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Rhode Island State College at Kingston, R. I. has 612 students and 49 professors. Also, it owns a herd of 40 fine cows. For the last 39 years, professors who wished milk were obliged to go to the cowbarn with a can and cart it home as best they could. Last week it was announced that milk will hereafter be bottled and delivered to faculty members. Cost: 12? the quart...
...their lovesick fancies up the coasts of Oregon and Washington toward the Pribilof Islands, their mating grounds, the U. S. sends its Coast Guard to escort them, allows them to be killed only by aborigines in canoes, using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over the head, stick them through the heart. Down...
...paid Russia $7,200,000 for Alaska in 1867. In the first 40 years the Government made nearly one and one-half times that amount by leasing the privilege of killing seals on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, which are a part of Alaska. By then the herd of seals was sadly depleted, so the U. S. made a treaty with Japan, Great Britain and Russia which gave the U. S. exclusive rights to the Pribilof herd. Japan and Great Britain each got 15% of the skins for leaving the seals alone on their way to the islands...
Foremost of the cattlemen was the late Col. Charles Goodnight. His first wife-persuaded him to preserve four buffalo calves. The present herd is their progeny...
...what he termed "going into a corral and shooting down so many milk cows." The Texas Senate passed a bill authorizing the State Game Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European herd is the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, England, where he has successfully crossbred...