A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



a cull with another bull calf at foot which developed 

 into an outstanding show bull and sire. On the other 

 hand, we bought Beau Real's Maid, one of the out- 

 standing show cows of her time, paying $2,200 for 

 her. She dropped a heifer calf by a great imported 

 bull, brought over by the late Chas. S. Cross. I have 

 rarely seen a poorer calf, and it sold at a trash price 

 in a general clean-up to go some distance. I was 

 never able to follow its progeny. So there you are: 

 two jolts, one on each side. 



We follow both plans on the S. M. S. Ranch, and 

 try to save the good individual with a good get. 

 Our culling is done in the fall, when the cow with a 

 calf at foot may be seen, but invariably we leave 

 some cows which we do not like but which produce 

 calves in the top row. It is almost uncanny the way 

 in which foremen or cowpunchers generally will 

 speak of an individual cow among thousands of cows 

 as having had several good or bad calves. Without 

 attempting to explain this fact, I have checked against 

 it carefully enough to know that they know what 

 they are talking about. 



In culling cows, threes and over, we always try 

 to work to type. We throw out a cow, no matter 

 how good, if she goes too long without having a 

 calf, or appears to be a persistent misser — another 

 class which the men spot. 



Nourishment is watched carefully. Poor "doers" 

 in the winter are thrown into a small pasture in the 



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