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WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



A lively crew will turn out a good many calves per 

 hour, all depending on the speed of the ropers and the 

 ease with which the animals can be handled. If there is 

 a corral handy the work is easier, and when it can be 

 done the calves are dodged out by dodge-gates and 

 placed in one small corral, where the men work on foot. 

 No ropes are used, a man grabbing a calf by the right 

 hind leg while his partner grabs it by the tail. A quick 



"They Are Roped and Diagged to the Fire." 



jerk and the animal lands upon its side, and before it can 

 rise it finds a man sitting on its neck and head with an- 

 other at its hind legs, and the operation is soon over. 

 Working this way, seven men will turn out seventy-five 

 calves an hour, and as many as ninety an hour have been 

 branded where everything went smoothly. 



Some outfits that have corrals, particularly in Texas 

 in the large pastures, use squeeze chutes for branding. 



