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The Chester White is the most durable of the white breeds; it can gain as much as 1.36 pounds (0.62 kg) a day and gain 1 pound (0.45 kg) for every 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of grain it is fed. Their pale color leaves Chester Whites prone to sunburn; they must be given access to shade in the summer.
After May 6, 1861, the state was part of the Confederate States of America: Thomas D. W. Yonley: 1864–1866: After April 9, 1865, the state was once again part of the USA David Walker: 1866–1868: Ousted by military commander: William W. Wilshire: 1868–1871 John McClure: 1871–1874: Constitution of 1868; previously an associate justice ...
The American Landrace is a long, lean, white pig with 16 or 17 ribs. The head is long and narrow, the ears are large and heavy and hang forward close to the snout. The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat. The side is even and well-fleshed and the ham is plump but not over-fat.
Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith ’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr . in an assassination attempt.
The development of the breed began in 1947 with crosses of Berkshire sows to boars of Danish Landrace and Chester White ancestry. The goal was to produce a pig that would be appropriate for crossing with the Yorkshire, the dominant breed in Canada at the time. The Lacombe was eventually unveiled to pork producers in 1957, and quickly grew to be ...
Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States on June 15, 1836, entering as a slave state. Antebellum Arkansas was still a wilderness in most areas, rural and sparsely populated. Slavery had existed in the area since French / Spanish colonial times, but had been limited in scale until after statehood.
State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the United States Senate; State delegation to the United States House of Representatives; For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The State of Arkansas defended the convictions from a narrowly legalistic position, based on the US Supreme Court's earlier decision in Frank v. Mangum (1915). It did not dispute the defendants' evidence of torture used to obtain confessions nor of mob intimidation at the trial, but the state argued that, even if true, these elements did not ...