Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-09-04

article says, and Herewith returned Il
/ Montana with impressive medical ties
/ timony to the effect that he coulC
live only in high air and open sunlight
I He set out for Wyoming where he speni
/ a year and half as a laborer on the
! big ranches. He came home in 1891
( to take over the management Of the
/ Con Kohrs ranch-"in the face of col
lapsing markets and whitening range.
That year also he married and re-
ceived, as a family wedding present
the white stucco cottage in which he
and his wife and daughter live.
Had Resources
Mr. Wilson says "the Kohrs ranch
itself is probably worth some $500, 600
but the total Kohrs estate could hardly
be valued at less than $500 600. Warren
has had relatively large resources to
draw upon. They cannot be ignored
in any fair appraisal Of what he has
done, but neither can they be offered
as an explanation of his success.
Warren has done far more than
lean against the backlog hewed by his
grandfather He has introduced and
maintained superior strain Of pure
bred cattle. He has made extensive
sales of purebred pedestrian bulls and
heifers to ranchers throughout Mon
tana and other western states. He has
become a significant pioneer in intro
ducing a utility breed Of thoroughbred
horses (Belgians) in the west. He has,
through extensive sale of these Bel
gians, supplied Montana with a credit
able foundation of good horseflesh.
He has maintained model live
stock establishment, from standpoint
of equipment as well as management
one visited by livestock breeders and
from all parts of the west. And
he has instituted an active and we'll
farm as part OF the land
holding which had never been seriously |
far1ned. Raised as a cattleman, he has
become successful, practical
farmer, and it is a transition of prac- |
.ical and timely significance"
ReIys on Nature
Con Warren keeps a microscope in
MS shedroom instrument cabinet,
shoots slides as the work progresses,
he article points out. Though ultra
modern cattlebreeders are beginning to
use mechanical impregnation to null
iply progeny of highly valuable herd
pulls, Con Warren finds that healthy
Jurebred cattle usually breed readily
.nough when left to their own devices.
Feeding is important, and where
Sohrs raised cattle on native grass
md Shrubbery, Warren must supple
nent range with reservoirs OF feed
-rown and harvested from fields or
With water pasture. He must fence the
ields and pastures, rigidly limit the
ize of herds so that the grass will not
Re eaten or tramped to death. Irriga-
ion is an added burden to the new
chool of ranchers. Con Warren's
anch now has its own irrigation sys-
EN-, watering 500 acres, fed by two
mountain creeks from snow water.
"a cowboy is an agricultural laborer
rho has been Enthusiastically romantt-
lied" says Mr.. Wilson. I'm the movies
e still rides a broncho at breakneck
peed and waves a 10-gallon StetSon.
tut the demands of modern ranching
re more mundane and practical. With
he approach OF springtime, Warren
nd his seven 'steadies' turn farmers"
Employs Science
Author Wilson says that Warren
ponds as much as 81 500 a year on
ormalities of testing, isolating and
therwise outwitting Bangs disease
chronic abortion). But his records tell
nat the best cure for abortion is good
seding-a careful weighed ration with !
lenty Of mineral content. Horse OBJ
,etrics are far more complicated, and |
ON Warren finds his two years of
remedial study Of considerable help.
1hen colts are being born, he takes I
ed and quarters to the instrument
)om in the big horseShed, and the 9
)wboys come along to serve as equine
lterns.
THE new school of cowboys on the ]
.ohrs ranch are a gay, overalled crew, {
)ung and slender (Save for the cook ;"
ates Mr.. Wilson. They live in a l
lnkhouse in use for three cowboy
sleep on army cots neatly
igned, eat at long mess table album q