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SPECIAL LIVESTOCK EDITION Crook Goiaety Journal Portland Ucicn Stockyards SECTION TWO COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE VOL XXI PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 12, 1917 NO. 33 The New Livestock Exchange, North Portland The building shown below Is the finest Livestock Exchange went of St. Pun I Mild Denver and In as good any In tha nation devoted to this purpose. H Ik three story structure, 80x 1 90 font Mint In of brick and terra coila, steam heated and modern In very particular. The floors are tiled, and tho flnlab is very huIihIhiiIIhI. The building ti situated well, not too far from the stockyards them selves, yet fur enough to Insure spacious grounda which are now be ing planted and Improved. The building la the home of the Portland Union Stockyards Com pany, the Portland Cattle Loan cohipany, the Livestock Btate Hank, the Portland Feeder Company, the Columbia Company, Oaslu Wool Warehouse' a representative of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Kaisers Ahhoi IuLIoii , a H'Tiltil company, the North went Sheep Company, the Pro ducer Traffic Bureau, a Joint rail way agency which la In a position to do , business for all railroads, a Western Union Telegraph office, a second class postotflce which paya $2,100.00 annual salary to Ita post master, a U. S. Government meat Inspector, a barber shop and pool hall, buyers for the Union Mtat Company In sheep, cattle and hog divisions, buyers for Carstlne's Packing Company and other non resident dealers, a large convention hall and the following bonded com mission firms: Benson Livestock Commission Co., Bruce Company, Dairy Cows; Burke Livestock Commission Company; Farmers Commission Company; Hunt Commission Company, Live stock Commission Merchants; O. D. Jones, Livestock Commission Mer chant; Kldwell it Caswell Livestock Commlsalon Co.; Lacey Commis sion Co.; Sevier Commission Co.; BoDine & Clark Commission Co.; Western Commission Co.; Willard Commission Company. The Union Meat Company has its own ' building nearby which la also near its plant. The new building was made nec essary by the rapid growth of busi ness at the yards, and the resultant expansion of practically all the Arms occupying quarters there. It will make possible the com fortable handling of a great volume of business, which it will of course have, and in which the Prineville country will in the future as in the past, play an Important part. The new building is not the only improvement that has been made at the yards during the past year. Increased side tracks, unloading docks on the water front, a new scale house, new stock pens and many like improvements have been made. . A large addition has been made to the Union Meat Company plant, six stories in height, besides a seven story cooler building and many other improvements. . !jl Ui HUm , -Jan.. ' ' '' AK A uv in fin) Ur- it ' it 1 ! i J; nTl rTril LA 1 - I I .. ' -AWiin - L ' i ! i !! i rnki! ii in nn mS-- i r 'ir, ,-, Utv??sj-1 . A- s- . iL M -mm jh" rrr 9 'c c a 4- y 0D 11 jP J y, ; ; imM ) ; 1sfrrk vDwisavHiiiThonpio Accbitkx- 1 THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES LIVESTOCK TO BE ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES For the upon the purpose of Impressing minds of those who are engaged in the industry that the business of producing the maximum amount of meat animals In the shortest possible time la one of the most Important in the cause of hu manity today, we reproduce here, extracts from a message that Is be ing sent broadcast by the United States Department of Agriculture to the men engaged in the stock in dustry everywhere: "Don't sell your breeding animals unless you can replace them imme diately with better ones. Don't let the temptation of high prices now being offered for live stock or undue fear of the prices asked for many popular feeds mislead you Into sell ing a cow or sow that will drop the golden calf or litters. Such near sighted profit taking or lack of cour age, If widespread, would strike at the foundation of the country's live stock industry and cripple it for years to come. As there is a short age of meat animals throughout the world, we cannot hope to import new breeding stock to replace those we foolishly have killed oft. Our to Oregon Cattle and Horse Raiser's Association at a Meeting Held in Prinevillle in 1915 uiiinoe own breeding animals, therefore, must be regarded as the seed essen tial to the domestic meat supply of the nation. "Feeds not available or needed for human consumption should be used as largely as possible In feed ing live stock. By feeding straw or corn stover, especially for wintering mature stockers and breeding ani mals, farmers will make the best possible use of these roughages. In thia way a large proportion of the straw and .stover ordinarily burned or wasted can be manufactured Into meat and milk. Grain sorghums, wherever they are available, should be fed to release corn for human uses. Grain, where fed, should be used as economically as possible. "Every animal should be a factory for turning into food matorial ined ible for. human beings. This will necessitate changes in many feeding formulas and stockmen are urged to apply at once to the U. S, Depart ment at Agriculture or their state agricultural colleges for information as to the most effective and econom ical methods of feeding live stock under existing emergency condi tions." 1 ,- -p.-T' --. J.J ft .: j? i yx. -i ' tf ' r - - J .,; , ..... i . - V7 V- II ilHIII!ll!!l!l!l!ll!!IIUI!IIIIIII!!!!l!li!lll!l!llll!!!l!lli;iiliil!IV a s- m t 1 it 1! 1 j rsi