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VOL 79, No. 9

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TABLE OF CONTENTS NEW MEXICO STOCKMAN Write or call: P.O. Box 7127 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194 Fax: 505/998-6236 505/243-9515 E-mail: caren@aaalivestock.com Official publication of: ■

New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association Email: nmcga@nmagriculture.org; 2231 Rio Grande NW, P.O. Box 7517, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584, Fax: 505/842-1766; President, Rex Wilson Executive Director, Caren Cowan Deputy Director, Zach Riley Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. P.O. Box 7520, Albuquerque, NM 87194, 505/247-0584 President, Marc Kincaid Executive Director, Caren Cowan Asst. Executive Director, Michelle Frost ■

EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Publisher: Caren Cowan Publisher Emeritus: Chuck Stocks Office Manager: Marguerite Vensel Advertising Reps.: Chris Martinez, Melinda Martinez Contributing Editors: Carol Wilson Callie Gnatkowski-Gibson, William S. , Lee Pitts Photographer: Dee Bridgers

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Horse Section

Ranch Horse Development – Tips For Success

Rodeo – College Style!

by Heather Thomas Smith

Foot Care is Crucial for Ranch Horses

Bill Introduced to End Equal Access to Justice Act Payments to Litigious Environmental Groups

Bonds Ranch – A No Nonsense Approach

by Kori Conley, Charolais Journal

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N.M. Cattle Growers’ Association President's Letter

N.M. Federal Lands Council News

On The Edge of Common Sense

by Rex Wilson, President

by Frank DuBois by Baxter Black

News Update

New Mexico’s Old Time and Old Timers

In Memoriam

N.M. CowBelles Jingle Jangle

Cowboy Heroes

NMBC Bullhorn

Market Place

Seedstock Guide

by Don Bullis

by Jim Olson

Real Estate Guide

PRODUCTION

Production Coordinator: Carol Pendleton Editorial & Advertising Design: Kristy Hinds

Estrays

New Mexico Livestock Board Update

Scatterin’ The Drive

ADVERTISING SALES

To The Point

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Ad Index

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by Caren Cowan

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Dear Fellow Cattlemen, he feel of fall is already in the air and the Farmer’s Almanac is telling us that we can expect a frosty and wetter than usual winter. That’s the best news I have had in awhile. Let’s pray it holds true. We have been blessed with rain in most places this summer, but we know it is going to take a lot more moisture for our ranges to become fully productive again. As the summer winds down, most of New Mexico’s counties have had their County Fairs. I had the opportunity to attend a couple of them as I have traveled the past several weeks, now that my family has moved past the stage of attending county fairs ... at least for the time being. The fairs allowed for some reflection and rejuvenation. We are fortunate to live in a place that we can find hope in our county fairs – and see the leaders of tomorrow developing before our eyes. A county fair embodies everything we in rural America and especially rural New Mexico hold dear. It lets us show with pride the fruits of our labor for everything from our fruits and vegetables to our indoor and outdoor handy work to our livestock to our future generations. Nothing more clearly demonstrations our values than watching young people get their show animals ready under the watchful eye of mom and dad. Then watching them march into the show ring with the stands full of parents, grandparents and sometimes even great-grandparents anxiously waiting for the handshake of the judge. There is also the tremendous volunteer structure in place to put on our county fairs. These events would not be possible without volunteers. There are untold man and woman hours that are given freely and willingly to see that their family, friends and neighbors have the opportunity to spend a day or two at the fair. It really makes me remember why we work so hard every day in the face of the whims of Mother Nature and a conflicted government. It also gives me great confidence that there are generations before and behind us that believe in what we are doing as much as we do. We had a great Board meeting in Santa Fe with an active and fun legislative training. Thanks to all who participated, particularly the legislators who took time to share their insight as to how we can effectively represent our industry in Santa Fe. Things are shaping up for a busy fall filled with major fairs, lots of comment deadlines and meetings to attend. There are still three months of interim legislative committee meetings to keep an eye on. The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) will be holding the fall round of Regional Meeting. It looks like the Northeast Region will gather in Tucumcari on October 14 in a joint meeting with the Quay County Farm & Livestock Bureau, so put that on your calendar. We will share dates of the other meetings as they are planned. The entire Mexican wolf recovery mess becomes more convoluted almost by the minute. The office staff is working hard to keep up and to build alliances that will help keep us on the ground. We have some allies in West Texas who understand the magnitude of what is about to happen if we cannot redirect the train wreck envisioned by the current set of proposals from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Although the agency is telling Texans that these proposals will eliminate the state from the program. The maps with the proposals tell a different story. Yes, the FWS is planning to remove the 10(j) experimental, nonessential designation from Texas. In return, any wolf venturing into Texas from New Mexico, Mexico or anywhere else will be FULLY ENDANGERED. With the agency envisioning releasing wolves anywhere between I-40 and at least I-10 (maybe all the way to the Mexican border), it isn’t a far lope into to Texas. I only have this and three more opportunities to remind you (as if you needed it) that there is still time to join or invite a friend to join NMCGA! We are less than 40 new members from reaching our goal of 400 new members by December 2013. Be blessed and I look forward to seeing you down the road. Sincerely,

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good ranch horse is an athlete and very versatile — with agility to move quickly, surefooted confidence in steep or challenging terrain, ability to work cattle or do any other job at hand (from checking range fences to packing salt), and a good mind. He’s also durable. Unlike some equine athletes whose careers peak at an early age and then they retire —often due to physical breakdown and unsoundness — the ranch horse is expected to work well into his twenties. He may slow down a bit in his older years and need a little extra care to keep old joints comfortable and working properly, but he can still hold up his end of a job with the kids or grandkids riding him.

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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT – Horses that grow up in big pastures, travelling over all kinds of terrain, are usually more agile and athletic than the horses growing up in small pens and stalls. Continual exercise is also important for optimal development of feet and legs, heart and lungs, bone and muscle, strong joints and overall soundness. Feed is another factor in the equation. Young horses need adequate levels of protein, carbohydrates, trace minerals, etc. for optimal growth, but they don’t need to be overfed and pushed for fast growth as some horse breeders tend to do. Youngsters that are allowed to grow up more naturally and slowly — out on pasture running with their mothers and then their herdmates — tend to have fewer feet/leg and developmental problems than the young horses fed a diet high in concentrates. Ranch horses have an advantage over the horses that are bred and developed for racing, cutting, and other sports where they must compete at a young age. Many of those horses are pushed too fast, grow up in artificial conditions and tend to break down at a young age. A ranch horse can be allowed to reach his growth potential more slowly and naturally, for a long life of soundness and usefulness. Genetics, feed and environment all play a role in growth and skeletal development. W.B. (Burt) Staniar, PhD (Assistant Professor of Equine Nutrition at Penn State) has studied the growth of foals all over the world. He is currently working with the nationally acclaimed Quarter Horse breeding herd at Penn State. “The research we’ve been conducting focuses on the first two years of growth, and how nutrition provided by pasture and supplements influence that growth,” says Staniar. “In addition, we are paying more attention to how other variables, such as date of birth, age at weaning, and when the animals enter training, will affect the growth pattern, and ultimately the athletic potential of the animal.” One of the main issues regarding growth is trying to avoid various developmental problems that can occur, and to define the kind of growth we are looking for. Do we want rapid growth? Slow growth? “I think our objectives in raising a horse are to maximize the opportunity for that animal to realize the athletic potential that’s a part of its genetics,” says Staniar. “Optimum growth is what we’re lookcontinued on page 15

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ing for, but defining that is difficult. It may be different for each individual—and the end result is often several years down the road. It’s hard to determine how growth at three months of age will influence what a foal will be at three years of age,” he explains. “In all the growth data I’ve looked at, there’s a decrease in growth rates in the winter months, with February being the lowest for horses raised in the northern hemisphere. The young horse’s body is conserving energy for other purposes and decreasing growth rate. But the decrease at this time represents an opportunity for horse owners. If you realize this will occur, you can provide the weanling with more energy, and an environment that doesn’t allow the growth to decrease quite so much,” Staniar says. You can counterbalance some of the negative effects of that first winter. For example, it’s an opportunity to provide better quality hay for these foals. “The thing that’s interesting is that if a foal really drops off in growth (such at weaning, when he’s stressed and especially if forage availability and temperature are less optimal) with all of these stresses happening at once, he makes up for it later. The more an animal decreases growth at this point and conserves energy (for maintenance instead of growth), when spring comes and there’s good grass again, the more the animal tries to catch up,” he says. This growth spurt is called compensatory growth and it happens in all species. The more the young animal’s growth decreased through that first winter, the more likely there will be an even greater increase in growth the next spring. And it is this type of growth spurt that has been linked with developmental problems in the growing skeleton. If you can compensate for the decrease in growth during winter and also think about it in the spring (not complicating a growth spurt by feeding high energy feeds at that time), this can smooth out the peaks and valleys of the young horse’s growth and potentially help minimize some of the risk for DOD (developmental orthopedic disease). “This bumpy pattern of growth may or may not be detrimental. In extremes, it might be, because it may play a role in skeletal abnormalities. There were some studies in the 1940s and 50s that looked at wild horses’ patterns of growth. The young ones grow slower in winter and speed up in

spring. These are normal cycles,” says Staniar. On the other hand, fast growth in a wild horse might not be as extreme as that of a domestic youngster on lush pasture in Kentucky, or one that’s being fed grain and other concentrates to push for faster growth to get it ready for showing or early training. Wild horses mature more slowly in a natural environment. They don’t suffer from DOD due to too-fast growth. They may not finish growing until they are five or six years old, but they also tend to stay sound longer because they are not pushed — either nutritionally or physically. Ranch horses that are allowed to grow up at a natural rate (building strong bodies as they exercise in big pastures), and not pushed into training and hard work at a young age, tend to stay sound longer than racehorses or performance horses that are headed for competitions in their two-year-

old year. A good rule of thumb, even if you start training the young horse under saddle as a two-year-old to give him the basics, is to wait until he is 4 before he is asked to do hard work. A little patience at the beginning adds many years of useful life at the end. MENTAL DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING – The ideal ranch horse has a good mind and is “part of the team” when you ask him to do a job — willingly responding to your request whether you are on the ground or on his back. Some horses are more mellow and trusting than others because of their genetic tendency toward a naturally good disposition. They are often easier to train, while others require more work to gain their trust and respect. The type of handling given a young horse can make a big difference in how he turns out. continued on page 16

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It helps if you can work with a horse’s natural tendencies and social make-up as a herd animal. If the horse can look to you as the herd leader, this makes your training job a lot easier. Ranch-raised horses that run free in large pastures as a group— interacting in the herd hierarchy--can more readily transfer their allegiance/respect for the “herd boss” to you as the leader of the team. There are many ways to start handling young horses. They all work, depending on how you go about it. Some people like to imprint foals, handling them immediately after birth to get them accustomed to being touched all over. If done correctly this can be a good training aid. If done incorrectly you may end up with a very pushy horse.

