Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-07-18
A FEW RANCH ITEMS.
Why q Coed Many Nevada
RAucherS Do Not Make

| Honey.
i The farmers in the vicinity of
Carson are constantly complaining
because the APPEAL pays SO little
attention to the ranching industry.
In order to please this particular
class We submit a few points on
ranching.
| In the first place the idea is prev
alent that a man who lacks the
ability to make living with his
head, and is too lazy to run for Office
should start ranch. This is why
so many lazy, incompetent men get
into the ranching business, and
continually cry out against the dole
full failures made.
There are plenty of intelligent
and industrious farmers in this val
ley who are making money, but
there are plenty more who ought to
be poor all their lives.
About week ago the writer Wis
tied the ranch of a man who had
all the opportunities thrust under
his nose to have become independ-
emily wealthy. He was still poor,
however, simply because he was too
lazy and dirty to run farm. With
nearly thousand acres under his
control his stock we're all gaunt as
saw bucks, and his cows growled
like bull dogs when you came near
them. An old dead horse, or what
was left of it, lay in a mud puddle
in front of his door; two dead pigs
lay by the we'll, smellinglike Dem
vcratic Convention; and the front
yard instead of being fine stretch
Of green lawn, was a mass of earth
baked hard in the sun and covered
with old boots and loose carcasses
of stock which had probably starved
to death. Everything was broken
| down. A $500 mower had lain all
Winter in the snow not ten feet
from an unused shed, and had
rusted away quietly, while the boss
of the ranch was off playing poker
| and calling hands for large amounts
on three tours and a king, when his
opponent never had less than four
of a kind when he had the deal.
Splendid farms have been frittered
away by calling these big hands.
Again, it is common thing here
| in Carson to see farmers buying
potatoes and swapping off pork on
| the hoof at eight cents a pound
| for sides of bacon, for which they
pay eighteen cents. The idea never
seems to enter their heads that
they can save about ten cents a
| pound on bacon by curing it them
selves.
There are scores Of farmers up
the valley who let hay lie for years
in the stacks, because they cannot
get their price, and the thought
never occurs to them to feed it to
cattle, and to sell the stock at 10 or
II cents a pound. Oh, no; they
had rather let the lay rot in the
ricks while they spree around Cen
GA. There is also very numerous
class Of rancher who never learns
that it costs just as much to feed
| a poor, scrubby horse as an Arab
ian courser. They have lot Of
| horses that costs them $l0to secure
by hiring a cheap and ante1uated
stallion, and the horse is worth $40
| when it is in its prime, and its
prime is always a mooted question.
By getting a $40 service from
some good sire they would have
$500 or $1,000 horse. They seem
to like cheap stock in the way OF
horses, but when it comes to rails
ing big yellow bull dog to bark
| at everybody that drives past, they
! want the most expensive breed IN
the market. :.
l. Scores of ranchers who have been
ten or fifteen years at work now
want to sell their ranches, but can
not because there isn't shade or
fruit tree in sight. By paying rea-
sonable attention to tree planting
they might have added $500, at
least to the value of their farms,
but we're simply too lazy to plant
the trees, and had not sufficient
taste to want them in the first
place. Their stables are all broken
down, their barns leak like seines,
and their old, ramshackle machin-
cry seldom survives a summers