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Page 4 • The Bison Courier • Thursday,March 14, 2013 Guest Columnist Amy Kirk is a ranch wife from Custer, South Dakota. Garden Gate Cows with an Attitude Last year when #41 calved my husband said, “There’s your cow— remember her?” as the pickup puttered past the new pair. I looked at him blankly, trying to figure out what he was talking about; then he reminded me that she put both of us up on the fence during calving season the year before. I usually can’t remember calving details of every cow unless we’ve had a memorable relationship with them and even then I rarely remember them by their eartag numbers. Three years ago while trying to sort #41 and her new calf into a separate pen from the other cows in the barn, the cow tried to take us both. She calmed down some after we turned them out of the barn so we didn’t write her off just because she was overprotective. We gave her the benefit of the doubt instead. Last year she had a textbook calving outside, therefore we didn’t encounter any behavioral issues so we dismissed her belligerence as circumstantial. After three calving seasons of chances to prove temporary maternal instinct behavior, we now think otherwise. This year it’s become apparent that she’s developed a habitual bad attitude and has been nicknamed “Grumpy” regarding her moodiness. We’ve determined that her temper is going to stick…it just isn’t going to stick around here come sorting time in the fall. A few weeks ago my husband got her under the lean-to to calve on her own outside yet still be protected from the wind. When he checked later, she’d had the calf but it was kind of puny and lying flat. A calf lying flat is never a good sign. My husband managed to slide the little bugger under the panel away from Grumpy and put it in the calf warmer box. He gave it some electrolytes and a “Gene pill” (what we call a miracle pill that boosts calves’ energy and was introduced to us by a neighbor named Gene). Grumpy wasn’t cooperative in letting my husband and son milk her to help get the calf off to a good start with its first dose of mother’s milk in its belly. Turning the pair out didn’t seem to change #41’s attitude either. She’s made it clear that she wouldn’t hesitate to try and take us. A guy hates to write off a good healthy mother cow, especially ones that clean right away (drops her placenta/cleaning soon after she calves—a sign of a healthy cow) but there comes a point when a cow’s unpleasant temperament overrides her positive attributes. Some cows may only get aggressive when they’ve calved and mellow out after some time has passed. Then there are cows like Grumpy, who develop a mean streak and stay that way. Most cattlemen will give every cow the chance to prove that her aggressiveness is just a temporary maternal instinct, at least until proven otherwise. Once it’s obvious that a 1200-1500 pound cow that can throw her head around like a wrecking ball is too dangerous for anybody to be around, then its time to cull her out of the herd. Grumpy won’t be with us next calving season but that’s alright. She’s given us the kind of memories that have been recorded in our calf record book history. No cows we have close encounters with are ever forgotten. Already March! It seems just like yesterday we submitted our fall final article! Here it is spring soon upon us and time to think gardening! Did you spend the long winter nights planning your garden endeavors? No? Well, here is something to think about and plan. As you know the Master Gardeners sponsor a Pumpkin Fest in October which has a Heaviest Pumpkin contest. Now is the time to think about planting and pampering a pumpkin for the contest. So far the heaviest since the contest began is 84 pounds. Surely there is someone out there that can break that record! World record pumpkins tip the scales in the neighborhood of 1,800 pounds, of course that takes years of practice by the growers. Amazingly most of the seed for giant pumpkins is produced by Dill Pumpkin Farm, a family heirloom since 1870, located in Nova Scotia, Canada. The tricks of the trade are a carefully guarded secret with each grower having their own “formula”. Some of the tricks include starting the seed indoors by no later than the end of April and getting those transplants out between May 10 and May 15. Here this would entail a hot cap to protect it from those late frosts that can occur as late as the first week of June. Avid growers set aside at least 500 square feet of soil fortified with an organic and steady diet of compost, compost tea and other secret home brews of nutrition for the pampered vine. Flowers are hand pollinated, as soon as a fruit has been set on the vines, all additional fruits are disposed of with all of the vines nutrients going to just the one pumpkin. The bearing vine is buried underground as it grows giving it additional roots to feed the one pumpkin. Suckers must be pruned as well. As the pumpkin grows above the protective leaves of the vine it is blanketed to protect it from sunburn, barricades are built to protect it from the wind. Pampered indeed! Those world record holding pumpkins can gain as much as 20 pounds in 24 hours at some point during their 130 day life span. Unbelievable! An 1800 pound pumpkin, assuming a 130 day growing season would have to gain an average of almost 14 pounds per day! Naturally the Master Gardeners do not expect to check in any 1800 pounders this October - but a 100 plus pounder certainly could be a possibility, maybe even several. So you pumpkin growers get busy, order your seed! The Master Gardeners are not eligible for a prize but may display a big pumpkin. When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff Submitted by Karen Englehart, Master Gardener, SDSU Cooperative Extension Service