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“I’m in an area in western South Dakota where there’s a big difference between the ranchers and the hobby horse owners. The hobby owners view horses as companion animals rather than livestock. That’s ok. I use my own horses hard on the ranch, but they are also my best friends. The hobby horsemen, however, don’t know how to separate the roles. They don’t understand that they must be the leader in the relationship,” he says. They want to be the horse’s best buddy; they are afraid that if they take a leadership role this will push the horse away and he won’t like them. “But it works exactly the opposite. If you become a leader in that horse’s life, he’ll respect you a lot more (and be willing to do much more for you) than if he views you as his equal. You have to be the leader,” says Rypkema A colt that’s been imprinted properly has learned to respond and “give” and accept the dominance of the human, but one that hasn’t been imprinted correctly is simply unafraid and hasn’t learned respect. “The colt may sulk up and fight you for a week or two when you have to start teaching him respect, but once he accepts your leadership role he will have a better relationship with you in the end,” he explains. The old way of breaking horses, catching them for the first time as weanlings or older and tying them up — letting them fight the rope until they gave in — worked with some, but was very hard on others. “When I halter break my colts now, I like to do it with the mare. Often I’ll put the mare and her foal in the round pen. I’ll tie a bowline in the foal’s halter rope and slip it over the mare’s neck. The mare will take her foal wherever she wants to go,” he says. This is similar to the old method of tying a weanling or yearling to a burro and letting the burro halter break the youngster. Whether you imprint a foal or even handle it very much in the first few weeks or months will usually depend on how user-friendly the mare is. “A lot of broodmares on ranches here were maybe halter broke as weanlings, and that’s the last they were worked with. They are not always cooperative about what you want to do with their foal. They instill a defense response into their foals,” he explains. “If you want to work with the foal from the beginning, first make sure the mare is halter broke, easy to catch, and has the ground manners necessary to work with

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her.” That’s the only way you can make a positive experience for the foal when working with him while he is still on his mother. The foal needs a good influence from his mother or herdmates, not picking up fear or defensive tactics when confronted with a human. The young horse also needs to learn that he’s not the boss in the horse-human relationship, and must submit to the human as leader. “I turn my weanlings out with my saddle horses. Those geldings teach the colts more manners than 90 days of me working with them,” Rypkema says. The young horse learns discipline from the older horses much quicker than you can teach him. If a foal has very little contact with other horses after weaning, he may grow up more headstrong and aggressive than he would otherwise, trying to treat you as a playmate rather than his trainer. He may think he can dominate you, since he has not had to submit to the bossing of older herdmates. It’s much easier to let an older

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gained a lot. They will build trust in that saddle horse, and trust with you — because they see the saddle horse accepting you,” says Rypkema. “I also use a saddle horse when I’m breaking a lot of colts, just to have another horse in the pen. If a colt gets scared when I get on him the first time or two, he might buck around a little but will tend to go to the other horse and become relaxed because that other horse isn’t freaking out. The other horse is his security and a good influence. This saves a lot of crashes for me,” he says. The role model of another horse, if he’s calm and dependable, is always helpful. “I try to do almost everything — when they are young and impressionable and until I feel they are accepting me — with another horse. It may be something as simple as going out and checking them horseback. They start to relate you and the trained/finished horse with things being ok and comfortable and they are relaxed about it. It makes the transition easier for them,” he says. Once the young horse trusts and respects you, the next steps in training are

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National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Decided at that meeting was the need for a constitution, which was then established at a second meeting held in February 1949. Hank Finger, then Sul Ross State Universities Rodeo Club President and chairman of the constitutional committee, worked with that committee on developing eligibility guidelines, scholastic standards, and rodeo structure. The committee created a format for intercollegiate rodeo that would remain consistent throughout the country and provide national recognition for their constituents. At the first NIRA National Convention on April 14 and 15, 1949, in Denver, Colorado, final approval of the constitution

was granted, fees were accepted, and rules and regulations were finalized. Three regions were formed; Southern, Northwest, and Rocky Mountain. Pro-tem president Charles Rankin was elected NIRA president. There were thirteen member schools at this time, representing Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, and Texas. August 1949 marked the official, legal birth of NIRA when they filed for nonprofit status. The first College National Finals Rodeo was held the same year in San Francisco, California. The first NIRA All Around Champion crowned that year was Harley May of Sul Ross State University. The next decade, the era of bobby socks continued on page 24

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and poodle skirts, was one of difficulty for the NIRA. The 1950s brought problems with structure and finance for college rodeo. The 1956 National Convention addressed these problems by creating a Secretary/Manager position within the NIRA. Alvin G. Davis, Bownfield, Texas, was hired to fill that position. After noted success, Davis then resigned in 1958. Hoss Inman, a stock contractor from Lamar, Colorado, became the second man to hold the job. In 1960, Sonny and Joann Sikes of Sam Houston State University took over, accepting the roles of secretary and office manager respectively. Entering into the 60s, the Sikes family led college rodeo into consistent membership growth and the television boom. The 1962 College National Finals Rodeo appeared on ABC’s Wide World of Sports. NBC aired the 1965 finals, and ABC, again aired the event in 1967. Rodeo at this time was experiencing a huge growth in several arenas, professional and college, the television airtime was a welcomed partner in the growth. Member schools totaled 97 in 1966. Vietnam, beer, and computers, were the topics of the 70s in college rodeo. National

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Mesalands hires new Rodeo Coaches esalands Community College is pleased to announce that Tim Abbott, Midland, Texas is the new Interim Intercollegiate Rodeo Coach. Abbott’s extensive background in competing collegiately and professionally in rodeo, and his understanding of the importance of academics made him the ideal candidate for this position. “We are very excited for our current and future rodeo student athletes to have Coach Abbott joining our program,” said Dr. Thomas W. Newsom, President of Mesalands. “He brings the experience and a great passion for the sport that will continue to build on our program’s success.” Abbott has been member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) since 2008. According to the PRCA website, he is currently 20th in the world standings in the steer roping event. He also competes in team roping professionally. “We are very proud that Tim Abbott has accepted the position of Mesalands Community College’s Interim Rodeo Coach. Clearly his reputation precedes him,” said Dr. Aaron Kennedy, Vice President of Student Affairs at Mesalands. “I’m sure Tim will continue to improve upon the Mesalands tradition of rodeo excellence.” Abbott attended the University of Texas Permian Basin in Odessa, TX from 20052006. He also attended Odessa College in Odessa, TX from 2001-20013. In college he competed in calf roping, steer wrestling, and in team roping. In 2001 he was named the Texas High School Rodeo Association All-Around Cowboy. Abbott was the Odessa College Rodeo Club President from 20022003. He was a College National Finals Rodeo (CFNR) qualifier in 2002 and in 2003. In 2008, he was the named the PRCA Steer Roping Rookie of the Year and the PRCA Texas Circuit All-Around Rookie of the Year. In 2008, he won the Cheyenne Frontier Days Championship title in steer roping and was a National Finals Steer Roping qualifier. Abbott was also the recipient of the Dixon McGowan Memorial Steer Roping Award. “I’m very excited about this position. It was an opportunity that came up, that I really couldn’t pass up,” Abbot said “The reputation and the tradition that Mesa-

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lands has been building over the last six or eight years, is pretty incredible and I’m very honored to be next in line to carry out that tradition.” He is married to Kayton and has two daughters Rylee and Steely. “My wife is excited about moving. Everyone that we’ve met in Tucumcari has just welcomed us tremendously. It feels like a very close community,” Abbott said. Abbott will be assisted by Staci Stanbrough from Capitan, New Mexico. Stanbrough was recently hired as the new Assistant Rodeo Coach/Animal Science Faculty. Stanbrough was a member of the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Rodeo Team in Las Cruces from 2006 to 2011. She competed in breakaway roping, goat tying, and in barrel racing. Stanbrough was a four-time qualifier for the CNFR and was an Academic All-American recipient for four years. She was highly involved with the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. In 2010, she was the National Student President and was the Grand Canyon Region Student Director from 2009-2011. She graduated from NMSU with a Masters of Agriculture with a Concentration in Domestic Animal Biology. She also

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If you lose a shoe on him, you’re walking. If I turn him out with the other horses, he’s tender in about three weeks.” Individual horses have different qualities in feet. “When riding a horse that doesn’t have strong feet (and if you lose a shoe, you’re in trouble), we always put a few nails in our shirt pockets. You can put nails in a shoe with just a fencing tool, if the horse starts to lose a shoe. Some cowboys around here do that all the time; they’ve always got a little sack with a few nails in it. If you’re carrying heavy fence pliers you can always use those as a hammer. If you get in a pinch you can jerk a shoe off, flatten it out, and nail it back on. Most of the horses in my string, however, have good enough feet that I could make it home if they lose a shoe, and maybe even ride another day if I have to,” says Neshem. “The bigger, heavy horses as a rule have more trouble. We like a horse that weighs 950 to 1100 pounds and not much over that. Most of ours take a number one shoe; they have adequate feet for their body weight.” He has one heavy boned, big-footed horse that came from a wild horse band in California. Even though he’s a large horse, he’s not a heavy horse, and has huge, strong feet. “Just for scouring the country looking for cattle, I’ve ridden that horse most of a winter without shoes. He has a foot that’s unbelievable. In the granite country, there were a couple winters when I was only riding once or twice a week and not putting in hard days, and I rode that rascal and never nailed a shoe on him. He also makes a good pack horse because if you’re not packing all the time you can grab him when you need him and not have to bother with putting shoes on. When we’re using him through the cattle workings we shoe him, of course, but he makes a good spare horse without shoes. He can run through the rocks if you need to.” When a horse needs hoof pads, Neshem used to use a heavy piece of leather. “It would wear out by the time you have to reshoe. I still use leather on occasion if I have a horse that’s a little tender after shoeing. By the time the leather wears out, his hoof has grown a little and toughened up,” says Neshem. “You can buy plastic pads already made up.” He’s also used neoprene (the sheets you get from a shoe repair shop), and says it lasts the best. You can use it over and over; it will last through several shoeings.

“You can get neoprene that’s quite thin, or heavier. I’ve taken those pads and cut them out for the frog, when I just need some protection for the sole. That really works well,” he says. This keeps the frog outside the pad and it’s less prone to develop thrush. The pad doesn’t have to bend up over the frog on a flat-footed horse (which creates a space at the heel where dirt or small rocks could work in under the pad); it’s flat against the sole. Bob and Kelly Sue Bachen shoe horses in the northeast corner of New Mexico and have a farrier supply store (Wagon Mound Ranch Supply). This area is rolling grasslands with rocky canyons running through—high plains next to the Kiowa National Grasslands. There are some large historic ranches here, and many small family operations. Bob says a lot of farriers tend to belittle “cowboy” shoeing, but he feels most cowboys have a good understanding of their horses’ feet, since most of them are good horsemen. They use their horses a lot, and know how the horse is built and how it moves. “A lot of people who come out of shoeing school have never been around horses that much. The cowboy, by contrast, has been working with horses a long time and knows what a horse needs. Most cowboys have a better idea about what a horse’s foot should look like than a lot of people out there practicing the profession of farriery,” says Bob. It’s important that the shoes stay on. “When I first moved to this part of the country, it was only about three years after I started shoeing horses. A client would tell me my shoeing job was the prettiest he’d ever seen, but a week later he’d call me to say the shoes had come off! I soon learned, and had to adapt my methods of shoeing. This was part of my education. You learn to shoe for what the horse needs. These horses need to be fit tight and short, with not a lot of heel sticking out.” When a horse is scrambling around in the rocks he may step on one foot with another, or get one caught in the rocks if there’s any shoe sticking out. “If he’s running hell bent for leather down a narrow canyon or through the volcanic rock on top of a mesa, you sure don’t want him to lose a shoe,” says Bob. Kelly Sue adds, “We always smooth the shoes so they never catch the side of the shoe with another foot. These horses dodge back and forth when chasing cows, and if they are turned out in pastures with continued on page 33

