, 1901-12-12

III the average western cattle grow
er will only devote a small traction OF
his characteristic, restless energy to
wards quality instead of quantity, his
fortune is assured.
Ten registered cows, judicially Sc
lected, and well cared for, will make
money every time than n hum
dred half starved scrubs. While the
handling OF the one is a pleasure, the
other a constant worry. Raise fewer
cattle, but better ones. and the only
way to raise better ones, is TO use the
best males o~btainable. A few of these
will quickly lift the scrub to the proud
position of a market topper. A half
bred bull is a scrub, and no mans life
is long enough to build up in this way.
Such an animal will lose you three
dollars on every calf he sires. Trying
to produce market topping calves with
this sort, is like trying to raise a 2:SO
trotter out of an Indian cayuse.
Let me give my brother cattle grow
ers a bit of advice. 1t certainly has one
recommendations; it is free.
Spaying is a safe and simple opera.
ton. Nothing helps more to uplift a
herd. Next spring, when you turn
your yearling heifers out on green
grass, look them over carefully, and
spay all that are off in form or color.
or defective in any way. and follow up
this custom every year. Then select
registered males, with the fixed pur-
pose in view of making up any defects
you may see in your herd. If your
cattle are too narrow in front. Or too
light behind, too short bodied, or too
long legged, then select bulls with the
sole object of correcting these faults.
Patiently study your herds, spay lib
orally. breed carefully; and in a few
short years, you will be astonished at
the transformation, for evolved from
the dreamy, underlined longings of your
brain, YOU viii, see before you the liv-
ing animal, in all its symmetrical
beauty.
Aye, more: for the God given air,
and climate and hills of Wyoming
have also impaired a steel spring mus
Gle, a curly messy coat, a royal sell
assurance, a something that goes be-
yond you widest expectations. And
then, even the coy maids on the sill
yer dollars, as they come rolling in,
seem to sing in your heart, well done.
| mean by this rather mixed meta
phor, that one who spends life solely
IN pursuit OF the almighty uOllaT, VIII
regret it when life's work is done. But
he who has raised a better animal
of any breed than was ever grown be-
fore, has been a ~benefactor of the hu-
man race.
Some people have stated that the
cattle industry of Wyoming is over
done. Nothing is farther from the
truth. Those making such statements
are generally the mes who have fail
ed to keep up with the procession. We
are a new state and conditions change
rapidly. The limitless, free govern
ment range, and scrub steer, should
have disappeared together: for when
it ONE to hay feeding and properly
caring for an animal, the poorly bred
beef will not stand the additional *
pense. While high grade animals. un-
der the same conditions. will pay a
handsome profit.
Ten thousand irrigated ranches can
readily and safely grow more cattle.
with larger profit, than Wyoming ever
dreamed of having in the years gone
by. But they must be good ones. No
one industry in our state today offers
greater inducements for the safe in
vestment Of capital, than the breeding
of fine cattle.