Savannah morning news., 1886-01-02
THE COWBOYS INSTITUTE.
Bill Nye Gives some Rints to would-be
Amateur CattIe KinRs

Bill Nye Gives some Hints to WOuld-be
Amateur Cattle Kings
No one can go through the wide terri
tory of Montana to-day without being
strongly impressed with the wonderful
growth OF the great cattle growing and
Grazing industry Of that territory. And
yet Montana is but the northern eX-
uemity OF the great grazing belt which
lies at the foot OF the Rocky mountains,
extending from the British possessions
on the north TO the Mexican border on
the south, extending eastward, too, as far
a s the arabic lands Of Dakota, Nebraska,
aad Kansas.
Montana at this season Of the year is the
paradise of the sleek, high-headed, 2-year-
old Texas 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 No. y.
do not say this to advertise the stock
growing business because it is already adj
vertised too much, anyway. So many
milliOualres have been made with free
grass" and the early-rising, automatic
bcaudingiron, that every man in the
United States WHO has a COW that can
stand the journey seems to be about to
take her west and embark in business as
cattle king.
Bun let me warn the amateur cow man
that in the great grazing regions it takes
a good many acres of thin grass to main
tain the adult steer in attluence 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 u cattlemen,
where free grass and easily aquired tor
tunes are naturally advertised, will tend
t. oyerstock the ranges at last and founder
the goose that now laws the golden egg.
TINS OF course, is really none of my busi-
ness, butit didn't now and then refer to
matters that do not concern me l would
be regarded as reticent,
My intention, however, IN approaching
the great cow industry, which, by the
way, is anything but an industry, being
In fact more like the seductive manner
whereby a promissory note acquires 2per
cent per month without even stopping to
spit on It's hands, was toTeter incidentally
to the proposition OF an English friend OF
mine. This friend, seeing at once the
great magnitude OF the COW industry and
the necessity for more and more cowboys
has suggested the idea of establishing a
cowboys college or training school for
self-made young men who desire to be-
come accomplished The average English
man viii most always think OF something
that nobody else would naturally think
OF. NOW, our cattleman would have gone
on lor years with mis- great steer cmDori-
| um without thinking or establishing an
institution where poor boy might 90 and
learn to rope a 4-year-old in such way as
to throw him on his stomach with a sick
ening 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 te
other institutions will meet with change
/ OF heart aud begin to endow the cowboys
| college and the Maverick hotbed Of bron.
| cho sciences.
We live in an age of rapid advancement
/ in all branches or learning, and people
4 who do not rise early in the morning WI
/ not retain theil position in the procession
1 look forward with confidence 10 the da1
/ when no cowboy will undertake to ride
/ the range without diploma. Educated
/ labor is what we need. Cowboys who
! can tell YOU in scientific terms why iti'
/ always the biggest steer that eat;
/ s.pigeon weed" in the spring, and why hl
! should swell up and bust on a rising
/ Chicago market.
| hope that the day is not far distan,
when in the holster of the cowboy we vii
] find the lliad instead OF the klliad, tn,
/ unabridged dictionary instead of Mr.
Remingt0n's great work on homicide As
/ il is now on the ranges, YOU might rid
1 till your Mexican saddle ached before yol
. would find a cowboy who carries a die
+ tionary with him. For that reason tht
/ language used on the general roundup il
at times dramatically incorrect, anC
many OF our leading cowboys spell "cav
/ vy-yard" with *"
A college for riding, roping, branding
cutting out, c0rrallnx, loading and un
loading, and handling cattle generally
would be n great boon to our young meI
who are at present cropping in dark ant
pitiabie ignorance of the habits OF the un
tutored COW. Let the young man frs
learn how TO sit up three nights in sue
cession, through bad March snowstorm
and 'hold' a herd Of restless cattle. lie
him then ride through the hot sun ant
alkali dust n week or two, subsisting on
chunk OF fdisagreeable side pork Just largl
enough TO bait trap. Then let his hors
fall on him and iniure his constitution AM
preamble. All these things would Civ
the COW student an idea OF how to ride III
range. The amateur who mas never trie.
tOride a sGittish and sulky range has 5til
great deal 20 learn.
The young Maverick savant could tax
a kindergarten course ~ the study Of cow
brands. Here wild field opens up 10 th
scholar. The adult steer IN the Gea
realm OF beef is now a walking Chimes
wasb.hill, a HIudoo poem in the origlns
junk-shop alphabet, a four-legged tireel
. inscription punctuated with lim-iams
stenographer's notes OF a riot, a bird's-ey
view ot a premature explosion in hard
ware store.
The cowboy who can at once grapp'
with the great problem OF where 90 pu
The steer with "B bar B" ON LETT shouldcf
"key circle G" on left side, "ieWt