Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Interesting Thought
<b>Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers</b>
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Calves Playing
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves03112006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves03112006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A bunch of the heifers calves playing in the sunshine. I played with the photo a little and added an effect to it. It gave it an interesting texture. Taken 3/11/2006.</center>
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Rail Rates
Aaron asks the question, <a href="http://treasurestatejudaism.blogspot.com/2006/03/controversial-question-are-high.html">"are High Railroad Rates Good or Bad for Montana?"</a> He specifically asked me for my opinion as an agricultural producer. Why you ask a cattle rancher who got out of wheat production because of it's impending profitability a question about freight rates of wheat is beyond me but I can…
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Morning Fog
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/morningfog03162006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/morningfog03162006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Early morning fog burning off to bring a beautiful Montana day. Taken 3/16/2006.</center>
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Bums Update
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/bums03162006?full=1'><img width='250' height='187' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/bums03162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Like I said I was going to do I got the twin calf pulled off the <a href="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/twins03082006?full=1">heifer</a> and have the two different bum twin calves shown in the picture to feed. The one that has been on the heifer I expected to give me trouble…
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Beating the Drum
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49321">Government's idea of 'tracking' animals</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Reaction to the National Animal Identification System is shining a light on a growing problem that independent producers believe is threatening the entire livestock industry. Vertical marketing practices in the meat processing industry, combined with the industry's access to and influence on the Department of Agriculture and Congress,…
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Frosty Morning
It was a real frosty cold morning yesterday with a little fog that caused ice crystals on everything. Here are some pictures showing it.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/moon_03162006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/moon_03162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The moon setting behind the hill on a frosty morning.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/frosty03162006?full=1'><img width='167' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/frosty03162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br…
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Family Situation
I recieved the following story via e-mail and wanted to share it with everybody. It provides a very important observation on life in the moral of the story. Enjoy.<br />n<br />nI was happy. My girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and<br />nso we decided to get married. My friends encouraged me.…
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Horrible
The recent <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WILDFIRES?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">fires in Texas</a> are really scary for more than man. I hear about them and I think about the poor animals caught in these things.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.amarillo.com/stories/031406/new_4214034.shtml">Cattle ranchers describe 'worst nightmare' </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ranchers saw the end of their world Monday.<br />n<br />nDead cattle mottled the landscape a day after winds…
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Train of Thought
I came over a little hill this morning and spotted something that started a whole train of thoughts running through my head and I thought I would share how it went.<br />n<br />n<br />nwhat's this? two calves following one cow…is one of them lost….no…look at them, they are very small and look real similar…look at…