The Bison Courier • Thursday, March 14, 2013 • Page 5 Pastors Perspective Prairie Fellowship Parish ELCA Pastor Margie Hershey In a cartoon Charlie Brown is looking around in the church and says, “Where are all the hypocrites? I heard the church was full of hypocrites!” We laugh at that idea and yet there is a strong degree of truth in it. We are all hypocrites when we claim to live for the Lord and yet so often live for the things of this world. Our focus is too often not on the image of Christ but on the image of the dollar. Our churches are full of hypocrites – people who proclaim Jesus as the savior of the world and yet have a hard time living a life cantered on him. Most of the time we do not intentionally deny Christ but life in this world draws us away from the selflessness that is a God centered life. God knows are failings and our shortcomings. God knows that we so often yield to the temptations of this world. God knows our desire to live for him and at the same time our failure to do so. We come into the church as hypocrites – people desiring to live for God and failing to do so. We come because we have failed but want to try again to live as his children. Our gracious God loves us even when we fail to live for him. He welcomes everyone, perhaps especially the hypocrites. Grace Baptist Church • Pastor Phil Hahn Sunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service - 10:30a.m. Wednesday Prayer Mtg. - 6:30 p.m. Church of Christ 18 mi. south of Prairie City - Worship Service - 10:00 a.m. Prairie Fellowship Parish ELCA • Pastor Margie Hershey Indian Creek - 8:00 a.m. • American - 9:30 a.m. • Rosebud - 11:00 a.m. Christ Lutheran Church WELS • Pastor Gerhardt Juergens Sunday Bible Class - 8:00 a.m., Worship Service - 8:30 a.m. Tuesday Bible Class - 7:00 p.m. Coal Springs Community Church Pastors Nels & Angie Easterby South Jct. of Highways 73 & 20 Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Worship Service - 11:00 a.m. Seventh Day Adventist Church • Pastor Donavon Kack Sabbath School - 2:00 p.m., Worship Service - 3:00 p.m. Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church • Fr. Tony Grossenburg Saturday Mass: Morristown - 4:45 p.m. Lemmon - 7:15 p.m., Sunday Mass: Lemmon - 8:15 a.m., Bison - 11:00 a.m. Holland Center Christian Reformed Church Pastor Brad Burkhalter • Lodgepole Worship Service - 8:00 a.m. First Presbyterian Church • Pastor Florence Hoff, CRE Sunday School 9:30 a.m. • Worship Service -10:30 a.m. Slim Buttes Lutheran • Pastor Henry Mohagen Reva • Sunday School 9:45, Worship Service - 11:00 a.m., WMF 2nd Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Beckman Wesleyan Church • Pastor Brad Burkhalter Prairie City Sunday School - 10:00 a.m., Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m. Vesper Service - 6:00 p.m., Wed. Evenings - 7:30 p.m. Obituary Hugh “Gene” Escott Hugh “Gene” Escott, 74, of Faith SD passed away peacefully at his ranch, March 9, 2013. Gene was born in Faith, SD on January 4, 1939 to Hank and Mary Ellen (Heron) Escott, and came home to the dugout which they lived in until he was four. From the stories and the pictures he drew you can tell that his love for a good horse started young. His kids have heard many a story that centered on he and his brother Jerry and a horse, sometimes a good one and sometimes one that they had to break, which lead to his rodeo career which included bronc and bareback riding as well as being a pickup man for many rodeos. Gene attended school at the Arrowhead country school north of Palace Theater Safe Haven PG-13 115 minutes March 15 - 17 surround sound Lemmon 374-5107 8:00 p.m. nightly Faith and once his older sister Mary Lou was in high school, he and Jerry boarded in town so they could attend school. Gene graduated from high school in 1957 and helped on the family ranch until he joined the Army in 1960. He and several others from Faith were activated during the Berlin Crisis and sent to Fort Lewis, Washington, but their unit was never shipped overseas. Gene served in the National Guard Unit #211 Engineering Company until 1966. He was always proud of serving his country. Gene married Patty Kelly in 1964 and to this union four children were born. Gene was very active in the horse world, first in the horse show area and then helping to start the “Diamond Classic” a race horse futurity. Gene developed quite a horse operation and put on an annual horse sale at the ranch for several years. Gene loved watching his horse and cattle genetics at work, he loved to research pedigrees and see what cross would be the most effective and he loved to teach this research to anyone that would listen. Gene was a consummate sportsman and loved watching all sporting events, and traveled many miles to watch his children and now grandchildren play basketball, football, wrestle, run track or rodeo. He loved all sporting events, but a good basketball game and a good bronc ride were his favorite things. He was a big community supporter belonging to the Faith Booster Club for many years and helped behind the scenes with the Faith Stock Show and Rodeo every year. Gene is survived by his children, Gnene (Clint) Fordyce, Faith, SD; Gnelle (Scott) Dauwen, Cambridge, NE; Kelly Escott( fiancé Peggy O’Sullivan) and Gzelle “Buffy” (Kevin)Groves, all of Faith, SD; and their children Garet and Jozelle (fiancé BJ Humble) Fordyce, Thane (fiancé Emily Wicks), Chance and Duce Escott, Taylor and Rayce Dauwen, and Kailyn, Hugh, Harland and Kaycee Groves and great grandchildren, Toarin and Teedin Humble. He is also survived by his exwife, Patty Kelly, sister-in-law, Inez Jibben and brother-in-law, Teddy Imsland, numerous nieces, nephews and special cousins. Gene was preceded in death by his parents, Hank and Mary Escott, 2 bothers Melvin Spencer and Jerry Escott, 5 sisters, Ella Shroeder, Ellen Reed, Arlene Ogdahl, Jennie Butts, and Mary Lou King, sister-in-law, Violette Spencer, and brothers-in-laws, Bennet Reed, George Ogdahl, Neal Crowley, Bob Butts, and Donn King. The Graveside Service for Gene will be held at 2:00pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at the Escott Ranch (19884 Arrowhead Road) 12 miles north of Faith, SD with Duane Vig, officiating. Burial will be in the Escott Family Cemetery with full military honors afforded by the Robert O’Shea American Legion Post #106 of Faith. Those attending the services will meet on the road by 2:00pm near the Escott Ranch and follow the horse drawn hearse to the burial site for the graveside service. Immediately following the Graveside Service, the Escott Family has invited all for a time of fellowship and luncheon at the Ranch House with special music by Butch Samuelson and Suzie Payne. Serving as casketbearers are his grandsons. The Visitation will be on Tuesday evening from 5:00 to 7:00pm at the Faith Area Memorial Chapel in Faith. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.funeralhomesofcaring.com.
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