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...with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
Meanwhile, 365 days a year, twice a day, morning & night, the Kuesters put in an hour or two doing chores-feeding the hogs, feeding, watering and bedding the horses, feeding and watering the 20-odd beef cattle, feeding, watering, bedding and milking the three cows. The farm day is not done until Gus ties back the vane of the windmill, pulls off his overshoes and sets them neatly in a little casement near the back steps, washes (after pumping water in a basin at the kitchen sink), and sits down at the kitchen table to one of his wife...
Enlightened Republican. Kuester is an enlightened Republican. In 1932, he voted for Franklin Roosevelt, in protest against the Republican farm program "or lack of one." He is afraid of a runaway market, and his most outspoken beef against OPA is the inability of the Washington planners to understand some of the difficulties of farming. He is friendly to labor. But he is an implacable foe of promiscuous spending of public funds. Gus wants the state's finances run as efficiently as he runs his farm. When legislators start throwing money around, he unfailingly gets up and drawls: "I want...
...Beef, pork, lamb, and rice, garnished with almonds, olives, raisins, pimiento, and hot spices. *Present owner: Colonel John Jacob Astor, principal owner of the London Times...
Already Ganso Azul has brought new life into the Peruvian Montana. Indians who never saw a lamp come with bottles and even hollow canes for kerosene. With wicks stuffed into tin cans, they now have lights in their huts. A balanced diet of vegetables, fruit, beef, pork and chicken for the company's 250 employes has by example encouraged better living habits among other Indians...