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A RURAL DISSERTATION PART II \(Last week, our Kenedy Correspondent wrote about one aspect of rural life, cows and By DAN STRAWN Kenedy Correspondent The Texas Observer KENEDY And now getting around to another aspect of Karnes County rural life, people. The farmer, rancher, and local citizen of today vary considerably. But nothing has changed more than the wife. There was a time when a dutiful farm or ranch wife would go out early in the morning and slop the hogs, feed and milk the cows, churn the butter, feed the chickens, feed the horses, pick up the eggs, turn out the cows, cook the farmer’s breakfast, and send him on the trail out to the field behind old Dobbin before turning to the chores of house work. This type of rural wife has at present become somewhat rare but is still in existence. A fellow was telling me the other day. “I never had no trouble with my wife until we moved to town. She was the best woman that there ever was. But when we moved to town for a while she changed. The town ways turned her head. She took up flirty ways and after awhile we was busted up.” The farm wife has graduated from the washtub to the washing machine, from the battery radio to the television set. Butane is replacing the kerosene stove. They are using tractors now instead of the mules they used fifteen years ago. In fact, mules are becoming a vanishing hybrid. \(However, if it keeps getting dry they will soon go back Some Live High The wealthier ranchers, the ones who made their pile while cattle were still high and haven’t lost it all back into the business yet, still live pretty high on the hog. Some of them have moved into town; some of them have built out in the country where they have taken advantage of modern technology in furnishing their homes. There is an ugly and ominous threat to the Mexican half-renter CLASSIFIED ADS Help Wanted STRINGERSThe Texas Observer is building up a bank of reliable reporters all over Texas. Professional reporters of an enlightened turn of mind are urged to contact the Editor, The Texas Observer, Drawer F, Capitol Station, Austin. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES If you have som, spare time and would lice to help The Texas Observer grow, write the Business Manager for advertising solicitation forms. Percentage of sales can be arranged. The Texas Observer, Drawer F. Capitol Station, Austin. LEGAL ADS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Wade H. Miller Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: manded to appear before the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 8th day of August, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 101,702, in which Katy Miller is Plaintiff and Wade H. Miller is defendant, filed in said Court on the 17th day of June, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges abandonment by defendant of her for a period of more than three years, with the intention on the part of Defendant of making such abandonment permanent ; Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property was accumulated : Plaintiff further prays for relief, general and special : All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 20th day of June, 1955. Clerk of t1 District Courts, Travis County, Texas lurking on the horizon. This dread and diabolical thieat is butane. Several farmers have sought to economize by going over to this liquified gas propellant for tractors. This conversion has interfered with the Mexicans’ time-honored practice of expropriating whatever gasoline wasn’t used in the tractor and the farmer didn’t keep his eye on. It was used in his jalopy, and when they became somewhat short of cerveza cash, to sell some to his amigos who would venture to visit relatives or to the Mexican dances. The Mexicans doubtlessly deeply resent this incursion on their feudal rights, but until they convert their jalopies to butane, they will probably have to devise some other sources of fuel. The primary crops used by ranchers for forage are sudan, cattail millet \(named for the peculiar resemblance between the seed head of the plant and the caudal appendmillet, which are all annual, and buffel and blue panic grasses, that are perennial. These are all generally utilized as row crops, and are grazed during the late spring and summer. Barley, oats, and clover are the chief winter and early spring forages. Clover has the longest growing season. Hubam clover is the most popular. Besides the cultivated fields, the rancher uses what is colloquially called the pasture, which generally refers to anything that isn’t cultivated. It can readily be seen, for it is usually covered with mesquite trees, prickly pear, catclaw, chile petin peppers, a few hackmore trees, some oaks, a minimum of mesquite and bermuda grass, chaparral bushes, Spanish dagger \(or and pulque are made, rattlesnakes, spiders, armadillos, coyotes, stinging scorpions, red ants, black wood ants, javelina hogs, skunks, possums, rabbits, and some cows. Cowboys on Foot This is where the veteran cowboy worth his salt must go to get his cows either to sell. to brand, to castrate, to doctor for worms, or merely to count, if curiosity strikes him, to see how many he has. NOTICE OF INCORPORATION “Notice is hereby given that Heath Floor Company, 4820 Ayers Street, Corpus Christi, Texas, a partnership composed of Oran M. Heath and Melvin K. Heath, was incorporated July 1, 1955, without change of name.” 12-4 CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Darlene Cardwell Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause : You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at orb fore, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 15th day of August, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 101,518, in which Albert Cardwell is Plaintiff and Darlene Cardwell is defendant, filed in said Court on the 25 day of May, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows : Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of Defendant towards him of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable ; Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property accumulated ; Plaintiff further prays for relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office, and to which reference is here made ; If this citation is not served within 30 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 27 day of June, 1955. