Re: [DL] Cattle Barons - Marshal looking for help

[Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

Thank you very much, this info is good enough for me
to figure out most of what I'm going to do (where I
can hide the dead cows, where the extra hands will be,
how many cows are involved, and so on).  Very useful
stuff.  

-Munch

--- Frempath2@netscape.net wrote:
> I grew up in ranch country, north central nebraska.
> Currently you can run about 400 head per person. 
> Now thats assuming you have at least 2 folks to
> start with.  But current ranching is far more
> mechanized than than that of 125 years ago.  One
> example would be that for setting up winter hay a
> crew of 1 to 4 is all that is needed, in the last
> quarter of the 19th century it took over a dozen men
> and over 20 horses to accomplish the same chore.  I
> would put the hired hand to cattle ratio in the 1/80
> range.  
> 
> Now then one other thing to consider is the size of
> the ranch.  This can be related to the amount of
> land/grass it takes to raise 1 cow.  In some places
> in the mid west and east you can feed several cows
> on an acre, about 43,000 square feet for our
> European friends, but where I grew up it took about
> 5 acres to feed 1 cow and farther into the rockies
> or high desert, it could take up to 10 or 20 acres
> of grassland to feed 1 cow.  To cover this kind of
> ground there are satalite ranches which serve the
> herds out away from the main ranch.  Now most folks
> are comfortable in describing farms in acres, but
> you probably need to start thinking in sections,
> thats 640 acres , or 1 square mile.  One ranch I can
> think of was over 360 sections.  That would be a
> ranch 60 miles by 60 miles, or 100km by 100km for
> the metric bunch.  So think big.
> 
> g'day 
> frempath
> 

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