The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-22
AMERICAN DEPARTMENT ALERT
Special Precautionsto Prevent Spread
of Disease TO This Country

| Special Precautlonsto Prevent Spread
of Disease TO This Country
Washington, Aug. 22.-The officials
of the public health service without
attempting to make any predictions
regarding the introduction of cholera
into this country from Europe, are
exerting themselves to the utmost in
the maintenance of precautions. For
the last year a medical officer of the
bureau has been stationed at Libau,
the only Russian port from which
Russian immigrants embark direct
for the United States, and for the
last month special yigilanceShas been
exerted to prevent infected immi-
grants from coming through ports In
other countries. The state depart
ment has been requested to require
the detention for FIVE days OF all Rus
sian immigrants bound for the United
States, and also to require a thorough
inspection and dislnfection Of their
baggage. The quarantine authorities
of the United States have been made
aware of the situation, and supposed
ly are on their guard. So far no ca
SEES have developed in the United
States. Special attention is now BE-
ing given to the situation in Italy.
There are two officers from the bur
the third sheep state in the Union
and that in Montana or Wyoming. In
Ohio the sheep must be fed In win
ter, fenced at all seasons and housed
from storm. On the Western range
the animals are neither sheltered,
fenced nor fed. And, at that, the av-
erage yield OF wool per head is about
three pounds less in Ohio than in the
mountain states.
The range, stretching in unmeasur-
ed immensely, is at once granary and
fold. thus relieving the flock master
of all expense save the herders' hire.
On the high plateaux OF Colorado,
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, the
short, succulent grass cures as il
stands during the rainless summer,
retaining It's sweetness and nutritive
qualities. In winter the wind gener-
ally blows the dry snow into drifts
on the lee side OF the hills leaving
vast areas uncovered where the
focks can feed. But not always.
What happens when snow covers the
range Is another story.
A hockmaster is considered unfor-
tunate, indeed, II driven to the neces.
sity OF feeding his 6ocks in winter.
1t is generally considered cheaper to
allow such OF the animals as cannot
weather the stress to make an end Of /
II In their own way. II a man is
hundred miles or two from a railroad. |
in country where there's not enough |
hay grown to feed all the sheen on /
the range for ten days, there doesn't |
appear to be any more humane solu- |
ton. In the inter-mOuntaln sheen |
country, a man does not 10 into the |
business OF sheep raising with the In
tention OF ever spending cent on
the maintenance OF his animals. Ma
ture has done everything considered |
necessary by the sheepmen In the |
way OF providing food supply. Mil. |
lions upon millions OF sheep are born,
sheared and graduated into lamb. |
ohops-at four to six years OF age
that never tasted a bite OF farm.
grown produce in their lives until
they were put aboard the train TO be
taken TO the stockyards. II Nature
would only completely eliminate the
cattlemen and produce a self shearing
sheep, the sheepmen would be so
happy they might take to gadding
about over the hills in bare legs and
short skirts, piping music upon reeds,
as poets, and others just as trustwor-
try, tell US they did in the golden age
long ago. W. ogden in the Sep
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