The best way to make a small fortune in the cattle business...

is to start with a large fortune.

TC has a bull who likes to wander. He got this way because TC's neighbor who shares a fence with him won't keep a bull. I'm sure his (the nieghbors) reasoning is that he shouldn't have to, since TC's bull will jump the fence and service all of his cows. TC is very easy-going feller, but the bull has got to where he visits all the neighbors now, so it's time for him to go to that great hamburger joint in the sky.

Now, one might ask where I'm going with this...

TC is in the market for a new disc mower and is going to load up some calves this evening to take to the sale. He told me that he hated to sell any of them, except for the bull of course. I told him that he should just go load up three or four of Ted's (the neighbor without a bull) calves and take them, because after all, they're half TC's... Right?

I told him he should at least present Ted with a bill for stud services.