Ye Luo knew very well that his ranch still had a lot of room for growth, and the small number of livestock was due to a lack of manpower, and he didn't want to spend too much energy on management, so he had to let it go with the flow.

However, now he has decided to get the ranch on the right track while the fishery is still busy and the farm is under construction.

You must know that all the facilities of the ranch have been perfected for a long time, and the only thing missing is manpower.

He believes that with enough manpower, the ranch will be on track much sooner than he expected.

"Hmmm......"

Rock Hudson pondered for a moment and then spoke: "If the size of the ranch is measured according to the various levels of pasture land here on Dortgren Island, then I think the ranch on your island is almost catching up with the large ranch, even if it is not much worse. ”

"If you're hiring people on the size of a large farm, to be honest, I don't really know much about that, and every farm is different, and I can't give you a specific number. ”

"You see the same thing as mine. ”

Ye Luo nodded and said with a wry smile: "It's the question of how many people to recruit, which really gives me a headache." ”

"Hehe, you don't know, but I do!"

Sindra drank the whiskey and said proudly: "Generally, small ranches need three to five cowboys, while medium-sized ones need about five to ten, and the number of large ranches is not fixed, some are dozens, some are thirty or forty, and as for the super-large ones, the average cowboy is at least a hundred." ”

"So many?" Ye Luo said a little dumbfounded.

Sindra shook her head and said: "Actually, there are not many people like this, you may think that there are too many cowboys, there is no need to recruit so many people, if you think so, then you must be a layman." ”

"You're right, I'm a layman. Ye Luo didn't have any idea of justification, and readily admitted it.

"In fact, the ranch recruits cowboys and has little to do with the size of the land, no, it can't be said that it doesn't matter at all, we all know that the bigger the land on the ranch, the more cattle and sheep are raised. ”

Sindra glanced at Ye Luo quite unexpectedly, and then took the initiative to explain: "The more cowboys and sheep need naturally, the more cowboys are needed, after all, the place that a person can take care of is so big, sometimes you just take care of the front, and the back side is messy, so you need a lot of cowboys to be responsible for it." ”

"Makes sense. Ye Luo nodded, and subconsciously asked, "Then how many do you suggest to recruit?"

Instead of answering immediately, Sindra asked rhetorically, "That depends on how many sheep and cattle you plan to raise." ”

"What do you mean by this?" Ye Luo frowned.

Sindra glanced at Ye Luo, and said helplessly: "Pasture does not mean that the more cattle and sheep you raise, the better, but you need to have enough grass, for example, the grass in your pasture is very large, but you can't fill all the grass with cattle and sheep, because then you don't have enough open space for cattle and sheep to move, so basically all pastures will leave enough open space for cattle and sheep to move." ”

"I think I might know what you mean. ”

Ye Luo suddenly realized: "If I guessed correctly, the number of people recruited by the ranch is actually calculated according to the scale of breeding?"

Judging from the current situation on the island, it is impossible for him to raise too many cattle and sheep in a short period of time, and even if he has this idea, the problem of insufficient manpower alone will make him dare not give birth to such an idea.

"That's right,

It's not too accurate, but that's pretty much it. Sindra nodded with a 'teachable' expression.

"Although there is a shortage of manpower on the island right now, the manpower problem will be solved soon, and the scale of farming will definitely be expanded. ”

Ye Luo deliberately pretended not to see the expression on Sindra's face, and muttered, "Can you tell me how many cows a cowboy can be responsible for under normal circumstances?"

In fact, Ye Luo knows very well in his heart that what the ranch really lacks now is manpower, but he believes that if nothing else, the manpower aspect can be solved after a while, as long as Lin Kai negotiates and signs contracts with those companies responsible for labor export in China, the problem of manpower will no longer be his problem.

"I can't give you an exact answer to this. ”

Sindra thought for a while, shook her head and said, "I don't know about the others, but if it's me, it shouldn't be a problem to be in charge of one or two thousand heads, but it will be a little more tiring, and the normal situation is that no one will want to be in charge of such a large herd, once the herd has a riot, we will become very dangerous." ”

Hearing Sindra's words, Ye Luo was no longer entangled, and said arrogantly: "If you want to recruit, you can recruit a few more at a time, but I have no plans to expand the scale of breeding in the short term, and when I expand the scale in the future, I will come and recruit again." ”

Sindra took a sip of whiskey: "You are the boss, you have the final say, there are a lot of cowboys here, it can definitely meet your needs, let Mr. Rock Hudson introduce it to you, I won't mix it." ”

"Hehe, no problem, leave it to me, I'll go find someone. Rockhudson agreed, and then left to find someone.

