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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · August 25, 2022 · P5

Copyright 2022, position professor correct- word, that describes a period nouncing or misspelling for
Jerry Crownover ed my spelling of drouth, to of time without much rain- my entire life. It was an em-
drought: She deducted points fall, as drouth, with a th at barrassing time for me, to find
from my essay, and caused the end. Plus, many people out in an animal husbandry
me great confusion concern- of that era never learned to class (now, they are called
ing my prior education and read (my father included), so animal science classes), that
upbringing. You see, I am a only the spoken form of many there is no such thing as a
hillbilly, raised by hillbillies, words were passed on to muley calf, to describe one
who trace their ancestry back each successive generation. born without horns. Rather,
through many generations of Ergo…drouth. the word polled is the accept-
hillbillies, of the southeastern College educators enlight- ed description.
United States. Those early ened me to many words that A castrated male hog is
Crownovers pronounced the I had either been mispro- continued on page 9

One of my favorite things
to read each week, when I
receive my hometown news-
paper, is a section where they
reprint items that have ap-
peared in that newspaper
over the past century…and
before. Last week, I was in-
trigued by an item, from the
early 1900’s, that had in-
formed the readership of that
time, “All anyone can talk
about, is the drouth.”
I was a freshman in col-
lege before my English Com-

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