. Industries of to-day. ,and there are many cattlemen in the state whoare growing steadily rich. The same is true of the sheepmen, though thisbusiness is subject to greater risks and fluctu-ations. When heavy snowstorms come sheepare helpless; they are silly also, and sometimesin a single flock hundreds will be stifled to deathby trampling one another underfoot in haste toget the food which has been thrown down forthem when they have been driven in after a longstorm. One winter in Colorado was exceptionallysevere, and thousands of sheep perished in thesnow. The sheepmen took warning and put up
. Industries of to-day. ,and there are many cattlemen in the state whoare growing steadily rich. The same is true of the sheepmen, though thisbusiness is subject to greater risks and fluctu-ations. When heavy snowstorms come sheepare helpless; they are silly also, and sometimesin a single flock hundreds will be stifled to deathby trampling one another underfoot in haste toget the food which has been thrown down forthem when they have been driven in after a longstorm. One winter in Colorado was exceptionallysevere, and thousands of sheep perished in thesnow. The sheepmen took warning and put upsheds on a large scale. It would seem a simplematter of humanity, as well as policy, to provide [14] Ranch Life them* Cattle can run before a storm and, it issaid, will often run forty miles to escape one; butthe poor little sheep are too clumsy and slow;they are soon snowed in and under. Life on the larger and more remote ranchesis lonely and monotonous to a degree which, itmust be admitted, can hardly be wholesome for. 11 M4.^.>»||| \ ^r either mind or body. The daily life of a herderof sheep, for instance, seems but one shade abovethat of the sheep themselves. He takes his flockout at daybreak, stands or lies still, watchingthem while they feed, drives them back to theranch at night, cooks his own supper, washes thedishes, and goes to bed at nine oclock, too tiredto keep awake longer. This routine is varied byan interval of very hard work in the shearing [15] Industries of To-Day season and during the weeks when the lambs areborn in the spring. If the ranch is near a town of size, he goes,perhaps once a week, to that town to buy what heneeds. But the larger ranches are all remote fromtowns and must necessarily be so in order tosecure sufficient range for large flocks and herds. For a ranch sixty, seventy, or a hundred milesdistant from its center of supplies, purchases mustbe made by wholesale two or three times a year,and the ranchmen have no intercourse with theworld e
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