The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-01-29

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tion has q record Of Twenty-Five horse
and cattle thieves convicted at an aver
age cost Of $40 each. Cheap riddance.
The Helena and Miles City stock or
ganizatiOns have merged into one, to be
known as the Montana Stock Growing
Association z Tie spring meetings are
to be held in Miles City and the fall
meetings in. Helena. me success Of the
Cheyenne association has conclusiyely
proven that it is better to merge all
smaller associations into larger or at
least have them subordinate to larger.
More concerted and far more energetic
action is possible under this system and
we wish every success to the new assoeia-
tion. .t ..
Although Medora has never been the
scene, in spite of all reports to the con-
trary, of a six-shooter row among COW.
boys, we cannot help but join with other
cattle papers in urging the necessity of
discarding the six-shooters while in
town, On the range, one sometimes is.
needed. but in town there is never any
use for them. To carry six-shooter
should be "a custom more honored in the
breach than the observance" A deter
mined and united movement is being
made among. southern cattle men to
stop the custom, and northern men are
falling into line. The six-shooter is the
one thing that gives COW boys bad
name, and we. hope its days are num-
bered.
From the Oldest settlers and from
weather reports we gather the fact that
this winter SO far has been the coolest
that was ever experienced in the west.
Notwithstanding this fact, cattle have
never done better and we're never in bet
ter condition at this season of the year.
These facts are not stated as guess work
but are the substance of a large number
of conversations. We must conclude
then, that cold, especially where there is
as good protection as there is in the Bad
Lands has but little effecton tie cattle.
The snow is also deeper than for many
years and in many places has crusted,
but from all reliable sources we CLEAN
the fact that not over three per cent. of
cattle will have died in the Bad Lands
by spring and not over five per cent: in
Montana &. y s. - l :
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From several reliable sources, comes
the information that polled or hornless
cattle are. surely pushing themselves,
into favor as range cattle. Mr.. L. C. LIE
Moyne, of the LIE Moyne cattle Co.
although an ardent admirer and extern
Isiye breeder of short-horn cattle, while
here last summer expressed his firm be-
lief that Polled-Angus bulls would be
the future favorites and that polled cat.
tie would be the most profitable for the
range. Now comes the evidence of T. G.:
Power y Bro, who, according to the
Stock Growers journal, have made Care
1 full tests as between Durham and Polled-
Angus bulls and the result is that the
latter are invariably the best rustlers,
that they stay on the range longer, that
they stand the cold better and that they
are getting fat on the range while the
Durhams are shiyering about the corralls
and finally that the Polled- Angus is
boss Of the range There are many
good reasons for the superiority Of Polled-
Angus. the most important probably
bring that all neurishment that goes to
the horn III others cattle. goes to- bone
and meat in polled cattle md that the
j numerous discusses and accidents hap
! pening to horns are absent