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas 12-4 THE STATE OF TEXAS TO F. M. Wickline, Anna Wickline Rock, Inez Wickline Easley, J. D. Wickline, Ruth Ennis Wickline Johnson, Wanda Belle Patterson, Myrtle Eva Wickline Johnson, G. A. Wickline, and the Unknown heirs and legal representatives of such persons as well as the respective spouses or guardians, if any, of such defendants, who are unknown to Plaintiff Wickline, deceased and their unknown heirs and legal representatives who claim any interest in the land hereafter mentioned. You and each of you are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse thereof at or Screw worms are probably the most frequent reason the cowboy has to do any manual labor. These are commonly found in cows or calves hooked by other truculent cows, scratched by barbed wire, by thorns, or found where the umbilical cord parted from the navel in new born calves. Infected animals usually go into deep brush where the cowboy cannot maneuver on horseback and so must resort to what he hates to use mosthis feet. At this stage either the cowboy chases the cow out, or if the cow is in a bad humor, the cow chases the cowboy out. The cowboy, a somewhat shrewd member of the race in spite of his occupation, has found an out, the cow dog. These canine coursers of the cow hunt do practically all of the cowboys’ more exasperating tasksfinding the cows, getting them out of brush, keeping them from running away or jumping over fences, holding them together, and even coralling them. Unfortunately, they have not been able to instruct them in how to rope, tie, or brand. Another term used extensively for cow dog is leopard dog, because of the spots it carries. A new type of screw worm medicine has taken much of the repetition out of calf doctoring. It contains the drug lindane. If used with an oily base one treatment is usually all that is necessary. If unattended, screw worms usually kill young calves and injure older acttle. The Sulling Cow Blanding, used to identify cattle without the use of fisticuffs or artillery, is usually administered by a branding iron to the cow’s side or rump, the hieroglyphic of the brand being recorded in the county clerk’s office. The cow, usually reticent about standing still while a red hot branding iron is applied to her rump, must either be tied down or placed in a branding chute. The life of the cowboy is not for one who likes things orderly and neat, who loves to be around the sweet perfume of a woman’s hair or who likes to return from work as neat as when he left home that morning. before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday days from the date of issuance hereof, the same being the 22 day of August, 1955, in a suit numbered on the docket of said Court No. 101,814, and styled Stuart Watt vs. F. M. Wickline, et al, wherein Stuart Watt is Plaintiff and F. M. Wickline, Anna Wickline Rock, Inez Wickline Easley, J. D. Wickline, Ruth Ennis Wickline Johnson, Wanda Belle Patterson, Myrtle Eva Wickline Johnson, G. A. Wickline and the unknown heirs and legal representatives of such persons as well as the respective spouses or guardians, if any of such defendants, who are unknown to Plaintiff and the unknown heirs and legal representatives who claim any interest in the land hereafter mentioned, the nature of the said suit being one for partition of Lot 27, Block “D” of the Ridgetop Addition to the City of Austin, Texas, according to the map or Plat of record in Volume 2, Page 200 of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas, brought by the Plaintiff against the defendants, wherein the Plaintiff is alleged to own approximately 13-16 undivided interest in said property and the defendants an undivided 3-16 undivided interest therein, and in which action Plaintiff alleges that the land is incapable of partition in kind, and seeks the appointment of a receiver to sell such property. If this citation is not served within 90 days after the date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS 0. T. MARTIN, Jr., Clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas. GIVEN under my hand and the seal of said Court in Austin, Travis County, Texas, this 5th day of July, 1955. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy ISSUED this 5th day of July, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy 13-4 CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Adam Castro Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause : You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 22nd day of August, 1955, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 101,813, in which Consuelo Hernandez Castro is Plaintiff and Adam Castro is defendant, filed in said Court on the 5th day of July, 1955, and the nature of which said suit is as follows : Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of defendant towards plaintiff of such a na Cows have ways of upsetting one’s plans. Most cows, calves, and bulls invariably like to kick.. This hoof swing of theirs seems to cover all angles. They use their hind legs, but I have been hit in anterior positions near the head \(the cow’s posterior. Calves have an exasperating tendency to kick one on the chin while one is trying to tackle them. This is usually accompanied by flashes of brilliant lights followed by varying periods or darkness. But nothing is more exasperating than the sulling cow. The most frequent perpetrator of this bovine sit-down strike is the jersey, or anything with a trace of jersey in it. These are the ones who don’t want to move while they are in a loading chute or on the ground on the end of a rope. They decide they don’t want to leave where they are and lie down and moan. I have seen exasperated ranchers build fires under them to no avail. In one instance a farmer tied a wire from an electric fence to her tail. It was again to no avail. She just sat there and every time he kicked her he got shocked. Another denizen of our community is the wolf hunter. These nimrods may be found in all walks of