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Show ISACRfD BULLS For OutJables 1 I High Cost of Beef Has Caused ; Texan to Import Zebus From India, '-Jfffc?- JjB To eomtat the high cost of Neef Bf lln America and to get a breed of Jrattle In America whii h will wlth-H' wlth-H' (stand the Texas feer ticks, the psacred hulls of India, i ommonly 'ISR called the aebu, being shipped into I i this country to be used for food. r-f&m The other day fort of these sa-.. sa-.. i cred hulls weresold in the stock I 6JH yards at Kansas City to a packer 'gaS1 and ere now they have been placed on the market at so murli a pound. Ml' HL Several times shipments of zebus :Jm' fo America have been made from fl 7ndla. and they have been eaten . $JH l jhere with relish, although the Hin-i Hin-i HI tin will not touch the sacred anl-mnls anl-mnls They crov: in the Phillpilne I : " ; nds and the fact that the v '' 1 f ' I'll'- hiiM i-.-iiiMcrl ihf "'tHHs Hupening of zebu ranches in the jj.-l .1(10 -V tj The animals sold at Kansas City I LW ' 1 " not -s,1,l'l"-'l in from India. 'BKB'i'hf were f.ne ,-eneration removi I I B1 ""' tn land w here the; wert V SMvorshlpped. Perhaps that make-" ,"JHB Bhem profum-iy American, but they Lh 'h' L'r''i, b'linp and tin' mi ih- Hflf'vc horns of the Indian animal Ign'H Their bellows ..i r plaint were jBnUHl " n i i t - commonly American. H9H The shipment fame from BIr like. Tex. where the parent stock .5'.sMB hipped sever;.! v ears ak'o b b the Ward Cattle and Pasture f'om-Wk f'om-Wk P-ny. It hoped to improve its s k by er,,?.intr t,,. hrr-ed. and HH pltms H 'rain (hat won!.! resist HH the fever tides. I H ,n that the company has been successful. The half-breeds are not Hj troubled with the tick V'jK Tne hulls, which are really culls ff.ydMl nf 'hr tdg herd at "Rig Lake, are In I ,,n' shaDe- They weigh around 1fcS 120n Ioundy- black and dun ;-'sSH! ''n'' n,ous Pr'"v in color and will ,1 dress out well on Ihe block. It I i-5fjwB nf'licved- Tests made at Fort Worth fiOW "h6w less loss in killing ihan with the average Texas cattle, due to a bi iter distribution of flesh. B "Xt ' tnf b,e hump over the fgjBB; shoulders, the most distinctive fea-WM fea-WM tures of the cattle are the massive horns like medium cornucopias. A11 the horns of those hrc have H 1 f"n Upped to make them less dan- rerous but even at that some of tl&H lhm aro two ff,?t long and are I olr In-hes through at the base. In India the natives never kill J rne f these animals. Thev best I them around, work them nearl- to I lp"th. fracture a rib nr two when . I peighbor'a bull climbs into their fcSH front ar'1 and takes up his abode Ml on ,hf- front porch but kill them'' Never.' They may lie with a broken H ,0 and JackaSa hovering ahout m tne,n, ht native would ri s sor.n I thmk of cutting down his mother I 14 A f f A nvr with an ax as to put the animal out of Its misery. When a man dies in India his neighbors have a fine way of keeping keep-ing his tnemon vividly green. They get young bull, have it bleated by the priests, and henceforth that '"ill wanders where it pleases, free from work or molestation. If it walks into a store and samples some article from the shelf, the storekeeper Is naturally reminded of the dead man and the God Shiva is supposed to be pleased by reason of the hull being set aside for th dead man inchi;asi; of population CAUSES CATTLE SCARCITY. The increase In populutlon is the biggest cause of the scarcity of meat "We, have broken the grazing lands and turned them into farms and have made no other provision for the raising or animals Farms arc more productive than grazing lands. We can raise more cattle Jo the acre of farm land than we ban 10 the acre of grazing land, yet we do not do it. The last thlrtj yea rs has witnessed wit-nessed the practical extinction of the runge steer. He Is found -nly In scattered grazing territories. In South America he has been crowded crowd-ed off the earth as the Pampas have been broken up to make room for the growers of wheat Then, too, we eat a great deal r.f ea). A recent convention of stock dealers deal-ers In national session declared against the use of veal for food. They showed how calves were sold for the tables of the rich while the poor did not have enough to buy be-f. , raif is so much smaller than s full gtown steer that the waste Is apparent. But it lakes Mm to grow a steer and In times of drouth the farmers get rid of their surplus stock as a measure of necessity Heldes they get fancy pru e8 for veal. If the laws against the slaughter ef veal became universal it would result In the greater production of beef for our consumption. The Indications In-dications aro at present that beef soon will pass off the bill of fare In the average home, unless conditions con-ditions change greatly. To bring about this change is the purpose of the men who are importing im-porting the zebu and cross breeding breed-ing him with the American beef animal As food the zebu cannot brine a ABOVE A calf and steers ready tor slaughter. Center A sacred bull. Below Be-low A butcher noting the hi.ch price of meat. higher price than beef. It is the same and advocates of the use of l lu- meat of thjgi sacred bull say it is better and the meat is distributed well over the body. They argue that when we once get to growing the new kind of beef animal it will result m it bemg grown in Mexico and the islands of the Pacific, as well as In Texas, and a great supply will