The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-12
Europe Through
An Editors Eyes
BY JAMES M. COX.
Ex-Governor of Ohio.)
ARTICLE II.
"a Birdseye View of Europe"

"a Birdseye View of Europe"
= The bird life, in Europe is not COM
parable to that in America. On the
continent you do not hear the song of
the lark; the robin redbreast is miss
ing and if the cardinal is there, did
not see him. The mountains were ex-
tremely disappointing in this respect.
Singularly, England, which lies far
Their to the north, = has many more
birds. In France, you will find ring
necked pheasants and some quail pre-
cisely like our own. England has the
grouse which nests in the moors, some
pheasant and partridge which in the
middle west is called the Hungarian
pheasant. It's about twice the size of
a quail. 1t has never thrived in our
country. 1t does well, however, in
England.
When one sees the flowers of Am
erica and Europe, he is apt, if he
knows nothing about the wondrous va
riety of bloom in the orient and the
tropics, to conclude that there is moth
ing new, at least in the growth of
flowers, under the sun. The old trum-
pet vine is found from Brittany to
Rome, and all through the Alps, Aus
tria, Czechoslovakia, Germany and
Holland.
The French, Germans, Dutch and
English are great lovers of flowers.
The saliva or scarlet sage is seen ev-
erywhere. The oleander is grown in
pots in northernmos: parts of France
and Germany, but after one gets in
the regions of the Mediterranean, he
finds it is as hardy as the rhododeH-
dron. The beauties of the hydrangea
which we Americans have admired so
much in its best development in the
White mountains are seen to their
best advantage in northern Italy, as
one leaves Milan and approaches the
lake regions. The geranium, however,
does better in Europe than in Amer
lea. ~
higher in America, Continental Eu-
rope, for the most part, has only mon
grel types of cattle. In America we
breed specifically for milk, butterfat
or beef. In Europe, food, aside from
milk, is not considered. The cows
must pull the pillow and make confri-
button in milk and butter. Holland,
Of course, has beautiful herds of Hol-
steins. The Jersey and Guernsey Is
lands are yet the base of fine breeding
in these types of cattle, but you don't
see much of them on the continent.
Struggle for Existence.
The Norman family of horses is in
vogue in the northern parts of the
continent. Belgium, in some respects.
has improved the breed The suffolk
horse Of England is a refinement of
the type. The saddle horses are fair.
No one would be interested in import
wing sheep to America except from
England and Scotland.
The hardest struggle for human ex-
istence which we saw was in the Cav
ennes mountains, north of Avignon.
To /sn outsider, the scenes here are
pathetic, but the mcuntaineers, who
know little or nothing of the outside
world, seem perfectly content. Wheat
fields wrapped around the mountain
slopes look like mere strings Of color.
In many instances they are not over
ten feet wide. In some sections there
are no cattle. The goat supplies milk
and cheese, and the human food coz
sists almost entirely of bread. cheese,
wine and a few potatoes. The grape
will grow anywhere.
The most impressive governmental
experiments now going on are in Ire
land, Czechoslovskia, Albania and Ger
many. These questions will be treat
ed later. Stripped of eastern Europe.
it is perfectly apparent that central
and western Europe must depend, in.