The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-10-21

neighbor has sheep and cows. IN d
fourth, sheep, cows and goats gra
together, Each year the previous (
serve viii be ready for sheep and d
other areas each advance one stage,
that, eventually, the entire barren II
zegovina will be fertile and green
Some dozen years ago we int
duced the latest innovation, 1. O., II
resurrection idea. A field is taken 1
the government cleared of everythi1
declared reserve and then the wee
which had previously been crushed \
the nibbling Of cattle and small
herds, so that they sent out sever
sideshoots, instead OF one main sta
are permitted to rise. Then su
plants as are harmful to the major
are cut out and the land allowed
green with the others. The venture
a paying one and thousands OF acr
have been covered by the process.
"Still another way of fighting d
havoc done through the centuries {
the goat is in sowing vast amount
seeds over the barrens by hand u
have very strict forestry laws In IL
region and violations are subject
imprisonment. Instead Of falling i
men, however, they are set to gath
ing seeds, which is far more pleasat
being out In the open, than remainiI
In the cells Consequently, II but o.
wild seed in 500 thrives, the ventu
pays. 1t costs the government MOI
ing and the produce of that one Sc
win help spread the good work \
definitely.
I'm the north Of Herzegovina the
is still some primeval forest that
being cared for and made productlj
by like ingenious methods.
Water Must Be Conserved.
Conservation Of the water, I'd
needs to be considered along with i
forest In the winter we now na
too much water by far III the desef
and in the summer not nearly enoug
Streams dry up, and when It raj
the water is sucked into the soil y
fore 1t can trickle down the mou
tains. the stones carrying It on al
causing it to disappear until Dece
Der, when the country is hoode
Government cisterns have to be bull
in consequence, each city keeping hI
cisterns clean. and In July and Augu
each year laws are passed reg1Iati
how much water each household
may draw.
AT such times the goats and cat
are driven into the mountains by i
children, six to eight hours distand
to find running water and pasturas
Into the Bosnian Alps the cattle al
sheep and horses and goats are driv9
together The pastures there al
guarded by the government, and it
fixed Just who may pasture in Civ
area and exactly how many head
animals he may bring into such
space, in order to prevent the ruiz
ton of grazing. The end Of April vi
nesses thousands of goats driven I'M
the mountains for the summer. Her
ers from each family accompany, al
these spend the summer on the peal
making cheese and white, round cakI
Of lard OF butter, from which the fol
will live In the winter"
Now, though, the war has chang
all this. Most Of the goats have be-
driven of, along with the cattle al
horses, for the armies OF Franz Joz3
What remain must be tended By Il
women, who must also look aft
their homes, tend the wounded as Thu
come back, and bury the dead. Mea
while the reserves are being plunderI
by such animals as remain and Il
guards to these are busy elsewhef
Havoc, ruin will result, and destrp
ton from which the region win nj
recover for weary decades to come.