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.


Our historic cover this month comes from September 1972.


Then-Editor Paul Horn had this to say about the photograph: “Breaking Horses at the Pitchfork” is the title Photographer


Jane Pattie has given the September issue’s cover page. The Pitchfork Ranch at Guthrie, Texas, is well known for its pro- duction of top working-using horses which are referred to as “the kind that can do it all.”


These news items were printed elsewhere in that issue:


Meat Board Committee Seeks Standardized Meat Identifi cation The bedrock has been laid for paving a national road to


common meat identifi cation programs to help consumers at the retail meat counter, a spokesman for the National Live Stock & Meat Board reports. Meat Board President David H. Stroud labeled the project


as “…an appropriate response to current issues embodied in the ‘consumer’s right to know’ what he or she is buying and its value or worth in comparison to other purchases at the meat counter. And we think it will be good for business, too,” he added.


The Cattleman September 1972


Extension Livestock Specialist To Serve Denton District Dr. Richard P. McDonald became livestock


specialist at Denton July 1 on the area staff of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service of Texas A&M University. McDonald is a May graduate of Louisiana


State University at Baton Rouge, where his master’s and doctoral studies centered on genetics. He has joined an area staff of other specialists in plant pathology, agronomy, dairying, economics and entomology.


Dr. Randall Grooms, left, receives “Beef Booster of the Year” award from J.D. Sartwelle Jr.


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