The Dickinson press., 1888-06-02
IN A BIG STOCK YARD.
WHERE THERE is LOTS OF FUN
AS WELL AS BUSINESS.

Playing the Wild Steer Joke-A Lesson
in Yelling-Transferring Stock from Ono
Pen to .Another-Hospital for Injured
Cattle.
There's lots of fun rs well as business about
"a stock yard. The old hands, the buyers and
commission men. and also the stockmen who
come often enough to learn the ropes, enjoy
nothing better than Il joke on a green visitor,
one with kid gloves and boots with a patent
leather shine preferred, but the verdant, with
flannel shirt and collar and his pantaloons in
lis boot tops, if he bel the only object at hand.
The jokes take various forms, often there are
new ones, but there is n standard joke, the
Use of which is always Endorsed. The victim
is walking down one of the large passage
ways through which the cattle are driven
from pen to pen, or to the scale house, look
ing from side to side to see which way he
will turn or through which gateway he will
pass to comc out where lie wants to. Sud-
,lcnly there is q loud cry:
"Clcar the way. Here comes wild %steer!!'
Funny: Yes, very, for the spectators. The
cry has been given by some one who is "on,"
AWAY at the other end of the passage, and is
taken up by the crowd scattered along the
alley. They all nov what it is, and though
the greene may be n friend or customer, they
as readily join in the cry and sport. The
poor victim does not know what it is. He
has probably seen, or may be experienced,
what it is to he tossed by II wild steer, and as
soon as he hears the dread cry he begins to
make way, and makes it very rapidly. He
plunges ahead by as long strides as possible,
md he is lucky if he does not go head first
into the mud.
The most interesting thing about a stock
yard is tho yell. The rich buyer or commits
sion man, as well as the salaried agent or
Spectator, knows tor rather them, for the
yell is as numerous almost as the people in
the yards. The farmer and small stock
grower knows the "whoopee" or ''whoa-oa-
oa-oaer' and ''sukie' used on the range or
farm yard. but when it comes to the comb.
nations of letters and sounds used here they
are us much at sen as one of the gentlemen
using them would be in attempting to con-
vcy an intelligent idea Of them on paper.
The most familiar sound to the countryman
i,n long one something like this:
Wha-whoareoa-oa-oap-woap'ere! and re-
pcatcl as rapidly as possible, with occasional
NN,i ~ Why A6SS9p -
This is not an exact reproduction, but it is
something near it, and if the student pa
ticntly twists his vocal organs until he finds
the right contortion he may produce the
-o.l,lI. If he anticipates going into the bust
ncss, the may will be changed to ''muSt.'
for this driving SOUND seems to be the begin
ming point ut all-thc one taught in the pri,
mary department. y yell following it seems
castor, but it is not. 1t runs:
"Ili-i-i-yi-kiryiea-yea ca-e a-hi-yi-yi-yi-yi y
and carried out without limit, until its oh-
jet i, accomplished.
This yell may be made very musical, ami
tlien it becomes something more than II yell.
litosc WHO are perfect in it run the scale ~
usnl down. reltcrwise and every other wise,
and IL professor of music could better then
express it in notes than any one else could
!ci'lrscnt it in letters.
There's another sound which sounds like
an auctionrcr repeating going goingmIg' 80
rapidly that it soon becomes Il sound Will
something like Il ''g'' as the first letter and he
winds up with an abrupt gone to join
smith" who has almost forgotten that liz
bud bid.
Another musical ,pur to the live stock,
movements is built on the plan of Joe En-
ne,t's MARBLE, which everybody who thin.
he's an Emmett tries I" initiate. This is lie
canning slightly popular. but its %corlmrrri;:
value iii its effect III the cattle has not yc
been definitely determined. These. viii
a.;,nv more yrllS. are all told in the sales l.c.,
and scale yards. In the unloading and ship
ping yards another style prevails, somr;;,in:
r,,t 80 sharp. Variety is the rule there, t"c
tAt as in THE first case there is IL common
approved yell which ma be attempted aftc
Il few lessons. To produce it the lips mus
hr fixed just So. Then comes:
Observation-Disclosures
In producing the last part of this sound til
student will profit and progress more rapid
IN this work if he carefully studies the l,cct
@lH.rtics of the heavy Villains stage luugi. i
s,sual class variety show. He will 500
discover the lnculiaritics which he may ust
and will then hnvc little difficulty in san,
wiching it properly between some othe
sounds. The last lessons must he taken wit
the aid of an eight foot pole. weighing abor
twenty pounds. with which the student wi
prod Il bag of sand. if nothing more cul
vcnient swr giving more emphasis wit
each prod. After IL c"llpleof dozen pr'nls til
voice will nave toned down until the las
sound is like the ending of the despairing CT
of an emotional actress.
80 luI us tIit iNtNtN lill'tS cOltlpulN Is CO1
| ccrned. it takes IL few risks in its responsible
tics. 1t stands good for the stock from I'll
: time they leave tile car until they are loa.le
in again or are driven away by the huge
: SPECTATOR or butcher. As soon as the st,n'
a is loaded into the pen the gate is closed an
locked and the pen watched. The market
open from s to O'Clock. during which tin
g the gates opening into the raSsageways III
unlocked. Promptly at : O'Clock the gait
are all again locked, and to get anything OIL
of Il pen it would he necessary to lift it owe
IL rather difficult matter. Under this u
rangement Sucla thing as transferring Sto,
from one pen to another, taking out Il choi'
o animal and substituting all inferior one,
t impossible. The stock is counted into II
IL ZEN. then into the scale house. avl then y,
t again, and that reshippel counted again in
IL the cars. Every car and every bunch is Ike
separate.
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