rwSPAY, APRIL 11, 1946
BROQKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON
ransportation Is
ictor Ruling
;velopment
'rops Of Area Are
.argely Determined
}y Transit Angle
limâtes, a fixed factor, and
gportation, a flexible one, de-
ine the type of agriculture a
ide ion can pursue.
the early days, local farm
swappable for other com
ities were limited by their
iptability to stand transit to
rket and were necessarily lim-
to butter, wool, cheese and
les. These were moved to the
amers at Crescent C i t y by
ms and wagons which were
nde timed, laden with merchandise
the ranchers.
jnprovements in travel—roads
dges, motor vehicles—increas-
the ranchers’ scope to allow
M disposing of fat lambs, mutton
irea ck. hogs, and beef, and milk
tie; commodities still ranking
y high in farm dollars as well
*ai enhancing his outlet for other,
ing aller items. Even the “take”
icit m tons and tons of cascara
tea *k. stripped from a tree-like
•ub, found on many ranches,
; been increased by its adapt a-
ty to transit conditions,
it the present time probably
most dollars come to the
ichers from sheep. Sheep have
n raised here since about 1860,
jarently being the first cash-
xlucing animals in the area,
arly settlers, of ç o u r s e ,
Might milk and draft stock but
7 i not then the facilities for dis
using of their products and the
rses were being brought up
>m California by the Indians
d Spanish and sold, outright, to
ranchers and miners. Their
ute, incidentally, was up the
ig valleys of California, over
Siskiyous to Happy Camp, and
)m there distributed along the
1st from Humboldt county (Cal-
mial to Douglas County, Ore.
Today, flocks of sheep down
ed from 5000 head, range in
uthern Curry county. Owing to
comparatively high moisture
e breeds are usually crosses
termined by such fleece char
ter as is impervious to mould
d sloughing of the fleeces, best
town to the trade as “quarters”
f| d which are much in demand
specialized wool use—the mak-
g of the enormous felts used
paper-making machinery.
The clip is mostly disposed of
r ugh a w’ool pool and brings,
uall>’- the highest price in the
ern wool trade. An adjunct
■e flocks is the highly lucra-
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tive market for fat lambs which
Immediately adjacent to t h e
are, each year, eagerly awaited coast, com, tomatoes, and such the V. F. W. over 20 members of employed, and will join Ernest
by the San Francisco stockyards. crops do not do any where near as the post enjoyed a coffee and Foster at the former Will Tol-
Here again, climate plays a prom w'ell as a couple of miles up the pumpkin pie feed, the latter drap man place on Mislatnah Creek,
inent part in the dollar trails river valleys, and still further ed with whipped cream, following in the Upper Chetco country.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Streubing
from the market back to the up melons and sweet potatoes will their business meeting. Two m at
ters were acted upon during the and H. T. James drove to Grants
ranchers. Because of it C u r r y yield well.
session. The post decided to press Pass Tuesday where Mrs. Streu
County ranchers are blessed with
Much closer tc the coast, root for federal w’ork on the river en bing took the train to go east.
prime lambs just after the Cali and green crops thrive in the
fornia lambs are cleaned up and frost-free areas and the yields, trance through resolutions to be Mr. Streubing and Mr. James re
before the up-coast lambs are even on a small plot, are often signed by both the post and aux turned home the same day.
ready for market. Transportation startling. Potatoes planted in Jan iliary, and forward these docu Mr. and M r s. W alter Essley
in this deal also shows promin uary will turn out good crops in ments to the congressional repre (Evelyn Payne) have moved from
ently, the lambs being laid down early summer, and before them sentatives at Washington, D. C. Harbor to their house, north of
in San Francisco, via speedy stock many "volunteers” will come in In reply to a letter from the Gold Brookings.
Beach chamber of commerce sug
trucks over good highways usually mighty handy. Green crops put gesting
that a county-w’ide com Rev. 0. C. Hicks, pastor of the
around 36 hours after they have out about the first of October
Smith River Methodist church,
been loaded from the range. And, will mature in late winter. New mittee take action on an adequate was a brief business caller at
folowing the lambs, cull ewes are Zealand spinach seems to be a county memorial to those resi Brookings, Tuesday.
dents of Curry county who served
shipped out to the market.
frequent perennial. There is a in World War 2, M. S. Brainard
Ranchers from all o v e r can ready local market for all the w’as named to represent the post
hardly believe their eyes and ears edible vegetables one can pro at a county-wide veterans com
when they learn that ranch live duce. It is an ideal garlic coun mittee, the meeting scheduled to
stock can here be brought to try, a crop also well adapted to be held at Gold Beach May I.
market in prime condition, let local transportation facilities.
