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VISITUSONLINE FOR MORE INFORMATION Sendus your rants & raves TheWillardCompany store, groceries and gen- eral merchandise, that closed after 55 years, as mentioned in the June 6, 1915 newspaper was no re- lation to our branch of the Willard family. My mother and father were interested in genealogy and Harry Willard was not related to Charles Willard and his descendants. SaltCreekflood My father and uncle did not have enough lambs to sell after they had 900 sheep drown in the flash flood on Salt Creek, May 5th. I wrote about the flood in last week's Red Bluff Daily News. May 18, 1926, the head- line read: Red Bluff Dis- trict Sold Out of Lambs to Eastern Market. "Lambs in Red Bluff dis- trict are virtually 100 per cent sold for deliver in eastern markets in the pe- riod from about July 1 to August 15, it was stated to- day by D.J. Metzger, local livestock buyer, who has so far the present season con- tracted for approximately 50,000 lambs. Owners of the lambs and the number they have sold to Metzger are: "Number Owners Sold "Mrs. Bertha Shults, 6500; Cone Ward com- pany, 5,500; Cone ranch, 5,500; W.H. Conard, 1,200; Alfred Kuhn, 2,000; An- drew Johnson, 900; W.J. Lynch, 300; McKenzie and Stover, 1,300; Greiner and Levy, 500; Harold Hayes, 900; J.H. Davis, 600; E.L. Carpenter, 350; George Williams, 1,000. "Grant B. Wilcox, 4,200; A.O. Smith, 450; Jesse Huf- fard, 450; E. L. Zumwalt, 750; Oilar Bros; 900; Wal- ter Huffard, 300; G. A. Williams, 300; A. A. Wil- liams, 400; Frank Hen- riques, 400; Claude R. Brown, 1,100; John Vogt, 1,100. "E.W. Saunders, 1,100; Antone Avilla, 3,000; Lee Emigh, 4,000; C.L. Mar- tin, 800; John S. Hencratt, 450; C.A. and E.M. Huf- ford, 850; G.L. Copper, 700; A.S. Walton, 250; J.G. Davis, 500; L.M. Schults, 900; J.R. Paulo, 1,550. "Sheep Worth $ 500,000 "With the old sheep for which he has con- tracted, Metzger has pur- chased about half a mil- lion dollars worth of ewes and lambs to this time of the present year. He has shipped 100 carloads, or virtually two trains of lambs to Chicago market. "Metzger will ship 10,000 lambs to feed lots in Indiana tomorrow. Of these 1,200 were from the flocks of T.H. Ramsey and W. H. Conard. The "tops" of these lambs were shipped to Chicago last week and were on the market today. "Lambs in Red Bluff dis- trict were never so com- pletely sold out as at the present time, Metzger added." Stereotypes By Lee Pitts, published in November 2002, The Nevada Rancher. "Just because a chicken wears wings doesn't mean it can soar like an eagle and calling a judge or pol- itician "honorable sir" doesn't necessarily mean they're trustworthy. "The best breeder of purebred cattle I know looks more like a profes- sor than a cowboy, but he knows more about cat- tle than a rabbit knows about runnin'. Bill has more books in his house than our local library and he understands what's in most of them too. He's also quite civilized for a man who has spent most of his life in the company of cows. "He can discuss the op- era with socialites, dove- tail joints with a crafts- man or pedigrees with a cattleman. A friend of mine once said that "Bill has more brains than a sheepdog." In the crowd I run with that's high praise indeed. "I've never seen Bill wear a cowboy hat, al- though I'm told he does own one. I'm quite sure he doesn't own a horse, pre- ferring instead to ride the range on a four wheeler. Bill's a unique guy, honest as the day is long and bru- tally frank. If he tells you that you're full of bologna you'd better start making sandwiches. "In the midst of a bunch of Nevada buckaroos or Texas cowboys Bill would look out of place, as a camel in the Klondike, which just proves you can't always tell by lookin'. "And just because a per- son wears flip-flops on his feet instead of boots doesn't mean he can't be a cowboy. Although I think it would complicate wear- ing spurs. "I went to college with a fellow that would one day go on to win the World All Around Cowboy title five times. By the time Tom was old enough to vote he'd won enough buckles and belts to hold up the pants of our entire gradu- ating class. "But Tom was such a modest fellow I don't think I ever saw him wearing one of the many buckles he'd won. In fact, I hardly ever saw him wear a belt. He wore a few of the trap- pings of the sport he con- quered, as if they were a sign of a misspent youth or something. "If Tom was in a po- lice lineup and you were told to pick out the cow- boy you'd probably point to a truck driver, plumber or rural banker before you fingered Tom. When he walked down the hall of the agriculture build- ing you'd have thought he was lost. He would have looked more at home in a gymnasium of a semi- nary. "It's also been my ex- perience that cowboys named Kim are about as rare as