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...make money on cattle, Bob Kleberg runs his feudal domain with the hard fist of a feudal lord. But he has hundreds of miles of fence to mend and mind-and everything within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons...
Poachers are still a prime trouble, now that airplanes have started dropping them and picking them up in remote corners of the ranch. With memories of the old days, when as many as 10,000 cattle a year were rustled from the King Ranch, Bob Kleberg makes no apologies for his tight patrol of his fences. Said he: "Don't think rustling is a thing of the past. We still lose cattle to rustlers every year...
...Kleberg is free of the current problem of cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...
...Kleberg thinks Americans can tighten their belts to help feed the world, because: "We eat too much anyway, especially bread. If necessary we can eat more potatoes, rice or other types of starch, to save wheat. At any rate, we should waste less." But he does not think that renewed controls would increase the food supply, because "you don't get more food by restrictions." In the present atmosphere of uncertainty of what the Government intends to do about meat, cattlemen cannot plan ahead. "It takes four years to make a steer," said Kleberg. "That requires some long-range...
...Widow King's five children, Lee King (no descendants), Richard King Jr., Mrs. Alice King Kleberg, Mrs. Ella King Welton, and Mrs. Nettie King Atwood are all now dead. The property went to the Klebergs, to Richard King III, who got 150,000 acres, to the Atwoods, who got 131,000 (now being operated by the trustees of the estate), and to the Welton heir, who sold out to Bob Kleberg. Richard King III now operates his ranch independently of the King Ranch Corp...