Farmer Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his tenant-partner Arthur D. Hoose are quitting the milk business. Last week, while co-owner Morgenthau was touring the battlefronts, Hoose announced that their herd of 100 purebred Jersey and Holstein cows would be put up for sale on Dec. 11. The Dutchess (N.Y.) County Fishkill Farms will be planted to fruit trees.
In Washington, Secretary Morgenthau's Congressman, lank Hamilton Fish, lamented the sale, presumed that his constituent was selling because of the serious corn shortage in the East. In the Senate North Dakota's William Langer cried "If...
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