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Show COWS DISCONTENTED; . FLUORIDE TRAPS BUILT "Installations designed to trap airborne fluorides at their source are being made at the Vancouver, Wash., plant of the Aluminum Company of America, at a cost of more than 1 million dollars. "Improvements were ordered after claims had been made that cattle in the vicinity were being affected by fluorides from the plant's pot room. The installations installa-tions will include hoods over the aluminum pots to collect fluor- ides, along with introduction of ventilating air, and a system of fans, ducts and washing towers." This item reminds me that when I was a young man my father and I were engaged in the livestock industry in Illinois. At that time we averaged a carload daily into St. Louis, and as we were entitled to one passenger ticket per car of livestock, whenever when-ever practicable, a colored boy was sent along who rode the top of the stock car and strummed his guitar. It was found from experience that this had quite a quieting effect on the livestock and shrinkage was somewhat reduced. re-duced. Who said the Nevada dairy rancher was wrong when he insisted that his cows gave more milk and more easily when the radio on the post of the corral was sounding a lullaby. lulla-by. And did not Beethoven quiet a bear that chased him up a tree? " CLARENCE I. WATERS. I |