Evening star., 1925-08-09

BY Z o'clock this roundup Is COM
plered and we move on to the next
assembly point. There we find Don
Carlos, the manager of the estate. and
the veterinary officer, and the fnspec-
ton begins.
We see great herds OF breeding
cows with calves at foot intermingled
with a proportion of great broad
backed bulls. Fifteen hundred 3-year-
old heifers, as many yearling calves.
an imposing herd of pure-bred and
graded Hereford bulls, a fine stock
herd of pedigree Hereford cows with
calves. Among these Don Carlos
points out a tiny bull calf.
THAT is LemCo Pilot" he says.
Lemco Pilot is just IA days old. It
is hard to believe that one day he will
grow into a great prize bull and wad-
die solemnly around the show rings of
Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
Last, we come to the most importa Mt
portion of all this vast eState-the
sheds where little LemCo Pilots father
tPilgriml lives with other famous sires
One by one they are led out, each by
his own attendant - Northampton
Rightful, grandson of Starlight. one of
the finest bulls ever bred: Lean Twin
some are famous in two continents
and on their broad backs devolves the
very existence of the estate.
No wonder they are taken care of.
no wonder Don Carlos politely asks us
to disinfect our feet at the stable
door. Each day they are washed and
brushed like children, each day they
go a mile walk for breakfast, lunch
con and dinner. They have the best
of everything to eat. SO much for
cattle breeding de luxe in Argentina.
THE Brazilian cowboy is of rather
different tempera ment from the
Argentine variety. He is TO be found
on the great cattle plains of Matto
Crosse. west of the Alta Parana. He
is not so quick to strike as the Argen-
tine cowboy-more given to brandish-
ing his gun or knife and talking of
what he is going to do.
But Matto Crosse is a harder coun-
try for the stock raiser than Argen-
tina. For in Matto Crosse the police
dare not go outside the/fowns. the
great cattle ranges are sparely fenced
and there seem to be no laws at all
governing the conduct of man or
beast. 1t is country TO which the
hardest type of Western American n
stockman is best suited. and it is from
this breed for the most part that the
managers of cattle ranges are drawn.
Such one is old R" formerly
sheriff in the Southwestern United
States. For years he has run a wild
estate in the heart of South America,
three days north of Coromba He has
his own private graveyard, where he
has given nine men a decent burial
and the survivors have given up steal
ing his cattle now
A man whom l will call Montana
Joe was such another great big
Westerner. slow of speech but quick
as lightning with his eyes and hands.
An American cattle company sent Joe
down to look after a new property
1t had acquired Joe was told there
was trouble down there. The cowboys
on the range were stealing beef, killing
the companys cattle, making jerked
salt beef. loading canoes and selling in
Paraguay. When Joe arrived he found
things as foretold. The ringleader was
his own foreman. big Bahiano Bra
lillian. black as ink
The Bahiano resented the way Joe
spoke to him about the matter the
day after Joe arrived. So Joe told him
he could go. The Bahiano accepted
his dismissal with a bad grace, saying
Kill him and cut off his ear.
The cutting off of an ear is a local
custom, arising from the fact that
when a quarrel has been picked
third man is often employed to do the
killing, and he brings along an ear in
proof that he has done the job and
earned his money. In the case of the
Bahiano he meant to kill Joe himself
and keep the ear as a trophy
Joe did not like being spoken to in
this way. either. and the Bahiano
nearly lost his life for the remark, only
Joe didn't like shooting a man who
wasn't ready. However, they met out
side the local town next day The
Bahiano tried to get his gun out and
Joe shot him dead Then Joe dis.
mounted and cut off the Bahiano's ear.
which he put in a match box for the
time being
Having killed a man. Joe had to
leave the district. He packed his grin
and set off downstream for Paraguay
The Para gvayan officials, on the look
out for revolutionaries entering the
country carrying arms. searched all
passengers luggage. In the bottom of
Joe's grip they found the match box
with the ear in 1t, and as Joe could
give no satisfactory explana ton,
locked him up. 1t was some time be-
fore Joe could get out again, and he
no longer follows the local custom of
collecting souvenirs when he has to do
a killing.
The cattle down in Matto Crosse
are all of the white bumped zebu
stock. They do not produce such good
results as better-grade animals. but
seem to be the only cattle able to re-
sist tick and disease in those parts
The besetting sin of the zebu is wild
ness.
AT Arapua, where l stayed several
days with a cattle man from Texas,
about 10000 head of cattle were graz
ing on 1000 square miles of land. But
my host said that a. third of these he
had never seen, and when we were
riding out one morning to watch a
cattle branding and he pointed ont to