Recent content by Arnold Ziffle

JBull44 -- I too am sorry for your recent loss. If you can spare the time (and the cash) consider attending the replacement cow and bull sale that will be held right down the road from your cattle, this Saturday 3/25/17, at Four County Livestock Auction barn in Industry, Texas. Sale starts...

Fenceman, planting plum seeds will almost certainly not yield a clone or even a reasonably similar tree. But, if you will Google something like "plum tree propagation" I'm sure you will find many articles that will show you how to propagate plums using the softwood cutting method (also...

millstreaminn, if you get hungry as you travel south on 59, a little ways past the town of El Campo you'll see Prasek's Hilljie Smokehouse on the right hand side of the highway. It is a good place to stop for some real good meats and other vittles, although maybe a bit pricey. www.praseks.com

Jo, sounds like you had a run in with an "oak asp". They definitely look like a slug and have a grey, hairy exterior. I was climbing a live oak tree when I was a kid and put my forearm on one -- extremely painful! Doctor gave some sort of pill and mom gave me Blue Bell ice cream and a day...

"You fell through the shythouse floor and landed in honey" (Maharishi Mahesh Burno) :D

Haven't used Sendero, but years ago I also had a lot of large tallow trees and yes, Remedy/diesel is not nearly as effective on old, large rough bark trees. Now that the weather isn't so intolerably hot and humid out in the woods, I'd recommend that you just go ahead and cut down the larger...

I've eaten many a gasper goo just fried in a skillet and sometimes fresh caught goo's in a deep propane fired fryer out in the woods or up on the river bank and I've always enjoyed them. I assume that a "freshwater drum" in Mo. is the same thing we have down here in SE Texas, and what we...

"All I can say, McKay, is you take a helluva long time to say good-bye." Steve Leach (Charlton Heston) to Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) after their epic fistfight in The Big Country PDFANGUS -- That's also one of my very favorite westerns and I guess I watch it about once a year.Wonderful...

Sorry that the drought and fires caused you to have to make such a move. Lots of us are in the same boat! Don't know how many acres of Johnson grass and/or other grasses you'll have for those cattle, but keep in mind that JG can't stand up to continuous grazing in the same way that Bermuda...

Ruark, although not directly addressing your question about pulling the cedars, you might want to take a look at this: http://texnat.tamu.edu/about/brush-busters/ Been a long time since I read up on killing Ash Juniper (which most Texans refer to as Cedar) but I seem to recall that Spike...

Largent's website for Point of Rocks Ranch (wow, check out those prices!) http://www.minihereford.com/ And a fella from around Bay City, Texas that used to post as "SF" here on CT: http://www.mini-hereford.com

Back when I was a kid, almost everyone around here called them "croaker sacks"; others used the term "gunny sack". I had quite a few shirts made from the colorful cloth sacks that chicken mash came in. Very little of anything was wasted back in those days.

CRR, it is good to see you back on CT after all those years of being away. When you have a bit of time, why don't you favor us with some of your poetry. As I recall, you were quite the poet 5 or 6 years ago!

Right, you would sure want to avoid rye or ryegrass at this time, much too late in the year to get any "mileage" out of them in Texas. Consider pearl millet for now and summer, as it is pretty drought tolerant and under the right conditions can produce a heck of a lot of forage and/or hay. In...

Jo, would it resemble the Monitor or Merrimack? Heck of a good riddle.