Glacier the pig breaks world price record at $42,500
Hudson AP reports Glacier a seven month old Duroc boar bred by Wilbert and Myron Meinhart sold for 42 500 becoming the most expensive boar in history. Breeding schedule runs twice daily with high fertility and planned offspring shows. Semen sales planned at 500 per one inch vial to breeders.
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Wilbert
Myron Meinhart
Myron
Duroc
Meinharts
Meinhart
Wichita
Kan
DES may initiate cancer in the body scientists warn
Washington AP reports that DES may not only promote cancer but, when broken down in the body, could actively initiate cancer. Dr. John A. McLachlan of NIH cites evidence that DES metabolites react in mammals, potentially triggering malignancies, altering views on DES use in medicine and agriculture.
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John A. McLachlan
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
McLachlan
Manfred Metzler
Des
Iowa agency suspends Brandon Farm Products grain licenses
Iowa Commerce Commission suspends Brandon Farm Products Inc licenses to buy and store grain after failure to file annual report with the secretary of state. Tripoli Farm Products Inc faces license action for shortages and checks, while Shipley Grain Co license is revoked for accounting violations. Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery Association surrenders licenses as Mississippi Valley Milk Producers Association takes over operations.
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Brandon
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Brandon Farm Products Inc
Iowa
Wallace Dick
Rex Ross
Brandon Elevator
Tripoli Farm Products Inc
Tripoli Elevator
Ross
Federal Small Business Administration
Tripoli Farm Products
Tripoli
Shipley Grain Co
Shipley
Farmers Mutual Cooperative Creamery Association
Center Junction
Mississippi Valley Milk Producers Association
Taft Breaks 100 Strokes To Win Myopia Challenge
President William Howard Taft, a noted golfer, faced a $1,000 wager in August 1909 demanding he complete a round at the Myopia Golf Course in Boston within 100 strokes. Taft finished in 98, proving his golf prowess early in his presidency.
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William Howard Taft
Taft
Boston
Staller Named to Lead National FFA Foundation Panel
In Madison Bernie Staller is chosen to succeed Donald N. McDowell as executive director of the National FFA Foundation Sponsoring Committee. In Washington the Agriculture Department announces Wool payments totaling about 36 million dollars to bridge the wool market price and the target price, issued through local offices of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
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Wis
Bernie Staller
Donald N. McDowell
National
FFA Foundation
Washington
Agriculture Department
The
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Savannah the first planned city in the United States
The historic Savannah area in Georgia traces back to 1733 when General James Oglethorpe founded a city on the Savannah River, sixteen miles from the Atlantic, marking the nation’s first planned urban design.
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Savannah
James Oglethorpe
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