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a bunch of other horses you never know who’s stepping on who’s shoes—so you always box the heels. You don’t leave any sticking out. Bob says, “A therapeutic shoe or an eggbar or long heeled shoe may stay on if a horse is kept in a stall or ridden lightly, but in a pasture or ridden like a ranch horse must be, that’s a different story. These horses are out there kicking and snorting and jumping around.” “Some people will tell you it’s not good to shoe a foot with no room for expansion and too short, but is it better to have the perfect shoeing job and lose the shoe in the rocks and end up with a crippled horse because he had 15 miles to get back to camp, or to have a shoe that stays on and protects the foot? You have to shoe a horse for what he’ll be used for, and in this country you need to shoe ranch horses short and tight. You need to make sure the shoes stay on so they don’t pull off in a bad situation,” says Bob. On the whole, ranch horses tend to have very healthy feet. They are not kept in stalls or small pens and rarely have thrush. They are moving around in big pastures or used regularly, and their feet stay cleaner and healthier, especially if you use a good shoe that is self cleaning, says Kelly Sue. Horses being used regularly need shoes, but rarely need pads. “If a horse is born and raised here, he generally doesn’t have much problem with bruising. But when you buy a horse from outside and expect him to adapt, he may or may not. Pads are not always the best idea, because that doesn’t help him adapt and toughen his feet. A horse that can’t do the job usually doesn’t stick around as a ranch horse; if his feet won’t hold up the cowboy usually gets a different horse. These guys don’t have time to mess with one that takes extra work,” says Bob. He likes to use rim shoes; they last longer (more miles) than any other shoe he’s tried. “I also like a rim shoe because when that rim fills up with dirt it gives a lot more traction. Dirt on rock gives you much more traction than steel on rock. Some people don’t like a rim shoe on the hind feet, saying it gives them too much torque, making the horse hesitant to perform at his best. But this depends on what the horse is being used for. If you are doing arena work this may be true, and you want just a flat plate on the back—especially for a roping horse—and a rim shoe on the

front. But ranch horses out in big pastures or on rocks need as much traction as you can give them. If you’re going down a steep side of a canyon, the horse needs to be able to get underneath himself and have some traction,” he says. “We don’t very often use toe and heel shoes, though up in Montana it’s a popular shoe (the standard keg shoes with a little buildup on toe and heel). It gives some traction and some extra wear. The rim shoe can last a long time, too, even if you have to lay a little borium in the rim. Rim shoes are nice because the concavity of the inside web helps itself clean better than a

regular keg shoe. It also has that nice roller motion all round. A horse doesn’t necessarily break over the center of the toe and this makes his breakover easier,” he says. Jim Neshem ranches and shoes horses near Minot, ND where lots of ranch horses are shod in early spring because of icy conditions when they are being used during calving season. “I shoe a lot of them that time of year with calks or use borium, for better traction. Later in the summer we generally use flat shoes—some type of continued on page 34

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San Juan County Girl Crowned Miss New Mexico High School Rodeo Queen n June, during the coronation ceremony in Lovington at the New Mexico State High School Rodeo finals, Lindsey Ashcroft was crowned Miss New Mexico High School Rodeo Queen for the up and coming 2013-2014 year. In the fall Lindsey will be a student at Bloomfield High School where she will be a senior in the coming year. Lindsey has been competing in Rodeo competitions all over the state of New Mexico for the past three years in 4-H Rodeo and NBHA. This is her first year competing in High School Rodeo. Lindsey represented New Mexico at the National High School Rodeo finals in Rock Springs, Wyoming July 11–20. The National High School Rodeo is the largest youth rodeo held in the world. New Mexico had 51 students participating in the rodeo events and competitions. Lindsey competed against 40 other girls from across the United States as well as contestants from Canada and Australia. The competition for Miss High School Rodeo Queen included eight categories, a written test, a prepared speech, an impromptu speech, horsemanship, personality, appearance, interview, and modeling. Overall, Lindsey placed 11th. Her speech can be seen on YouTube titled “New Mexico Fairy Tales.” Lindsey participated in many special events while at the National Finals, such as helping with the rodeo for special needs people, seminars for animal welfare and animal rights, selling raffle tickets for the scholarship pro-

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Bosque Redondo: A Failed Experiment rmy scouts in the early 1860s recommended the village of Agua Negra located at the confluence of the Rio Pecos and the Agua Negra, south of present-day Santa Rosa, for the location of a reservation for Apaches and Navajos. General James H. Carlton, however, settled on Bosque Redondo, also along the Rio Pecos, near what would become Fort Sumner. According to historian Robert Julyan, Bosque Redondo had been used by Indians for generations — it was sometimes referred to as Council Grove — before the arrival of Europeans perhaps as early as 1541. In 1851, a trading post was established there and in 1862 a fort was constructed on the same site and named for Colonel Edwin Vose Sumer. The purpose of the army post was to provide housing for a military contingent which would supervise the forty square-mile “reservation” called Bosque Redondo that surrounded it.

General Carlton ordered the roundup of the Apaches and Navajos and in 1863 New Mexico volunteer troops, augmented by Ute and Pueblo Indians, under the command of Christopher “Kit” Carson, invaded Navajo country and began a scorched-earth war and forced many of the Navajo the people into submission. Eventually, some 7,000 to 9,000 (depending on the source) Navajo people were marched about 300 miles to the east and held at Bosque Redondo, along with about 1,000 Apaches. It should not be supposed that all Navajos were incarcerated at Bosque Redondo. It is impossible to know exactly how many were not captured and remained free in their homeland, but the number is believed to have been significant. (It should be noted that General Carlton’s campaign was the continuation of a program of Indian removal which dated back to the Andrew Jackson presidential

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administration [1829-1837] when the Indian Removal Act was passed [1830]. One historian characterized Jackson’s Indian policy as “harsh” and another stated that Jackson had “hatred of the Indians”. In 1838-1839 Jackson’s hand-picked successor, Martin Van Buren, used federal troops to remove about 15,000 Cherokees from Georgia, even after the Supreme Court had ruled in Worcester v. Georgia [1832] that such an effort was illegal. The Indians were marched west to what is now Oklahoma on what came to be called the “Trail of Tears” during which about one quarter of the Cherokee people died.) The plan at Bosque Redondo was to reorient the Indian people toward a peaceful agrarian way of life. The plan was ill-conceived. The Indian people involved, the Apaches in particular, were not farmers,

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and even if they had been, the land along the Rio Pecos was not arable. The water supply was poor, the heating and cooking fuel supply was entirely inadequate, disease was rampant and little could be done to address any of those problems. Estimates vary widely regarding the number of deaths the Navajos suffered at Bosque Redondo. According to one writer, the Navajo name for Bosque Redondo was “hweeldi” which translates as “place of suffering.” By November 1865, every Apache able to walk or ride a horse, left the reservation and promptly returned to raiding. General Carlton was reassigned in 1866 and by 1868 those in power in Washington, D.C. recognized that the Bosque Redondo “experiment” was a failure. A peace commission under the direction of General William Tecumseh Sherman traveled to Fort Sumner where they entered into peace negotiations with seven members of the Navajo leadership, including Barboncito. At the conclusion of three days of negotiation in late May 1868, General Sherman said to the assembled Navajos: “We have

marked off a reservation for you, including the cañon de Chelly and a part of the valley of the San Juan, it is about (100) one hundred miles square. It runs as far south as cañon Bonito and includes the Chusca mountain [sic] but not the Mesa Calabesa you spoke of; that is the reservation we suggest to you, it also includes the Ceresca mountain [sic] and the bend of the San Juan river [sic], not the upper waters.” Barboncito replied: “We are very well pleased with what you have said and well satisfied with the reservation. It is the very heart of our country and is more that we ever expected to get.” The treaty was signed on June 1, 1868. It was ratified by the United States Senate on July 25, and signed by President Andrew Johnson on August 12. By then, many, if not most, of the Navajo people had returned to their homeland. They may have been destitute and in rags, but they were home. It should be noted that earlier New Mexico historians, Bancroft and Twitchell in particular, praised Carlton for his dealings with the Navajo, but both acknowledged that the Bosque Redondo experiment was a complete failure. Most modern historians do not give Carlton any credit at all. (Historian Robert Julyan notes that

there was another Bosque Redondo in New Mexico, located in Valencia County near the town of Peralta.) Selected sources: Virtually all historians of New Mexico in the 19th century have addressed the Bosque Redondo fiasco, so sources are many. One of the most important is the 1868 treaty itself, published by the Navajo Nation as the “Treaty Between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe of Indians” in 1968. (Don Bullis’ latest book, Unsolved: The American Valley Ranch Murders and other New Mexico Mysteries, is scheduled for publication in early October 2013. A book-signing event will be held at Eastern N.M. Univ. on Friday, Oct. 4, in the campus union.)

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inMemoriam Gerald W. Thomas, 94, Las Cruces, died peacefully on July 31, 2013. Gerald was born on a ranch on Medicine Lodge Creek in Small, Idaho, on July3, 1919, to Daniel Waylett and Mary Evans Thomas. Because Small High School offered only 11 grades, his mother took him with his brothers to California to finish school, where Gerald graduated from John Muir Tech with a high school diploma, and from Pasadena Junior College with an associate of arts degree. During summers, Gerald was employed by the Salmon and Targhee national forests, where he was working for the U.S.Forest Service when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Soon after, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a carrierbased naval torpedo pilot. During the war, Gerald flew a Grumman Avenger – TBM from threeaircraft carriers – the USS Ranger, USS Bunker Hill and USS Essex. He served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operation and survived a splash down in the South China Sea. He was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air Medals and a Presidential Unit Citation. Gerald married Jean Ellis on June 2, 1945. Their first two children were born while Gerald worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Idaho. In1950, they loaded up the family in a four-wheel trailer they made out oftheir old Model A Ford and moved to College Station, Texas, where Gerald completed a master’s degree and a doctorate degree in range science and was promoted to teaching and research positions. While in College Station, their third child was born. In 1958, Dr. Thomas was named dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Texas Tech University. In August 1970, Dr. Thomas was named president of New Mexico State University (NMSU), serving 14 years in that capacity. Gerald is the author or co-author of numerous books and more than 200 other publications. In 1984 NMSU named a million-dollar chair in his honor, and in 1988 they designated the agriculture and home economics building as “Gerald Thomas Hall.” He helped organize the building of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. He has had numerous honors, served on many boards, including the State Board of Education, the Research Advisory Committee for the U.S.Agency for International Development and other state and nationa lcommittees. He is survived by wife, Jean; his children David Ger-

ald Thomas, Peggy Jeane Vanlandingham and Marianne Shipley; two grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Walter James (wife, Betsy), and John Foster (wife, JoAnn); and numerous extended family and friends. D’Aun Gudgell, 42, Logan, passed away at her home on July 26, 2013, following an extended illness. D’Aun was born March

25, 1971, in Roswell. She was a loving mother, cowgirl and teacher. She was an accomplished roper, loving rodeos, roping and the ranch life. Surviving her is her husband Gregg; children Jacob and Wesley Gudgell, and Klay Rodgers, all of Logan; Klinton Rodgers, Lubbock; her parents continued on page 70

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Coalition requests field hearing he Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties has written to the House Resources Committee and requested hearings on how the Fish and Wildlife Service is managing the Mexican wolf reintroduction program and their proposed rule for critical habitat for the jaguar. The Coalition tells the Committee, “The wolf reintroduction program has been a study in fraud, waste and abuse. The ‘Mexican wolf’ recovery program is a miserable failure because the animals being bred and turned out, both in the U.S. and Mexico, are not Mexican wolves but are, instead, highly inbred, wolf/dog hybrids that should have never been eligible for protection under the endangered species act (ESA).” The Coalition said ranchers have been forced to watch their livestock depredation increase multifold, mothers have had to increase their vigilance over their children at play and family pets and working dogs have been severely wounded and killed.

