The advertisement claimed there’d be less stress upon the cow. Clarence realized a need to purchase one right now. The electric branding iron had a shiny three-prong plug. Clarence made it two prong ...

To the untrained eye, cattle brands, those unique markings seared into animals’ hides with a hot iron, might just seem like idiosyncratic logos or trademarks designed to clearly and simply indicate ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of the West’s most enduring symbols is fading like a red-hot branding iron cools to ashen gray. With concerns over disease and global trade trumping tradition, federal ...