Just half an hour after eating, Ju An was still eating in his rocking chair, and Thomas came over with a few pages.

"Ann, I've made a list of what we're going to buy, come and discuss it with you" Thomas put his cowboy hat on the coffee table, sat down, and handed Juan the paper in his hand.

Ju An looked at it, and it was written that the saddle would be added to a few more pairs, and the water reins would be bought for ten, and the sweat pads would be bought for ten. Then there is how much each of the cattle and sheep should buy.

After looking at it for a few minutes, Juan said to old Thomas: "I don't want to raise cows, mainly beef cattle, and sheep are also mainly meat sheep, and I want to buy quatts for horses, you see."

Thomas thought for a moment and said, "Well, beef cattle here mainly include Angus cattle, Brahman cattle and ground cattle," and then explained the advantages and disadvantages of various cattle. It is recommended to buy more cows with calves or pregnant cows, so that the economic benefits can be generated faster.

Ju An thought about it, "Let's choose Angus cows, just choose as many cows with calves as you say."

"As for horses, in fact, there is no need to be so particular about the ranch for its own use, flower horses, wild horses are also good, the price of quartes is so many hundreds of dollars, and the current market price of each horse is about 4,000 dollars."

"Wait, you said Quart is over four thousand dollars?" Juan looked at Thomas in disbelief.

"yes, what's wrong," Thomas looked at Juan strangely.

"I remember that the quarts that China brought in cost more than 20,000 or 30,000 dollars," Ju An replied.

Thomas said with a smile: "Those quartes are all proven by the pedigree of the descendants of famous horses, recording the awards they have won, in order to sell so much money, the quartes used in the pasture can not be sold for so much money, the winning quartes are very expensive, the year before last in California, an award-winning horse was sold for 600,000 US dollars, every year those famous horses produce dozens of offspring, the proportion of real awards is too small, and recently, China's horse farms like three-year-old ponies, more than 30,000 dollars to buy the past is basically counted as a pony that has not been trained at all." It's too risky".

Ju An thought depressedly that he had been wronged again in this country: "Well, then are we going to go to a special horse farm to buy it?" ”。

Thomas nodded: "The division of labor in animal husbandry here is very fine, there are special horses to raise, there are also cattle raising, and sheep pastures, cattle have to go to the market to choose, sheep do not have to, a few nearby pastures can buy hundreds of sheep, I called at night to ask the nearby pasture if there are sheep to sell, a thousand cattle may have to find a cattle broker, a dozen horses we go directly to the horse farm to buy."

"So be it," Juan nodded.

The two men discussed for a while, and old Thomas took up his hat and took his leave.

Ju An also went upstairs, watched TV, and saw the old man Zhou Gong going.

The next day, Ju'an slept until dawn, and when he finished washing up and went out, he found that Thomas, Wynne and Nancy had already gotten up, and several people were tidying up the warehouse, while the three of them were following behind and shaking their heads and tails.

"Morning," Ju An greeted.

"It's not early, we are still at six o'clock today, and when the cattle and sheep arrive, we will get up at five o'clock every day to work," Thomas said with a smile.

The four of them cleaned up the warehouse and had breakfast.

Thomas arranged for Wynne and Nancy to drive their quad bikes today to inspect the fence for damage, and if so, to repair it, and at noon the nearby ranch would come and deliver the sheep so that they could take care of it. Juan went to the bull market with Thomas, and in the next few days he went to pick up horses at a few horse farms that Thomas had agreed with last night.

Juan and Thomas drove the big trailer and went out.

Listening to the country songs that have not changed for thousands of years, listening to Thomas Sr. introduce some ranch know-how, all the way is easy to write.

When I arrived in the small county town of Lewistown, I came to a harness shop under the leadership of Thomas Sr.

As soon as he entered the door, Ju'an was stunned, good guys, all over the eyes, there are rows of saddles, basically Western cowboy saddles, water reins hung on the wall, and all kinds of cowboy hats, a row of cabinets against the wall are neatly placed at least more than 100 pairs of riding boots, these riding boots, some shoes are carved with patterns, and the color of the upper is also colorful.

The owner, an old man with a white beard to his chest, warmly hugged Thomas and then shook hands with Ju An.

