November 9, 2011 1:53PM

The End of Civilization?

By Sallie James

Forced to cut its budget, the Agriculture Department has decided to eliminate dozens of reports, including the annual goat census (current population: three million), and the number of catfish on the nation’s fish farms (177 million, not counting the small fry).

[New York Times, Business Day section]

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