The Coalition wrote that the Fish and Wildlife Service has ignored complaints and even had the audacity to claim these impacts are nothing more then contrived hysteria. “These impacts have created severe social, cultural and economic impacts without proper NEPA analysis and failure to properly involve state, tribal and local governments” the Coalition said.

Not so sunny at SunZia unZia Transmission, LLC. plans to construct and operate two 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines originating at a new substation in Lincoln County in the vicinity of Corona, New Mexico, and terminating at the Pinal Central Substation in Pinal County near Coolidge, Arizona. The BLM has completed the NEPA process and issued a final EIS in June. However, at the last minute and even though the Dept. of Defense was a cooperating agency, the DOD has come out against the preferred route through White Sands Missile Range and that has certainly stirred things up. New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich says the project is “critical to New Mexico’s renewable energy development”, that the

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transmission line “will help deliver wind and solar energy generated in New Mexico to the major western energy demand centers”, and that without access to those markets “New Mexico’s renewable energy resources will remain isolated and largely untapped. “ Representative Steve Pearce, on the other hand, says “the route as proposed would impede the military’s ability to complete testing that cannot be done anywhere else in the United States. The result would cause a devastating impact on national security.” Two West Texas congressmen, freshmen Democrats Beto O’Rourke and Pete Gallego, also have publicly opposed SunZia’s preferred route and New Mexico Senator Tom Udall wants President Obama jump in and resolve the dispute. Even the enviros can’t agree. One Colorado group says “It opens the floodgates for renewable energy development and a new route toward a clean energy future” while an Arizona group says “The BLM has advanced this project without realistically or honestly assessing its actual use, need, or feasibility in order to expedite a wishful policy.” continued on page 45

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know this has been a busy summer. I hope that all have had some rain. Any drop is more than welcome. Weeds beat the dirt blowing. In my part of the world we have been blessed and it is just like living in a fantasy world, it’s beautiful. Great news! We have sold all of the brands needed to start on our napkins – thank you, Genora. They are working very hard on trying to get a printing company. I want everyone to be thinking of membership. One of the ideas that I have heard in places I have been is a collegiate organization. This would be great, maybe can get this going in the near future. Give these young ladies and coming members an active part in our activities events; they have new and different ideas. We need new faces and blood to give our organization a boost, they know what people want to hear and see in different promotional ideas. Membership award deadline is due Sept. 15; get all of your membership into Lyn. Upcoming is the Five States Round-Up in Clayton, registration deadline is Sept. 18. This is one of the best places to get educational and updated information concerning the beef industry. So get your registration in so you won’t miss it. Deadlines are fast approaching and I know every CowBelle group has an outstanding CowBelle. If you know of one don’t be afraid to nominate her for New Mexico CowBelle of the year; entries are due Oct. 15 to me. Make sure you get them to me as I would love to have an applica-

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ways in which beef can be prepared. The Throwdown was well attended and may become an annual affair. Elephant Days in Elephant Butte, NM, will be held Sept. 14 weekend. In previous years, the Chamiza CowBelles could share a booth at no cost. However, the rules state that group be required to rent booth space like any other

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Bobbi JeenAmerican “Early Native OLSON Indians in Rodeo owns such as Prescott, Arizona claim to have the world’s oldest rodeo (started in 1888). Payson, Arizona argues they have the world’s oldest continuous rodeo (started in 1884). Then there is Pecos, Texas who claims the right to the world’s first rodeo (1883) but history tells us that William F. Cody (AKA Buffalo Bill) staged his first Wild West Show (which also had rodeo events) in 1882 at North Platte, Nebraska. Santa Fe, New Mexico has a stronger claim to the first rodeo based on a letter written by Captain Mayne Reid from Santa Fe dated 1847 which speaks of rodeo events there during a roundup celebration. The Mexican Vaqueros influenced the American Cowboy with their clothing, language, traditions and equipment, which in turn, influenced the sport of rodeo. You hear a lot about the Cowboys and Vaqueros (or at least their influence) with regards to rodeo history, but most do not realize the Native American

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the Southwest when the White Europeans arrived were actually a mix of those early Indians and Peons. These were the people who originally founded rodeo and many of the cowboy traditions we treasure today. Even if you look at rodeo from a more traditional or “organized” view — there were Indians in Buffalo Bill Cody’s wild west show (probably the earliest show organized by a white man) from the start. The Native Americans who took part in the show were mostly Plains Indians such as the Pawnee and Sioux, but there were many other tribes as well. They participated in staged “Indian Races” and historic battles, and often appeared in scenes attacking settlers in which their savagery and wildness was played up to the enjoyment of the crowd. They also performed dances, such as the Sioux Ghost Dance. The Native Americans always wore their best costumes and full war paint. Cody treated them with respect — the extent of which was demonstrated when he named the Indians as “the former foe, present friend of the American.” Probably the best known Indian in the show was Sitting Bull who joined for a period of time and was a star attraction alongside Annie Oakley. During his time at the show, Sitting Bull was introduced to President Grover Cleveland, traveled to Europe and became personal friends with Buffalo Bill. Other familiar Native Americans names who performed at various times in the show were Chief Joseph (the famous Nez Perce Chief), Geronimo (the famous Apache warrior) and Rain in the Face (a Lakota who reportedly fought Custer at the Little Bighorn). Jackson Sundown (born in 1863) was probably the first Native American to become famous for preforming events in rodeo other than playing an Indian — Sundown rode broncs. He was about 14 when he participated in the Nez Perce War of 1877 (he was said to be Chief Joseph’s nephew). Afterwards, wounded, he escaped to Canada with a continued on page 49

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small group of warriors who took refuge with Sitting Bull’s camp. Sundown later came back up in the United States and eventually settled in Idaho on the Flathead reservation where he raised a family. During this time he became known as a superb horseman and he raised and trained horses for money. At the advanced age of his early forties, he started going to rodeos and wild west shows, mostly competing in bronc riding. He became a favorite at these rodeos because he wore his hair in a traditional pompadour with braids tied under his chin and he always wore bright colored shirts and angora chaps — he was quite a site to behold. Sundown had much success as a rodeo hand. It has been reported that other contestants sometimes pulled out of rodeos because he was entered (fear of being beaten by an Indian) and at times stock owners would pull their stock if Sundown drew them. He had the reputation of riding buckers to a stop and taking any future buck right out of them. As a result, some rodeo producers hired Sundown to put on exhibition rides to entertain the crowds instead. In 1911, he place third at the Pendleton, Oregon Roundup in a controversial decision whereby he and George Fletcher (a Black man) and John Spain (a White man) all wound up in the final round together. Spain wound up winning the title, but it was said that both Sundown and Fletcher were not treated fairly (probably due to prejudice). In 1915, (at age fifty-two) he once again placed third at Pendleton. He decided to retire after that, but sculptor, Alexander Proctor (who was working on a sculpture of Sundown at the time), persuaded

him to enter the 1916 Roundup in Pendleton if he would pay his entry fees. Sundown made it to the finals with two other cowboys (Rufus Rollen and Bob Hall). Rollen and Hall both made great rides, then it was time for Sundown. When the blindfold was pulled for that final ride, all those years of rodeo and horseback experience showed up for display. It has been written that Sundown became one with the bronc and was even fanning his hat at the horse as he made a legendary ride. At the end of the ride, Jackson Sundown, was the 1916 (and first Indian) World Champion Bronc Rider! He had

used his old range saddle (as he always did) and when the new trophy saddle was awarded, he was asked what he would like engraved on the silver plate — he told them, “Please put wife’s name on it.” Since his death in 1923, Jackson Sundown has been inducted into just about every sports hall of fame related to rodeo you can imagine. You may not realize it, but the logo used by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum is a rendition of a silhouette of an old photo of Sundown, taken at Pendleton in about 1916 — making him the most viewed Indian ■ Cowboy ever!

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everyone that the Petersen Ranch Rodeo will take place August 9 and 10 which includes a dutch oven cookoff on Saturday and a ranch rodeo on Sunday. All proceeds are donated to the Wounded Warrior Foundation in memory of Adam Petersen. Gloria also recommended reading the article in the July issue of the NM Stockman regarding killer bees. Even though you may not now be allergic to bee stings, you could develop an allergy at any time. For this reason, you may want to purchase and carry with you an epi-pen and an antihistamine such as Benadryl. Meeting adjourned at 11:45 a.m. Submitted by Cathy Pierce The Powderhorn CowBelles met at the home of Joan Key on August 13, 2013. Thank you’s from the Pat Nowlin Memorial

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August 30-31. ANCW will be raising dues prices starting Oct. 1, 2013. Regular dues will be $60; sustaining dues will be $85 and Associate dues paid by locals and states will be $150. ANCW’s new Moms, Millennials and More will be making use of students involved in the National Beef Ambassador Program, Collegiate Cattlewomen groups, College Aggies Online Program participants and MBA graduates to strengthen activities improving domestic consumer preferences for beef and industry trust. Powderhorn has a new honorarium which is designed to honor long time Powderhorn members, who have been active and effective over the years. It was decided to nominate these people at the November meeting. When the third person has been nominated, those three will be the ones chosen to receive a $25 award to be handed out during the Christmas party. Following a delicious lunch, Ginger Howe gave a program on Christmas Crafts. She had an assortment of crafts she had made and was willing to show and demonstrate the many types of products available. She then guided the group in the construction and completion of gift card holders and also a Christmas tree ornament. This was a very enjoyable activity. Submitted by Dorothy Vaughan The Chuckwagon CowBelles opened their August 13, 2013 meeting saying the Cowbelles Invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance and CowBelles Creed. The group welcomed their speaker Caren Cowan, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ and New Mexico Wool Growers’ Executive Director and one guest, Connie Cowan from Arizona. President Toni Barrow called the roll and 17 members were in attendance. After a discussion, it was decided to give Lake Baker the 100 Scholarship, President Barrow reported that all 150 Brands have been sold and the committee is working on getting bids to print the dinner size napkins. The bids will be voted on when the NM CowBelles’ Executive Board meets in Clayton, NM on Oct. 2 at the Five States Roundup Meeting. CowBelle nominations for CowBelle of the Year are due on Oct. 15. After a discussion it was decided to give the Bosque Farms Jr. Rodeo a $100 for their Rodeo Scholarship fund. Chuckwagon members who live in Valencia County will work a booth at the Valencia County Fair in Belen on August 24. It was decided to sponsor a $50 donation to the FNRA. Baby pictures were brought by several members and we all tried to guess who they were. Caren Cowan gave an update of the Endangered Species Act; she reported continued on page 51

