Max Evans "The Rounders"

It's very rare that I read these kind of books but this particular book caught my eye and I read it every chance I got. Of course, growing up on the East Coast (New York to be exact) I know nothing about farm life or being a cowboy. I was very tickled on this one particular character in this book named "Wrangler" and the tricky horse named "Old Fooler" . Wrangler tries his hardest to get this horse tamed and needless to say, the horse always has the jump on him....

Throughout the book, you could tell that poor old Wrangler was trying so hard to outsmart this horse and each time the horse outsmarted him... It was so comical that I had to bring the book into the rest room at night to read it and everyone in the house had to laugh cause I would read at all hours of the night and snicker (silently, I thought) .

"The Rounders" is adventurous and very very comical.. a must read to believe. I only wish there was a sequel to it. Oh But there is.......

Max Evans "The Great Wedding"....... I have to read it.

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For a good Idea of the scope of Max Evans work see the following review for a movie adaptation of his work.

http://http://www.livestockweekly.com/papers/99/01/14/whlbowser.asp

the book "Men to Remember"

Who remembers the dairies and dairy farmers that have long since given way to the smelly commercial mega farms that have 1,000 head of cattle or more on one farm। This was the thought I had as I read through the book "Men to Remember"। I grew up on a farm in the mid-west and remember the kids from the Dairy farm getting on the school bus because they had that pungent dairy smell that only comes from a dairy farm। Nobody thought much about it or teased them about it, it was just the way things were। The kids were clean and the farms had to be clean in order to get a high milk grade but that smell just seemed to cling to a persons clothes. I kind of miss it now like something nostalgic that will never be again. It is sad to drive past and old dairy barn that is falling down and think about the hard work, life and love that went into producing milk. One friend joked that when he grew up he was going to invent a 6 day-a-week cow so he could get Sundays off. Cows have to be milked everyday that they are giving milk otherwise they go dry. This hard work is one of the reasons young people left the farm that paid little and demanded so much. Land-O-lakes (http://www.landolakesinc.com/corporate/history.asp) the company that this book was written for is still around today producing milk products. The Book "Men to Remember, How 100,000 Neighbors Made History" was written by Kenneth D Ruble around 1947. This book gives a history of the dairy industry in the Midwest from before 1923 until 1946. The author starts off with the history of the dairy cow who was first introduced to Minnesota by Jean-Baptiste Faribault The industry is explained from its earliest roots of back breaking work in a hostile frontier until more modern times of milk production.
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Canaries (Serinus Carius)

In the December 1938 Issue of National Geographic Magazine Alexander Wetmore writes an article titled Canaries and Other Cage-Bird Friends. He starts off with the Origin of the canary and how it has become a beloved caged song bird. One of the more interesting facts was that the this bird was introduced to the Island of Elba and to Midway Islands. The canaries on Midway are believed to be the offspring of one or more pairs of yellow canaries released on the island by Mr. D Morrison of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. To learn more go to http://www.canaryadvisor.com/wild-canary.html.

National Geographic's Change Comes to Bible Lands

National Geographic's December 1938 issue has an interesting article about the Middle East that is quite intersting given the events that are unfolding 70 years later. Frederick Simpich writes about the land between Egypt and Iran and how it has changed since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the pictures in this article are very interesting. One is of the Nile overflowing its banks and the Pyramids can be seen in the background. The last picture is the most interesting of all, it is of the American Consulate in Iraq. It is a miniature reproduction of the White House designed by U.S. Minister, Mr Paul Knabenshue. It was also the first in Bagdad to be air-conditioned. How very Ironic given the war in Iraq. I wonder is it still there.

In the Land of Moses and Abraham

The Garden Isles of Scilly

Isles of Wrecks and Bolden Daffodils

Canaries and Other Cage-Bird Friends

Bright-Hued Pets of Cage and Aviary

Marvels of Metamorphosis