From Texas Rangeland

 

Used to they had rock pens, rock fences, and now they got oilfield-pipe fences and all that. It’s a different ballgame than it was way back then.

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‘Course the drought is not as bad because we have all this good feed. And they’re makin’ round bales and hay and stuff like that. Where, used to burn pear. I burned pear ever since I been a little ol’ sixteen-year-old boy. You see these prickly pear here? Well, we burn the stickers off ‘em when there’s a drought and then the cows can eat ‘em. It don’t fatten ‘em but it keeps ‘em alive, yeah. Everybody did that for years. That’s one way they kept their stuff a-goin’.

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Oh, it’s lots easier than it used to be, yes ma’am. It eliminated a lotta horses. And now, ninety percent of the horses are found around cities and ten percent on ranches. And now people have four-wheelers and smaller pastures, and cake and pickups, and blow their horn and here they come. So it’s a different ballgame than it was way back when we had to ride everday. Now we stay at the feed stores. Used to you’d go in on Saturday and learn everthing, and now there’s ranchers there everyday at the feed store. It changed the ballgame.