clean socks in a bunkhouse. Rowdy or Ace sounds more like it. But one of the prettiest cow herds I ever saw belonged to a friend named Charles, who goes by Kim for short. "I've never seen Kim wear a cowboy hat either and I'm told that he rides a flat saddle, like they do in England and Australia, proving that he's no dally (team roping) man. "Kim recently showed up at Cheryl's bull sale wearing flip-flops on his sun-tanned feet, saying he forgot his boots at home. But I saw him three days later at another sale still wearing the same old flip- flops, which leads me to believe they are his pre- ferred footwear. I'd think that going semi-barefoot all the time would leave a person vulnerable to heel flies and walking in a corral could get a little squishy. "Kim told us of the time he went to a big city (something else a cowboy wouldn't do voluntarily) where he proceeded to paint his town red at a local watering hole. (And that's definitely some- thing a cowboy would do.) "Kim woke up the next morning and could not re- member where he parked his car, so he did what any intelligent person would do: he called the police station and reported the car missing. He figured they'd find it for him. "After the fog lifted later that day, Kim remembered where he left his car, re- trieved it and left town. Soon after he was spread over the hood of the cop's cruiser suspected of auto theft. The whole thing was quickly sorted out though because Kim really didn't fit the profile of a car hi- jacker." JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON No relation to Willard Company store COURTESYPHOTO Bill Borror, of Tehama Angus Ranch, with his great- grandson Clayton William Borror, born May 14. DAVIS Bossy's Cookies, a newborn pony and paint cross filly, was brought to the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at 10 days old for a progres- sive neurological disorder. Following three days of normal activity since birth, she was down for pro- longed periods in her stall, staggering around, and un- able to rise on her own. Her owners initially suspected a neck injury, as she was not able to raise her head or neck, and seemed to have abnormal range of motion through her cervi- cal spine. If assisted, she could stand and was able to nurse if her head was supported in the proper position, but could not lift her head to reach the udder on her own, as it dropped instantly if support was removed. Ini- tially when she went down, her attitude seemed positive and responsive, but Bossy's Cookies became quieter and weaker as days progressed. She was not standing as long or walking as well, and spent most of her time in lateral recumbency. Bossy's Cookies was ex- amined by her veterinar- ian near her home in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Ra- diographs showed no dam- age to her spine or frac- tures of any kind. Eutha- nasia was considered, but her owners weren't quite ready to give up. They heard about the equine experts at UC Davis, so they loaded up Bossy's Cookies and her mare and drove the nearly 400 miles to Davis for one last effort to save her life. In route, they stopped ev- ery two hours to let the filly nurse from her dam. Once at UC Davis, Bossy's Cookies was examined by the Large Animal Clinic's Equine Surgical Emergency and Critical Care Service, as well as the Equine Med- icine Service. Dr. Gary Mag- desian, an expert in neo- natology and critical care thought that she had signs of a neuromuscular disease, especially botulism. He con- ferred with Bossy's Cook- ies veterinarian back home and decided it was worth a chance of testing for botu- lism, which is potentially treatable. Because time is of the essence with botulism, treatment for it began im- mediately. Botulism can be a fatal illness caused by a toxin produced by bacteria. In horses, botulism can oc- cur three different ways: 1) toxico-infectious botu- lism, where young foals eat spores from the environ- ment which proliferate in- side their gut, allowing the organism to produce toxins; 2) by eating toxin that's al- ready been made in spoiled feed or water, generally caused by anaerobic con- ditions in the feed or the presence of dead animals in the feed; 3) wound botu- lism, where a bacterial or- ganism proliferates in a ne- crotic wound. Electrophysiology test- ing conducted by VMTH research associate Dr. Co- lette Williams and clini- cian Dr. Monica Aleman was compatible with botu- lism, and PCR testing con- firmed that Bossy's Cookies was positive for Type A bot- ulism, which relaxes the en- tire muscular system by in- hibiting nerve transmission to the muscles. Type A bot- ulism tends to be the most severe form. When treated properly, Type A botulism patients can make a full re- covery, but that can take several weeks. 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