Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-04-18
BILL NYE
pumps Out Ideas on the Cow In
dustry
Without the Usual Reference to Pumps
Mystic Letters and Their Mystic Mean
ing---Great Need of Genuine
Cowboy College to Teach the
Habits Of the Untutored
Cow.
Chicago NerS.

No one can 90 through the wide Terri
tory Of Montana today without being
strongly impressed with the wonderful
growth of the great csttlegroWing and
grazing industry of that Territory. And
vet Montana is but the northern extremity
Of the great grazing belt which lies at the
foo, of the Rocky mountains, extending
from The British possessions Oh the north,
TO the Mexican border on the south, ex-
tending eastward, too, as far as the arabic
lands OF Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
Montana at this season of the year, is
the paradise Of the sleek, high-hesded, two
wear old Texan steer, with his tail over the
dashboard, as we'll as the stock yeariDg'
born on the range, beneath the glorious
mountain sky and under the auspices of
roundup No. Il.
! do not say this to advertise the stock
growing business. because it is already I'D
Yertissd too much, ANYWAY. So many mil
lionaires have been made with tree grass
aud the early,rising, automatic branding
iron, that every man in the United States
who has cow that can stand tie journey
seems to be about to take her West aid
mbsrk in business as cattle king.
But let me warn the amateur COW man
that in the great grazing regions it takes
good many scres of thin grass to msintain
the adult steer in stAuence for twelve
months, and the great pastures at the base
of the mountains are being pretty we'll
tested. Moreover, believe that these great
conventions of csttlemen, where free grass
and easily acquired fortunes are naturally
advertised, 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 didn't now
and then refer TO mlttrrs that do not con-
Germ me would be regarded as reticent.
Nv intention, howevs, In approaching
THE GREAT COW INDU TRY,
which, BY the way, is anything but an in
dastry, being in tact more like the seduc-
tive manner whereby promissory note &C.
ouires 2 per cent per month without even
s,opping to spit on its hands, Was to refer
incidentally to the proposition OF an En-.
gIsh fried of mine. This friend, seeing at
once the great magnitude OF the COW IN.
dustry and the necessity for more and more
cowboys, has suggested the idea of estsb:
fishing cowboys college Of training school
for seIf-ma1e young men who desire to be-
come accomplished. The average Eng.
lishmsn will most always think of some
thing that nobody else would naturally
think of. Now, our cattlemsn would have
gone on for years with his great steer en-
porium without thinking OF establishing an
institution where poor boy might 60 and
learn TO rope q four esr-old in such way
az to throw him on his stomach with O
sickening thud. ,
But nov that the idea has been turned
loose | shall look forward to the sine 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 Maverick hotbsd of broncho
sciences.
We live in an age of rapid advancement
in sll 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 without q diploma. Educated labor
ia what we need. Cowboys who can tell
you in scientific terms why it is always the
biggest steer that eats pigeon weed IL
the spring and why he should fwell up aua
bust on rising Chicago market.
hope that the day is not far distant
when in the hostler of the cowboy we vii
find the Iliad instead OF the killisd, the un
abridged dictionary instead of Remington
great work on homicide. As it is Low oil
the ranges you might ride till your Mexi
can saddle sched before you would find
A COWBOY WHO CARRIES A DICTIONARY
with him. For that reason the Language
used on the general roundup is at lime
dramatically incorrect, and many of GU
leading cowboys spell "cavvy-yard" with
TX"
A college for riding, roping, branding
culliDg out, corrsllipg loading, and ur
loading, and handling cattle generally
would be a great boon to our young men
WHO are at present cropping in dark ard pi
able ignorance of the habits OF the unit
tored COW. Let the young man first lear
how to sit up three nights in successior
through a bad March snow storm, an
hold" q herd of restless cattle. Let hir
then ride through the hot sun and aka
) dust o week or two, subsisting on chQn
OF disagreeable side pork just large enoug
to bsit q trap. Then let his horse fall o
him and ipiure his constitution and pr
amble. All these this would give the CO
student an idea Of how to ride the rang
The amateur who has never tired to ride
skittish and sulky range has still gree
, deal 20 learn.
The young Maverick ssvsnt could tai
, a kindergarten course in the study OF CO,
/, brands. Here a wide field opens up to Il
: scholar. The adult steer in the great real
:, of beef is now a walking Chinese wa!
y bi |, a Hindoo poem in the original jun
: shop alphabet, tour legged Greek inscr'
:, lion puuctusted with i'm jams, 9 stem
! praphers notes Of riot, bird s-eye vie
. Of a premature explosion in hsrdwa
y store.
;, The cowboy who can st once grspF
e with the great problem Of where to put Z
= steer with "B bar B. on left should
. key circle G" on LETT side, Heart
=. Heart" on right hip, left ear crop, wait
: te waffle, aud seven hands rouRd, vi
y "Dssb B Dash on right shoulder "Vente
Al waffle on dew lap vented, and p. d. {
. &C. o. D." and IN c vented on rG
4 side, keeping track of transfers, RAM
% post Office of last owner, has certainly 6
10 future which lies mostly ahead Of him.
n Perhaps i have said too much on t
y subject, but when get thoroughly az
ID kensd on this great perterhogse steak Or
lem l am apt to carry the matter too far