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...that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
Common wherever three-and five-gaited horses are bred, "nicking" is especially prevalent in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois. Humane societies have long agitated against it. Most breeders admit its cruelty, say they cannot sell their horses without...
Some 5,000 residents and Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or twelve pigs. It's the old sow that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they...
...Heartbreak Hill's jockeys crossed the finish together last of all, both riding Dusty Foot whom they had caught in open country. In the largest finishing field on record (18 out of 34 starters) Forbra, last year's winner, was sixth; Trouble Maker, the only U. S.-bred horse in the race, 15th. One of the few respects in which last week's Grand National ran true to form was that the winner, at 25-10-1, was an outsider...