The Columbia register., October 06, 1905, Image 1

CO
UMBIA
VOL. II.
IIOULTON, OREGON, FRIDAY OCTOBER 6, 1905
NO. 24
Lake Slda Stock Farm I
m. Wl I
rv inner,
'Tliorohtrd caul will not
gruw for a poor man" is ait old
paying that in familiar among
stockmen, but I am ratified that
raying ia a myth. A rich man
can raise fine slock, of course be
cause he haa plenty of money
at bla command, tut he depends
on aorae one man to overate hit
farm, and if he makes a micUke
in selecting hi foreman, the re
tulti ate ant to full for ah'tit of
hia especial lona.,
'A poor man takes clurge nf
the work himfelf If he hit not
had experiei.ee in the hunii.rpa he
will make many fatal mistakes
that will not 'mlv e disoouraging,
hut expensive, but he ha one ad
antsg, though, and that ia hi
gain in experience an he goes
along. Before many year, if he
stick to his work, he can turn hia
mUtakts into profit, and once he
gets on the top of the heap, he i
mre f hi f otlng. for ho known
just where he in at"
I'hllip Austin Krakes, proprietor
of the Lakeside stock form, located
on Willamette slough, rear Ho p.
poose, 20 mile northwest of I'ort
land who made the foregoing
statement, certainly knows where
of he speaks, ax he ha become a
auccessful ' breeder of llolatein
cattle, 'and has succeeded in carry
ing away a number .f firot ythm
t the Lewis and Clark livestock
ahow in competition with some of
the best herds in tho United Btats.
Iltf began his career as a breeder
22 years ago, practically without
money. He was then 2(1 years of
age. His wife had inherited 170
acres of bottom land, now part of
the big stock farm, and ho moved
with his little family liom a (arm
he had rental in Washington
county to the new place, then
covered with timber ami absolute
ly unimproved, and began his
chosen work. Today he owns 450
acres of land, 105 head oi thor
oughbred Holsticn cattle, either
registered or eligible t registra
tion, and hia entire holding are
vslued at $25,OOQ. He is satMed
with ' hat he has accomplished,
and when seen one eveninit hint
week in the big shed at the Expo
eition after he had been awarded
hia prizes, he was the picture of
contentment. It , was no emy
ttsk to get him to talk about hi
career as a sU ck breeder, as he is rc
served and inndest when it conies
to publicity, hut once he got warm
ed up to the subject his story fairly
flowed from him. From the start
he was assisted by his wife, and he
gives her great credit for her part
in his kuccoss.
MAKING A START.
"The undertaking was not an
easy one , but I did not realize this
until I had got fsirly started,"
said Mr. Frakes, continuing his
etory. "I left my rented farm in
Washington County with 13 old,
scrub, kicking cows, and a heart
full of hope and settled on the
new place, I was then fairly
launched in the dairy business,
and I began to look foward to the
time when I coud improve my
etock and begin' as a breeder.
This was in 1883.
I'.lhe dairy cow is a poor man's
beet friend, and I soon found this
out. The second year I invested
1800 in new stock, increasing my
herd of cowb to 80. My wife and
Isold 5999 pounds of butter that
jear, '
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"Things progressed slowly un
til 1888. I did not have a graded
cow on my place, let alone a regis
tered critter.' I hsd put in five
years of hard work, with no start
ling results, and I beKau to realise
that dairying would, be a failure
unless I got some better cattle.
In the Fall of that year I attended
the Portland Fat Stock Show and
bought' a little registered Holstein
hull calf about three feet high for
$235. With this little animal I
returned to my farm. I did not
haxeaclenr idea of what I was
going to 'do,, but I knew that some
day, if the calf lived, all of my
cows would nut I fcrub animals.
Thi. was really the beginning
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WINTER
NOW OUT
WETT
OREGON
of the Lakeview Stock Farm. In
1890 1 found myself the posessor
of 22 head of heifer calves, and I
can tell you they looked good to
me. I watched over them tenderly
and was careful of their feed and
raised them with as much atten
tion as I now do thoroughbreds.
Those animals would compare now
with my blooded stock much in
the same way as my scrub cows
compared to them.
IMPROVING HIS HERD.
Along in 1892, 1 think it w as
I attended the Oregon State Fa ir,
at Salem, and there bought two
registered cows. By this time I
had sgain awakened to the fact
that if I was going to bea biecder
of line cattle I would have to get
out of the grade class and break
into the registered class. All this
time I was aiaking and selling
butter and disposing of veal in the
Portland market, and of course,
was making money. To re-
anze my ammuon to raise
thoroughbred cattle I had happily
selected dairy etock, for without
this class of cattle I would have
made a miserable failure for lack
of money. I was lucky in not be
coming hazy at the start and
selecting beef cattle.
