Here is another whimsical story in line with the tax drummers of Bangalore..
" The herd of 25 goats rumbled into the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington, passing tombstones engraved with words such as the "Honorable" and "Edgar Hoover". They had been taken there for a mission. Over the next week, the mission of these goats was to eat more than an acres worth of poison ivy and English ivy, which are imperiling the historic cemetery's trees and endangering the gravestones.
The 206 year old cemetery is owned by Christ Church of Washington and has about 60,000 people buried there with about 1000 spaces left. Aside from Hoover, the cemetery's other major celebrity is John Philip Sousa, the American composer famed for his patriotic marches. Dozens of of members of congress, 10 Washington mayors and numerous Indian chiefs are buried on the grounds. Now the cemetery conducts two burials a month, brisk business compared to five years ago.
The operators of the cemetery figure that these goats are a cheaper and less toxic way of cleaning up the 35 acre property. As these goats strode into the woods, biting their way through morning glory, honeysuckle, poison ivy and other vines, they solved an expensive problem. The more the ivy smothers the trees, the heavier a tree gets and the more susceptible they are to crashing down damaging gravestones. The ivy's leaves also can interfere with the trees photosynthesis killing them. After all the herd of 25, which grows to 55 only costs $ 4000 per week.
And how effective are these goats? The spokesman pointed out that "although his goats won't eat some of the areas vegetation, they should clear enough leaves and stems off trees from seven feet high down to the ground. They've got very very nimble lips and tongues."
" The herd of 25 goats rumbled into the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington, passing tombstones engraved with words such as the "Honorable" and "Edgar Hoover". They had been taken there for a mission. Over the next week, the mission of these goats was to eat more than an acres worth of poison ivy and English ivy, which are imperiling the historic cemetery's trees and endangering the gravestones.
The 206 year old cemetery is owned by Christ Church of Washington and has about 60,000 people buried there with about 1000 spaces left. Aside from Hoover, the cemetery's other major celebrity is John Philip Sousa, the American composer famed for his patriotic marches. Dozens of of members of congress, 10 Washington mayors and numerous Indian chiefs are buried on the grounds. Now the cemetery conducts two burials a month, brisk business compared to five years ago.
The operators of the cemetery figure that these goats are a cheaper and less toxic way of cleaning up the 35 acre property. As these goats strode into the woods, biting their way through morning glory, honeysuckle, poison ivy and other vines, they solved an expensive problem. The more the ivy smothers the trees, the heavier a tree gets and the more susceptible they are to crashing down damaging gravestones. The ivy's leaves also can interfere with the trees photosynthesis killing them. After all the herd of 25, which grows to 55 only costs $ 4000 per week.
And how effective are these goats? The spokesman pointed out that "although his goats won't eat some of the areas vegetation, they should clear enough leaves and stems off trees from seven feet high down to the ground. They've got very very nimble lips and tongues."
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