Cattle-raising on the Plains of North America
Author: Walter Baron Von Richthofen
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 126
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Baron Walter Von Richthofen
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781230379661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... Southern and tempdrate districts at two or less per cent. The annual cost'of herding the cattle, as I have shown in a previous chapter, is about seventy cents per head; adding the other expenses, such as taxes, loss of interest on the purchase-money of land, etc., we find that the entire annual expense is less than $1.50 per head. It takes a heifer-calf, say, three years to mature, and a steer-calf will be ready for the market in four years. The latter will then bring forty dollars; deducting the six dollars of expense for his rearing, we have a net profit of thirty-four dollars on each steer. Now let me illustrate the profits realized from one Texas cow, worth thirty dollars. In ten years she will have eight calves, which, if they are all steers, will have produced at the end of fourteen years $320, or a profit of $272. The cow herself still remains, and is worth about her original cost for the butcher. These figures are made without reference to any increase in the value of cattle or beef, and without reference to any improvement of the stock by crossing it with better blood. The next thing to consider is the natural increase of cattle. I will give my opinion first, and then state those of some of the most experienced cattlemen. I think that seventy-five or eighty per cent of the cows will drop one calf each every year, and that the mortality among these calves will be affected by the mildness or rigor of the climate. The loss of winter-born calves is very small in the Southern portion of the country, but increases as you go North. Therefore I conclude that, for breeding purposes, a more southerly located range is preferable. With the liberal use of bulls, which means at least one bull for every twenty-five cows, which should be strong...
Author: Walter Baron Von Richthofen
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780598281920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Westfall Thompson
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John T. Schlebecker
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Story of the evolution on the cattle industry from what had been an adventurous way of life into a profession.
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 9780803247871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author: Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1478623047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on the American frontier between the 1880s and 1910s? How frequently did violence occur, and what forms did it take? Johnson explores these questions through the lens of the mining and range wars that plagued the region during this period. The author opens with an introductory essay that situates violence within social, political, and economic circumstances of the time, considering smaller cases of interpersonal violence and larger conflicts. Documents are then presented to illuminate two case studies of collective violence—the Johnson County range war in northern Wyoming and the 1913–1914 coal strike in southern Colorado resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. The closing epilogue examines the role both incidents played in shaping the collective memory and cultural history of the American West. The book’s format provides readers with both a general understanding of the history of western violence and the context of specific historical cases that allow for more in-depth study and comparison.
Author: Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 42
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