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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1941)
August 28, 1941 Sheep Business in Klamath Has Long History, Future By RUTH KINO Klamath county' 1041 Umh crop la on the mov nd within the next 30 dy moat of the 80,000 rant and firm rtltnd woolle will be Inmb chop and roaaU. A few hundred not fat tened on the range will bn fed through part of the winter and marketed In enrly spring. The tory of the theep Induttry In the Klamath bailn I an Inlereitlng one dntlng back to long before there were cultivated crop in tno nasin. Today there tar me oia any, wno rememner U time when hay wan con' (timed to the Innt atraw and money rolled Into the pocket of ahnep miners In comfortable um. Numbere Reduced There I itlll money In the In duttry but production coita have risen tteadlly In the Innt decade end range restriction! cut heav ily Into grating area. Sheep men fearing the lots of -coveted range ran bidding Into prohibi tive figure In the early history of the country and llieto factor have ilnce the late 00' reduced the theep population In the coun try from approximately 280, ' 000 head to thl year' total of 85,000. There wat time when rang waa almost unlimited, iheep grazed on both lde of the Ut line, Grou In the hill wa plentiful and government con trolled land wa almost un kauwn. Q'hos day have gone with the old fetid between the cattle men and theep men and today the entire Industry I controlled here by a few. Herder Slain Scott McKendree, president of the Klamath County Wool Grow er' association, and E. M, Ham mond, Merrill, tell some Inter esting fact of earlier day. McKendree' father, O. T. Mc Kendree ran iheep here at the time that John Freeze, I. D. Applogate, Charle 8herlock and Dennis O'Conner, J. P. Harter, the Whitney Brother, the Mo C'artirt, Jack and Patty, partner of O. T. McKendree, D. B. Mur phy and many other trailed band. The old timer tell of the Boddy family who prior to 1889 ran a few theep In the hill above the D. E Alexander ranch nt Adam point. On day a band of wanduring Indiana killed Oddy and hit two ton, one of om waa hording theep at tha time of tha mawacre, Mr. IJoddy, who with her tmaJI daughter, escaped acrot the hill, la tor married Miko Hart cry, alto a theep man. There w a a winter when mow wit deep and theep died by- the hundreds. There wa plenty of hay but transportation or ieea tnrougn the tnow was Impossible and the animals died In their track of itsrvatlon. Bltternet Oona There waa the time too when men mistrusted their own neigh bor and theep died mysterious ly. Waler hole were fenced and herder war mistreated. Yet through good time and bad the aheep have continued to feed peacefully upon the food that the hills and valley htvt provided and tha bltternet be Qen men he long been for- Dlteate ravaged the flock In 1020 and every thing that bleat ed In the bailn wa dipped for tcable, a paratlta that decreaed the wool crop. Animal were driven through huge tank of disinfectant, not once but lev ers, I time. ' About this time or bit be fore came the Hammond, father and tont, E. M. "CJene," and W. E.; the Cox brothers, Charlet. Henry and John; Dick and Denni Lacey; Hugh O'Conner, brother to Dennis; George Yager, Michael O'Conner, Dave Mc Aullffe, Leo Sagehorn and Jerry and Jock O'Conner. Pat Brown know sheep a did Pat O'Keefe Oo ran some 30,000 head, and l and Maurice O'Keefe who are no relation to Pat. The Wilton brother cama into the valley about 30 year ago Seed Growers: During the pttt 7 year the teed induttry In Klamath Basin hat doubled many timet, and now It ena of the bett oath eropt. Thlt Important crop alto de mand tha bet in seed clean ing equipment, experience and ability. Blnca that time I hav triad earnestly to give . you the For the best seed cleaning and marketing service. Lou Brager's Warehouse Hatfield (till live here folk who long and later, the Hatklnt brother!, Uither, Calvin and Chetter; the Lewis Kandra family and Ned O'Conner arrived, The list It long and many of them hav re tired or hav taken the long trail of "no return." Lamb Refused The life cycle of a iheep I the same now a then however. The new lamb whether born on the rang or beneath a shed get shakily upon unbelievably (len der leg to nurse and within the pan of a few short hour I able to gambol about with hi clan. Sometime a ewe refute her own lamb and then It It up to the herder to change her mind. Often it takes several day and tine a lamb nurtet frequently it It no small task to tee Hint each unwanted Infant it not ne glected. If a lamb die at birth, one of a pair of twin born to another ewe I often substituted to that the udder of the bereaved mother It not ruined. Herders, to fool the ewe, tkln the small dead on and use the tkln to rub the intruder. Ewet know too, the bleat of their own young and to the un initiated, watching a ewe seek out her lamb among several hun dred bleating animalt I an amaz ing experience. Ewe lambing in sheds will produce a larger number of twin than those on range, the