Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-20

the supply comes chiefly from England
and the continent. There is no at
tempt 20 push American goods OF this
kind, and the low freight rates to Eur
ope operate against our importations.
SIN trade could be built up in Amer
lean cottOns, and as soon as the trans
isthmian canal Is completed there VIII
undoubtedly be large shipments Of call
COS, shlrtings and denlms.
AMERICAN CORN FOR AUsTRAL-
IAN SHEEP.
One Of the great markets OF the fu-
ture for the corn Of the Mississippi val
ley will be In Australia. The country
IL subject to frequent drouths and at
such times food for stock Is an imper-
alive necessity In Queensland | saw
green oats straw sellng for si5 ton,
and | was told that several ship loads
OF corn had been Imported from the
Pacific states by that state to feed It's
cattle and sheep, There has been a great
drouth and the stock has died by the
thousands. one man who had $4,000
sheep and nothing TO feed them paid $40
a ton for American corn. He soaked 1t
and then fed II, and as n result saved
his flock
one who has not visited Australia
can have no idea OF the need of food in
time Of drouth. Within the past ten
years millions Of sheep have died OF
hunger and vast numbers OF thirst.
This state OF New South Wales had
81, 0O0O 900 sheep in 1891 II has not more
than Il, GOO, 600 now Within ten years
the number has fallen of more than
100000 Estimating each sheep at
$3.50. this means loss Of $50, 900 900 in
the capital stock OF the squatters In
one state only There have been large
losses In South Australia, Victoria and
Queensland. am told that numbers
Of sheep die almost every year and that
the losses during the past ten years
have been almost continuous.
THE HORRORS OF THE DRoUTH.
You need not go far IN Australia 20
hear OF the horrors OF the drouth You
can easily meet a man who has lost a
fortune by dry weather Men some
times 20 crazy on their stations far of
in the interior because the rain fails %
come. They have thousands OF acres
and tens OF thousands OF sheep. and
they have 10 sit and watch the animals
die before their eyes, knowing they can
not feed them The drouths clear the
land Of everything green. The pastures
become as bare Hs the roads and the
sheep stagger about. nosing In the dust
for the seeds OF grasses and trees
Sometimes trees are cut down TO give
them food. one man who had iO00
acres OF land kept 100 men busy cutting
on the branches OF his apple. oak and
other trees 20 feed the sheep They eat
the leaves and even the small twigs
This same man had another force skin
ming dead sheep ana another whose
business Il was 10 lift up the sheep
when they fell down and could not rise
OF their own accord This Is 20 keep
them from the carrion crows. which
hover about over them and pick out
their eyes II they fall
RABBITS AND KANGAROos.
During these drouths the rabbits die
as well as the sheep. They drop dead
outside the rabbit fences You may see
kangaroos lying here and there dead
upon the plains. ana ! have been told
that even the birds drop dead from
the trees
The RlNerlna country Is one NJ the
best shecp-raislng districts Of Australia
II produces some OF the finest wool. and
Is noted FOR It's excellent grass. In the
drouth NJ 1923 10 looked AS though "a
fire had swept over H. The most " 10
was as clean as % baseball ground n
could not have been more bare Il DO had
been plowcd. There was not q green
sprout or any sign ~ vegetable life 90
Dee seen. Last year much tha same Con-
dition prevailed in parts of Queensland
There were tracts covered with dead
sheep. cattle and horses. and dead emus
and kaugaroos were lying here and .
there over the country This ANA other .
drouths have caused reduction Boz one .