Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 20, 1894
    No country in the world offers greater facility for stock breeding than does Argentina, in South America, and in no place is breeding carried on more extensively. The late droughts there, however, have played havoc with the herds, and reports from a single province show how great has been the destruction. This is the […]
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Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
    A ferry-boat load of cattle were being taken across the Illinois river at Newport recently when they became frightened and rushed to one side of the craft, upsetting it. One of the men in charge, and all the animals, were drowned.
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 17, 1896
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 01/17/1896. Â Â Â Â A novel scheme for saving his cattle from the droves of coyotes that infest the region has been hit upon by a rancher of Glen Rock, Wash. He has placed bells on the necks of a great number of cattle in his herds, and […]
Published in the The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 29, 1907
 Ranchmen Suffer Heavily From Depredations of Wolves.     Vernon Bailey, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, September 23, 1876
     The Russian Government has recently published statistics of the damage done by wolves throughout that country. It appears that there are not less than 170,000 wolves inhabiting the Empire, and that 200 persons were killed by them during the last year. The destruction of cattle and poultry by these marauders is enormous, almost […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 19, 1897
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/19/1897. Â Â Â Â The Beaver line steamer Lake Winnipeg, Capt. Taylor, twenty-five days out from St. John, N. B., has arrived in Liverpool. Capt. Taylor reports having had a terrible voyage, during which the vessel had such a large quantity of water in the engine room that […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, December 12, 1875
 A Child Eighteen Hours Among Snapping And Growling Wolves.     On Saturday evening last. Platteville, Col., was startled by the report that a little girl aged about 9 years, a twin-daughter of a Mr. Suthorland, who recently moved into the neighborhood, was lost on the plains. It appears that the child accompanied her father […]
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, September 12, 1876
 London Daily News     Russia is still a good deal behind the rest of Europe in the matter of wolves. These animals, whose heads used to be a source of income to the borders of Wales, and of which the last were slain in Scotland by Cameron of Lochiel, make a considable figure in […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 29, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois, on 05/29/1903. 1,500,000 Lost in State of Montana Since Last December. Â Â Â Â Statistics compiled by President T. C. Power, of the Montana board of sheep commissioners fixes the total number of sheep lost in the recent blizzard at 900,000. Up to the time of the storm 600,000 […]
Published in the The Libertyville Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 6, 1903
Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/06/1903.     Chicago’s consumption of livestock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of the internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph during […]