average running about 120 per cent for those having thed care. Range ewet run about 08 per cent, according to McKendree, who ttated that the county aver age for twin thl teaton wat the best In year. Lambing began In late Febru ary and early March In the sheds and a month later In the open. By April 1, It grata It luth enough to provide picking the bands ar itarted for the spring grazing areat. Trucks are em ployed only occasionally to move theep, most of the animalt being trailed. In the Merrill country the Lewlt Kandra and McKendree band (tart out on Stukel moun tain; tha Jack McCartie and Cox band tart from the Bonanza country and the O'Keefe' feed first in the Lava Bed. Hatklnt brother truck o u t h to the Hackamore range In northern California, the sheep working gradually to higher ground for the summer month. Travel Four Mile Bands will travel about four miles a day beginning to feed early and "kegglng" up or noon ing in the heat of tha da.v, feed ing again In the late afternoon. Herders ut two dogt to the band, theep men raiting their own dogt and culling for -the "likeliest" animalt. English Drovert, commonly known at short haired ihtpherd, are the mott versatile, the puppies In heriting the herding initlnct from generation back. Austral ian shepherds and the common shepherd, too, are widely used and each and every one of them i a one-man, dog, Trained to follow directions Instantly they ignore command of herder other than their own. Constantly alert, they seek out straggler, never rest until the band Is bedded and sleep with DANCE Midlgnd Grange Hall Saturday, Aug. 30 Mule by Johnny Soto bt, most honest and con scientious tervlc that my 17 year of actual experience ha afforded. Fori thl reason I have in stilled additional equipment which make it the most completely equipped plant In Klamath Bailn. Com In and let' talk It over, there I no obligation. Head in' for Y wP ' ' ' - if iK (. ivw1. J , - :u , ; 4 .jr'trf ,w i J I 'fats r j . -- - .. .in i-i ..t&tff- LA on eye open for theep killing ,f, . . ;TCin " r t ' One camp tender to every two bandt contacts the herder at least once In two days, checking on hit food supplies and other needs. Contrary to the old way of leaving herdert on the open range will) only the tky for shelter, men who follow the sheep today have . hortet for trailing In the hill country, pack ing back a small tent and their bed. Where roadt permit, covered trailen or "arks" are hooked behind a car or truck and taken Into tho range region. Here the herder hut most of the comforts of home. Hit bed it In the dry. The four-whcclcd room provide! space for a tiny ttove, compact ttorage space for clothing, com modities and to stretch a leg in. Shtaring Fascinating Shearing It usually completed by lato Juno or early July and to the greenhorn thlt It one of the most fascinating spectacles, In this part- of the country, the individual bands congregate near shearing pent where mi gratory shearing crews com for the teaton' work. Crew work from the low country to the high or from south to north, the shearing teaton coming much earlier in the warmer climatet. At the McCartie pent near Bly this teeson the crew were all Mexicans, working under a cap tain who owned the shearing machinery'. Clippers wcro oper ated by a gasoline motor recruit ed from tome abandoned auto mobile, nine clippers operating from the tamo motor. Ewet were separated ' from their Iambi in a pole corral and driven with the aid of the rust ling dogt into the individual pent in front of each shearer. Crowded into a small space, the struggling ewe was grasped by a hind leg and thrown, tome shearers clipping without tying the animal, other tying the hind legs together. Either way is ac ceptable, although the loose me thod Is regarded as the better. The Australian method is slto sometimes used, a system easier on the temper and feelings of the animal. The thearer, in the pen with the theep, grasps the note, Low Cost and Speed For the Potato Harvest McCormick-Deering Power Potato Diggers i icCORMICK-DEERING Fy Power-Driven Potato Diggers provide an efficient, low-cost method of harvesting the potato crop. They are built in one and two-row sizes to work behind the Farraall Tractor, The one-row ma chine digs 7 acres aday, and the wo-row digger, 12 to 14 acres. Power to operate the ele vating mechanism is obtained Come in and see one of f.W.IKlEMMg Farm Equipment ' TM 80, lth St. Weekly Page Summer Range Then 1 rv ' iiM?" i Mm l uri tf VSZ (vYjn$m !,r . .. .. . . jfs a Klamath county thotp, once basis for one of the largest farm industries in southern Oregon, have dwindled but still form a large local agricultural activity. Above, a herder starts for the summer range with horse, dogt and a large band. Below, theep ar loaded into box car for thipment to market. turns It to the side and the sheep comes back on Its haunches against the body of the worker. Wool rolled away from the body in one piece is kicked to the tyer who ties it with paper twine. Jute or fibre twine is never used since