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Show Many Conditions Favor Nevada's Beef Industry Nevada's beef cattle industry is riding on the crest of the wave of feed supplies and cattle prices, according ac-cording to a historical study just concluded by Howard Mason of the University of Nevada agricultural experiment station. Except for local droughts and one severe winter, the weather has been generally favorable to beef production produc-tion for nine consecutive years.. As a result, Mason said, Nevada cattle numbers are very close to the ceiling of feed production under favorable conditions. Present official count Is 422,000 head of all cattle and calves, which is 63,000 under the all-time high reached in 1916. However, methods of producing beef have changed so that more winter win-ter feed is needed, and ranges are believed to be stocked to full capacity capa-city in their present condition. Stocker and feeder cattle prices to Nevada ranchers have ranged from one to two cents higher since 1941 than in the previous war or in the stock market boom period. This has been due to the scarcity of good grass in California. Grass was poor in California last winter and feed costs also rose sharply during the year. Adjustments Adjust-ments in feeder prices were not made in time to stimulate enough feed lot operation to take quite all the current year's production. Breeding herds were not increased but there are now 9,000 more steers and 3,000 more calves on Nevada ranches than last year. Indoor Scavengers Pair your guests off and give each couple a set of clues, just as in a real scavenger scaven-ger hunt. Instead of roaming around town to find the required items, each couple must find pictures of them in magazines and present a complete j set of clippings to walk off with the ' prize. Start collecting some magazines maga-zines now you'll need a lot of them. Next day they'll be good for paper salvage. Second Childhood How about reviving re-viving some of the games you used to play at kid parties? They tell us there's a revival of Blindman's Buff springing up at teen rat races. Quick, Jack, hide the bric-a-brac! ALPHABETICAL ANTICS Maybe it's the influence of "LSMFT," or maybe it's the beginning begin-ning of a new slanguage but the soda fountain set is now talking In letters instead of words. In case you hear some of the following letters let-ters being bandied about at the soda fountain, you can answer right back. C. B. or I.? Good, Bad or Indifferent In-different (It's what you ask a girlfriend girl-friend when you meet her out with a new date. Unless He's plenty hep, he won't know you're discussing him.) B. T.O. Big Time Operator (Usually (Usu-ally the wolf type). N.O. Never Out (a description applied to a gal who never dates). T.S. Tough Situation (Usually an expression of sympathy for a pal's misfortune). C. O.D. Come Over, Dear. W.P.A. Woman Pays AIL (A Leap Year Date.) A. W.O.L. A Wolf on the Loose. (You all know that one, don't you?) B. M.O.C. Big Man on Campus. (What every wolf wants to be.) Take it from there, and make up your own. It's a TREND. TR1XIE TEEN SAYS: Grown-ups who accuse us 'teenslers of being sloppy and careless in our dress just haven't been around. Or maybe they haven't noticed Uiat we match our plaid shoe laces to our sweaters; that we wear one hair bow to match our shirt, the other to match our blouse; that we only stick the shiniest silver-colored pennies in our loafer shoes; that we wear yards of silver bangle bracelets that take time and effort to put on each morning; that we harmonize our nail polish with each outfit and that we're wizards with leg make-up. What they call our "care lessness" takes plenty of care! |
