The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-13

latitude here IL about that OF Holland
ana the animals feed out all the year
! round. Before sheep were introduced
! the Islands fairly sWarmed with wild
/ cattle and Wild horses. About forty
years ago II IS estimated that there
were 100000 wild cattle on the island
Now these have all disappeared and al
most that many sheep have taken their
places. The wild cattle were the first
cause Of the settlement OF the Islands
4 rich cattle and hides dealer OF Mon
tevideo named -Lafone bought the
right TO the southern part OF East
Falkland and all OF the wild cattle on
the islands in 1Ssi Tor $50 coo down and
the promise TO pay $4,000 additional
in ten years from 1882 In this deal he
got over GOO 600 acres OF land and TIE
skins OF the wild cattle In 1852 he
sold out his properly to the Falkland
Islands company Tor $3.50. COO and since
then this company has been the leading
power In the Falklands. IL has bought
more land, and IL now probably has
more than million acres. II has
about 10000 sheep and II has a sail
ing vessel which goes 10 London once
year 10 carry it's wool and bring uack
the canned goods, clothes. sheep farm
ing implements and other things re-
Quired by the Islands. II has n line OF
boats which periodically make the
round OF the islands, carrying the
I AeA AlANi- sum AbtdS az lNCN order ana
bringing their wool 10 Stanley for IN n
ment 20 Europe The wool Is put up in
bales just as We bale cotton. Much OF
Il goes 10 the markets by the regular
steamers That on which can.e Is
now loading In the harbor II viii take
on Zoo bales OF ESQ pounds each.
which at 10 cents a pound the price
IL viii bring in London. viii maxi a
cargo worth $S00o0.
AMONG ->EsE, erTr-DtyrDDr
1t does not take many shepherds to
care for these large focks Of sheen
The farms are divided up into fields Of
sevcrul thousand acres each ana fenced
with wire fences. so that all the shep-
herd has 10 do IS 10 ride about among
the sheep. His life Is spent upon
! horseback. each shepherd being sup
Piled with six horses The shepherd
watches the flock, he takes the sheer
( out ot bogs when they fall in ard turns
them over u they fan down The sheep
here, as in Patagonia. are large and
Fat. some OF the wethers weighing from
4 40 10 100 pounds When such sheep roll
upon their backs they cannot get up
/ Il LETT alone In this condition they
would lie and kick until they died. were
/ * not that they are killed long before
( by the birds. The buzzards here hover
over the sheep. They watch them dav
4 on it's back they swoop down upon Il
end pick out It's eyes They keep pick
/ inE ST Il until & dies In agony. An
hour or 50 later they have ripped is
skin open and torn the flesh from its
bones. The shepherds tell me Il IS in
conceivable how the buzzards ind the
sheep almost the moment they fall. ana
that they attack them even in the
night The sheep also fail into holes.
or which there are many sill over the
iSIands. II is the shepherds business
&c set them out. They have 10 be
clipped 10 keep OF the scab. and at
sht airing time which lasts for two
months, they are driven to the wool
shed and shorn. They are not
Washed before shearlng. The Wool
- carefully cut of. put into bales
OF 600 10 500 pounds, covered with bag
slng, hooped with iron. and shipped
thus 10 London for sale. Most % the
sheep are OF the cheViot and Australian
breeds. They give heavy fieeces. the
average being from eight 10 ten
pounds. and running from that up 10
twenty-one pounds. which was the act
ual weight OF a fleece cut of this sea-
sen,
a LONELY LIFE.
This lie o. the SHEPHERDS must be a
lonely one. They are YOU know. all
Scotchmen, who have been brought out
here from Scotland for the purpose.
Most OF them are married and hav6
large families Their houses are sat.
tered over the farms from fifteen ts
twenty miles apart. They are usually
built near little inlet, where ths
company's boat can bring their sun
plies, and near a peat bed The pro-
l pvietor pays each shepherd from SIS 10