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on the following: Mexican Wolf, Jaguar, Meadow Jumping Mouse in New Mexico, and the Lesser Prairie Chicken. She did report that other states are getting involved in these fights so our “boat” is getting larger. Lawyer Karen Budd Falon, is now working on new legislature that might help. All members enjoyed a wonderful pot-luck lunch. Good food, good fellowship, rain on lot of our members’ ranches, grass is green and growing. Thank you Lord, it does not get any better than that. Respectfully submitted, Acting Secretary, Carolyn Chance 39th Annual Five States Round-Up: Beef is Relevant: Today and Tomorrow. The Lariat CowBelles invite you to join them on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, at the Clayton Air Park in Clayton, New Mexico for a great educational opportunity focusing on the relevancy of beef in today’s and tomorrow’s world. Topics for this event include: Value Added Ranching, The Future Farm, and Future Trends for Beef Promotion. The day will be filled with information, fun, friends, and good food. You will be treated to a style show by Espe’s/3 West. There will be a catered lunch. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and will include a continental breakfast. You are invited to visit the vendor booths and to submit your bids on the items in the silent auction, at this time. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. The speakers scheduled for this informative session are Allen Jackson, Micro Beef Technologies, and Barbara Jackson, President of the American National Cattle Women. Please return the bottom of the pre-registration form on page 50 with your $25 registration fee on or before Sept. 18, 2013. Late registration from Sept. 19 through Sept. 23 will be $30. To insure a correct number of meals for the luncheon, you must register no later than Sept. 19. There will be no registrations accepted at the door. This may be the most reasonable priced day of education that you will have the opportunity to attend. So invite husbands, neighbors, friends and family to come and attend with you. For our out-of-town guests, Clayton Motels: Best Western Kokopelli Lodge 575/374-2589; Holiday Motel 575/3742558; Super 8 of Clayton 575/374-8127; Days Inn & Suites 575/374-0133; Eklund Hotel 575/374-2551. We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 2nd! New Mexico CowBelles: Thank you to all who have submitted their news to “Jingle Jangle.” Please send minutes and/or newsletters to: Jingle Jangle, Janet Witte, 1860 Foxboro Ct., Las Cruces, NM 88007 or email: janetwitte@msn.com

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Background: ■ The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) was passed by Congress in 1980, establishing two methods by which individuals or groups could recover the costs of suing, or defending against, the federal government. ■ The first method is through agency proceedings, codified under Title 5, Section 504 of U.S. Code. It provides payments for adjudicatory proceedings within the agency themselves, as opposed to courts proceedings. ■ The EAJA required the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) to track these payments and report on them to Congress. ■ In 1994, Congress defunded ACUS without transferring the responsibility of tracking EAJA payments to another agency. ■ The second method to recover EAJA fees is through court proceedings, codified in Title 28, Section 2412(d) of U.S. Code. ■ The EAJA directed the Department of Justice to track these payments and report them to Congress. ■ In 1994, The Paperwork Reduction Act eliminated the DOJ’s tracking and reporting responsibility for EAJA payments. ■ EAJA requires that to be eligible for reimbursement of attorney’s fees and costs, individuals must have a net worth under $2 million, and for-profit businesses must have a net worth of under $7 million. The Government Litigation Savings Act maintains the individual and for-profit net worth cap, and adds non-profit organizations to the groups that cannot exceed the $7 million net worth cap. ■ In March of 2010, U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (WY-R) and then-Representative Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (SD-D) introduced H.R. 4717(Open EAJA Act of 2010). This legislation, along with its mirror legislation in the Senate (S. 3122), would have reinstated tracking and reporting of both Title 5 and Title 28 of EAJA. It also required that the online reporting provide more detailed information on who receives EAJA payments, and to what amount, but left the remaining EAJA law intact. ■ Following a year of study on court documents and IRS filings, Rep. Lummis and U.S. Senator John Barrasso (WY-R) introduced the Government Litigation Savings Act (GLSA). The GLSA (H.R. 1996, S. 1061) requires comprehensive tracking

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NEW - LINCOLN COUNTY, NM CATTLE & HUNTING RANCH ~ Prime elk hunting & cattle grazing opportunity on 1,356 deeded & 2,000 acres forest allotment west of Capitan NM. Same family ownership for over 100 years. Elevation from 6,700 – 7,200’. Good water with 3 live springs, 2 wells, & lake bed. Ranch only elk tags. REDUCED - FORT SUMNER NM HORSE PROPERTY ~ 15 irrigated acres w/ pipe fences. Improvements include metal horse barn w/covered stalls/runs, tack room, 2 other metal barns, & a 2,745 SF home. Landscaped. Near town, but in the country. EAST OF FT. SUMNER ~ 262 acres native grass with 2 homes, barns, corrals, stalls, & well. Highway frontage. Only 5 miles from town. $310,000 REDUCED $285,000. RED BARN HOME ~ with irrigated Orchard/Vineyard. Barn converted to beautiful home or business. $265,000 John Stallard, Broker • 575-760-1899 • 575-355-4454 office • 866-781-2093 toll free 26230 US Highway 60-84 East • Ft. Sumner, NM 88119 realestate@plateautel.net • www.RanchEtc.com

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Little Cayuse Ranch – Small ranch near Cedarvale is 1,680 deeded acres + 230 ac NM grazing lease, HQ home, bunk house, barn, shed, tack room, 3 excellent wells, 4 pastures, an 80 acre pivot. Price is $850,000 Villanueva Ranch – south of Villanueva has 285 deeded acres + 4,450 acre NM state grazing lease. Fenced, dirt tanks, water storage tank & pipeline drinkers. Price reduced to $698,900 or will sell 9,024 total acres w/HQ house, bunkhouse, 3 wells, pipelines, working pens for $1,875,000. Call for details. La Cueva Canyon Ranch – 1,595 deeded acres w/240 acres of BLM. Scenic parcel has tall pines, canyon springs, dirt tanks, new fence on NE corner. Turkeys, deer & other native species abound. Priced reduced: Now $677,875 Owner will finance! Trigg’s Ranch – 720 deeded acres lies adjacent to La Cueva Canyon ranch on Apache Mesa. Good access & incredible views. Off the grid in the tall pines Priced at $306,000. smaller 200 & 360 acre parcels available! Owners will finance... Ledoux, NM – Perimeter fenced 60 acre dry land terraced farm has overhead electric on site. Sub-irrigated pasture. Located ½ mile north of Ledoux. Price Reduced: $228,000 Dilia, NM – 35 acre fenced & irrigated farm for sale, 35 ac/ft water rights plus farm equipment. stocked fish pond, mobile home on site w/community water & septic. Price: $548,000 Anton Chico – 65 acre fenced irrigated farm has 100 + ac/ft ditch rights. HQ home on historic register. Bunkhouse, storage shed, shop + irrigation & some farm equipment go w/sale. Great value in this sale price! Priced below appraisal at $698,900 Jaymar Rd. Stanley, NM – 77 acre horse property has 3 pastures fenced & cross fenced, 1 trap, 3 loafing sheds, hay storage & tack room. Incredible views from HQ home. Priced reduced to $355,000 Owner will lease back. Near Roswell, NM – 58,000 acre cow operation available. Call for details.

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NEW MEXICO RANCHES C6 Ranch: Sonoita/Patagonia AZ. 165 head, 45 acres deeded, 8700 acres forest lease great water, good improvements. $725,000. Sam Hubbell-Tom Hardesty Stockton Pass: Beautiful SE AZ Ranch North of Willcox, Mountain Ranch 145 head AU, Deeded Surrounded by forest. Reduced to $975,000. Walter Lane Red Top Ranch: 3,800 deeded acres in SE AZ. Priced at $225 per deeded acre. Walter Lane Perkins Ranch: Yavapai County, NE of Chino Valley, 214 deeded acres, 51,625 acres forest lease, 266 AU, located on the Verde River $8,575,000. Andy Groseta Wildhorse Basin Ranch: Yavapai county, 864 deeded, 6701 State Lease, $3,900,000. Con Englehorn La Cienga: Mohave county, 122.83 deeded acres, 166,234 State/BLM Lease, 490 head $1,200,000. Paul Groseta Crooked H: Central AZ, 126 Sections, 450 head Winter Range/664 summer Range. $2,375,000. Traegen Knight Lazy EH: Western AZ, 122.5 deeded, 300,000 BLM/State Lease, 17,486 AUM ephemeral/500 AU yearlong. 18 wells, 4 pumps on CAP Canal. $600,000. Con Englehorn NI Ranch Tombstone AZ: The ranch consists of 6555 deeded acre & 6650 state lease, 250 head annually; all improvements are in top condition, the ranch is well watered w/8 wells, & pipelines. Good strong grass country. The Ni Ranch is one of the last working cattle ranches in the state with the majority of the land being deeded. Priced at $3,150,000

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– A Premier Ranch, Approx. 30,000 Ac. with 1/3 Deeded & 2/3 State Lease, two great headquarters, running creeks and irrigated pasture, runs 800 Animal Units, Union County. – Mixed land status on this good summer yearling operation for 850-1,200 hd. 14,680 acres, open rolling country, well watered, good corrals with scales. – Private Hunting Retreat, 5,000 Ac. Deeded + State, no public access, Mule Deer, Elk, Bear, Lion, Quail & Turkey, beautiful & rugged, electricity & phone. – Just east of Moriarty, 1,365 Deeded & 1,810 State, Mobile Home, barns & small set of corrals, has irrigation rights for 50 Acres, good accessibility. – San Lorenzo, only 15 miles SE of Silver City, beautiful, treed country, fronts on paved highway, has over 63 Acre Feet of very valuable water rights, for residential development, 1,273 Deeded Ac. & 1,320 Acres of State Lease. – Nogal Canyon, between T or C and Socorro just off of I-25, a scenic ranch with complete headquarters offering fantastic views, 2,068 Deeded Ac., 837 Ac State & a small Forest Permit. Good Hunting in this area, especially in the Canyon!

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O’NEILL LAND, LLC P.O. Box 145, Cimarron, NM 87714 • 575/376-2341 • Fax: 575/376-2347 land@swranches.com • www.swranches.com Good inventory in the Miami, Springer, Maxwell and Cimarron area. Great year-round climate suitable for horses. Give yourself and your horses a break and come on up to the Cimarron Country.

Miami Horse Training Facility. Ideal horse training facility w/large 4 bedroom 3 bathroom approx 3,593 sq ft home, 248.32± deeded acres, 208 irrigation shares, 30' X 60' metal sided shop/ bunkhouse, 8 stall barn w/tack room, 7 stall barn w/storage, 10 stall open sided barn w/10 ft alley, 2 stall loafing shed, 14 11' x 24' Run-In Shelters, 135' Round Pen, Priefert six horse panel walker. Many more features & improvements. All you need for a serious horse operation in serious horse country of Miami New Mexico. Additional 150 acres available on south side of road. Miami is at the perfect year round horse training elevation of 6,200. Far enough south to have mostly mild winters. Convenient to I-25. $1,550,000. Miami Horse Heaven. Very private approx. 4,800 sq. ft. double-walled adobe 4 bed., 3 bath home w/many custom features, 77.5± deeded acres & 77.25± water shares, large 7 stall horse barn, large insulated metal shop, large haybarn/equipment shed, all for $1,650,000, plus an additional 160+/-

deeded acres w/142 water shares avail. $560,000 (subject to purchase of 77.5± deeded acre parcel.) Krause Ranch. 939.37 +/- deeded acres. 88 Springer Ditch Company water shares. Mostly west of I;25, exit 414. Big views. $725,000. Miami Mountain View. 80± deeded acres w/80 water shares & house. $550,000. Miami. 10± deeded acres, awesome home, total remodel, awesome views $295,000. Miami WOW. Big home in Santa Fe Style great for family on 3 acres. $274,900. Miami Tangle Foot. 10.02± deeded acres w/water shares & meter. $118,000. Maxwell. 19.5± deeded acres, water, outbuildings, great horse set up. $269,000. Canadian River. 39.088± deeded acres, w/nice ranch home & river. $279,000.