Charles Sackett, former Jacks
alone carried through the winter,
All soil in the area has a ten Creek resident, returned here for
without feeding.
dency toward the acid side so a visit after spending the winter
Most ranges, throughout the the use of both lime and addi with his brother at Delevan, Cal.
year, carry livestock very nicely tional humus in the form of al
Little Miss Marilyn Gardner,
without any other food than na falfa meal, ground sheep manure,
daughter
of Mr and Mrs. Harold
tive grasses and brousing brush. etc., brings better returns. Irri
This is a tremendous advantage gation during the dry summer Gardner, is under the doctor’s
care, suffering from a case of
over such herdsmen who have, months certainly helps.
bronchial pneumonia.
not only to buy feed, but to have
Berries and fruits do well—all
to change ranges. Here, many suc the kinds adaptable to the tem Mrs. Milton Foster returned
cessful stock and sheepmen never perate zone. Ilowever, tree and recently from Seattle where she
have to tend their animals ex cane fruits should be dosed with spent several weeks w i t h her
cepting at marketing and shearing appropriate sprays to get best re son-in-law’ and daughter, Mr. and
time and many a fine beef animal sults. There is a good local mar Mrs. Kenneth Bailey, and their
is rarely seen by its owner be ket for all of these food products. new’ son, Robert Floyd.
tween rounding-up late in sum The best obtainable data on
Emery Wallace has come down
It would say “Why not fix
mer and putting out on range general ranch and farming as from Reedsport w’here he was
t h o s e stringy e n d s and
again in early fall. Of course, practiced in the area can be had,
hard-to-set hair with a new
more care brings commensurate of course, from the operator him
returns. Range lambing is the self, especially if you talk his
A M O N
common practice but herdsmen language. Next best and possibly
perm anent?” You will be
who give more attention to their more to your liking can be had
thrilled with your new halo
and Dependents
“critters” at this time are re from county agricultural agent
of soft baby curls and wav
To United Veterans you
warded.
at Gold Beach, and still another
es! Make an appointment
owe all your past, pres
Poultry of all kinds do well source is the state department of
this week.
ent and f u t u r e service
but cannot compete well with agriculture at Salem.
benefits. Join and w ork
other more adaptable areas where
Frankly, within the district un
w ith some vetera n s’ group.
feed is cheaper and transporta der discussion, there is very lit
tion less restricting. The same tle ranch property available for
V. F. W. & Auxiliary
may also be said of rabbits.
operation as such. The ideal, pos
Meets I. O. O. F. Hall
at Brookings, at 8 p. m.
Closed Sundays anti Mondya
Some years ago milk goats were sibly, is a place adjacent to the
1st and 3rd Wednesdays
tried but it was said they suf Siskiyou Forest where consider
fered from some shrub they afc? able range may be had at a nom
on the ranges, and died off. How inal cost per head. There are a
ever, a very successful goat milk number of ranches of considerable
c h e e s e factory' enterprise was merit who have adapted some of
their holdings to the growing of
operated. Angoras also do well.
Owing to restricted suitable floral products thus bringing the
areas, grains are not very heav value of their places in sharp con
AND
ily grown. Here and there are trasts. The yield gained from one
acre
of
bottom
land
in
this
type
splendid bottoms which yield of agriculture is often in excess
heavy crops, all of which are con-
the yield from hundreds of
s u m e d locally—usually on the of
acres of range land. Should an
OREGON
BROOKINGS
farm where produced.
owner contemplate selling he cer
Where the area shines is in the tainly would not be inclined to
production of garden truck. Ev transfer his high-yielding acres
erything, within reason, flourish and be left holding those side
es with little care and yields so hills of brush, suitable only for
abundantly. A large variety of range.
garden crops is to be had the
In our next spasm of this series
year around, with exception of we shall discuss the floral cul
such crops as require long per ture where, more emphatically
iods of hot w’eather. Again, cli than in this brief treatise, the
mate is the controlling factor.
two governing factors, climate and
transportation play the most vi
tal hand in our unique, highly
specialized agriculture.
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Local News Items
All veterans of the recent war
should investigate their status in
regards to registration for voting
before the closure of the poll
books on April 16.
Mrs. Frank Sullivan is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Dutch Steinke,
at Reedsport, while being treated
for a throat disorder at Coos
Bay. Mrs. Sullivan went north
last Wednesday.
Lawrence Pinson, local man
ager of the Brookside Azalea and
Bulb farm, is on a business trip
east to Minneapolis. The Brook
side ranch is a branch of the
Hans Rosacker Co., of Minneap-
! olis. Besides the large local estab
lishment where fully a quarter
million azaleas are under culti
vation. as w’ell as sizeable lily
and daffodil plantings, the Ros
acker Co. has eight acres under
glass at Minneapolis.
C otton picking juniors will pick
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