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The bur clover was not already on these lands. We have had 

 all the misfits coming to us working against a proposition that 

 didn't look good to a lot of people, and yet we have sold our calves 

 at less than two years/ old for the price of three-year-old mules in 

 Missouri. Under circumstances of that kind, I have been told that 

 whenever you try to make a man do something he don't want to 

 do, it is an uphill business to push him on. 



I am in the game to win and I believe we are going to win; 

 and I am a little disappointed to hear some of the discouraging 

 reports here; because I was raised in this same territory and I feel 

 that a man can make a living here. My father, a farmer, raised 

 ten boys and a daughter on this very land that everybody is trying 

 to find somebody to buy. 



Dr. Piper: How many acres of ranch have you? 



Mr. Enochs : About 7,000 acres. Not ranch — but cut-over 

 stump lands fenced. 



Dr. Piper : How many pure bred cattle ? 



Mr. Enochs : One hundred and thirty. 



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Dr. Piper: How many native? Sufncient to 



Mr. Enochs: Possibly 1,600. Graze a Cow 



Mr. L. D. Gilbert. Texarkana, Tex. : How many acres of 

 land are you using to graze those? 



Mr. Enochs : We are not grazing as many cattle as we did. 

 We have about 7,000 acres and as we get good grade heifers we 

 turn common old cows loose, because we would rather have a 

 less number of grades and breed them, than to keep the common 

 scrub-breed proposition. 



Mr. Gilbert : Are you running all of your cattle on your 

 pasture or on the open range? 



Mr. Enochs: W^e don't ever put them on the open range 

 because they go astray, and we don't get them. As a protection 

 to that weihave three brands on them and keep them under fence. 



Mr. Gilbert : How many of them, approximately, are you run- 

 ning on this 7,000 acres? 



Mr. Enochs: Our ownership now is 1,600 grades and 130 

 pure bied, but we don't need that 7.000 acres for them. We figure 

 ten acres will easily graze a cow: That is what you are getting 

 at, isn't it? 



Mr. Gilbert: Yes. 



Mr Enochs: We have grazed a cow on less than ten acres, 

 but we don't do it as against the extremes of the season. We have 



