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Drought Destroys Many Cattle.

     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 […]

Eagle Whips A man.

Then Resumes His Flight With a Stolen Lamb.  Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, on 04/17/1907.     Frederick Hollenbach, a farmer living on the Schoharie Ridge, near Saegersville, was feeding the gray squirrels in his woodland when an eagle flew past that had in its talons one of his lambs. The big bird had […]

Here’s Real Gratitude.

     When a sheep was about to be slaughtered, it leaped into the stall of a horse owned by Horton Hayes, Whitefield, N. H. The horse protected it. Now the sheep trots along with the horse wherever it goes, keeping up with its fastest pace.

The Northwest, Buffalo

       Kansas      One hundred and twenty Englishmen will go to Kansas on a buffalo hunt next month. Buffalo Bill will have them in his charge.      Wisconsin      It is estimated that at least 1,000 sheep have been killed in Northwestern Wisconsin this season by wolves.

Wolves

       Our Lake County wolves appear to be emigrating northward, if we may judge from the reports which we receive from the vicinity of Racine. Last winter there were quite a number of sheep killed in several of our northern and western towns, but so far as we have heard no depredations have been committed […]

Wolves

     A farmer in Walworth County, Wis., has lost over 100 sheep by the ravages of wolves this winter.

A Wolf In Indiana.

  South Bend [Ind.] Tribune.      The readers of the Tribune will remember our several times mentioning during the past three years the terrible depredations made on flocks of sheep on Harris Prairie by a gray wolf. The wolf was often seen, but was so sly that hunters seldom got a shot at her. Twice […]

Cattle Thrown Into The Sea.

Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 03/19/1897.      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 […]

Wolves In Columbia County, Wis.

  From the Columbia [Wis.] Democrat.      The wolves are so troublsome in the towns of Lowville and Denkorra that many of the farmers think they must abandon sheep-raising altogether. Mr. Henry Delaney says the wolves have destroyed $500 worth of sheep a year from his flock. He has not increased his flock for four […]

Wolves And Farmer Fight

       Simon Helms, farmer, near Elkinsville, fourteen miles south of here, battled for almost an hour with a pack of wolves, which killed several sheep, raided a chicken coop and drove Helms family into the house after they had been severely injured by the enraged animals, which were finally driven off.      Last winter […]