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Cowboy Culture with Clay Reid
By Clay Reid
Two boys from Archer County got out of high school and joined the Army. They finished out basic training together in November and got shipped out to Fairbanks, Alaska. As they got off the plane in the freezing, blowing, bitter cold, one looked at the other and says, “You thinking what I am thinking?” The other fellar says, “Yep, I bet it’s cold in Amarillo today.”
I figured since it’s getting warmer by the minute out there I might cool y’all off with little piece of info. It reminds of the time I was working on the Trigg Ranch in northeastern New Mexico west of Amarillo. It was a Sunday and I had just been made cow-boss when a new manager arrived after firing the old one for getting a DWI in the ranch truck. That will get you every time. As the new big dog, I thought, ‘”Well, I need to set an example for all the little dogs laying around the porch.”‘ So I walked in and says to them, “Y’all saddle up, boys, we got three sick yearlings in the Carros pasture and they need doctoring.”
Well, the lil dogs rolled over and mumbled “You’re crazy. It’s snowing out there and besides it’s Sunday and we don’t work on the Sabbath.” Then they threw up some lil hand gesture that wasn’t very Christian like at all. Well, it did not deter old brother Reid in the least because a lil bit of snow wasn’t gonna scare me off of my duties. To read more pick up a copy of the May 2016 issue.
Dan Trigg Ranch owned by Singleton Ranches. (Photo courtesy of Clay Reid)
By Martha Crump
That old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.,” may have some basis in truth when applied to minor situations. However, when what you don’t know is presented in the form of a “Trojan Horse” and is what amounts to an incredible attempt to fleece American property rights, it becomes a different story altogether.
To put this unbelievable tale together, we need to step back to Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order which pledged commitment to help restore balance on public lands and waters, to create jobs, and to provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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