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...take their herds south over the regular stock routes that skirt Australia's vast central desert found plenty of well water, but no grazing. Some fodder was brought in, but the cost was prohibitive. In the northern pasture land the water holes began filling up with rotting carcasses. Cattlemen were killing the calves, burning dead beasts in heaps of 50, while crows and kitehawks slowly circled in the cloudless blue sky. Drought toll to date: more than 100,000 cattle...
Last week the aborigines, who have been holding nightly rainmaking ceremonial dances, gave up in despair. Government medicine men also admitted defeat, radioed northern cattlemen that no relief could be expected until next November's monsoon-if it came. One result: there will be no beef available for export to Britain this year...
...empty, rolling sand hills of northwest Nebraska, where most roads are simply twin ruts and a 10,000-acre ranch is small, some cattlemen hunt down predatory coyotes with their airplanes. When a 32-year-old ranch hand named Elaine Ellis ran wild with a shotgun and a revolver one night last week, he got the same treatment...
...Southwest, cattlemen wage a relentless war against mesquite, a ragged, bushlike tree. It chokes out the grazing grass, hides cattle at roundup time. Cattlemen have attacked it with fire, bulldozer and assorted chemicals. But it more than holds its own. Texas and Oklahoma alone have an estimated 71 million acres of it. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced that, after three years of intensive testing, it had a chemical that could win the mesquite war. The killer: 2,4,5-T (short for trichlorophenoxyacetic acid...
...popular in the West was Givando's article which condemned cattlemen for holding back steers from the market in order to kill government meat controls. In this crusade the Denver post was not successful...