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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
If President Eisenhower is not a candidate for
reelection, for health or other reasons, there’s strong
likelihood a Democrat will succeed him. That’s the opinion
of our brighter political observers as well as people who play
the grain market. Did not grain pieces jump sharply, and
numerous other agricultural commodities follow suit, at news
of the President’s illness? |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
A British veterinarian wrote the
best-selling book All Things Great and Small, followed
by All Things Bright and Beautiful. As a writer, I
decided to hang around a veterinary clinic and take notes.
Might want to write a book myself. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
We are out of everything at the ranch, from
replacement stock to the smallest items. On roundups if one
horse is crippled or one man hurt, we have to stop the work.
When Jose and I drove the horses across the railroad track in
1977, leaving the old ranch, we had 40 head in the herd plus
what he was riding at the other ranch. I didn't think we'd
ever be so close to being afoot. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
It came as wonderful news that scientists had
finally mapped the human genome. Now they know the arrangement
of all the DNA that makes up the cells in our bodies. Knowing
what is right allows us to also know what is wrong, which can
help delineate and subvert genetic defects. A momentous
breakthrough, but it rang a small alarm bell in the back of my
brain. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
It's confession time, folks. I have a terrible
secret to confess. It's shameful, I know, but the bald fact of
it is that I watch Martha Stewart's television show. There.
I've said it. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
Those of you who've never had the misfortune of meeting
me may not realize that I'm part of a "mixed
marriage." That's right, my wife is a "night
person" and I'm a "morning person." You may
scoff at the distinction and think it slight, but I happen to
think it's a very BIG difference. Even bigger than a Capricorn
and a Libra hooking up, a Democrat and a Republican or a
Catholic and a Protestant. Those differences can be overcome
with good counseling and therapy. But not the AM/PM thing. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
It's said that if your only tool is a hammer, the whole
world looks like a nail. A feathered version holds that if
your whole world revolves around bird dogs, you can find a
quail everywhere you look. Take for example, politics. |
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Dr. Jim
& Lynda McCall
On
Matters of...Equine
Looking through a 1923 edition of "Diseases Of The
Horse," we came upon a section dedicated to a condition
which is similar to human hiccoughs. Ninety-seven years later,
we refer to this human affliction as hic-ups, but the horse
condition is still referred to as thumps. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
Can the Internet increase your farm and ranch profits?
Let me share some E-mail from one rancher who has seen the
future and grabbed on for the ride. Tom Ezell, who runs the
King Springs Ranch, came out of the chute three years ago by
opening a web page to market all of their ranching enterprises
on the net. |
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