particles pene trato the clips and will not take dye. Particles of paper twine dissolve when the wool is scoured. Tho fleeces, thrown to the sacker perched on a high plat direct from the tractor engine through the power take-off. In some soil conditions, it is necessary to be able to change the speed of the elevator quickly. This Is provided for In the McCormick-Deering by .an automobile-type trans mission with - three forward speeds and one reverse which can be supplied as an attach ment, these diggers on our fltor -Klamath Falls, Oregon of Farm News to Market form, beneath which swings the huge burlap sack, are tromped firmly Into the container. The sacker this season at the McCartie sheds was an accom plished linguist, speaking six languages. Beneath a canopy of old sacking, he stomped hour af ter hour, sweat glistening down the brown surface of his chest, the oily mound of wool greasing his clothing and skin. Wool to Boston Each animal produces four or septTi-7 HUGE EXHIBITS & FARM MACHINERY SHOW vJU PARhMUTUEL HORSE RACING! forn ana Banning J7oe Bvry Affr noon Except Sunday, PLUS Special Acts BaIwmb Rich ttv eluding world famous acrobats, comadiant and other top-flight performers who will win your applausa ! EXTRAVAGANZA EXTRAORDINARY! tvry night at Race Track Grandstand t A brilliant aggregation ol glamorous Girls and famous entertainers of stag, screen , radio and circus fame. A riot of beauty, music, fun and thrills for all) HORSE SHOW! A. PLUS Special Acts ..n n .... 1 tj I I k ffltt MIDWAY THRILLS I tCjlVA ' .yjw(2a manv frcs actii ? Including FolocK Bros. Black Hon. ' Troupe I five grades of wool with tha finest grade produced on the back. Sackt hold from 200 to 300 pounds and most of the wool produced here goes to Boston, wool center of the United State. Here buyer assemble and bid on the lot sent In by field buyer. The clips then go to the mill. Clip from black or brown theep are packed separately, once mixed with white fleece it must be hnd picked. Animal pro duce from 8 to 9 pound. Shearer average around 100 head per day working by the piece or fleece and earn from $12 to $15 per day, plus board. The shearing captain work on contract, shearing, tying and sacking. The owner of the band furnishes the corral, wrangler and lacks. Sacki thl season were worth six bits each and bid fair to cost more another season. Each sack weighs four pounds. Buyers dock one per cent on dirt. The struggling animal, sheared, is turned loose into a runway for branding. Lamp black that scours out of wool easily is used on the naked hide, each band having its own indiv idual brand. Some owners have several band brands in addition to the general brand. Paint with a lead base is never used. Marker Sheep Black sheep are used as mark ers, about eight blacks being run to a band of 800 to 1000 animals. Branded, they are turned loose to recover their lambs and trt for the grazing country. Many of the herder in thl particular community are Irish. In other sections of the sheep country, Basques and Portuguese follow the sheep. Prices have varied widely in the history of the Industry in Klamath county. During boom years, sheep men bought and sold ewes for as high as $60 per head and a good ram brought $175 to $185. It was not uncom mon for a band of purebred to sell for $35 ttraight run. In other times when money ha been tleht. a good ewe told more than once for $3. Lambs this year or bringing from $8.75 to $0.50 FOB and the quality of shipment is high. Earlv August finds mott of the range crop ready for the rails and both ewes and lambs are trailed to the shipping points where they are separated, the ewes trailing back to feeding grounds, preparatory to the trek to home corrals net ore coia w ther. Average shipping weight of lambs is from 80 to 00 pounds. Twenty.thousand pounds of mutton is shipped to the car, and nearlv all cars leaving Klamath shipping points are single Hprlcerl. 1941 officers of the Wool Growers' association, in addition to Chairman Scott McKenaree are C. A. Henderson, secretary; Pat Quinlan, vice president and Lewis Kandra. Merrill, Mike bui livan. Klamath Falls, and Jerry McCartie, Bonanza, directors. , There are three flags ... on ton of the Acropolis, the Greek in the middle, the German on one side, the Italian on the other. The Greeks look at them and say, "Christ hung between two thieves." Frederick Crane, U, S. oil man formerly in Athen. Looking for Bargains? Turn to the Classified page. I A: INSPECTIONS CERTIFIED SEED HOPEFUL Klamath county' second field Intoectlon for potato certifica tion ha Just been completed by Profetsor O. R. Hytlop of Ore gon State college, and all field that passed the first Inspection, with the exception of 20 acre, patted the second intpectlon. According to Hytlop, there It a alight trace of leafroll showing In tome part of the fieldt but no more than hat shown In pre vious yeart. The situation In certified fields at far at leafroll it concerned 1 very good. Among the other serious diseases the percentage of rugose mosaic it tmaller