A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



with rangemen as they came to the yards, and took 

 on the private selling end, while in heifer and cow 

 sales I was taken along as a "pedigree-shark." Our 

 first crop of bull calves sold at the age of about nine 

 months, going to New Mexico at $45 per head. The 

 second year they sold for $65 to the Prairie Cattle 

 Co. of Colorado, but after that they began to go in 

 small lots to various rangemen, the price jumping 

 up along the line. But few heifers or cows were sold 

 except from a cull standpoint; in fact, Mr. Armour 

 began to buy, and, as I recall it, bought 25 cows 

 with calves at foot from Gudgell & Simpson at $100 

 each, calves not counted, and quality the regular 

 rotation of drop. From Jas. A. Funkhouser he 

 bought the wonderful cow Queen Mab, bred to 

 Hesiod 2d, at $300, and turned down May Day, then 

 carrying Hesiod 29th, at $500. Mr. Armour never 

 quite forgave me for deciding that she was too high 

 in price when her calf, a year later, sold for $500. 

 I have always felt that we made two mistakes : first, 

 in not buying May Day, and, second, in not buying 

 an outstanding Hesiod 2d sire, and bringing back 

 into the herd the line of blood of The Grove 3d to 

 combine with our Anxiety 4th strains, and The 

 Grove 3d cows. 



The days when we visited the Funkhousers are 

 fragrant memories of wonderful drives, of an ideal 

 host and hostess, of dinners better than kings have, 

 and of chats with Mr. Armour, whom, next to my 



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