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Ranching
Ranching is an extensive way of raising livestock, primarily grazing cattle, sheep and horses, but also involves production of many other animals. The term ranch is used loosely as it is primarily up to the owner's discretion whether his/her locale is a farm or ranch, but it is commonly known as a very large tract of land that is often used in its native state. The historical and current practices of ranching and rangeland management among other things pertaining to ranching can be discussed in this category.
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Linseed oil does not damage paint. Linseed oil is used along with turpentine in oil paints as a type of paint thinner. Linseed oil extends the life of oil paint, makes it easier to thin out, control the paint and paint layers.
What is the largest mattress manufacturer in the United States?
The largest mattress producer in the United States, and by some reports, the world, is Sealy Corporation, headquartered in High Point, North Carolina.
What is George Strait's origin?
he grew up in the nearby town of Pearsall, Texas and he was born in Poteet, Texas.
Where is Patrick Swayze's Ranch in New Mexico?
People in our area believe he owns the Flatiron ranch located near Bailey, Texas. I have been by the ranch and it looks like a California style ranch house with big gated entry. Several years ago he was seen at a small store in Celeste, Texas about 10 miles from the ranch.. Edit: He does in fact own this ranch. My husband has actually been there and talked to him more than once.
The building and expansion of the railway lines. Also, more and more people were coming west to California, Nevada, and New Mexico in search of gold and a new life after the Civil War that ended in 1865. In order to get more people west, the railways had to be expanded westward and southward so that people from the East could come west, and beef cattle shipped back east to feed a growing population.
Naturally, with more people coming in, demand for beef skyrocketed and so did cattle prices. With higher cattle prices, more people could start ranching to raise as many cattle as they dared to (and twice as much as the land could support) in order to make a buck or two. In those days, lots of cattle = lots of money.
What was the daily life of a cowboy a scedule is preferred?
The daily life of a cowhand is never the same. Having a schedule when working around cows is like trying to herd cats. All sorts of duties were involved in a day: catching and roping sick or injured cattle, working with horses, watching the herd, making sure no predators took a calf away, etc.
How is the rainforest affected by cattle ranching?
Negatively. Trees are cut down and burned releasing CO2 into the atmosphere as the cattle barons want to expand their cattle operations. Cutting down the rainforests not only contribute significantly to the greenhouse gas effect, but also endangering critical plant and wildlife habitat where a vast number/variety of plant and animal life exist, most still unknown to many scientists.
What is true about cowboys who traveled along the chisholm trail?
b. They traveled along the trail in search of trading opportunities.
What is the best cattle to raise in Louisiana?
It depends on you. Angus is a popular breed in Louisiana, as well as other Brahman-based breeds like Beefmaster, Santa Gertrudis, Brangus, etc. So it's up to you, what your management goals are and the type of operation you plan on running.
Why did cattle rancher want to get the cattle to the northern and eastern states?
Access to markets. Cattle are grown in open rangeland, but there's nobody there who will pay a high price for them. Buyers are in big cities like New York or Chicago.
The fundamental rule of markets is to buy things where they are cheap, and then take them to places where they are expensive and sell them there. The development of the railroads gave people the ability to do just that.
What were factors that led to the ending of the open range?
The introduction of barbed wire about 1870, one form by Michael Kelly and improved by Joseph Glidden allowed fence construction where there was not an abundance of other fencing materials is one major reason for the end of the "open range" as property owners had the ability to "fence out" other livestock and not allow open access to their property including fodder and water.
What tribe was forced out by the government to give ranchers a great open range for their cattle?
The Nez Perce Tribe.
They still do, there are many cowboys still working in many countries.
The corporate cattle boom collapsed because?
corporations overstocked ranges which caused the depletion of natural resources, as well as the invention of barbed wire that allowed large ranchers to fence off public land took away the availability to free graze. These ecological and financial disasters destroyed the small farmer and confined larger farms to restricting their herd size as well as making sure that the herd was properly fortified for harsh winter months, by ensuring adequate feed by growing hay, as well as finding other ways to reduce their dependence of natural resources by growing drought resistant grasses and by drilling wells for water.
The Dane
Why did ranchers decide to drive their cattle from Texas to towns along the railroad?
Cowboys take cattle to the rail road station (actually the proper term is "stockyards") to be shipped to the facilities that slaughter them for our food.
That's what happened in the past, over 100 years ago. In today's world, trains are not used to ship cattle to slaughter plants. Ninety-nine percent of all cattle are shipped by cattle liners or trailers from a handling facility on a ranch all the way to the slaughter plant. Cattle can still be gathered off of the range, pasture or from the corrals to be loaded on to the trucks just like with loading cattle on the stock cars, but these trucks come to the ranch or farm to pick them up. Cowboys and ranchers don't drive them to another distant facility off their land, not especially with all the highways and suburban areas and other farms they have to travel through.
It has no specific area, no specific population of livestock and no specific location. It is a ranch if that is what you call it. Your neighbors might be laughing behind your back and the term "All Hat and No Cows" certainly comes to play. In theory it is a place that raises cattle as a commercial enterprise. In actual practice it can be something quite different. Many ranchesare rich peoples play things and are rarely operated as means of livelyhood but as a status symbol. For example a Colorado farmer might own 13,000 acres and run cattle on 17,000 acres of Government land and choose to call himself a farmer to avoid sounding uppity.
