The Southwest, the West & the Northwest.
Raising large number of cattle
Raising large numbers of cattle
to move to a more productive landraising large numbers of cattle.
to move to a more productive landraising large numbers of cattle.
You might expect to find the world's largest cattle ranch in Texas. But you would do better to look halfway around the world in Australia. A cattle ranch at Alexandria Station, in Australia's Northern Territory, once covered some 7.2 million acres, or about 11,250 square miles, an area about the size of New Hampshire and Delaware combined! The ranch now has an area of square miles. About 60,000 cattle graze there. This is the largest cattle ranch on earth today. But early this century, there was another ranch in Australia's Northern Territory that was more than five times as large. Until this ranch was divided into smaller properties, it covered an area of 35,000 square miles, about the size of Indiana!
A 'bar' is a common character used in the creation of cattle brands. It is a straight line similar to the underscore key on a computer keyboard. Many ranch names are descriptive of their particular cattle brands. For example the Double C Bar Ranch would have a brand made up of two capital "C"s followed by a straight line at the bottom of the last "C". The Bar M Ranch might have a brand made up of a capital M with a straight bar over it. You can read more about cattle brands at the link provided below.
In the late 1800's, cattle strayed from their ranches.Cowhands started roundups, the event where cowhands find all stray cattle. This is where branding tools came in, brands were fried into the side of a cow.Cowhands would then organize the cattle by ranch.
The herding of cattle from Texas to railroad centers to the north was called a cattle drive. Cattle drives took many months to complete. Some of the cowboys would drive the cattle to Kansas and not want to go back to the ranch after being paid. Then ranchers would have to hire more hands the next cattle drive season.
Because you may have been in contact with sick cattle and their manure, and that would allow for such diseases to infect US cattle. In such case you and your clothes would be subject to closer inspection.
The cattle ranch is to the right of the 'Slough Creek' sign. Once you're inside of the cattle ranch it tells you what to do(Find calf, don't get too close to the cows, etc.). And there is your answer.
northeast region
It is called a cattle prod if it emits a small shock to the cattle, if it is just a plain stick it would most likely be just a cane.