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...artificially high wool price that New Zealand maintains with its vast government price-support scheme is mostly to blame for the country's present plight. Last season the government wool commission, which protects domestic sheepmen, had to buy and store 650,000 bales, a third of the total output, at 47? per lb.-80 higher than the average open-market price for Argentine wool. Buyers from abroad were unwilling to pay the New Zealand price, which they considered outrageous...
...University of Idaho's Edward F. Rinehart, 70, expert animal husbandman of the university's extension service and senior counselor to the state's sheepmen and cattlemen. Since he first arrived in Idaho in 1912, "Riney" has come to know as much about the grazing lands and livestock history of the state as any man alive, laid the groundwork for Idaho's bull-grading system, kept his scattered clientele well supplied with learned but simple reports. Traveling by car, train and horse, he became a familiar figure in the barns and ranch houses of Idaho...
...furry blur, Rock shot off on his "outrun," circling wide and closing in slowly for the "lift." As the sheep testily pawed the turf, Rock calmly fixed them with a mesmeric eye. This nearly hypnotic power is the proud sheep dog's most important quality, and sheepmen claim that a dog must be born with it; if he does not have it, i.e., is "loose-eyed," he can never acquire...
...plot is a classic one. Montana is Cattle Country. Years before this episode begins sheep herders had tried to enter the country and share the fertile lands with the cattle ranchers, but the sheepmen were repulsed in a great battle. When one looks into the philosophy of this picture, he sees that the battle was obviously a victory for sin. For there is a principle of good living which should be obeyed: All Animals Are Created Equal...
...week's end, the council and the International Wool Secretariat, which represented sheepmen in the British Dominions, joined forces to do something about wool: they formed a new organization, the Wool Bureau, Inc., in Manhattan. By research, the bureau hopes to find some method of treating coarser wool to give it the same properties as the finer grades...