Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-10-17

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Cattle.
There's lots Of fun as well as business about
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 "a joke on a green visitor,
one with kid gloves and boots with a patent
lcather shine preferred, but the verdant, with
flannel shirt and collar and his pantaloons in
hts boot tops, il he lie the only object at hand.
The Jokes take various forms, often there are
new ones, but there is u standard joke, the
use OF which Is always indoTsed. The victim
Is walking down one OF the large passage
WAYS through which the cattle are driven
from pen to lcn, or to tho scale house, look
/ ing from side to side TO SEE which way he
will turn or through which gateway he will
4 pass 10 come out where he wants to- Sud-
denly there is a loud cry:
"Clear the way Here comes a wild steerf"
4 FUNNY Yes, very, for the spectators The
/ cry has been given by some one who Is son."
/ away at the other end Of the passage, and IL
taken up by the crowd scattered along the
/ alley They all know what it is, and though
the greenie may he friend or customer, they
as readily join in the cry and sport The
poor victim docs not know what IL Is He |
has probably seen, or may be experienced,
u
soon as he hears the dread cry he begins to |
make way, and makes IL very rapidly. He |
plunges ahead by as long strides possible, |
and he is lucky II he does not go head hrss |
into the mud.
The most interesting thing about stock
ward Is the yell The rich buyer or commis-
sion man, as well the salaried agent or
speculator, knows it-or rather them, for the
Yell Is as numerous almost as the people in
the yards The farmer and small stock
grower knows tho "whoopee" or "whoa-oa-
GA -oaer" and ''sukie" used ON the range or
farm yard but when il comes to the combi-
nat ions of letters and sounds used here they
are as much at OF tho gentlemen
using them would la in attempting to con-
yey an intelligent idea of them ON paper.
The most familiar sound TO the countryman
Is "a long one something like this;
"Wha-whoap-oao GA -oap- -woaperoin and re-
peated as rapidly as possible, with occasional
variations as they suggest themselves.
This is not exact reproduction, but IL 10
something near It, and II the student pa
tienty twists his vocal organs until he finds
the right contortion he may produce the
sound. II he anticipates going into the busi-
ness, the "mayn will be changed TO must"
for this driving sound seems 20 lie the begin
ming point of nll-the one taught in the pri-
I. mary department. A yell following it seems
easier, but 1t is not. Ii runs:
'.Hi-i-iy yi-kieyiea-yca- a-ea-ca-hi-yi-yi-yi-yi !"
4 and carried out without limit, until its OBJ
= ject is accomplished.
4 This veil may he made very musical and
o then it becomes something more than yell
Those who are perfect ia IL run the scale up
and down, centerwise and every other wise,
aud a professor of music could better then
express it in notes than any one else could
represent IL in letters.
There's another sound which sounds like
an auctioneer repeating "going goingong" so
rapidly that it soon becomes sound with
something like u ''gn as the first letter and he
winds up with abrupt gone to John
Smith," who has almost forgotten that hs
had bid.
Another musical spur to the live stock
movements is built on the plan of Joe Em
mett's warble, which everybody who think
he's an Emmett tries TO initiate. This is he
coming slightly popular. but its commercial
value ia its effect on the cattle has not ye
a been definitely determined These, witt
IA many more yells, are all told in the sales pen
\ and scale yards In the unloading and ship
ping yards another style prevails, something
not SO sharp Variety is the rule there, toe
but as in the first case there Is commo
approved yell shich may he attempted afte
a few lessons. To produce 1t the lips mus
be fixed Just so. Then comes;
"Brr-rr-r-r- ha " -haw -ho- ha- -ha-haF
n In producing the last part Of this sound th
a student will profit fNd progress more rapid
re in this work If he carefully studies the pee.
an liarities OF the heavy Villains stage laugh
TO q second class variety show. lie will SOC
en- discover the peculiarities which he may US
en- and will then have little difficulty In sam
,lv wiehing it properly between some 9th
NJ sounds The last lessons must bc taken wit
al the aid OF an eight foot pole, weighing abo'
rat twenty pounds, with which the student wi
* pro,s~a bag Of sand, IL nothing more CO
Ird venient answers, giving more emphasis wi
SUI each prod. After u couple Of dozen prods q
.ly voice will have toned down until the Ia
rk- sound Is like the ending Of the despairing C
of an emotional actress
oh So far as the Stock Yards company is co
W. cerned, IL takes few risks in its responsible
ck ties. 1t stands good for the stock from t
re- time they leave the car until they are load
81. in again or are driven away by the buy.
an speculator or butcher. As soon as the sto
. i loaded into the pen the gate Is closed Al
rd locked and the pen watched. The market
for open from 10 o'clock, during which til
ON the gates opening into the passageways q
,w- unlocked. Promptly at o'clock the ga
Ier are all again locked, and to get anything {
me Of a pen II would be necessary to lift IL ov
mn. / "a TNfhef uitteult hnttNs4e IuASE siAa
,nts rangelnent such thing as transferring stc
frs from one pen to another, taking out che
uan animal and substituting an inferior one,
goy impossible The stock Is counted into
nee pen, then into the scale house, and then I
hat again, and that reshipped counted again Il
lare the cars. Every car and every bunch Is x
me, separate
- But few cattle or other animals are inju
in the yards, but for the benefit of those
,.k. ing victims TO overcrowding or rough tr
III, cling, hospitals provided in each divisi
- To these ali injured animals ere tax
a. though first sold TO speculatorS In the
III. pitfalls the animals are given dry, shelte
.har places 10 sleep. and good food ID eat,
= =. water 20 drink They become the care
the SPECTATORS then, and the profits OF
latter depend upon their skill as veterin
- ans An animal with n broken leg Is ne
~ taken 20 the hospital; there must DO >
-. show for its getting on its feet, and II II d
do this in a week or ten days the job Is q
l., up as q bad one and the animal shot
ar broken rib is the ordinary injury, II the
~ NAL IL not SO bruised and cramped that IL
49, stand on its feet. II il can't rest witt
'ie9 forefcet under il and hold up its heas
which position cattle rest better, IL ID
garded as in a bad fix, and its head u
from either side SO that II can't fan d'