than latt year, at was alto the percentage of blackleg. The percentage of mild mosaic compare very favorably with that of last year and the cloudy conditions hav made it much easier to tee in the field. On the whole, Hytlop states, the Klam ath certified crop it exception ally good. So far very little evi dence of ring rot ha shown up. A survey of commercial field wat alto made by Professor Hy tlop, from Pine Grove to Strong hold, and none of those exam lned north of the state line thowed any dangerous quantity of leafroll. Several fieldt not en tered for certification were al mott good enough to pass for certification and showed only slight traces of leafroll. Among the badly diseased fields found in Klamath county, the mott teriou losses are being caused By rugose mosaic, velvet leaf. wide leaf, and blackleg. Even these badly run-out lots of seed thowed very little of the leaf' roll trouble. In the California fields a larger precentage of.leai- roll was observed and in tome caet it it very doubtful U the fields will be worth digging after the net necrosit begin to thow in the tuber. Some experiments are being tried on the spraying of potato vine to kill them. This com bination of sinox and aulphate of ammonia has killed leaves and vines very successfully. The skin has already set on the tubers of the dead vines. Obser vations are being made for ctesn end discoloration. There appears to be no injury to the tuber yet and the vines ara killed appar ently as effectively as with sharp frost. It is very doubtful $25 REWARD Will' b paid br tha manufac turer for any- Corn or Callous GREAT CHRISTOPHER Corn Salva cannot remove. It never faili. 35c and 60e at Everbodr'i Cut-Rat Drugt . Phone 3625. 01 Main St. m wa, jars. , mi r jam1 : :.tB8asraBpBaaaaaBSar.''inij; ; ", aasi Next lino, try thttraln Fellow Citizens of . ' Do you realize what fine SOUTHERN PACIFIC train service you have to other places in Oregon and California1? J-ook! 9 FIVI &P. train dally In aaeh direction. DAY and OVtRNICHT rraln to both Porrlnd and San Prancitco. You can enjoy a restful daytime trip, or travel whlla you llaap. St (vary regular ear I AIR-COOLtD. j. Our fare are lew cheaper than driving "ft your own ear. Per example, here's all it coat in chair carat KLAMATH FALLS to OmWay RomJtrlp PORTLAND ..,.,. $5.90 $10.65 SAN FRANCISCO. .... $6.60 $11.90 Next time you pltn a trip, drop In or telephone and let us show you what we have to offerl C. H. REEVES Diitricl TrrifU 6 Poimf f Aft S.P. Sudeo, Sprint tod 0k Sa. Ttlepnoo JUL PAGE THIRTEEN If th spraying of tha Vint thl lata In the teaton will do much gocd for preventing tha tprd of dlteate, at tha aphid popula tion doe not appear to be very great and the temperature ara cool. Mr. A. E. Grou, manager of the experimental area, it carry ing on ome potato vlna killing experiments at tha experiment station and hi soma good plot that may be teen now. Oregon wheat farmer are be ing contacted by county AAA associations to sign winter wheat plant for their farm prior to the deadline October 31. Every farmer who will plant fall whaat M ..... must lflf plan for his farm if he 1 to be eligible for participation in th 1942 farm conservation program. By signing the plan the farmer declares his intention to seed within his wheat acreage allot ment and also indicates the num ber of acres on which he will have wheat in 1942. With 1942 marketing quota already proclaimed and almott sure to be in effect, county of fices ara stressing the import ance of seeding within allot ments. Changes in the wheat program for 1942 provide that the non-allotment option can b chosen only by farmers normally cutting wheat for hay and with an allotment in excess of 19 acres. Those with allotments ol fewer than 15 acres are exempt from quota restriction, how ever. , The state AAA office also points out that it will not b possible for non allotment farmi to seed up to their usual acres, .s was me case in ittti, wiuioui incurring deductions from parity and conservation payment. . Read the Classified page. BACKACHE, LEG PAINS MAY BE DANGER SIGH . Of Tired Kidneys If btetcseb azul b pthn an vakfat yea tniacrmbla, doo 't juft com plain aad do Mule about than. Nature may m wirafec 709 that your kidney ned attention. Tbe kidoeya are Nature a chiaf wayof telrfitt exeeaa arid aad poiaoaotia waata oat ol Ua blood. They help mart people pass about J Stntaadir. If tha 1ft mftaa r4 lMn feika. .mJ 1114m. loot work wall, poisonous waste matter stays la tse blood. Tnese poisons may start "rr"f baeksebas. rheumatic Dams. Int mim. 1am r pen sod eo-Tjy, .getting op iiita, iwelkBf, puffin ess under the eyes, headaches and diin Dees. rraqun or scanty psassite wits, smart ing sad burning sometimes shows there is some thins wrong with your kidoeya or bladder. Don't watt! Aak your druggist for Doan'a Pflk, used rocwsafully by miQiooa (or over 40 rears. They give luppywlwf. aod will bp tbe IS miles of kidney tubes fiush out poison- out waste from the blood. Get Doaa a Pija. DEADLINE SET DN NEXT YEAR WHEAT PLANS
