23/27 If you would postpone any more gathering of beef until--" "It's just about a case uh now or never," Billy cut in. "There's only about so long to gather beef before they begin to fall off in weight. We can't work much after snow falls. We can pull through the first storm, all right, but when winter sets in we're done. We've got to wean and feed all the calves you've got hay for, and I can save some loss by going careful and taking 'em away from the poorest cows and leaving the fat ones to winter their calves. |