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Sheep Mortality

Saturday, May 8, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 30, 1877

       Washington, D. C., June 29,-The investigation into the losses of sheep during the past year shows a total of nearly 3,000,000 sheep and lambs were destroyed by dogs and wolves and various diseases and the aggregate money value of nearly $8,000,000. The average percentage of loss was nearly 8 percent. The proportion is […]

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An Old Soldier’s Fight With A Wolf.

Saturday, May 8, 2010
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, April 9, 1877

       Three young girls were minding a flock of sheep a few weeks ago at Vergt [Doudognel], when a large wolf suddenly appeared, and, separating some of the sheep, drove them before it. The cries of the girls irritated it, and passing near one of them, Marie S., it flew at her, knocked her […]

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Wolves In Russia.

Saturday, May 8, 2010
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 […]

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Desperate Encounter

Saturday, May 8, 2010
Published in the The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, August 13, 1881

  A Wisconsin Farmer Kills Seven Wolves After A Terrible Struggle.      Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.      Waupaca, Wis., Aug. 12,-Report comes from the town of Dayton of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer, and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drive […]

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Sheep Killed By Blizzard.

Saturday, May 1, 2010
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.      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 […]

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