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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1913)
North Beach NOW IN FULL BLAST Why not plan 3-011 r Summer Vacation at this wonderful resort, reach ed by rail to Portland via A TRIP DOWNTHE COLUMBIA A REST BY THE OCEAN AND Steamer Trip down the Columbia via 0-Y. R. & N. Steamers "T. J. Potter" or "Has salo", daily except Sunday. Surf Bathing, Fishing Tents and Cottages For Rent Good Hotel Accommodation. INFORMATION FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TO H. D. Patterson. Agent, Lakeview, Oreg. Duroc-Jersey Hogs I have for sale 18 head of pigs of the following pedigree: Sired by Lakeview Sensation, No. 131639, he sired by Nebraska Sensation, No. 10S6G1, dames equally as well bred as the sires. PRICE $6.00 PER HEAD if Taken at Once J. H. CAREY, Lakeview, Ore. Scientific Fur Farming is the Latest Wrinkle A Kansaa Breeder Produces Expensive Aslotlo Lamb Pelts, Equal or Superior to lm ported Karakule Article. ( Written by Harlan P. Smith of Kindts) Let The Examiner Figure on Your Next Job Work (The Orange Judd Northwest Farm lead) It his fallen to tbe lot of a Kansas farmer to Introduce a new in dustry to the farming sections of the United States lur raising. L. M. Crawford of Chase county is the first man in the United States to produce the expensive Persian lamb, Astrakhan and Krimmer furs for commercial pur poses. He has turned his entire ranch of 1900 acres into a fur farm, and he expects to grow some $9000 or $10,000 worth of these furs this year. Crawford has proved that the pro duction of fara can be accomplished in this country as well as in Russia, from whence comes the 14 million dollars' worth of Persian lamb, Astrakhan and Krimtrer pelts imported by the United States everv year. He obtaina these furs crossing Karakule rams from Asia on American Lincoln ewes. The skins from the resulting lambs, when only a few aays old. are wortb from $0 to fl2 apiece. When 1 visited the fur farm, April 6, 1913. Ciawtord already bad nearly 300 of these lambs and the lambing season had just begun. Tbe Karakule is a hardy and prolific sheep, consequently few ewes will fail to bear one lamb at least. Many of them will have twins. A few of the lambs were torn dead, but that did net affect tbe value of the fur. In fact lambs prematurely born sometimes bear the most expensive pelts as they have tighter curls. Crawford' experiment at least has gone far enough to convince breeders at tbe Kansas agricultural college that a new branch of farming of great economic promise for the United States has been discovered. An expert breed er from tbe college. Dr. K. K. Nabours, is co-operating with Crawford in an effort to develop the new industry. Dr. Nabours believes that in the course of a few years the farmers of this coun try will be producing the 14 million dollars' wortb of these furs annually needed by the United States. By keep ing a few Karakule rams any sheep breeder might Increase hit profits quite materially every year by the production of these lamb skins. It was little more than a year ago that Crawford converted this rtnch Into a fur firm. It wta then that thit Kanstt farmer decided to try for a share of the mil lions sent out of thla country for the expensive furs of Asia. It required faith, but Crawford had it and he went at his new undertaking in no half-ldct thRt the Leicester and WenHlcy But the Karakule doea not possess the disagreeable musk flavor of the gott family, and of American theep. A niasilv head, a short ftce and a note line greatly bent are charecterliitict ot the Karakule. The eara are large and pendulous: feet thick, short and very strong. The tail it Urge and triangular shaped with a twist on the end. Often It weighs 85 pounds. Sometimes it la so large that It has to bo supported by a two-wheeled cart to which the animal It hitched. The wool it gray, long and coarse, with oc casionally a toft under wool, which Indicatci tbe presence of tight-wool blood, and It not desired, except on tbe front of the head and on the rear ex tremities, where it it black, very lua troua and curly. Tbe young lamba are black and curly and potaesa a wonder ful luster. Excellent tight-curled black skins have been produced on the Crawford ranch by crossing Karakulea with American Lincoln and Cotawolda, and Crawford believes it safe to pre- hearted way. He bought 30 pure-bred Kartkules, the larger part of the only herd ever imported to thia country, so far as Is known, and shipped in 1100 Lincoln ewes form the Gooding ranch in Idaho. The entire Investment was $35.010. Last fall Crawford, with the advice of Dr. Nabours, began creating the 19 Karakule rams in his herd on the 1100 ewes. From these crosses he is now getting lustriout black lamb skins worth $3, 10 and $12 apiece, some of the lambs come as Perisian lamb fur, which is the most expensive; others as Astrakhan, which is a fur of looser curls, while some of the pelts have a gray shade and are known at Krimmer fur. This last -is less expensive than the other two kinds. The Karakule is a desert sheep native to Dokhara, central Asia. lie cause of the extreme heat of summer and tbe intense cold of winter in that country these nhtop have become in ured to these hardships and can there fore stand much more heat and cold than any native American sheep. The scant vegetation on the steppes of bokrmra also has developed the Kar arule into a great rustler and browser. In hardiness only the Mexican goats and the American mountain sheep can compare witb them. 