlers considered championship threats in next weekend's Easterns at Cornell. They are 123-pounder Andy Fitch, Hardy Will--at 177--and heavy weight Bing Sherrill...