Thomas began to make a big purchase, a piece of water reins, each Thomas looked very carefully, and then the saddle, while picking while explaining to Juan what flaws there are in this pair, where is this good, and also explained to Juan what is the mechanism of the saddle, what is the handmade saddle, under the advice of Thomas, Juan picked a handmade saddle made by the shopkeeper for himself, the brown saddle has a shiny silver buckle, and a horse is carved on the skirt on both sides, Juan likes it very much. The remaining four spare saddles were made of much cheaper machine-made saddles, and the front of each saddle was a thick pile head, which was very different from the western saddle that Ju'an saw, and Thomas told Ju'an that there were many kinds of western saddles, and this kind of large thick stigma was a pasture saddle, which had to be tied with a lasso and must be strong. Every thing Thomas was very careful to choose, and Ju An couldn't help but admire the old cowboy's dedication.

After picking these, he chose two pairs of leather trousers and two pairs of riding boots, one pair of high and one pair of half high. This Ju'an understands that working on the ranch is generally knee-high grass, and I don't know what will be put on a holster storehouse, and riding boots are mainly anti-bite.

After buying a lot of things, the shopkeeper smiled happily, and gave Ju An two cowboy hats and two belt buckles, the big oval buckles are very eye-catching, each of which is about the size of a palm.

With the help of the boss, I put everything in the back seat several times back and forth, and then I got out of Lewistown and drove to the small town of Moore not far away, this time the bull market was in the small town of Moore. Today this town is a fair, next month that town. Every time it's grandpa's turn in this town, there are a lot of people, what candy people, and those who sell rice candy are like festivals.

About half an hour's drive, the car arrived at the trading market in the town of Moore, the market is on the edge of the town, just close to the town, I found a lot of trailers, and even a lot of big trucks, just like the kind of Optimus Prime in the movie, walked to a large open space full of cars, found a spare Thomas to stop the car and said.

Ju An jumped out of the car and looked at it, saying that the market was a big open space, many cars were driving cattle down, the open space was fenced into many small pieces, there were cows and horses neighing everywhere, and there were many cowboys chatting in groups.

Ju An followed Thomas to a large shed with two gates, only to find that the two sides of the shed were a bit like the stands of the stadium, and there were many people on it.

There is a group of cows in the middle, and a person is holding a microphone and introducing how much the cattle weigh, what breed, how old they are.

Thomas walked up to the stands with Juan and sat down on two empty seats.

Only then did I find out that the middle was a large scale, and there was a display screen on both sides of the stands, which showed the weight of these cows.

After seeing a few batches of cattle, I saw two black cows rushing over at a gate, and the cows looked very robust, and their black fur was as beautiful as a joke.

As soon as he rushed in, Ju An found that the scale showed 1765, these numbers. Juan understood that the two cows weighed 1,760 pounds. Then listen to the host's introduction, these are two Angus breeding cattle, and then quoted the price, then Juan found that old Thomas raised his hand, the host looked around, and no one increased the price and announced the deal.

I had just bought these two cows, when an old cowboy came over and sat down next to Thomas and said, "Thomas, I haven't seen you appear in the bull market for a long time, what are you busy with now".

Thomas smiled and shook his hand and then introduced: "This is my boss, Ann, come and pick some cattle today, how old Mike, I haven't seen you for more than a year, you are still so energetic, do you have any recommendations?"

Mike shook hands with Ju An: "The grass has risen by a few cents two days ago, not many people are selling cattle, and there is a drought in Texas, and many pastures will not be better this year, the grass has risen, but the beef and mutton have basically not moved." These bastards on Wall Street".

"My boss is going to buy some Angus cattle, and I guess it's a bit worse here, so I'll ask you for help," Thomas said.

"Oh, old Thomas, thank you so much, and thank you, Mr. Ann," Mike immediately smiled.

Thomas and Mike talked about the breed of cow, how big the cow was, and the calf, and what the requirements were, and Mike left for a while, and then after a while, Mike came back and talked to Thomas.

Next, Thomas picked a few more breeding cows, as well as a few herds of cows with calves, and it took more than three hours for Thomas and Juan to buy more than 300 heads, which is far from the number of 1,000 heads.