The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-08-30
Live Stock IN Other Lands

From the Chicago Live Stock world.
Dairy and poultry producers nre the
most promising branches of italian
agriculture. During the last ten years
the exports OF cheese. butter. riggs and
poultry have more than doubled. and
with the greater care now taken In
The making OF cheese and butter and
the rapid spread of cooperative dair-
les. the trade should be an important
one before long. italian cggs are said
TO be the best foreign ones In The
English market. The cooperative dair-
les. which date from 1874 owe their In
ceptlon TO n local priest. The first was
then they have spread with some
slight help from the government. to
many parts OF Venetia. Lombardy and
Piedmont.
The Argordo federation still retains
h first position. having over thirty
Ave affiliated diaries. and large factor
les. which cost over G4.o00 each. IL
takes over t.o0o.0oo gallons OF milk. and
makes i2o.ooo pounds OF butter. and an
aually pays Its members ~ per cent.
above the prices obtainabie formerly.
A great cheese factory has been founded
by the large cheese farmers OF Lodi.
With n daily production OF $4,000 gallons
of milk. Some OF these factories are
cooperative only for the manufacture
" butter n cheese. not for their sale:
but In some districts where the farmers
have federated for the sale OF their
produce. they send by parcels post even
TO Spain and Egypt.
An interesting feature Of the ma
w OF tie Essex volunteer near
colchester last year was the use OF
Major Richardson's ambulance dogs.
two Scotch collies. similar to those sold
oy b major To the Russians and used
n Manchuria. They worked among
the casualties n ferreted out men
aidden In the underground. The dogs
surgical bandages. They are trained
10 stay by the side OF n wounded and
unconscious man until help arrives. but
should the fallen soldier be In n con
iition to help himself the dogs 20 of
20 another O urgent case. The ex-
oeriments last year proved successful.
the dogs seldom failing TO ind the
wounded nan They work with the
Eyes. nose and ears. following 10 trail.
put covering the whole field OF action.
10 In claimed for them that they be-
aave more satisfactorily than blood.
hounds.
A medieval Persian. writing I'm ref.
srence To The birth OF an elephant mt
rehcran. declared that never TIL then
mad n she-eelphant borne young I'm
Iran, n more Than a lioness In Reem,
q tabby cat In China or n mare In In.
iin-" Marco Polo. speaking OF south.
ern India. writes: Another strange
thing In that there In no possibility of
breeding horses In this country. ne
hath often been proved by trial" Polo
gives full details OF the trade In horses
IN Arabia and southern India. whNch
Nas carried on I'm ships built without
any iron, being fastened together with
the nails and Irvine made from the husk
81 h Indian nut. Alden seems To
ave been the chief port In Arabia, for
~ export OF horses, oxen n Canels.
writes Polo. they export many good
chargers To- India. All their cattle. in
Guiding horses. oxen and camels live
1pon small flsh. and naught else be-
side. for tits all they get TO eat" Skept-
sicism as to the last statement may he
illayed by the recollection that Mt the
present dav I'm kamtschatka horses
and cows I'm winter subsist entirely on
iried salmon.
In 1898 the Lady Salisbury OF that
lay. n most daring rider and sports
woman, became master OF the Hert-
fordshire f~oxhounds. which were
sAliths uuElnk HfT IrlkU, the Efntfltlu
bounds. II was not until she reached
The age OF IS that she resigned the
mastership and ceased 20 follow the
~foNhounds. even then she said she
thought herself good enough 20 hunt
with the barriers. The Hertfordshire
VAS one OF the first hacks kept solely
for fox hunting. IL being established
n i125. with Mr.. John Calvert as the
FIRST master. and the kennels being Mt
Chestnut and Redbourne.
Genera Pitt-Rivcrs. In his recent
excavations ut Rushmore. Rotherley,
and other places. M established the
fact that n great variety OF dogs were
known and domesticated I'm Romono-
British days. from the nastir and
greyhound down To smaii terriers and
apdogs. The following amusing list
y given by n writer In 1906: "Thyse
re the anne OF houndes. Fryste there
~ n Grehoun. n Bastard. n Mengrell.
, Mastiff. n Lemon. a Spanyel. Raches.
Kencttys. Tcroures. Butchers houndes.
Dunghyli dogges. Tryndel tyles. and
?ryckcryd currys and small ladyes'
opees hat here awnye the fees and
iyvers small sawtes."