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CATTLEMAN CERTIFICATION
All professions have a test, or some way to verify you've fulfilled professional requirements to prove you qualify.
	A trucker's got a CDL to handle eighteen wheels. A druggist has a framed degree to prove he knows his pills.
	A lawyer has to pass the Bar to take his client's dough. A weatherman is certified in predicting rain and snow.
	But cowmen don't have a test that's written down or filed. They've never seen their final score, or points that's been compiled.
If you've ever spliced a bailer chain with rain clouds to the west, or pulled a calf at 10 below, you've took the cowman test.
Or watched your kid win first place with the old cow's orphan calf, or paid your note off free and clear, 'cause you cut expense in half.
Have you ever blown a trailer tire with three tons of hay on board, or bought that pickup any way--the one you couldn't afford?
If you're still in business, Friend, and managed to survive, you've paid your dues and passed the test.  Now you're a COWMAN--CERTIFIED.