The Cattleman’s Pages of History T
HE CATTLEMAN MAGAZINE IS 100 YEARS OLD. WE THOUGHT WE’D TAKE A FEW minutes each month to look back at 100 years of covers and coverage of the cattle business of the Southwest.
Inside the January 1916 issue:
What the Cattlemen Are Doing Brief News Items and Stories of the Month Strenuous opposition to tick eradication developed at Ada, Oklahoma,
when night riders destroyed by fi re the barns of two county commissioners. Several of the vats were previously destroyed by dynamite. A newspaper publisher who commented on the work of the night riders received a letter of warning. It is hoped that the law abiding citizens of the community will succeed in discovering the guilty parties. Friends of Jack Allday, a former ranchman near San Angelo, are in receipt
of a letter from him advising that he is now an offi cer in the British army. During the last month, ranch hands on the ranch of Asa A. Jones discov-
ered a hunter on “posted” premises who had killed a deer. They promptly arrested him and took him to Carrizo Springs. The Justice fi ned him $10.00 and costs, which totaled $56.00. “This may seem a little strong,” said a visitor at Association headquarters, “but after a man has had one or two $75.00 cows and a registered bull or two killed by hunter he will appreciate the fact that a man must protect himself against loss.”
On this cover from January 1916, the photo cutline says, “One car of Texas yearlings, bred by the Matador Land & Cattle Company and fed by John G. Imboden & Son of Decatur, Illinois. Forty-four head of these yearlings, averaging 965 pounds, sold on the Chicago market December 8th, at $12.00 per cwt. — the extreme top of the market.”
Cost of Raising a Cow An investigation by the Department of Agriculture shows that the cost of a two-year-old heifer is around $60, this including feed, labor, shelter, interest and incidentals.
Cattle Feeding in the Panhandle With the development of dry-land agriculture much of the Panhandle
which was formerly open range has been taken up by small farmers. As a result, great quantities of feed are now being raised and many of the ranch- men themselves have taken up farming operations on the ranches. This increase in the production of feedstuffs naturally led to increased interest in the fi nishing of cattle for the market, and the high prices that fat cattle have brought in the last few years stimulated this new interest. Many of the ranchmen, however, were inexperienced in cattle feeding, and arrangements were made for an agent of the United States Department of Agriculture to cooperate with them in the solution of the various problems that arose. This work was begun in the fall of 1913, and since that time has met with what is considered to be marked success.
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