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On ranches, border collie puppies are taken from the litter and tested for their instinctual desire to herd sheep.
A Friar Dominguez is quoted by Adrian H. Bustamente in Santa Fe--History of an Ancient City as describing the villa in 1776, the year of American independence from British rule, as consisting of “many small ranches at various distances from one another, with no plan as to their location, for each owner built as he was able, wished to, or found convenient, now for the little farms they have there, now for small herds of clattle which they keep in corrals of stakes, or else for other reasons.”
These Christmas Masses, as they were called, were celebrated in the convents and churches, but eventually were moved to the haciendas, farms, and ranches, and finally to the neighborhoods.
In fact, on many, if not most, American ranches nowadays all of these operations are performed in chutes rather than by roping calves from horseback and flanking and hogtying them.
What on most ranches in the Southwest is called a ketch (catch) rope is a reata in Mexican Spanish.