CATTLE-GROWING OUT WEST. 65 



year-olds, 100 from three-year-olds, and 100 from 

 four-year-olds just come in for the second time. 



Total females . . , 1700 



200 four-year-old steers, 200 three-year-olds, 200 two-year- 

 olds, 200 yearlings, 200 hull calves ; als6, from four- 

 year-old heifers, 100 bull yearlings and 100 hull 

 calves ; also, from three-year-old heifers just come 

 in with their calves, 100 males. Total males . . 1300 



3000 



Deduct 200 steers sold, leaves 2800 head to be kept 

 on hand. It will be observed that our business is just 

 established and beginning to pay. It takes five or six 

 years to establish any good business on a firm basis, 

 and our ranch is now thoroughly "set up," as frontiers- 

 men would say. After the fifth year the profits will 

 be enormous. Let us run it the sixth year, and the 

 account would stand something like this : 



Sixth Year. 



400 old cows, 400 old cows' calves, — this being their 

 sixth dropping, and the last ; 200 five-year-old 

 cows, 200 four-year-old cows, 200 calves from five- 

 year-old cows, 200 calves from four-year-old cows, 

 200 calves from three-year-old cows. We would 

 brand 1000 calves the sixth year worth $7 each, or 

 $7000. The increase in value on our stock would 

 stand as follows : 

 The sixth year, 400 old cows' calves, worth . . . $2,800 

 600 five-year-old, four-year-old, and three-year-old 



cows' calves, worth 4,200 



Increase in value on 200 four-year-old cows . . . 1,000 



" " " three-year-old cows . . 1,000 



" " " four-year-old steers . . 1,000 



" " " three-year-old steers . . 1,000 



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