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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cattaloes. Purpospful breeding has increased Canada's dwindling buffalo herd from a few score head to over 11,000. In Buffalo Park, at Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows. The resultant "cattaloes" grew up thick-hided, long-haired, with all the hardiness of buffaloes and most of the meat of cattle. They seemed excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed...
...Purity Oats Co.; owner of interests in the Kellogg Co. of Great Britain. And he has an estate, out in California, near Pomona, where among other activities he breeds Arabian horses. Last week he was reported about to send an expedition to Arabia to bring back a herd of 9 to 15 horses, which he will attempt to reproduce in native strains. Through the administration of another Kellogg, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, he was arranging the safe-conduct of his party...
Holworthy Hall--1 to 8, The Lowing Herd; 9 to 16, Eighteen Trumps; 17, 18, 21 to 24, Twelve Nights in A Bathroom...
...drawl) for five minutes about the very simple facts of the deal and for 55 minutes about himself, his many friends, his children (Clarence Douglass, aged 15, with whom he hunts and fishes; Dorothy Anne, aged 12, whom he supplies with dogs, ponies, stories and a paternal playmate), his herd of Guernseys, his frequent trips abroad...
...forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse for it, is that the author, once a sheepherder, treats...