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IRRIGATED PASTURE Located in central Apache County, Arizona, between Alpine and Springerville along US Highway 180 in the Nutrioso Valley at the confluence of Colter Creek and Nutrioso Creek with over ½ mile of meandering Nutrioso Creek running through the property. Includes over 118 acres total with grand-fathered water rights for 33.8 acres of irrigated pasture. Farmable acreage has been utilized for livestock grazing on improved pasture and is irrigated via gravity flow dirt ditches. Beautiful views of Escudilla Mountain located in the heart of the White Mountains. There are numerous home sites on the property with excellent access including over ¼ mile of paved frontage along US Highway 180. Additional access is provided by county maintained roads on both the north and south boundaries. Price $1,200,000. REDUCED! $1,000,000

EASTERN ARIZONA RANCH North of St. Johns in Apache County, includes 1,760 deeded acres with State & BLM leases for 121 animal units yearlong. Newly improved with several miles of new pipeline, numerous storage tanks/drinkers supplied by four wells. Total ranch is over 11,000 acres with a five pasture rotational grazing system and one small holding trap. All ranch fences have been reworked including over two miles of new fencing. Price: $700,000

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C6 Ranch – This ranch is located at Patagonia AZ. The ranch consists of 40 deeded acres & 8,000 plus acres National Forest Lease. This ranch is rated at 165 head annually. Great water system & good strong grass. Improvements include 1600 sq. ft. home built in 2006, barn & corrals. The Ranch has easy access to town & beautiful views. $725,000. Santo Nino – This Ranch is located 7 miles south of Patagonia on the western edge of the beautiful San Rafael Valley. This ranch consists of 62 deeded acres & 12,000 plus National Forest Lease. The ranch is rated at 185 head annually. The land contained in the ranch consists of steep sided ridges to rolling hills along the side of the valley floor. Improvements include 3,000 sq. ft. owners home, cowboy house, barn & corrals. Rarely does a ranch in this area come on the market. $899,000 including cattle. NI Ranch Tombstone, AZ – The Ranch consists of 6555 deeded acres and 6650 state lease, 250 head annually; all improvements are in top condition, the ranch is well watered with 8 wells, and pipelines. Good strong grass country. The Ni Ranch is one of the last working cattle ranches in the state with the majority of the land being deeded. Priced at $3,150,000. K Bar Ranch Datil, NM – 160 deeded acres, 6000 forest permit. Rated for 70 head year-long. Nice improvements, close to town. $950,000

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THE EDWARDS RANCH covers over 40,000 operational acres. This extremely well improved working cattle ranch is located near Tucumcari, New Mexico. The terrain varies from low lying flats to elevated rocky mesa side slopes. Fences are good to excellent and the ranch is one of the best watered properties in Eastern New Mexico. Improvements include a good ranch home, new barns and outstanding shipping pens and working pens. Everything is extremely well maintained. This is a rancher’s ranch priced to fit a rancher’s pocket book at only $325 per deeded acre. Offered co-exclusively with WIN Realty. THE 96 RANCH encompasses over 100 square miles of ranch country. The terrain is rolling to hilly with a general open appearance. Scattered to moderate cholla with some juniper in the rougher country. Very well improved with an owner’s home and two nice employee houses. Other improvements include three sets of pipe pens with scales and several adequate sets of working pens. The ranch is exceptionally well watered by numerous wells and a very extensive waterline network. Generally, livestock never travel over 1 mile to water. $295 per deeded acre.

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RANCHES/FARMS *NEW* 500 Head Ranch, Tucson, AZ Well improved HQ with 3 homes, pool, barns, corrals, airplane hanger & strip. State & BLM grazing leases. 80 Deeded Acres. $2,380,000. Owner may split.

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*REDUCED* 52 Head Ranch, San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Ranch, pristine & private, only 12 miles from I-10. Bighorn sheep, ruins, pictographs. 1480 acres of deeded, 52 head, BLM lease, historic rock house, new cabin, springs, wells. $1,300,000 Terms. *NEW* San Simon, AZ – Indian Springs Farm 162 acres w/pivot, nice home, hay barn other utility buildings. $750,000 *N OW R EDUCED TO $780, 000* +/-128 Head Flying Diamond Ranch, Klondyke, AZ +/-1500 deeded acres, State & (2) USFS Grazing Leases. Main residence, guesthouse, barn, hay barn, & corrals at HQ. Good access, in a great location.

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*NEW* 314 Acre Farm, Pearce, AZ – Two pivots, three irrigation wells, charming +/- 2100 s.f. home, four car garage, large metal workshop, both with concrete floors, two railroad cars with cover between for horse stalls, hay and feed storage. $750,000 335 Head Ranch, Greenlee County, AZ – Near Double Circle Ranch. +/20 Deeded acres, w/two homes, barn & outbuildings. 58 Sections USFS grazing permit. Good vehicular access to the ranch – otherwise this is a horseback ranch. Scenic, great outfitters prospect. $850,000

*REDUCED* Young, AZ, 65+ Acres – Under the Mogollon Rim, small town charm & mountain views. 2100 s.f., 3 BR, 2 Bath home, 2 BR cabin, historic rock home currently a museum, shop, & barn. Excellent opportunity for horse farm, bed & breakfast, or land development. +/- 65 acres for $1,070,000; home & other improvements. $424,500. *NEW* 137 Head Ranch, east of Kingman, AZ – 40 Deeded Acres, State Grazing Lease, Adverse Grazing, well watered, good mix of browse and grass, 5 wells, numerous springs, four corrals. Remote but easy access to town. Very scenic. $314,000 Terms.

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*NEW* 316 Head Ranch, near Socorro, NM, +/-2663 scenic acres of deeded, 1917 acres NM State lease, 24,582 acres BLM. Solid working, cattle ranch in a good location w/excellent access. Good mix of browse & grass. 140,000 gallons of water storage, pipelines, wells, dirt tanks. HQ w/home, good corrals, in the foothills of the Ladron Mtns. $1,400,000

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*REDUCED* +/- 50 Head Ranch, Virden, NM – 367 Deeded acres, 4,000 acres BLM, nice HQ w/home, barn, corrals, along two miles of the beautiful Gila River. $525,000 $485,000 *REDUCED* Franklin, NM, 28 Acre Farm – Franklin, NM, 28 Acre Farm – 19 Acres of water rights from Franklin I.D., 5 BR, 3 bath Mfg. home, corrals, barn. Great for small farming operation, horses or cattle. Along the scenic Gila River. $125,000 Terms.

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O MOLERES RANCH We got rain! Dirt tanks are full of water and grass is growing ... No cattle stocked on ranch since end of 2012. • 11,733 Deeded acres. (18½ deeded sections, 1 section State of NM) Located 53 miles north of Milan, NM. • Nice cattle producing ranch. 3 large fenced pastures. 3 smaller traps, all watering off the headquarters. Year round operation or good winter country. • Native grasses consist of galleta, blue grama, Indian rice grass, alkali sacaton and also fourwing saltbush. Partially wooded in pinon/juniper. Small sandstone mesas and outcroppings. Amazing Mesa top ruins with kivas and rooms. Near Chaco Canyon National Historical Park. • 4 producing windmill wells. Pumping from 250’ to 500’. 9 pit dirt tanks strategically placed throughout the ranch. Great water storage. 4 miles of pipeline. • Wildlife consists of Elk, Mule Deer, Antelope, Quail and Rabbits. Ranch received 2 Bull Elk tags and 2 Cow Elk tags in 2012. • Modest headquarters: Ranch house with kitchen, den and bunking quarters. 30x40 metal sided barn/ hay storage/tack Corrals with guard rail, squeeze chute, and certified scales/house, semi chute/ramp. Call for photos and brochure. Price reduced to $199 per acre! HOWARD MICHAEL, QUALIFYING BROKER Coldwell Banker Legacy 617 W. Santa Fe Ave., Grants, NM 87020 Office 505-876-2222 • Cell 505-290-0761 Email: howmi7cities@yahoo.com www.coldwellbankerlegacy.com /howard.michael Serving NW New Mexico, ranch, recreational, residential & commercial real estate for sellers & buyers!

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In Memoriam

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Terry and Pauline Lewis; her brother Brent Lewis and wife Cami, all of Arizona. A.S. “Tex” Elliott, 67, longtime DeBaca County rancher died July 16, 2013, in San Antonio, Texas. Tex was a lifelong rancher in Texas and New Mexico, making his home in Uvalde,Texas, but still active in the family ranching business in Fort Sumner. Tex is survived by his wife of 46 years, Jan, four sons, two daughters, eight grandchildren and two brothers. Arthur (Art) Hayden Evans, 90, Cuchillo, NM, died August 13, 2013 in Albuquerque due to complications from a broken hip. He was born October 18, 1922 to a Phoenix pioneer ranching family, AA (Gus) and Mildred Ethel Hayden Evans. Art grew up on the family ranch north of Phoenix with his two brothers, sister, and cousins. He was involved in the livestock industry his entire life. In addition to working on the ranch from a young age he was also active in 4H and FFA. In 1940 he attended the organizational meeting of the Arizona Junior Cattle Growers’ Association and was elected the first president of that organization. He graduated from Peoria High School in 1940 and was working fulltime at the T Ranch when he met the love of his life, Wanda Ruth Giblin. They were married April 9, 1943 and began their 69-year partnership. He served in the Navy during WWII. After the war he worked in the open pit mines at Bagdad, Arizona, and was an Arizona brand inspector. In 1953 Art and Wanda moved their family to New Mexico. The Tovrea’s, large agricultural operators in Arizona & New Mexico, had bought the Ladder Ranch in Sierra County and they continued on page 82

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Where to Find Statutes & Rules Pertaining to Regulation of New Mexico’s Livestock Industry he New Mexico Livestock Board’s website, www.nmlbonline.com, contains two pages and links indentifying the statutes and rules directly related to the agencies regulation of New Mexico’s livestock industry. Once on our home page, navigate to the Links and Documents tab to find current NMAC (New Mexico Administrative Code) and NMSA (New Mexico Statutes Annotated) links. On the upper right corner of the home page you will find a link under the heading, “Proposed Rule Changes”. Here you will be able to view documents that have draft language of changes. Rule changes and amendments to the New Mexico Administrative Code are proposed by the board and then voted on by the board after being made available to the public for comment. While the public may attend these meetings, we have made it more convenient by posting proposed changes on our website and giving an email address where comments can be sent to the board. Currently, there were recent changes to several rules and they became effective on July 15, 2013. They can be viewed on the “Links and Documents” page. These include: ■ NMAC 21.30.4 Sec 8 & 9 New Mexico reportable Disease List ■ NMAC 21.30.7 Inspection of Stallions ■ NMAC 21.32.2 Sec 8 Branding of Livestock

■ NMAC 21.32.4 Sec 12 & 17 Import Requirements for Sheep and Goats ■ NMAC 21.32.10 Sec 13 Abattoirs, Meat Dealers, and Storage Plants (completely deleted) ■ NMAC 21.30.6 Sec 7, 9, 12, 13 Bovine Trichomoniasis There are still three proposed changes available for comment and can be viewed on the “Proposed Rule Changes” link. These include: ■ Draft 21.30.6.8 Changes in bovine Trich requirements specific to public livestock sales ■ Draft 21.30.6.11 Changes in bovine Trich requirements specific to commingled grazing ■ Draft 21.32.6 Horse Shelter Rescue Fund New Mexico’s State Statutes may only be changed or amended by the state’s legislative body. The public would need to comment to their state representatives and senators as to changes or amendments they feel need to be addressed.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following described estray animals have been taken under the provisions of Chapter 77, Article 13 of New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978, and sold for the benefit of the owners of said estrays as provided by law. The proceeds will be subject to claims and proof of ownership as provided by law. New Mexico Livestock Board Ray Baca, Interim Director Albuquerque, N.M. All current estrays can now be found on the New Mexico Livestock Board website at www.nmlbonline.com. Lost, missing and stolen reports will be available on our website for 30 days.

