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Prices in general have gone up since then, of course, but meat presents a special paradox. While its price has. stayed high, the amount the rancher gets for beef cattle has been falling, is now the lowest since 1956. Last week no less a cattleman-and consumer-than Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to unravel the paradox by appointing a 15-member national commission on food to investigate food prices, particularly those of beef...
That American folk hero, the big Western cattleman, has become more of a business executive than a broncobuster. Often a college graduate, he herds his cattle from a helicopter, feeds and breeds them with the aid of computers, waters them from electrically warmed troughs and sometimes fattens them on beer. But while he pampers his animals, the cattleman himself is having a tough time. Last week the Chicago price of prime beef on the hoof fell to 22? per lb., the lowest since 1946, and cattlemen discarded their usual suspicion of Government programs long enough to cry for federal...
...Born. His profession was forecast on the very day that he was born in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees on the banks of the Pedernales River near Stonewall, Texas. On that momentous occasion his grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, an old Indian fighter and cattleman, raced around on horseback announcing to everyone within range of his roar: "A United States Senator's been born to day." Lyndon inherited his interest in politics; both his grandfather and father were members of the Texas legislature...
...dust devils that ever ghosted across the desert before the days of irrigation had returned to haunt California's Imperial Valley. Over fields of flax reddened by a dawning sun, thousands upon thousands of mourning doves wheeled and circled, their whistling wings deepening the sense of speed. Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun. The doves' cries were tender and doleful: "Whee-eet, whee-eet, whee-eet." Torrance smiled: "When I hear that, it's all I can do to pull the trigger." And he proceeded to blaze away...
Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...