The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
a CowBoY INSTITUTE.
Bill Hye Lnterests Himself In the Advoca-
cy Of an Englishman's Plan.

nuA NyO AntcEoStS III Lno AuVOCA-
cy Of an Englishmans Plan.
No one can go through the wide
Territory of Montana to-day with
out being strongly impressed with
the wonderful growth of the great
cattle growing and grazing industry
of that Territory. And yet Mon
tana is but the northern extremity
of the great grazing belt which lies at
tending from the British possessions on
the north to the Mexican border on the
south, extending eastward, too, as far
as the arabic lands of Dakota, Nebras-
ka and Kansas.
Montana is the paradise of the sleek,
high-hesded, two-year-old Texan steer,
with his tail over the dashboard, as
well as the stock yearling, born On the
range, beneath the glorious mountain
sky and under the auspices of roundup
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do not say this to advertise the
stockgrowing business, because it is
already advertised too much, anyway.
So many millionaires have been made
with ''free grass and the early-rising,
automatic branding iron, that every
man in the United States who has
COW that can stand the journey seems
to be about to take her West and en-
bark in business as a cattle king.
But let me warn the amateur COW
man that in the great grazing regions
it takes good many acres of thin grass
to maintain the adult steer in atfiuence
for .tMA months, and the treat past
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ures at the base of the mountains are
being pretty well tested. Moreover, I
believe that these great conventions of
cattlemen, where free grass and easily
acquired fortunes are naturally adver-
tised, will tend to overstock the ranges
at last and founder the goose that now
lays the golden egg. This, of course, is
really none of my business, but if |
that do not concern me would be re-
garded as reticent.
My intention, however, in approach
ing the great cow industry, which, by
the way, is anything but an industry,
being in fact more like the seductive
manner whereby promissory note
acquires two per cent. per month with
out even stopping to spit on its hands,
was to refer incidentally to the PROPOSE
ton of an English friend of mine. This
friend, seeing at once the great magni-
tude of the COW industry and the neces-
sity fer more and more cowboys, has
suggested the idea of establishing a
cowboys college or training school for
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become accomplished The average
Engiishman will most always think of
something that nobody else would
naturally think of. Now our cattleman
would have gone on for years with his
great steer emporium without thinking
of establishing an institution where a
poor boy might 90 and learn to rope a
four-year-old in such way as to throw
him on his stomach with a sickening
thud.
But now that the idea has been turned
loose [ shall look forward to the time
when wealthy men who have been in
the habit of dying and leaving their
money to other institutions will meet
with change of heart and begin to
endow the cowboys college and the
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& We live in an age of rapid advance
menb IN all branches of learning, and
people who do not rise early in the
morning will not retain their position
in the procession. look forward with
confidence to the day when no cowboy
will undertake to ride the range with
out diploma. Educated labor is what
we need. Cowboys who can tell you
in scientific terms why it is always the
biggest steer that eats pigeon weed''
in the spring and why he should swell
up and bust on rising Chicago market.
| hope that the day is not far distant
when IN the holster of the cowboy we
will fad the Iliad instead of the killiad,
the unabridged dictionary instead of
Mr. Remington's great work on homi-
eide. As it is now on the ranges, YOU
might ride till your Mexican saddle
ached before you would find cowboy
who carries dictionary with him.
For that reason the language used on
the general roundup is at times gram
matically incorrect, and many of our
leading cowboys spell "cavvy-yard"
with ''k."
A college for riding, roping, brand
ing, cutting out, corraling, loading and
unloading, and handling cattle gener-
ally, would be great boon to our
young men who are at present cropping
in dark and pitiable ignorance of the
habits of the untutored COW. Let the
young man first learn how to sit up
three nights in succession, through
bad March snow storm, and ''hcld"
herd of restless cattle. Let him then
ride through the hot sun and alkali
dust a week or two, subsisting on a
chunk of disdsreeable side pork Just
large enough to bait Il trap. Then lei
his horse fall on him and iniure his
constitution and preamble. All these
things would give the COW student an
idea of how to ride the range. The
amateur who has never tried to ride a
-skittisil and sulky range has still a
great deal to learn.
The yonng Maverick savant could
take kindergarten course in the study
OF cow-brands. Here wild field
opens up to the scholar The adult
steer in the great realm of beef is now
walking Chinese wash-bill, a Hindoo
poem in the original junk-shop alpha
bet, a four-legged Greek inscription
punctuated with jim-jams, a stenogra-
piers notes of a riot, bird's-ey
view OF n premature explosion in a
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