The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-05-15
STOCK
Favors the Red Polls.
A. II. Miller, Tacoma.

their possession. The Pacific north
west is in it's infancy in the cattle
business 1t may have leading posi-
ton as to numbers, and for ticky, cat
manned, spindle-shanked, mullet-head-
ed. sun-fsh, usually called cattle, it
may take the prize. Good stock, blood
ed stock of individual merit, follow
with the development of a country as
certainly as the night follows the day.
There is no more certain indication
of country's progress and thrift, slug
gishness and Incidence, or whatever its
condition, than to judge it by it's live
stock.
Any ambitious farmer wants to get
good stock, as we often hear them say,
"just as soon as I can get around to
it. Haven't got able to get around
to it yet" And do you know that re-
minds me of the expression the Irish
man made when he bought new pair
of boots that were couple of sizes too
small. Said he: "O'im Trade I'll never
be able to get those boots on till
Olive wore thin couple of wakes"
One statement is as correct as the
other. Good stock, properly cared for,
"move out" and trying to get out with
self by the boot straps.
When God created man in his own
image, He said man was to have do
minion over all the earth and named
especially and separately the cattle.
This very truth is demonstrated when
we LOOK at the possibilities attained as
shown in the breeding of stock as we
see them at our great Industrial ex-
hibitions all over the civilized world,
and in this connection, let me give our
northwest the credit she deserves by
stating that the exhibit of cattle at the
Spokane fair last year did honor to us
and would to any country with it's
great attachments still in the future.
The writer has always been a great
admirer of good stock, but more es-
pecially of good cattle, and with
hone of arOusing an interest among our
eastern "small ranchmen" as we'll as
those who do business on a larger
scale, permit me to state my exper-
fence. We relate our experiences in
Methodist class meetings for mutual
benefit and encouragement, and since
God has shown me this to be very
true since calling me from the cattle
business into the ministry, I am sure
it will as certainly apply in the cattle
business.
In 1887 we were living on a quarter
section of good land just about one
mile from the then small but very
thriving city of Wayne, Neb. There
were two boys in the family of six,
and father having been a successful
feeder and shipper of stock, as was his
father, we boys knew something about
cattle. My elder brother became quite
interested in reading our livestock
newspaper and naturally enough l be-
gan to absorb the same spirit from
him. We read with unusual interest
the prize-winnings of the once famous
Sltort-horn bull, Cup Bearer, and other
contemporaneous animals of the show
ring. At this time the Red Polled cat
tie were just being well introduced,
the first importation arriving in the
United States some time in the
seventies.
It seemed to us as they were describ-
ed, they were surely the "ideal cattle"
Red the favorite color of the majority
of the cattlemen, hornless, the only
truly humane process of dehorning,
good for both butter and beef. Surely
this was unquestionably the ideal ami
NAL If such can be secured. Then, II
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