then be furnisher us. banners have not et been convinced con-vinced of the desirability of raising beef tattle for the market to any laiKe extent. In the vicinity of the larger i-llirs there are many dairy ' irn s, but the feeding stock farms are n-t as numerous as they need to he to supply the demands of the meat -eaters of the cities. The farm-era farm-era usually raise sufficient meat for i c K their own consumption, but do not raise enough to supply their city cousins. Formerly when only a small percentage per-centage of the people lived in the cities the meat problem did not amount to anything, because the small surplus of the farms and the jg rXv hlg surplus from the open range supplied the nieds Today the pop-ulatlon pop-ulatlon of the cities is Increasing ever ..ear. an. I la outstripping the. population of the rural dlttrit te. The back to the farm cry calls some people, but It cannot call thoft uho left it Thev-are having a hard Struggle for existence in the rltiev bui they do not relish the Idea of returning to the long hours they remembered when they were boys on the farm. The fact that the farm of todar Is ) a .llffcrent thing from what It used to be does not snare many. The -v icople don't want to go back to the farm and we are on the high ro.id to vegetarianism in spite of the fact we have no religious scruples agalnJt eating meat. Rigors of Farly Day TrnvcL In 170 1 Madam Knight -.vent from Boston to New York on horseback, and her experience, with bad road;, miserable taverns or huts where she Stopped lor the night, ive us a dismal dis-mal picture of the rudeness of the times. I (m October 1701, she wrote In her Journal- "Began my journey from Boston to New Haven: being about two hundred miles." The fond offered at the taverns was apt to be trying, in one place the ".ab-bage ".ab-bage was of so deep a purple," she thought it had been "boiled in the dye kettle." tjhe speaks of a "can-noo" "can-noo" so small and shallow that she kept her "eyes steady, not daring so much as to lodge my tongue a hair's breadth more on one side of mi mouth than tother, nor so much as think of Lott's wife, for a wry thought would hav e ov ersett our wherey." She wrote that after leav ing New London: ' wee advanced on the town of eabrook. The Rodes all along this u.i are very bad Incumbered with Rocks and inountalnos passages, which were very disagreeable to my tired carcass. In going over a Bridge, under which the River Run very swift, my hors stumbled, and very narrowly escaped falling into the water, which extremely frightened fright-ened me. But through God's goodness good-ness 1 met with no harm, ana mounting again, in about half a miles Rideing came to an ordinary, was well entertained by a woman of about seventy and advantage, but of as sound Intellectuals as one of seventeen." After (. rossing Sav brook Perry she stopped at an Inn to bait, and to dine, but the broiled mutton -.as so highly flavored that the only dinner din-ner received was fchrougfl the 6ene of smell After leaving Killing-worth, Killing-worth, she was told to ride a mile or tvo, and turn down a lane en the right hand. Not finding the tens, she continues " e met a oung ft:I-low ft:I-low and ask't him how farr it was to ttie lane, which turned down t Guilford. He said we must ride a little further, and turn down by the corner of Uncle Sams ixitt." .The found the people possessed of as "large a portion of mother wilt, and sometimes larger than those who have been brought up In Cittiea" but needing "benefltt both of education and conversation." Making shrewd comments she reached Rye, and stopped at a tav ern where she ordered a fricassee, but could not eat it, she was then conducted to her bedroom, by wav of a very narrow stairway. She ea.v s "arriving at my apartment, a little lit-tle Lento Chamber furnisht among other Rubbish with a high Bed and a low one, Little Miss went to scratch up my Kennell. which Rus-selled Rus-selled as If she'd been In the Barn among the Husks, and suppose such was the content? of the tlckin nevertheless being exceedingly weary, down I lay my poor Carkes. and fund my covering as scanty as my Bed was hard Annon l heard another Russelling noise in the Room called to know the matter. Little Miss said she was making a bed for the men ;who. when they were in Bed, complained their leggs lay out by reason of its shortness My poor bones complained bitterly, not being used to such lodgings: and so did the man who was with use: and poor I made but one Orone, which was from the time I went to bed to the time I Riss. which was about three in the morning. morn-ing. Setting up by the Fire till ' iok up o ine r ire un light." Through mud, forests and all sorts of difficulties she mde her journey to New York and homo again in Roston. and after an absence of five months, she broke out Into the following fol-lowing verse' "Now I've returned to Sarah Knight's, Thro" many toils and many frights. Over great rocks and many stones. God has presarv d from fractured bones." If? "No disaster more horrifying could be imagined than that which would occur If New York City should have a great earthquake." opines Frank N Went worth. You are right. Mr. Wentworth. It would he almost as bad as If the sea suddenly sud-denly should rise 1,000 feet, as if Mars should fall on Gotham, as if 10,000 nrmed Japanese should spring up on Broadway And. according ac-cording to scientists. Just as likely, too Cincinnati Times-Star. |