Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Relief. A total of 703 counties in 19 States have been certified by the Department of Agriculture as beneficiaries of freight rate reductions on livestock feed. The American Railway Association reported that 3,733 carloads of hay and mill feed had been shipped into the stricken counties at the emergency rate. In a few States highway construction was accelerated but in others no money was available for such extra work In Iowa and Nebraska crop conditions were comparatively good and no farm credits were required...
...Feed. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde last week reviewed this problem: "The feed shortage is developing into a national rather than a local problem. The situation has become more critical in the areas first affected and new areas to the north have suffered. . . . The feed supply is now shorter than in any year since...
...estimates. Private estimators figured that the crop will then show about 1,950,000,000 bu. Declared Secretary Hyde last week: "As prospects have declined markedly since Aug. 1, the total deficit at this time (Sept. 1) is no doubt considerably larger." Secretary Hyde continued to urge farmers to feed the wheat surplus to their stock to make up for the corn shortage, declared that the U. S. was now on "domestic basis" for all grains...
...Fleaman philosophy phrases it: "They feed me: I feed them...
...which is much smaller than the female, cannot go without food for long, breaks down under the strain of heavy work, is too highly strung for circus life. Of the 500 flea species known, the human flea (Pulex irritans) is the only kind used in trained flea performances. Fleamen feed their healthy performers once a day, by simply rolling up their sleeves (usually the left one).* Sickly pets are fed more often. Since fleas live only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles, for two or three...