PASSING OF THE FEDERAL PASTURE 



control, thereby, every pairing season, sav- 

 ing innumerable bull rights and also, other- 

 wise, in both sexes of the cattle, an immense 

 sum of valuable vitality now lost. 



Better care in every respect can be 

 bestowed on a segregated herd. Mange and 

 other diseases can be stamped out or kept 

 from spreading, which, if all the cattle run 

 together, cannot possibly be arrested. A 

 grazier controlling a first-class range can 

 afford to make ample water provision for 

 the whole year, as well as lay up hay and 

 other stover for use during the severe 

 months. Indeed he cannot afford to do 

 otherwise. If springs are fickle, wells are 

 bored. Cattle need never travel more than 

 five or six miles to water. This saves the 

 trampling of forage. Weak and sickly 

 creatures and calves receive attention. 



A good range of this order is supplied 

 with a barometer, which the foreman studies 

 as assiduously as a captain at sea. At the 

 first sign of a blizzard the cattle are rounded 

 up in the vicinity of the stacked fodder, so 

 that when the storm breaks, no matter how 



