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...Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most of his time conversing with the New Brunswickian Premier and eating frankfurters, than which he likes only scrambled eggs better...
...example: John Smith has a 700-lb. heifer ready for market. If shipped to the stockyards, it would net John about $30. Instead, he takes it into the co-op and has it butchered at a cost of $7. It provides him with about 330 lb. of prime beef which the butcher cuts into convenient-sized steaks, chops and roasts. These are frozen quickly and put for storage in John's locker. The same meat, bought over the counter, would cost him $90; his total cost now is $40, including locker rent. If John Smith is expecting a threshing...
Drought kills sheep and cattle as effectively as crops, if more slowly. Cattle need water, need feed even more. Since 70%, of all crops go for forage, U. S. farms mainly serve as meat factories. Last week the beef cattle situation, though it made no great headlines, was causing the Department of Agriculture its principal worry. Throughout the stricken cattle country water holes and ponds had dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought...
...Government bought some 7,000,000 starving cattle, turned most of them into beef for the unemployed. Last week Secretary Wallace ordered the process begun again, allotted $5,000,000 as a starter, planned to buy up to 1,000,000 head. Meantime, the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized sharp cuts in freight rates on live stock shipped out of famine areas...
Anemia or a deficiency of red corpuscles in the blood stream, according to such scrupulous newsorgans as the New York Times last week afflicts the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, who looks exactly like beef-eating, red-blooded John Bull...