The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24

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Washington. d. C.
The tall hostess with the spiked
head-dress who gets the first look at
Americas new arrivals Il mean
Miss Liberty, Of Bedloe's island,
New York harbor) has seen some
strange sights lately.
Some of the anxious shiploads that
pause at her doorstep hurrying
westward have brought a tear, some
a worried frown, some a hopeful
smile.
There was m group of refugees,
proud yet humble servants Of man.
luddled below decks. Miss Liberty
could not see them. Had she been
able to. she would have dipped her
torch in welcome.
For the war has brought to Amer
lea some of the finest bloodstrains
of horses and cattle from the bomb
riddled fields and pastures Of Eu-
rope.
Today, this nation holds no great
er treasure. in the deep vaults where
the gold bullion is stored, than is
sheltered in barn and stable. Some
of the great breeds of livestock,
which have been all but wiped out
in Europe, are preserved here.
Best Reservoir.
THE United States now has the
best reservoir of blooded livestock
in the world" said a department of
agriculture official to me the other
day.
The two tiny segments Of Eng
fish soil which the Nazis have taken
from the British-and the only two.
30 far-held some of the finest dairy
stock in the world: the islands of
Jersey and Guernsey, in the Eng
lish channel. When the British with
drew they gave the islanders a
chance to get QUITO go to England.
Some of the herdsmen preferred to
stay with their herds. What has
happened to those herds now we can
not learn. We do know that many
have been slaughtered for food or
because they could not be fed.
But just before that happened 100
head of the best Jersey breeding
stock were sent over to the United
States.
And before the bombs began to
rain too thickly on England the Brit
ish did what they had done
before-they exported to this coun-
try a number Of thoroughbred
horses, some of their finest racing
stock which has never before been
permitted to leave the islands, at
any price. This stock, stations and
mares both. has been sold and de-
livered to wealthy American owners.
Great Draft Horses.
What happened to the great draft
horses Of France and Belgium.
whose strains r already well es.
tablished in America. is not known.
Many, it is reported, were slaugh-
tered because of lack of fodder to
support them. Many were used for
food. for even in the piping days of
peace the continental has no preju-
dice against "steak equine"
Now. America can boast all the
pure-blood strains-horses, sheep,
cattle, hogs, and poultry. From now
on, instead of being chiefly an i'm
porter, as we have been from the
days when the first Spaniard brought
in that strange animal that terrified
the Aztecs. the horse. the Western
hemisphere will be an exporter of
blooded stock.
When the American farmer stands
among his herds or flocks, or his
wife admires her chicken yard. they
often forget that the only livestock
which lives and breathes on this
continent whose ancestors were not
immigrants is the turkey. No Won
der Benjamin Franklin thought it
ought to be our national bird. in
stead Of the eagle. borrowed from
the imperial Caesars.
Today, there are more Holstein
cows in the United States than fleck
with black and white the fields OF
the province from which that prize
milk-giver gets its name. AS a mat
ter of fact. we have the worlds rec
ord Holstein producer of milk and
butter.
Other Bovine Breeds.
And we have all the other bovine
breeds here, too. Ayreshires have
long been familiar figures on Amer
lean farms-even the red Danish
cattle and the brown Swiss are as
much at home here as some Of their
better known sisters.
1t Is not that America lacked no.
BILE blood among its herds or focks
before the war-it simply means that
the animal a~ristocracy has escaped
tn. firing squad Of the to%talitarians.
We have now become the greatest
Call for Men?
From now on you may expect
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