"At this lime I owned tho only
registered bull in Oregon. This
was the animal I purchased at
Portland, and he was from a
breeding farm in New York State.
The two cows I just mentioned
also came from the East. I de
cided to buy another bull and
sent to Minnesota to a well known
breeder for one, paying $150 for
another little animal about three
feet high and handed over $74 in
express charges to have him ship
ped to Portland. ( He was just 10,
mholhsold. , -'
Now all this time my neighbors
had lwn eyeing me suspiciously
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ami when the new bull calf arrived
they threw op their hands and de
clared I was a fool or had gone
stark mad.
M 'A foool and hs money are
soon parted,' was the way some of
them eiied me up, and others
vowed I had got beyond all limits
of control and that my family
hold have me looked after.
"It wouldn't do for me to say
I was not annoyed, for I wis; but
I said nothing and just pegged
away, believing I knew what I was
doing and that I would come . out
at the big end f the horn at the
proper time. My sales of young
stock bean to increase, and I was
making money until along came
the panto of 1893.
Well, you probably know what
trying times those were. There
were many ghomy periods, in
which 1 fancied I could see my
Btock farm slipping from my
grasp. 1 had spent a lot of money
on the place, as the land had to
be cleared for grazing purposes,
and the cost of clearing was about
$70 an acre. The flood season in
June and July compelled me to
move my catilo frra the bo Hums
to higher ground, and to do this I
was forced to rent land. I strug
gled along until the next year,
when the big flood occured, des
troying tuy bouse and sheds and
placing m in am embarisiog po
Bition, indeed. I had $1500 in
the bank, and borrowed $503
to put in feed for thi Winter.
"In 1895 I found myself with
67 cows, oaie i egistcred, but. the
majority graded snimil. That
year we made 11,0 JO poumsof
butter on our farm by hand
The cream was separated with a
hand separator and the butter
churned in old-fashioned hand
churns To cap the climax, both
butter and veal declined in price
until the former was selling at 10
cents a pound and the latter at
two and three fourths cents a
pound. I sold the butter, but de
termined to raise the calves,
believing I would be gainer in the
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CASLUSUDSTnUIE
"Holstein cattle are ideal dairr
animals, and the bottom lands of
Oregon, where the big overflow
take place, are the ideal localities
for thera to thrive. Ther are na
tive of Hollaed, and the condition
are similar to those in Holland,
the land of the hifc dikes. The
cattle must be driven to higher
land during the flood seaxon, how
ever, and as I was renting this
land and paying a good price for
it, I decided, in 1896, to buy some
high land. Here is where I again,
went into debt, and when J got
through bying land and making
other improvements I found my
self 1 2000 in the hole. I adder!
seven more registered cows aid
made rapid progress, until 1899.
"In this year I began to see that
I was getting along . toward - the
topofthe-laddar sort of Bit up"
and took notice, as you chaps may
in the-e days. I b night my
champion bull, Luode Oiegou
Dekol, wlich has just carried every
thing beforo him at this show, and
considered myself a sure-enough
breeder.
. "Like a good many other men
before me, I climbed up so high in
my own estimation that only a
tumble could bring me to earth
again. The tumble was wailing
for me. I was destined to take
the fall at the Oregon State Fair ia
1901, when I entered the sho
ring for the first lime. I took a
frw minor prizes there, but, my, I
felt tory for my self and went
home with my little bunch of
cattle with a well nefined con
viction that the ptock business was
not what it was cracked up to be.
Afier returning hiui, we had
family conference, and I decided to
go to New York ' and buy some
more registered, cows. This I .did
again going into debt.
REALLY LEARNING CATTLE.
"From this time on I began to
learn more about breeding cattle.
The stook I owned when Iattended
the first fair looked fine to m
until after I had compared them
with cattle I saw at the show.
I then became aware that my 6ense
of judging animals was sadly un
developed. I immediately started'
in to learn more. A bad.
point here and there in an animal1
began to stand out more prom
inently to my eye, and at last I
learned what to look for in the
attempt to get a perfect animal, or
one as near perfect as possible. I
learned to take special care of the
calves in the way of feeding and in
other ways looking after them,
with good results. I feel that I
have made a success, but years of
patient toil have been required to
bring this about. 1 1 was handi-