{"id":13796,"date":"2019-07-09T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T00:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2019-07-09T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T02:29:10","slug":"saluting-my-father-on-cow-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/saluting-my-father-on-cow-appreciation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saluting My Father on Cow Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is national Cow Appreciation Day. I salute my late father, Ken Bovard, an animal geneticist who spent his career researching beef cattle breeding. The 1958 photo below is from the Beef Cattle Research Station near Front Royal, Virginia. It was one of his all-time favorite photos and hung on the wall forever in our home.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a link to a 1969 article he co-authored on the effects of inbreeding on beef cattle. https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/45749892435\/in\/album-72157594516383915\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the summary of a 1961 article he wrote on DDT<\/a>.\u00a0 He was no fan of Rachel Carson.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to his 1965 article on dwarfism<\/a> in angus beef cattle.\u00a0 And here’s a link to a list of most of his articles & citations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here’s some photos I took on that glorious terrain<\/a> where my father worked and where our family lived.\u00a0 The Beef Cattle station was closed in 1974 and the land was taken over by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 Plenty of glorious scenery in Warren County, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The postcard below is from the 1930s – before German and Italian Prisoners of War built magnificent stone walls and turrets around the station.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a turret built by those POWs – \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Same turret on a sunnier day – \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the peach orchard where I worked for two summers, receiving daily cussings from the foreman that were great preparation for dealing with reader feedback decades later\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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