Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-19

against all of Europe, and Old Eng.
land especially to the distress OF q
large number OF breeders, who want
to bring in horned cattle, etc.
There Is a perpetual quarantine
against the Continent OF Asia, 80 that
there Ia no chance OF getting the
sheep in by the back way. as 1t were.
so he has been hard at work figuring
out some route by which the famous
black sheep could be landed.
He has been '0rtunate. too, for, ne
tells me that this is a particularly
opportune time for picking up the
much sought karicul sheep, as there
is a big exhibit of these sheep in Rus.
|sia under the personal patronage OF
the Car. There are not many OF the
breed. and all that the Russian stock
men could assemble even for this I'm.
show was $50. Young has been
ten OF them, and he's will.
ling to keep them in quarantine any.
where for almost any length OF time,
Tx they can be brought in eventually.
Few folks know that the Persian
Lamb" is simply q trade name, and
names that mean as much or as
little are astrakan, k?ricul. and baby
lamb. The skins of the small ambs
are worth from 50 to $40 rough to the
breeder: but ~ the time that they get
into, a lady's coat, or q set OF furs,
they have to pass through five hands,
aud the price of the fur TO the wearer
Is near $50 for each skin,
One peculiarly OF the black karicuI
sheep-of which, by the. way Young
has 40, exclusive Of the ten promised
to him by a Russian stOckman-is the
persistence OF the characteristic col
or and kink to the wool. II the thor
oughbred ram is crossed with any OF
the glossy wool sheep Of the United
States the half-bred skin Ia just as
characteristic astrakan AZ though the
strain we're pure. Young tells me that
even in quarter -bloods nearly all OF
the progeny are short black, curly.
haired sheep.
There's one thing that I'D like to
make plain" he says, and that is
that the mother is not killed to get
the curly black pelt of the lamb. In
the first place, the sheep are too few
and too valuable to warrant that sort
OF treatment; and, in the second
place, J. doubt il those ignorant
tribesmen would know enough to do
1T.
Il know that many tender-hearted
women have heard and believed this
myth about killing the mother sheep
TO get the skin of the lamb, and are
prejudiced against PERSIA lamb on
that account. But the story Is sim
ply untrue"
After returning to Russia and the
karicuI show at Moscow, DR.. Young
will journey through southern Rus
STA, going as far as Kiya and up into
Chinese Turkestan and Tibet. That
trip is full of danger, especially in
and Tibet. where among
the savage tribesmen murder is a
and killing an infdel a sure
3asSport to Paradise.
Y0ung's experience has shown him
minor surgery and q hypodermic
syringe are better safeguards among
those savage tribesmen than an es-
cort OF $50 Cossacks. There were
men there he, says. with assesses
and ulcers, acute cases OF toothache
and neuralgia. and other ailments
that merely required a little modern
doctoring, but they rel In apparent
ly incurable agony without it. Hypo
dermics Of cocaine and morphine ban.
ished the pain, and some simple min.
or surgery cured ailments that the
natives thought incurable.