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Question Mark, 1980 by CURTIS FORT

ight after all the good works at the Culbertson and Tequesquite Ranches, it was spring branding at the Question Mark outfit. I loaded my bed, war bag, saddle and all, and lined out my pickup toward Santa Rosa. I went on to Vaughn, Corona, and slid to a stop at the corrals at the Question Mark west of Carrizozo. Carl Lane, the owner, with the twins Justin & Jarrod, and their sister Melanie, had arrived the day before from the Nine Ranch at Tatum. Sterling Price, as good a hand as I ever saw, came in with a trailer load of good mounts. The neighbors, Tony

Gable, Bob Curtis, Jim and Loren Patterson came from the Orndorff outfit; Sterling Spencer, from the Bar W; Rabbit Ward from the Harkey outfit; and Duncan Major from the Monte Prieto. Dewey Brown had his wagon there, cooking breakfast each morning. Dewey is all cowpuncher and came to that range from the Double O’s, at Seligman Arizona. The Mendenborough family that owned the Double O’s bought the old Bursom outfit in that Bingham range around 1978, and sent Dewey over to run it. He brought with him as good a puncher as ever jobbed his boot in a stir-

rup . . . Rusty McCorkle. Rusty and his wife Peggy and kids, held down the Hansenburg camp on the old Bursom outfit, which was a few miles west of Bingham, and a mile or so south. Bingham had a little Post Office up until the mid-80’s, and a “sort-of” store . . . and that was it. Besides cooking breakfast, Dewey and Rusty were there to help with the works. The first morning we hauled to the east side on Highway 380 at the edge of the continued on page 73

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Malpais. We unloaded and hit a trot south, along the west side of the Malpais. Larry dropped a couple of men there at the old picket pens on the inside circle. At a high lope, they dropped the rest, with he and Carl taking the outside circle as bosses should. That old south pasture of 15 sections was a great drive. Those first tigerstriped, high-horned cows you boogered at the start of the drive would sure hit a high trot so everyone had to be on the ball to make that drive come together. It was a pretty sight. That south pasture was a fun drive. It was a rough pasture. With those trotty cattle it made everyone really tend to business to gather cattle and come in on the drive in same place they dropped you . . . and sometimes you didn’t. If you have been scattered on a drive before daylight in a pasture you’ve never been in, you know what I mean. Be it rough, rocky country like that south pasture, sand hill range or brushy . . . you have to stay even or those ol’ smart cows will “give you the slip.” Then on the next rise, when you pull up and look back, they’re making tracks on top of yours that point the wrong way! But when it all comes together at that pipeline tub just out of the hills and on south side of highway, it feels good. Those Question Mark cattle would sure try us, and when we had them settled, Larry or Carl would ease around to the north and open those gates to cross the highway and go north a mile or so to headquarters. They’d hold the herd up there to cut the dries, same in the fall works, and we’d pen them in those good pipe corrals Larry and Carl built. They had Charolais bulls on those cows along with Beefmaster bulls, so those were good calves. Every day, as soon as we stripped the calves off, Larry would ask a neighbor or two to drag calves. After they did 50 or 60, he’d have two more get their mounts and bring ‘em to the fire. That’s the mark of a good outfit . . . they let the neighbors drag, because the neighbors are as good at roping as they are. Then they’ll drag when they go to help the neighbors. One spring when we were branding at the north pens, Duncan Majors and I both were dragging at the same time. Someone said they’d never seen two left handers roping in the same branding pen. We worked several days working the Gomez, Highway, Crater, Middle and North pastures, after working that big South Pasture. I have worked for some fine cowboy outfits, and the Nine and their other outfits operated the way it should be. Every

morning we had breakfast at 4:00, then horses were jingled from the horse pasture. Larry and Carl roped out the mounts. They mounted you if you brought your riding outfit and those Nine-bred horses were the kind that didn’t give out on you. They had a lot of bottom to them. They were not kid or dude mounts, and had a little snake to them. They were cowboy mounts. After everyone got their wood on their mounts, we hit a high trot to the back side of the pasture while it was still plenty dark. That ol’ ranch is probably my favorite. It was just a good, desert-mixed range, and there was cow work to do ahorseback. They all liked that kind of work, and craved it. Those tiger-striped cattle are good mother cows, and bred to those Beefmaster bulls the calves are as good as you want. When they were calving their heifers, they prowled them a-horseback, so those tiger-striped cows had respect for a mounted man. If not, they got a dose of nylon, which really helps them have respect. You had to lean over to work them, but they had good calves following them. I was there for several spring and fall works, and will always remember those works on the Question Mark outfit! Not long after that, my friend Tye Terrell called, saying that he had a deal put together but needed some help. The Strauss Ranch, west of Las Cruces, had decided to lease the ranch and sell the cattle, and wanted Tye to handle it. I had met Jerry and Barbara, the owners of the outfit, the first time I went there with Tye. They are great folks, very hospitable, and made you feel welcome. On another trip Tye, Myles and I were on to that Las Cruces range and Tye said he needed to go visit with them the next morning about listing the deal. So next morning we pulled into headquarters about twenty miles or more southwest of Las Cruces. What a nice big headquarters! The barns, corrals and everything was painted cream or brown. I even saw two wheelbarrows, one cream the other brown. When we got out of Tye’s Lincoln, Jerry came out to greet us, and told one of the chore boys to take the car and wash it. Tye said he needed to visit with Jerry, so he handed Miles and I a tablet and pencil, telling us to do a quick little inventory around headquarters. Then they headed into the house. I looked at Myles and said, “An Inventory! I don’t know much, but that means everything here . . . vehicles, corrals, lists of tools, size of the building . . . about a weeks worth of time for this headquarters.” Myles shook his head and told me there were two cream colored Ford F-150 ranch pickups, so I

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wrote it down. But we both figured that Tye just wanted us out where peons belong, so I also listed a big yeller Tomcat that was perched on top a big post. At that time, Barbara stepped out and asked us if we’d like to have some coffee, and muffins,. We said, “Yes, ma’am!” She escorted us into the den where Tye and Jerry were having their big business talk. We knew Tye must be kidding about that so-called inventory, so I threw the tablet down on the big coffee table as Barbara brought out our coffee and muffins. Tye and Jerry had been filling up on coffee and muffins with whipped cream for an hour or so. They pushed their plates back, Tye lit a Marlboro, picked up the tablet and told Jerry that he really need those “inventories”, because they’re so important on a deal this size. I looked at Myles in shock as Jerry and Tye both looked at the tablet which listed two Ford pickups, a bucket of brown paint, and one big yeller Tomcat! Tye started coughing while Myles and I gulped our treats and were out the door pronto! So my amigo Tye, probably from Jerry being impressed with the good help Tye carried around with him, acquired the listing. About the time we finished the branding works at the Question Mark, Tye called and needed help. It seems that he struck a deal with International Cattle Systems to lease the outfit and purchase the cattle . . . some of those cattle were a little hard to gather. We’ll gather them next month! ■ SEPTEMBER 2013

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by Caren Cowan, Exec. Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Assn.

the situation, the better part of valor was to stand pat and let it blow over. Then came a trusty, thundering herd of cowboys to set things right. Some bailing wire and a couple of fence posts were expertly strung all with a guarantee that the fix would hold at least until they made it back to their camps. There was also a little trepidation when I was served the Road Kill Delight. I did have to insist on an ingredient list before I did my tasting. I hope they were telling the truth because the dish was the best. The beer gravy was a nice touch. If there was anything in that dish other than beef, pork and some wild game, please don’t tell me.

The beer gravy was a nice touch. If there was anything in that dish other than beef, pork and some wild game, please don’t tell me. than last year – and that’s saying something because last year it was REALLY good. It took well under an hour for the judging . . . instead of two or three. And, I didn’t permit myself to be bribed by homemade wine or other beverage (not that the offers were not made). Finally, there was a sprinkling of rain and a soft breeze in place of blazing heat and dust. The day was not without excitement, however. There was a dog tethered to a chair in the judges’ tent. When the son of two of the judges was asked to go find a rock to hold down the tent that was threatening to blow over, away went the dog and the chair. The faster the dog ran the more noise the folding metal chair made, all with the owners chasing behind. Then the dog turned off into a cooking area, threatening some real fireworks. Fortunately the dog was held up in the camp with no damage to anything but maybe the chair. Even after a new, bigger rock was placed on the tent stay, it wasn’t long before up came the tent. After surveying

t may come as a surprise to some, after my column on the topic that I was invited back to help judge the Dutch oven cook-off at the Second Annual Peterson Memorial Cook-off & Ranch Rodeo. The lesson I learned this year is that I need to plan to be there for the whole event next year. The Peterson’s added a cowboy polo game and a dance on Saturday evening just to keep people entertained. The experience was completely different this year. I had only to eat 10 bites instead of 50. There was a judges’ tent with a view of all the cooking camps. Food was brought to the judges’ tent . . . just like the Food Channel. The food quality was higher

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Getting fired is tough, but being told that your volunteer services are not necessary is really bad. For the past 16 years I have taken great pleasure is helping with the Junior Beef Shows at the State Fair. There is nothing better than watching highly skilled, and those working toward becoming highly skilled, young people show their steers and heifers. For just about that long the New Mexico Junior Cattle Growers’ and New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association (NMCGA) Young Cattlemen’s Leadership Committee has provided the crew to make sure youngsters and their animals had a smooth trip to and from the show ring. Last year we closed both the NMCGA and New Mexico Stockman offices and brought in members from out of town to run the steer show. That won’t be happening this year. On July 29, we received the following very polite email from the Fair’s livestock manager:

“I have volunteers for all of the junior shows covered but wanted to see if you have your same volunteers to assist with the open shows? Please let me know.” Michelle Frost and I have gone out on weekends for the open shows for the past several years to assist the open show superintendents. Since Michelle is in Maine, I will be there, but I do not have a cast of volunteers to provide. Then on August 14 we received this email: “I wanted to confirm that you would be providing again this year the tack boxes for the Jr. Market Steer show. Please let me know. Thank you.” The answer was in the negative. Not only was it past the date when boxes need to be ordered, but if our help wasn’t needed two weeks earlier, how were we to know that our money was still welcome? After the first email, the funds to purchase the boxes were repurposed for other youth activities. The response to the inability to confirm the purchase of the boxes was: “. . . I did not realize that we needed to formerly request the sponsorship of the tack boxes as I believed you had done so since approximately 2002…” I guess I was just reared differently, but whatever happened to “will you please?” We got a similar message regarding the calf scramble on July 25: “We are in the process of getting all our sponsorship information together and I am writing to see who will be the Calf Scramble sponsors this year. Please let me know at your earliest convenience.” For about the past 10 years NMCGA and the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau have undertaken the task of raising the funds for the heifer purchases for the scramble winners. That has been $7,500. It is $10,000 this year. The funds are being raised, but a “please” and “thank you” would be a nice touch.