After a while, Rock Hudson came over with a few big men and introduced to Ye Luo: "This is Joseph, and the one next to him is very similar to his younger brother Nelf, both of them are good cowboys, they have just returned from Victoria, they are top students, and they are still masters from the University of Melbourne! And this is Pete, who has a lot of experience and has won the second place in the statewide cowboy competition, which is not a big star. The other three are Walton, Breg, and Martin, all of whom are seasoned old cowboys. ”

After Rockhudson's introduction, Uncle Pet proudly tapped his beard and said boastfully: "Don't mention those old things, you took it out decades ago, really." ”

Having said that, he clearly said on his face to praise me again, praise me again!

Ye Luo still believed in the person Rock Hudson had found, but his eyes wandered back and forth between Joseph and the five or six big men and Sindra, and his eyes were somewhat intriguing.

With so many people gathered around, the people around also looked at each other, Sindra saw the faint doubt in Ye Luo's eyes, and she clapped her hands resolutely: "Look at you like that you don't seem to believe in my ability, go, I'll go out and show you a hand now, I want you to know that we cowgirls are no worse than you men!"

In Dortgren Island, with the rapid development of agriculture and animal husbandry, many young men choose to work in agriculture and animal husbandry, because of the high income, gradually began to attract a large number of young women to participate in the work of farms or ranches, and at the same time, because the salary is higher than that of ordinary white-collar workers, it has also attracted many women from other cities to give up their urban jobs to work in Dortgren Island.

Walking out of the bar, Sindra got on her horse and came to a ranch not far away, and she said to a person watching the excitement next to her, "Aunt Selene, can I borrow your calf for a show?"

Aunt Selene, who was stout and fat, carried a basket and said without any thoughts: "No problem, show them, the female knight is still mighty, etc."

Remember to ask my aunt for cookies later, they just came out!"

When Sindra said yes, she rode her horse and came over the dust.

She wears a cowboy hat with a rolled edge, leather trousers with tassels, and a leather gun holster around her waist, only the long curly hair fluttering in the wind, and the gorgeous square scarf jumping around her neck, can vaguely make people distinguish her daughter's body, riding on a galloping horse, throwing a rope noose quickly and accurately, and firmly lassing a calf that is rushing out of the slaughter!

Sindra's sturdy posture and precise movements drew cheers from the cowboys around her.

Women don't let the eyebrows go!

Ye Luo's gaze has also been locked on her, and he has not moved away, except for surprise, it is admiration.

What is Cowboy?

It has been said that adventure, independence, unruliness, intoxication, the habit of relying on oneself without boasting, speaking by action rather than words, walking into a wilderness, with long grass and wind, and uninhibited loneliness.

It is also said that the real cowboy is a ranger on the prairie.

Chivalry, of course, is chivalrous and brave, and the ancient road is west wind and thin horse.

In many western movies, cowboys are a symbol of harmony between human beings and nature, about the meaning of survival, struggle, and freedom, such cowboys are the soul of the grassland and the desert!

Sindra's performance is no worse than the cowboy in the movie, she rides on the back of the horse heroically, drives the brown horse to Ye Luo, and then rolls over, the movements are skillful and simple, full of strange beauty.

"How is it? Do you think I can work on your ranch now?" Gently raising her smooth chin, Sindra looked at Ye Luo with a smile, expecting his reaction.

"Of course, you have been hired now, and if you don't work for three years, the liquidated damages are very high. ”

Ye Luo nodded without hesitation, and asked with some curiosity: "By the way, I am in charge of the horse that you are, or do you bring it over yourself?"

As soon as this remark came out.

Sindra, Rockhudson, and Joseph suddenly had strange looks on their faces.

The atmosphere became a little awkward for a while.

Ye Luo saw the strange expressions on the faces of Sindra's group, and immediately realized that he might have asked a very stupid question, and his eyes began to become a little erratic for a while.

"I don't need them to answer this, I can tell you. ”

Rockhudson knew that Ye Luo was a layman, and said with a smile: "Generally speaking, the horses that cowboys ride are arranged by the ranch, and of course it is not excluded that some cowboys will bring their beloved horses. ”

"A cowboy with his own horse?"

Ye Luo frowned slightly: "In this way, if their wages are the same as those of cowboys without horses, won't they suffer a loss?"

"I said, man, you really need to know a little bit about this. ”

Rock Hudson cried and laughed: "The salary of a cowboy with a horse is not the same as that of a cowboy without a horse, and normally the salary of a cowboy with a horse is about a third higher than that of a cowboy without a horse." ”

"I see......"

Ye Luo was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted and asked Sindra and the others, "What about you, are you going alone, or are you going with people and horses?"

After Sindra and Joseph glanced at each other, they took the initiative to stand up and said: "We don't make much money in the first place, where is there so much money to buy horses, basically the horses we usually ride are the responsibility of the ranch. ”