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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
When people talk about cattle rustling, they’re
likely to express an extreme view. They may speak of pastoral
larceny as a part of the old, old days, as much a thing of the
past as range wars and thousand-mile trail drives. The
opposite extreme may be represented by a professional sleuth
who would have you believe livestock larceny is so prevalent
that country roads need traffic lights from midnight to sunup
to keep motorized steer stealers from running into each other. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
At the League of Insured Savings and Loan meeting
in Albuquerque, I was blessed with an invitation to speak to a
delightful, fun-loving crowd. I arrived the night before my
luncheon spot and was promptly invited to attend a "dress
western barbeque." |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
The two-section Mertzon townsite was the heaviest
stocked country in the county in the 1930s. Milk cows grazed
staked to cedars; burros ranged free to bray at the saddle
horses contained in small traps. Chickens vied for room
claimed by turkeys and geese and ducks. Dogie lambs bleated a
mournful cry on the dry springs. Rare was a dwelling without a
collection of dogs, cats and maybe a rabbit hutch. And I wrote
you about the old man who wintered over two hundred ewes on
town lots. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
It has been said that "The glory of man does
not follow him to his grave." Meaning, once you shed the
surly bonds of earth, all of your worldly accomplishments and
possessions are of no value to you. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
For some time now, I have had in my possession a news
clipping that I've been dying to share with you. The event in
question supposedly took place at Lake Isabella, near
Bakersfield, California. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
The epigram that I found scribbled on the back of the
men’s room door in a local hamburger shop has served me well
over the years: "Where you stand on an issue usually
depends upon where you sit." Such wisdom applies to the
absolute values of prickly pear for nesting cover for quail,
or appreciating why people feel the way they do on a
particular issue. |
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Dr. Jim
& Lynda McCall
On
Matters of...Equine
Inquisitive horse Ph.D.s’ minds want to know the
answer to age-old questions. So, together with Dr. James
Dinger we set out to find the answer to the question: Are dark
feet harder than white feet? As it turned out, the research
showed no difference in our hardness test between the two hoof
colors. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
Computers and farmers played an important role in the
recent rescue of the coal miners trapped in Pennsylvania. The
project was labeled "Part Engineering; Part
Miracle." |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
Las Madres … "the Mothers." I’ve never much
liked weaning time, or stripping calves off mama cows, or
doing the same thing with sheep or goats. I know it is a part
of the process of being a competent rancher, but separating
mamas from babies wrenches my heart. Maybe being a mother
myself makes me more vulnerable to these particular rites of
nature and man. |
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