'I hid explains why the hybrids resulting from a cross between tbe Karakule and any Amer ican sheep would starve. No goat will out the neoessity keep underbrush down more etliciently j rams from Asia. dale breeds will give fully as good fur, If not bolter. The hybrid produced by Karakules on native sheep are of greatest value as fur, but they have other qualities which will mako them a highly desirable typo of sheep. They grow much larger than the native ani mals. Testt made by packers at Ft. Worth, Tex. and such breeders as Rhome, Goodnight, Simonson and Crawford proved conclusively that when American tight-wool theep. Mer inos, Rambouillets, Shropshire and others, are crossed witb Karakules or with Karakulc-Lincolns there is an increase In weight amounting in some ctsos 50 per cent. Thirty-five per cent it considered by theep buyert as an average increase. What is even more important la the fact that the Ka akule strain seems absolutely to breed out the woolly or musk-like llav or of the meat of tight-wool sheep. Mr. Crawford has the co-operation of the Kansas agricultural college in developing his new industry. Or. Nabours has advised with Mr. Craw ford in the crossing of the sheep. He is making a close study of heredity. He is particularly interested in the possibilities of interbreeding Kara kules with native sheep and with hy brids. If the hybrids produced follow the Mendelian law of inheritance, it will be possible for Crawford to get any of the pure-bred Karakules with- of importing more If the hybrids of than the Karakule, anl in this and i pure strains in tbe second generation many other respects these animsls re- do not split up into, pure-bred Kara aemble the goat more than the sheep, kulet and pure-bred Lincoln, accord ing to the Mendelian law, but blend and breed true, then thlt country will hive a new breed of sheep. And meh a breed, Dr. Nabours believes, com bining at It very likely would the good Qualities) of the Karakul and of the native theep, should be a very valu able one. SIOOOlDollars Reward We, W. F. Detert aad W. I). Duke, own all tlio oattln branded 70 or XL and formerly owned by Cox & Clark and the . Ileryford Land A Cuttle Company. The cuttle are now on the range ot Modoc and LaaHon Conn tie. For Information leading to the arrest aod conviction of any party or partte Illegally branding, killing, driving off or dis posing of aoy of the above cat tit w will pay ONE THOUSAND DOL LARS and tbe coat of arrest and proaecutloti. Bend all Information to K. II. Day, Alturaa, Modoc county Cel., or to un at Latroli, El Dorado County, Cl. Ifuullty party might e. capo, promptly notify tbo Bherirt of ilio county In which tbo Illegal art waa committed and ndvlso us by wire at our expense. W. F. DKTKItr, W. 1). DUKK. KURI'HISIMI CURIO OF 8TUMACN TROUIU.R When ru havo trouble with your atomacli or chronic constipation, don't imagine that your rnae I be yond help jut Ik-cm use your doctor hills to giv you relief. Mr, tl. Suuglo, rittluOi-ld. N. J., write. "For over a month punt I have Item troubled with my stomach. Kvery thing I ati upaet it terribly. One ol Chauilwrlulu'H adveriing booklet came to me. Altrr readiug a few of the letter from people; who hud been cured by Chntnberlitiii'a Tablet. I decided to try them. I have taken nearly three-fotirtb of a pnckiiK. ol them and can now eat almost every thing tliat I want." For aalu by all dealria. CHICHESTER SPILLS DIAMOND V Ladies t A A r Unnw for CHI-CIIM-TKa'a) MMUNl IlkAND PI 1.1.8 In XD taij Cold mrtalllo kx, (ealcd wllh I Ribbon. Tin o onn. Itrfi CVwate mm4 Hk W rilI-4'MKS-TtM auassit Sams mllk, r twmtr-fl r rajrard.4 Bt,alea, Always Rrliabl SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS .flSft EVERYWHERE S1 in 33; Z30C 1L EC 3 CZ3C 1L 1BC 'Mi Z 1L 1 li D) u fa) J I V There will be a Public Auction at the Yard of the SUNSET LAKE LUMBER COMPANY ON . eL.3 Co) Of all Stock in the Yard, Consisting of Red Cedar Shingles White Pine Lath White Pine Rustic Double and Single Surfaced Clear Lumber Rough and Single Surfaced Common Lumber Dougas Fir Flooring Moulding, Posts, Flooring and Ceiling If you contemplate building anything from a chicken coop to a mansion, it will pay you to attend this sale and get the material at your own price. Nothing Reserved. Everything Goes. Auction at 9:00 A. M. and 1:00 P. M. W R. WILKINSON, Receiver Sunset Lake Lumber Co.