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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
In their annual conventions this year,
members of the Colorado cattle and sheep
associations were called upon to vote whether
they should go on record as approving or
disapproving a regulation of the Denver Stock
Yards Company requiring dealers licensed by the
yards to complete all livestock grades in the
yards — where the yards company will get its
share of the various charges involved in each
trade. The yards rule applies to trades made in
most of the state of Colorado. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
August is expected to be hot, but
hotels have over-reacted. The thermostat must be
guarded by a crazed, homesick Eskimo. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Last year one of my sister’s
college roommates came back from her
editor’s job in New York to visit. She edits
Home magazine for the Conde Nast
publishing group, and travels over wide scopes of
the world studying homes and homemaking. One
thing she noted in a talk at luncheon was that
the new designs in homes are eliminating the
dining room and reducing the importance of the
kitchen. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
So there I was in the heart of
sheep country, northern Alabama, talkin' to Phil.
He maintained a flock of over a hundred ewes. His
primary market used to be club lambs to the 4-H
and FFA showmen. Now he has become the golden
goose of the ethnic diners. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
A friend who publishes a Western
life and literature on-line magazine was
contacted recently by an English film company
researching a planned documentary on the
"concept of beauty and the science behind
it." |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
Some animal rights and vegetarian groups
want you to boycott the stuff that holds animals
together: leather. Or what the People For the
Ethical Treatment of Animals refer to as
"hairless fur" or "dead cow
skin." |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
Hearts race as the brace
of setters approach from a hundred yards
downwind. Nervous, yet barely audible, commands
of tick-tick-tick permeate the plum thicket. The
intra-covey early warning system gives the 1st
lieutenant time to rattle out the orders of
retreat, should the quail-hoovers continue on a
collision course with the anxious colins. His
voice is that of experience, and his plan for
evasive maneuvers has worked before. Sure enough
the intruding dogs slam on the brakes a scant
fifteen steps away. And to the quail's dread, two
upright figures with orange vests approach from
the same direction shouting orders of their own |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
I started writing these columns in order
to encourage small farmers and ranchers to use
the computer to increase their profits by smarter
methods. Eight years later, I see the need to
encourage "seniors" to become familiar
with computers. I am 73 and fall into the senior
category. |
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