32 RANCHING IN THE CANADIAN WEST 



Railway Company, by which any actual settler in 

 any part of the Western Provinces can have pure 

 bred bulls conveyed to him at the uniform rate of 

 $5 per head from Ontario or Manitoba. 



In the summer-time, usually about June, an 

 arrangement is made by which the stockkeepers 

 of the various districts consign the bulls of their 

 respective bunches to the care of a man whose 

 duty it is to herd them apart from the cows and 

 heifers for two months or so. Special care should 

 be taken of the bulls in winter-time. If quite 

 gentle, they may be placed with the calves and 

 herded with them in the ordinary way when not 

 grazing with the she-stock ; but should they evince 

 the slightest disposition to be wild, it would be best 

 to corral tliem by themselves. 



Buying Stock. 



Unless a rancher may happen to be selling out at 

 the time you are desirous of buying range stock 

 (cattle born and bred on the prairie), it is often 

 difficult to pick them up, as there is no object in a 

 man selling to you what he can realize upon, per- 

 haps in a few months, at beef prices. Yearlings, 

 however, might be obtainable (especially if beef is 

 at a low figure at the time) at somewhere in the 



