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...Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
...attorney. Maverick moved his law office from Pendleton, S.C. to Texas sometime after 1830. He accepted 600 head of cattle as an attorney's fee, and from this number hoped to breed a much larger herd. His unbranded yearlings fell into the hands of other cattlemen who promptly placed their brands on the cattle. After ten discouraging years Maverick sold his depleted stock for the amount of the original...
Sleepless Nights. As an expert, Thompson convinced cattlemen that high-priced bulls were cheapest in the end, because of the vast improvement the animals made in their herds. He has collected as much as $90,000 in fees in a single year. (For the Thornton sale...
...spite of the warnings of fearful U.S. cattlemen, who wanted all cattle in the infected area destroyed, the new policy paid off. In 19 months mixed Mexican-American teams, criss-crossing the country in cream-colored trucks, vaccinated the 17 million cattle in the danger zone four times each (immunization lasts only for about four months). No outbreak of aftosa has been discovered since December 1949. This week the last sleek steer received his last injection...
...much of the Southwest, power companies, water districts, even farmers and cattlemen are hiring rainmakers to seed the reluctant clouds. Langmuir presented evidence that such overenthusiastic use of silver iodide has already prevented rain in certain areas...