Word: cattlemen
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...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
...made his discovery when cattlemen in North Dakota and Canada complained that some of their stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...
...steak-hungry U.S. got rare good news: into the nation's twelve chief live stock markets one day last week lumbered 156,900 head of cattle-the biggest day's receipts in 17 years. But the food still had horns & hoofs on it. Cattlemen refused to guess how many steaks-on-the-hoof would go to Midwest feeders for fattening, and how many would go to packing houses for immediate slaughter...
...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...beef will be more bony and gristly, because it is not finished on grain before going to market. The reason is that Midwestern feeders have been unable to pay Western cattlemen's high prices and still make a profit. Now that range grass is growing scarce, Western steers are stampeding, not to feeders who fatten steers into tasty corn-fed steaks, but directly to U.S. dining tables...