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.
In 1929, TSCRA was holding its 53rd annual convention. Spiller encour-
aged members to attend the convention: “If every member would take part in the convention he would add to the
strengthening of the organization and thereby aid it in serving the general good of the industry. In this way each member would be serving his fellow man as well as himself. “Those who have been attending the convention year after year evidently
consider it worthwhile. It would therefore appear worthwhile for every member to attend. In addition to the regular business of the convention, recreation, inspiration, friendships old and new, and a broader view are some of the benefi ts which follow getting together with people who have the same interest. “Come and bring your friends.”
Producing feeder cattle “The most important three factors in the production of high class feeder
cattle, as I see them, are: First, the use of fi ne bulls, registered, of course; second, keeping the very tops of the heifer calves each year to grow into breeding cows; third, culling out undesirable individuals from yearling
heifers to aged cows and shipping them to market. “A breeder of choice feeder calves needs to have constantly in mind the
Our historic cover this month comes from February 1929. In that issue, Editor E.B. Spiller wrote, “Another of Erwin Smith’s pictures has been selected for the front cover of this number. ‘Clog Dance in the Cow Camp.’ Mr. Smith gives us the following: ‘You will notice that most of the punchers are mature men, many of them having seen service on the old cattle trails, and ninety per cent of them were Texans. You will also notice that nearly all the men have a mus- tache, a very characteristic feature of all the old style cowpunchers.’”
exact type of animal he wants to produce and in selecting his bulls and culling his cows and topping out the heifer calves for the breeding herd, work always toward the ideal type of feeder steers that will command the high price that quality and conformation always do demand. It costs little more in actual money to produce the top kind of feeder cattle. It takes a great deal of time and trouble, but once you have this kind produced, you will not need to hunt buyers for them. The buyers will hunt you and keep coming back just as long as you continue to produce them. — Fred A. Ho- bart, Canadian, Texas, in the American Hereford Journal.”
From a subscriber “Find enclosed a check for $1.00 for ‘The Cattleman’ for one year. John
Burriss of Cambray says no cowman should be without it, hence am writ- ing for the same. — C.L. Jernigan, Akela, N.M.”
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