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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
The Associated Press reported a dramatic agricultural
incident this week. Seems a county supervisor with the Farmers
Home Administration went out to a Georgia farm to make a
"routine inspection." The farmer, according to the
local sheriff as quoted by the AP, jumped on the FHA man and
"without provocation" did go to the ground with him
and bite off one ear. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
This is the season when lots of young people are
going through the agony of selecting a college to attend to
stave off going to work. It's a tough time for everybody
concerned. The kids want to be free and independent; and
expect only minor support from home ... like tuition, books,
lodging, meals, and an unlimited amount of spending money. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Two or three times, I've come close to being a
cowboy. Problem was, horses don't buck one jump and quit, and
all roping contests have a two-loop limit. Been to my benefit,
too, to ranch in a catch tank county, or have river front. My
score on catching the bottom check valve or fishing for broken
sucker rods on windmill jobs matches to a tee the amount of
loops I've thrown and jerked up the slack on air. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
I do commentary on National Public Radio,
headquartered in Washington D.C. It is heavily urban in
listenership. Some have questioned why NPR includes my
commentaries. So have I. When I asked, the producer said,
"Because you’re the only one we know ... from out
there." |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
I understand there are awards and honors that a person
can win in this writing game, but I've never won any. To me
the ultimate compliment is to be magneted to someone's
refrigerator door. To correct the fact that far too few
refrigerator doors are blessed with my countenance, I have
written a guide to identifying what's in your refrigerator,
figuring you might stick it to your refrigerator along with my
face. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
Oh deer! Recent video surveillance of a quail
nest in Georgia has the quail world potentially at odds with
the venerable white-tailed deer. About midnight a month ago, a
doe was filmed as she ambled up to a bobwhite nest. She
nuzzled the nest and flushed the hen, and then proceeded to
eat every egg. Immediately the battle cry went up that a
burgeoning deer population (just about anywhere across the
bobwhite’s range) was culpable for the decline of quail over
the last score of years. |
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Dr. Jim
& Lynda McCall
On
Matters of...Equine
The cost of feeding a horse is the most expensive part
of ownership. The delicate nature of the horse's digestive
system requires high-quality feed ingredients that command a
high price. This fact has many horsemen constantly on the
lookout for a way to moderate this pricey portion of horse
ownership. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
I think computers are going from Model Ts to Model As
but not yet to Lincoln Continentals or Cadillacs. I have been
encouraged this last month by the ease with which I have
completed on-line business transactions, like paying bills and
renewing professional society memberships through their
websites. |
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