You took your chances, and in distributing them amongst the men very critical eyes were cast over them, you may be sure, as the boys had to ride them no matter what their natures might turn out to be.

Such ponies were hardy, intelligent, active, and stood a tremendous amount of work.

Later a larger stamp of cow-horse came into use, even horses with perhaps a distant and minute drop of Diomede's blood in them--Diomede, who won the first Derby stakes, run for in the Isle of Man by the way, and who was sold to America to become the father of United States thoroughbreds and progenitor of the great Lexington.

But such "improved" horses could never do the cow work so well as the old original Spanish cayuse.
In a properly-organized cattle country all cattle brands must be recorded at the County seat.

Because of the prodigious number and variety of brands of almost every conceivable pattern and device it is difficult to adopt a quite new and safe one that does not conflict in some way with others.