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Sheep raisers regard ewes as rather lazy beasts; most of them produce each year only one crop of lambs. The rest of the time they contribute nothing but wool to their owners' support. Last week Armour & Co., which has a commercial interest in lamb chops, announced a method of making loafing ewes do double duty...
...trick is done with hormones. Unlike some other domestic animals (e.g., mares), a ewe does not come into breeding condition soon after lambing. If she "lambs" in spring, she is seldom ready to start again until the following fall. Working under an Armour grant, Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only...
...first in a series of organ recitals at Memorial-Church. Carl Weinriok, Horace Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer in the Music Department will play selections by Bach, Mozart and Hindemith starting...
...Author Jefferson complains that many British and U.S. writers of hymns for children "have had what one can only term 'the lamb obsession.' 'Lambs' appear over and over again, while 'little lambkin' is not unknown ... It is extremely doubtful whether any child finds the term agreeable ... It was long before hymns, deliberately written for the young, could be cleared of the constant, and quite untrue suggestion, that the child's constant concern was with the thought of heaven and the life hereafter...
...Poor Lamb. A stammer when he spoke Improved his gentle little joke, Which had a point-but one that went Best with an impediment...