Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-16
A COWBOY INSTITUTE,
BIZ Nye Interests Himself In the Ad 70,
cy of an Engllslman's Plan,

DhA NJo Ahtorosto hhnseu III tne AuVOoAs
cy of an Englisbman's 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
the foot of the Rocky Mountains, ex.
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-headed, 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
No. 81.
do not say this to advertise the
stock.growing 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 a
COW that can stand the journey seems
to be about to take her West and om-
bark in business as 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 affiuence
for twelve months, and the great past
ures at the base of the mountains are
being pretty we'll tested. Moreover,
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 |
didn't now and then refer to matters
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
ont even stopping to spit on its hands,
was to refer incidentally to the PROPOSE
tion OF an English friend Of mine. This
friend, seeing at once the great magnI-
tude of the COW industry and the neces.
sity for more and more cowboys, has
suggested the idea of establishing 0
cowboys college or training school for
self-made young men who desire to
become accomplished. The average
Englishman will most always think Of
something that nobody else would
naturally think of. Now our cattlemap
would have gone on for years with his
great steer emporium without thinking
OF establishing an institution where 3
poor boy might go and learn to rope o
four-year-old in such way as to throw
him on his stomach with sickenihg
thud.
But now that the idea has been turned
loose l 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
Maverick hotbed Of hroncho sciences.
We live in an age of rapid advance
ment 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 a 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 a rising Chicago market.
hope that the day is not far distant
when in the holster of the cowboy we
VIII find the lliad instead of the killiad,
the unabridged dictionary instead Of
MIR. Remington's great work on homi-
oide. AS 1T is now on the ranges, you
might ride till your Mexican saddle
ached before you would find q cowboy
who carries dictionary with him.
For that reason the language used on
tne general roundup is at times gram
,nssicaliy ihcorrect, anu many OF our
leaaihg COWBOYS spell "caVvy-yard"
WIN n.
"A coilese ior riaing, roping, brand;
lhS, cutting OUT corfahhg' loagihg and
unloaalng; i,l' ana hahahng cattle gener'
any, wqulu 9e great boon 70 our
Young men wep are at present cropping
IN uark anu Pluaple ignorance Oh the
M napl's VI tnc un'utoreu cow Let the
young man hrse learn now TO sit up
three Hhgats IN succession through a
pau March snow Storm ana hold a
neru OF restless cattle Let him then
rue throuSh the not sun ana alkali
uus. % WeeK OF TWO; suosisting on a
chuhk Oh uisaSreeaple sloe pork Just
large enough 10 oalt q trap; Then let
ms morse Iall on MN ana inlure his
constitution ana preamble. All these
!9lngs would give the COW student an
ioea oil now TO ride the range. The
amateur VINO mas never tried to ride
sklttis6 ana sulky range has still a
great u9ai 10 learn.
The young Maverick savant could
take kindergarten course in the study
of coW-brands, Here wild field