"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

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LW: Yeah that’s one of the things that… when the photographs that came back from Pu’u Wa’awa’a… theyare all browns and oranges and yellows. All the photographs that come from Pono Holo… green, yuh.Different… really different places.CB:Well Pono… Pono Makai is brown and yellow, too. Just like our makai country.LW:Yeah… so McCandless is rocky, too.CB:Oh, yeah.LW:And Kapapala?CB:All of South Kona is.LW:Oh, Kapapala is rocky… yeah.CB:Yeah.LW:Would you place Kahuku in rocky, too?CB:Some of it…LW:Or part depends?CB: Well see, they got that nice green place around makai there but up mauka is all rocks. It’s all… anytime you get new lava and new… relatively speaking new. You know ‘cause we don’t have the rain to break itdown or what.LW:Right. But Pu’u W’a’awa’a was still… it was still a good place to have a ranch?CB:Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
LW:Isn’t it one of the oldest ranches?CB:No. I think Robby’s uncle put it together in the turn of the century.LW:Yeah… it’s reasonably…CB: Yeah… it was a wonderful place. I just I had more fun there. I mean I was just able to have a feedyard there. Built a feed yard way down… Robert called it Kiawe Lanai… which was a place down there inthe… in the kiawe trees… there’s was lots of kiawe shade. Put a fence in the pahoehoe… and the cattle atethe grass and we had self feeders out there. Made some of the fattest pigs in the country. We had guyscoming over and sneaking in poaching pigs all the way from Laupahoehoe and Hilo. Yeah. We knew becausewe caught them. But you know… I mean it was… we did all kinds of stuff… I mean we had a… we had a greattime.LW:Like what kinds of stuff?CB: Well, like building that feed yard and we went into intensive grazing and upgrading the water system.Once we went into that intensive grazing system methods, what we could do was we just limited the number ofwater troughs we had to check every day. We really simplified everything and that helped. The systemhelped, to where we only needed three guys. And once the cows get used to moving… I mean I used to go upwith a couple of dogs and just move all of the cows by myself. Just ride down in the middle of the paddock andjust let the dogs work and the cows know the dogs and as soon as the cows saw the dogs with me they juststart moving. It’s a real simple deal and that’s why we all today can get away with what we’re getting awaywith. Being able to use less people because you got the cattle trained… we got smaller paddocks… we’re notdriving all of Mauna Kea down to Puehale any more, when we needed fifty or a hundred guys.LW:Yeah. You got them in a smaller area. They’re kind of trained for this frequent movement…CB:Yeah. Yeah.LW:I remember Frank Botelho telling us that he’d turn off the water a day or two before…CB:Yeah.
Page 4 and 5: vacation I’d do his job. So I did
Page 6 and 7: LW:Two different times.CB:Yeah. And
Page 8 and 9: CB: So that’s what Jack was like.
Page 10 and 11: CB: ‘Cause they were there. Well
Page 12 and 13: CB: Mostly there’s four grades of
Page 14 and 15: CB: I went… let’s see… Kauai
Page 16 and 17: LW:Yeah.CB: And all the school kids
Page 18 and 19: CB: I’m just a cowboy, you know,
Page 20 and 21: CB: Robert… Robert was kind of th
Page 25 and 26: CB:Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Or to what
Page 27 and 28: CB: Yeah, yeah. Well you know Rober
Page 29 and 30: cows out of the deal. Didn’t need
Page 31 and 32: CB: No… yeah, he had cattle. But
Page 33 and 34: CB: Any way Bax and I are good frie
Page 35 and 36: CB: The rest of it stayed in Honolu
Page 37 and 38: CB:No, no.LW:Yeah.CB:They thought w
Page 39 and 40: CB: Old Baxter… he’s another bu
Page 41 and 42: CB:Actually that was way before.LW:
Page 43 and 44: LW:But he could do that because he
Page 45 and 46: CB:It was a dog eat dog deal, man.L
Page 47 and 48: LW:Oh, I see.CB: Then in the meanti
Page 49 and 50: CB: Yeah. Thank God. Yeah, they dec
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