Then another time we made an experimental shipment of 500 old steers to California, to be grazed and fattened on alfalfa.

They were got through all right and put in an alfalfa field, and I remained in charge of them.

Our cattle were not accustomed to wire fences, or being penned up in a small enclosure, and of course had never seen alfalfa; so for a week or more they did nothing but walk round the fence, trampling the belly-high lucerne to the ground.

Gradually, however, they got to eating it, and in six weeks began to pick up.

Briefly stated, this adventure was a financial failure.