A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



A cowpuncher who worked on a ranch as far north 

 as Dryden, Tex., where a good deal of the Brahmin- 

 Hereford cross obtained, in talking of the early ship- 

 ments from that section in the spring of 1920, when 

 grass-fat yearling heifers and steers were netting 

 from $50 to $65, told me that the stock carrying 

 Brahmin blood was the biggest and fattest, and then 

 added, "We were short of water, but those scoun- 

 drels just got up and trotted ten miles for it, and 

 got fatter all the time." 



People who have learned how to handle them do 

 not have any trouble, but a little thing like a fence 

 or a corral does not seem to bother them at all. Mr. 

 Lassater asked me to locate a cornbelt feeder who 

 would full-feed a load of one-fourth-Brahmin and 

 three-fourths-Hereford calves, against a load of S. 

 M. S. calves, both lots to be billed at the same price 

 but under a protection of $10 per head that the 

 Brahmins would net as much money. I found some- 

 one, but he only kept them a short time. Even then, 

 however, they made him a small profit without the 

 $10 protection, which was of course only extended 

 for a full-feed. I have always regretted that the 

 experiment did not go to a conclusion. I do not 

 think that the Brahmins will invade the herds of 

 our section and the Panhandle as breeders for some 

 time, but I do think that they will keep on, and 

 that some day cornbelt feeders will use the best 

 crosses extensively in their feedlots. 



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