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to stay on the forefront of the industry and keep his ideas alongside other producers, Bonds just became president of the Texas & Southwest Cattle Raisers. While many American ranchers see the lifestyle as a way to make a living, Bonds took the idea to the next level. He recognized the opportunity that lie in front of him and took every possible chance to capitalize on his investments. “You have to be smart and run cattle as a financially sound business,” Bonds explained. “You have to know going in what you expect and exactly what you plan to get in return before you make a move. The heyday for the big ranches is yet to come as we become more efficient at running more cattle.” Bonds’ married his wife Jo, who currently operates a creative dance studio on the ranch, 33 years ago. The Bonds have three daughters, Missy, Bonnie and April. All of the girls were involved in the ranching operation growing up. Bonnie and April have pursued different ventures. Missy continues to work alongside her father at the ranch managing the office. “If there is anything in the office that needs computer work, Missy takes care of continued on page 77

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me,” Bonds explained. “I handle all of the negotiating from my office, buying and selling cattle every day.” Being one of the few open spaces left in the near vicinity of the Historic Fort Worth Stock Yards, Bonds Ranch has collaborated with other ranch managers to develop his commercial territory outside the Saginaw and Fort Worth area. Bonds’ handles over 20,000 commercial cattle each year throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska while maintaining 5,500 cows. In the mid 1990s Bonds purchased his first Charolais bull. He had been using Simmental bulls, but found that the Charolais influence made the calves much more marketable. Bonds feels that Angus bulls breed primarily towards type of cow, the Charolais bulls add pounds and growth even when crossed with the plainest of cows. The Bonds Ranch mainly uses Charolais bulls on crossbred cows as a terminal cross. Since the early 1930s, the Bonds Ranch has moved from strictly Hereford cattle, to a more commercial influence, using Charolais bulls as a building block. Bonds has taken a no nonsense approach to the commercial cattle industry and found that focusing on carcass traits over maternal and performance traits has taken his cow herd into a more progressive direction. When selecting Charolais bulls, Bonds only uses registered bulls. For Pete, a bull without a paper does not have any proof of how he will be able to improve his herd. “We use anywhere between 50 and 100 Charolais bulls each year,” Bonds explained. “I refuse to buy bulls that are unregistered. If you are not buying registered bulls, you might as well go to town and pick the bull that looks the best because you do not know anything about his EPDs.” The ranch operates on three calving seasons. At weaning, the calves are sorted out with the big end going straight to feed and the lighter end of the calves going back out to pasture. The fast gaining, Charolais influenced calf crop will generally weigh in the high 600 pound range, with some weighing 700 pounds at weaning. After sorting out a select group calves to retain ownership of, the large majority of the calves will be marketed through Superior Livestock Auction. Bonds has stayed ahead of the curve by only selecting the top end of the bulls at all of the sales that he attends. In the selection process, he looks for a big strong bull

that will add a lot of gain to his smaller framed cows. As profit margins narrow, Bonds Ranch capitalizes on all available premium avenues including age and source verification, non-hormone treated cattle (NTHC) when applicable, and any other animal premium that is available to be maintained in a commercial cattle program depending on the type of cattle, where they’re going and what they’ve got. For Pete, the Charolais breed is certainly headed in the right direction, but like anything else, there is always a way to

produce a better product and that is up to the producers. “As far as grade is concerned, there are improvements to be made. In doing that, we need to maintain the positive gain. All producers need to be breeding outside the box to keep things moving forward and making grade as big of a selection point as gain.” As far as Bonds is concerned, Charolais cattle are here for the duration and have enough great qualities to excel among the other breeds and especially in the com■ mercial industry.

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Let’s Turn It Over To The Park Service . . .

That’s the plan for the Valles Caldera National Preserve (formerly the Baca Ranch) if some folks get their way. This option is wrong on soooo many levels. The Preserve was created by an act of Congress due to the efforts of Senator Pete Domenici and Senator Jeff Bingaman over a decade ago. The enacting legislation was specific on how the property was to be managed and funded and what would happen if the experiment failed. The ranch was to remain in multiple use including recreation, hunting and fishing, grazing and timber production. Since the multi million dollars pur-

chase of the property it has been operated by a trust board and management staff working almost with one hand tied behind their backs. There was a seemingly endless National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance – processes that were prolonged over the fight to maintain livestock grazing on the preserve and at a level that provided stewardship for the land. There have been major fires on and around the Valles Caldera hampering access and management. There is no provision to obtain funding for enhanced operations and facilities to expand use by various sectors of the public. Now the President of the United States has not found time to appoint members to the trust board to guide management in creating more opportunities for use. Clearly there are some things that need

to be changed to better the function of the Valles Caldera, but just turning it over to another federal agency won’t fix those problems. Indeed, we may not know how good we have it. One only has to watch the national news to see the effects of National Park Service (NPS) management. Both Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite National Park are blazing with catastrophic fire that will require generations to heal. It wasn’t so long ago that New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument was set ablaze with a fire that nearly destroyed Los Alamos and did destroy hundreds of homes. That fire was a “controlled burn” that was intentionally set by a NPS employee – An employee who had been warned of the consequences of his actions and was asked to postpone the burn.

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Dozens of national sportsmen and hunting organizations including the National Rifle Association, Boone & Crockett and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation have spoken out against the proposed transfer. That position is supported by numerous groups in New Mexico including both chapters of the Safari Club, the Wild Sheep Foundation, the Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife, and the Council of Outfitters & Guides as well as agricultural groups including the NMCGA, NMFLB, New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. and the New Mexico Federal Lands Council. The New Mexico State Game Commission and the Department of Game & Fish

Confusion reigns as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) or rather the courts continue to try to placate radical groups engaging in social engineering at best and rural cleansing at the worst via species like the Mexican wolf, lesser prairie chicken, dunes sagebrush lizard, jaguar, New Mexico meadow jumping mouse . . . the list goes on. A comment period has reopened for the critical habitat designation for the jaguar. It remains confounding that these animals require a humid climate and natural waters – and that only males have been seen in the U.S. Doesn’t the government know it takes two to tango for these Central and South American animals? Despite numerous requests for comment extension, the comment period for

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the meadow jumping mouse have closed. But we can expect a comment period for the designation of critical habitat in the next few months. The wolf situation gets more confusing on a daily basis. As near as we can tell there are three documents out for comments with deadlines in September and October. Check the web at www.nmagriculture.org for draft comments and deadlines. Ranchers in the Southwest finally got some good news when the FWS found that a wolf shot on private land biting private property – cows and calves – was a legal kill. Now at least we know they can do it. The rest of the story that the FWS hasn’t told is the fact that the agency sentenced that wolf to death two months earlier when they released her and a male that had supposedly “mated” with her. The male stayed hitched less than a month and was recaptured after killing a calf. The female was supposed to be bred but showed no signs of lactation when she was killed. The pair never should have been released in the first place. Then we have the wolf that was strangled by the FWS in a “routine” capture in Arizona in early August. This brings a whole bunch of questions . . . especially after you learn that the FWS employees on site gave CPR to the animal. If we are trying to create a “wild” population, why are we “routinely” capturing them? How can they ever be “wild?” Are these animals handled and harmed often ■ enough that CPR is routine?

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hired Art as foreman. Art was foreman at the Ladder until 1981 for three different owners. In 1981, Art and Wanda moved to Roswell where Art was promoted to manager of several of Robert O. Anderson’s ranches in New Mexico and Texas. He retired from Diamond A Cattle Company in 1991 and returned to the Ladder in 1992 as a consultant for the new owner, Ted Turner. His health forced him to retire, again, in 1995. Art was always involved in many community organizations; Sierra County Farm Bureau President, NM Farm and Livestock Bureau Board of Directors, Sierra County Republican County Chairman, Chaves County Farm Bureau Board of Directors, Chaves County United Way Agriculture Division Chairman, NMSU College of Ag & Home Economics development council, NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Center Board, American Sheep Industry Council Board of director, President of the New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc. and founding member of the Caballo Community Church. He was honored by the Wool Growers as Sheepman of the Year in 19??. Art is survived by his daughter April (husband, Ray) Romero, Cuchillo; son Mikel Ray (wife, Cathy) Evans, Albuquerque; daughter-in-law Fran Evans, Las Cruces; nine grandchilden; five great grandchildren, brothers Richard(wife, Helen) Evans, Raymond (wife, Marlene) Evans, sister Ruthe Cortes and numerous nieces and nephews. Marian Guthrie, 98, Tulare County California. Marian was a Charter Member of the Tulare County CattleWomen. She was the third National CowBelle President in 1954 and a member of Porterville, California and Turlare County pioneer ranching families. Bob Yates, 84, Artesia, longtime supporter of agriculture and former owner of Payne Packing plant passed away on August 21, 2013. Bob was born on June 18, 1929 and was a Navy veteran of the Korean war serving on the USS Topeka. He and Wanda were supporter of 4-H and FFA as well as just about every youth organization that asked. He always had a smile and an opinion as to why the livestock judge was wrong. Albert Frank Best, 90, long-time resident of Fort Sumner, passed away in Albuquerque on August 24, 2013. Frank was born on August 21, 1923, in Lubbock, to Perry and Mossie Best. He grew up on ranches in Texas and New Mexico. In 1944 Perry and Mossie Best bought land south-

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east of Fort Sumner where Frank and his father ranched for many years. In 1943, Frank married the love of his life, Nadine Clymer, and they had three children. Over the years, they lived in several communities throughout eastern New Mexico working on ranches such as S.E.A. Cattle Company, Buster Fryer Ranch, and others. In 1961, the family moved to Clayton where Frank was employed as the District Livestock Inspector for the State of New Mexico. After 18 years in Clayton, he transferred to Fort Sumner in 1979 and retired there in 1988. Until 2012, he raised cattle on the family ranch. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Nadine their sons Troy and Floyd Best, five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and great-great-

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grandson. The family extends special thanks for the love and care Frank received at Friendship Gardens Assisted Living Facility in Albuquerque. Lawrence Fred Fitzner Jr., 57, Logan, passed away suddenly on Tuesday July 30, 2013 in Amarillo. Fred was born November 15, 1955, in Tucumcari. He graduated from Logan High School in 1973. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy from Panhandle State University in 1977. Fred served as a Captain in the US Army, stationed at Fort Bliss. He later graduated from the Police Academy and became a boat officer for New Mexico State Parks at Ute Lake. Fred spent many years operating the family ranch north of Logan.Fred married Diana Ruth Stringfellow on July 1, 1989, in Nara Visa.Surviving are his wife Diana, children April Stone (husband,

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