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
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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
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first thirty-three years of his life In the
hardest kind of farm labor, He is a self-