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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1901)
20 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL'S ANNUAL NUMBER. Prineville to Silver Lake, 102 miles, two round trips. Prineville to Mitchell, 55 miles, three round trips. Total number offices served on these routes, 26. Total mileage routes terminating at Prineville, 496. Prineville was raised to a third-class of fice July 1, 1900, with a salary of $1,200, and clerk hire. ALLEN & LAFOLLETT. Breeders of Merino Sheep. The home ranch of the above firm is on McKay Creek, ten miles north of Prine ville. They sell several hundred rams aa nually, mostly to sheepmen of this and adjoining counties. For the 1901 season they will have 800 rams for sale. They are trying to breed a large, hardy, up-to-date sheep, shearing a good fleece of light shrinkage, fine wool. This business was commence! by the purchase of 400 pure-bred Spanish Merino ewes by B. F. Allen, from California par ties, in 1883. Mr. Allen bred to Spanish Merino rams from Khkpatrick, Bullard and others, until the fr.ll of 1892, at which time he purchased five Dickenson Delaine rams of H. G. McDowell, of Canton, Ohio. This purchase was followed the next fali by another of five polled Dickenson Delaine rams of Mr. McDowell. In June, 1896, Mr. Allen sold a half inter est in the business to his son-in-law, T. H. Lafollett, and it was continued under the firm name of Allen & Lafollett. In the fall of 1896 they bought five Rambouillet rams of Thos. Wycoff, of Or chard Lake, Mich., and two more rams of him in 1897. In 1897 they bought four Standard Delaine rams of A. T. Gamber, of Wakeman, Ohio. In the fall of 1898 six more Standard Delaine rams from Gam ber and three Rambouillet rams from O. E. Lincoln & Son, of Milford Center, Ohio, were secured. During the fall of 1900 five National Delaine rams were bought of Alexander Turnbull & Son, of Cedarville,. Ohio. Wishing to get acquainted with some of the leading breeders, see their flocks and make personal selections, Mr. Lafollett went East last August. He visited several states, and purchased six large Glide Ram bouillet rams of Joseph F. Wright, at Nephi, Utah, seven Standard Delaine rams and six yearling ewes of A. T. Gamber, of Weston, Mich., and twenty Improved Delaine ewes of G. D. Newcomer & Son, of Wauseon, Ohio. pasture lands and return more money for a given amount of feed and care than other stock. A large, hardy, quiet good shearing mutton sheep will be most popular. Sheep and cattle will sell by weight, rather than by the head, as now. Then the best breeder and if. RAMBOUILLETT RAM, PROPERTY OF ALLEN A LAFOLLETT. These twenty-six registered ewes will be a valuable addition to their flock. They will register them in the Standard De laine Association, and will add to the num ber from time to time by purchase of the best to be had in the East. This will be the first registered Delaine flock in the state. These gentlemen are well pleased with the Rambouillets, and are following up that cross. They now have some seven-j eights, which show up very well. W. feeder wil get his reward. The days of the scrub will be numbered here, as it is in older counties. Improved stock will pay so much better it will be in great demand. Our greatest needs are: A railroad into the county, access to timber reserves with our stock in summer under re sonable regulations, and a continuance of the scalp bounty law in some form. T. H. LAFOLLETT. FUTURE OF THE STOCK BUSINESS IN CROOK COUNTY. J. W. BOONE. J. W. Boone, one of Oregon's native sons, who was born a poor boy and spent the " .... GLIDE RAMBOUILLETT RAMS, PROPERTY OF ALLEN A, LAFOLLETT. Crook County will soon experience great development. Our streams will be taken out in irrigating systems. Reservoirs to hold up spring floods will be built. Most of our desert lands will be converted into alfalfa fields. Where al- falfa does not succeed, clover and other forage crops will. There is no doubt but forage crops will be a greater success than cereals on our Irri gated lands. The stock business will continue to be our leading industry. We will carry many more times more stock than at present. The tendency will be toward smaller hold ings of superior stock. Our surplus will be dis posed of to a better ad vantage. Sales will be of fully grown stock in good condition. We will con tinue to grow all kinds of stock. Sheep will lead in number however, be cause they will do less damage to soft irrigated Jfflflf first thirty-three years of his life In the hardest kind of farm labor, He is a self-