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They're getting worse than the hogs
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<blockquote data-quote="Dusty Britches" data-source="post: 1744465" data-attributes="member: 1900"><p>In 1885 the cattle market started to decline and by 1890 the bottom fell out. Cattle ranchers on the open range in NW Texas pooled their resources - horses and dogs - and rounded up thousands of wild hogs but driving them into traps. They combined all of the caught hogs and drove them with the dogs to livestock yards to ship by rail to processing plants. Between the dogs and cowboys they were so effective they caught nearly every wild hog in the panhandle.</p><p></p><p>I would love to see that today but there are too many fences to effectively capture them all.</p><p></p><p>I don't know why I thought of this story ... Perhaps it was the stupid comment about hunting not working on controlling hogs. Yes, hunting alone is not effective, but hunting with dogs, cowboys, and traps is extremely effective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dusty Britches, post: 1744465, member: 1900"] In 1885 the cattle market started to decline and by 1890 the bottom fell out. Cattle ranchers on the open range in NW Texas pooled their resources - horses and dogs - and rounded up thousands of wild hogs but driving them into traps. They combined all of the caught hogs and drove them with the dogs to livestock yards to ship by rail to processing plants. Between the dogs and cowboys they were so effective they caught nearly every wild hog in the panhandle. I would love to see that today but there are too many fences to effectively capture them all. I don't know why I thought of this story ... Perhaps it was the stupid comment about hunting not working on controlling hogs. Yes, hunting alone is not effective, but hunting with dogs, cowboys, and traps is extremely effective. [/QUOTE]
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