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...first of all, is not an ox. Its true name: ovibos (literally, sheep-ox). Also, it has no musk sacs. It gives tasty milk, produces one of the softest wools known to man, and yields meat (though only if killed) which tastes like a combination of mutton and beef. Teal plans to lead an expedition to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian archipelago next autumn (when this year's crop of musk-ox calves will have reached the size of police dogs), snatch eight of the small fry from their mothers, and bring them back to his Vermont farm...
...With $444 incampus traffic fines paid by faculty members, Indiana University added a prize to its historical library: the journal kept by Chaplain A. Y. Humphreys of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812. Wrote the chaplain: "The last bone of fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...
Bulldogs may take their beef from dainty china service if a proposed plan to replace the metal trays used in Yale dining halls materializes...
...million down to ?250 million, a slash of 39%; prices will be allowed to rise in the marketplace accordingly. It means, Butler reckoned, that the food bill of every Briton will rise immediately by about 21? a week. Sample increases: milk from 14? to 15? a quart; stewing beef from 23? to 28? a pound; bread from...
While the Agriculture Department does not expect the farmer's price position to improve in coming months, it does not see any real relief for the consumer either. Last week, for example, it predicted that the price of beef and pork may show "material gains" by next fall because there is a decline in the number of animals now being fattened...