New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-23

to sell out his herd Like not. you'n have to
buy 'dogies.'
What are 'dogies'?' asked the Fastener.
well, 'dogies' is what they call 'stockers.'"
'Stockers'? What are they?"
You see the farmers in Eastern Canada haven't
the hay to feed all their young heifers and steers.
So they sell them when they yearlings TO ranch
men out here. We bring them West, and in two
or three years more they are ready for slaughter
ing"
Where did you get that word 'dogies'?"
We'll, you see, if you came from the East and
didn't know much and tried to put up or less
Of a front. the cowpunchers would call you q
'dogie.' It's something like a tenderfoot, only all
tenderfeet amt 'dogies. is they, boys?"
The boys assented to this.
Then it amt all like finding money, either"
went the spokesman. You've got count on
lot of things. In the first place. just soon as
you turn your cattle loose. you mark off 10
per cent as a dead loss. If you tried TO round em
up the next week. one in ten would be missing
And there's more gone every roundup. No
ever sold eighty-hve out of a hundred head he
owned It's safe to count losing % per cent
before you get to the cars
What happens to the cattle?" the tenderfoot
wanted to know. He was wondering also whether
he had been set down a a "dogie"
mo one knows Some of them dies, of course.
Some gets sick and the wolves eat EN-. Some
strays away clear down into Montana and other
States. Perhaps a few stolen, but you can
never prove it. No thief would sell a steer with
another mans brand on it. He might slaughter
stray head and use it for beef
And you have got TO keep your eye your
cattle more or less all the year round. You can't
let EN- all run round all winter. The 'dogies,' the
calves and the weak stock has got 20 be looked
after. You must feed 'em and give 'em some
shelter. II you haven't got homestead and some
hay of your own you can pay somebody else So a
head for feeding your critters. If you've got land
and sheds and hay. you can take somebody else's
cattle to winter Sometimes the loss is heavy in
the storms. although generally the winter is pretty
open here where you get the chinook Winds
The New-Yorker had read Owen Wisters The
Virgihian." In fact, that book had had much to
do with his desire to become cowpuncher. Mind
full of the lynchng and the free of the revolver
described in that book, he asked:
DO the cowboys all carry revolvers?"
What for?"
why. If they get in trouble"
They don't get into trouble where pistol
would help them; Do you know of any punchers
None of the boys did One of them reminded
used In hunting wolves, on which there was a
And don't you ever have lynchings?" asked the
"Lynchings? OF course. not! What are the
Mounted Police for? I reckon they can take care
Of any thieves that are around loose"
n6 fo@po pe eoo6 ea G Longer about on tine
business than an evenings conversation could give
Land and 4tanch Company at Crane Lake. This
corporation an English one. owns. more than one
ranches. II raises sheep and horses. well
cattle. and carries on some farming. Altogether it
has thirteen thousand cattle and ten thousand
Mr. New-York also learned that tens of thou
sands OF Mexican and Texas cattle were being
brought into Western Canada. Cr4sswen & Day,
q big Texas Arm, have established headquarters at
swift Current and brought ten thousand head into
Canada IN 1902 and thirteen thousand head this
year The Price Cattle Company. OF Chinook,
Mont, is al Maple Creek. with three thousand
head Of Mexicans. The first year In the North
Is likely 10 be hard these aliens But after
that they thrive, and at the age OF four are much
bigger than II they had Been allowed 10 grow nm
in the South ~
The young visitor came 20 Ike the ranching peo-
PIE immensely All o. them seem to keep open
house for any traveller There IS no feeling OF
competition among them On the contrary il is a
case OF one Tor all and ali Tor one The nature OF
the business makes this highly advisable. ANY on
who tried TO play lone hand out hare would
IND ne wasn't making much money. SO they All
combine into a general brotherhood. AT the round
up the ranchmen IN certain district ioln hands
First the calves OF herd are branded the
others being kept apart until their turn co.ses
Thus the small rancher has the help OF the big
men who employ large numbers OF hands and
Of course. ne aids them. -
Systematic search is made for stray cattle AZ
these range for a hundred miles or more some
lines. regular expeditions organized. A big
concern Will supply wagon horses. tent and
complete camping outfit. ANY other hrm or indi-
vidual send with this party by paving
his share OF the expenses, This cowpuncher 10