Answer 2:An operation that specializes in raising cattle. It is an extensive way to manage native pasture and rangeland using cattle. Ranches can be as small as 20 acres or more than 100,000 acres in size. And not all ranches specialize in cattle; other ranches may raise sheep, horses, goats, bison, elk, etc.How was the cattle kingdom significant?
The Cattle Kingdom
The cattle industry grew tremendously in the two decades after the Civil War, moving into western Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas in the 1870s and 1880s with the expansion of the railroads. While motion pictures, television, and novels have helped make cowboys -the men who rounded up, branded, and drove the cattle to market - the most heroic and best known symbols of the West, cattle ranching was in fact a big business that attracted foreign investment and required considerable organization.
The long drive. The rise of the cattle kingdom coincided with the spread of the railroads across the country. In 1866, Texas ranchers drove their herds of longhorn cattle north to the railhead at Sedalia, Missouri, for shipment to the slaughter and packinghouses in the East. As the railroads moved west, the terminus of the long drive moved with them. The famed Chisholm Trail went from San Antonio to Abilene, Kansas, while the Western Trail ended in Dodge City. These drives covered approximately 800 miles and took about two months; the Goodknight-Loving Trail, which swung through west Texas and then north into New Mexico and Colorado, was considerably longer.
The cattle business was a profitable one. A steer purchased for less than ten dollars in south Texas might sell for three or more times that amount in the Kansas cow towns. Since the herds grazed on the open range and as few as a dozen cowboys could handle several thousand heads of cattle, a rancher's operating expenses were low. Given this positive outlook, it is not surprising that the cattle industry attracted capital from investors both in the East and overseas. Many ranchers simply managed cattle and land for outside corporate interests. Two of the largest corporate ranches - the Anglo-American Cattle Company (1879) and the Prairie Cattle Company (1881) - were established in England and Scotland, respectively.
Few cowboys made driving cattle their life's work, and after a year or two, most moved on to some other occupation. Although there were certainly cowhands who hoped to save enough money to start a ranch of their own, this was not easy. The cowboys were basically wageworkers, paid a meager $25 to $40 per month plus room and board. Ranch hands in the Texas Panhandle and in Wyoming even went on strike demanding higher salaries in the 1880s. Although whites were invariably hired as foremen in the ranch-hand hierarchy, nearly 20 percent of the cowboys were African and Mexican Americans. Indeed, the techniques for handling cattle on the range and the clothes the cowboys wore owed much to their early Mexican counterparts, the vaqueros.
Range wars. As settlers advanced into cattle country, a conflict was inevitable between the farmers who fenced their land with barbed wire and sought to control water sources and the ranchers whose livelihood depended on keeping the range open. But the so-called range wars also pitted cattlemen against sheepherders (sheep were notorious for eating grasses down to the stubble so that the land was unsuited for cattle grazing) and cattle barons against smaller ranchers. In what was known as the Johnson County War (1892), the Wyoming Stock Growers Association hired gunmen to get rid of small operators accused of stealing cattle.
The collapse of the cattle kingdom. A combination of factors brought an end to the cattle kingdom in the 1880s. The profitability of the industry encouraged ranchers to increase the size of their herds, which led to both overgrazing (the range could not support the number of cattle) and overproduction. As with crop production, more beef on the market and the rise of foreign competition led to declining prices. In addition to the loss of grazing land, nature took its toll. Successive harsh winters in 1886 and 1887, coupled with summer droughts, decimated the cattle herds on the Great Plains and forced ranchers to adopt new techniques. With some notable exceptions, such as the fabled King Ranch in south Texas, the trend shifted toward smaller ranches. Cattlemen fenced in more manageable herds averaging 200 head, feeding them hay or grain in the winter and turning to selective breeding to increase the amount of beef produced.
What factors caused the rise and fall of the cattle industry?
The railroad and the development of railroad cars that were refrigerated led to the rise of the western cattle industry. The land was perfect for cattle and the railroad allowed ranchers to send meat all over the country.
What factors ended the cattle boom?
Corporate structure and frenzied investment/speculation, insufficent grass to support long drives, ranges were shrunk by railroads, severe weather in 1885-1887
The cattle frontier ended because barbed wire was invented, which replaced the need for cowboys. Weather also influenced the downfall, as blizzards trapped herds and droughts caused fire. These disasters destroyed land, and many animals were lost.
What were the changes that railroads brought to the nation?
In the 19th century (before as well as after the Civil War), railroads brought many changes to the United States of America. For one thing, trade and commerce increased, with a complementary expansion of industry, especially in the North. For another, settlement of the 'wild West' was made easier, as was increased growth of areas already settled. For yet another, military operations became more sophisticated and generally more power-packed: during the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces could be quickly reinforced or moved to areas of special need due to the rapid transportation provided by railroads.
What is a Mexican ranch owner called?
* Mexico & northern South America - 'haciendas' are owned by 'hacendados' * Mexico & northern South America - 'latifundios' are owned by 'latifundista
Why did cattle ranching spread to the plains?
Because there was lots more grass to graze than in other areas. Cattle could the stocked more on the open plains than in forested or very hilly areas.
Also, the expansion of railroads helped the cattles move west.
