Rocky Mountain husbandman., 1876-04-13


and Leicester sheep. They also engage ex~
tensively in dairying, make from 1000 to
5000 pounds of butter each season, besides
tilling a hundred acres or two of land They
have four or five ranches, and employ the
year round from ten to fifteen men. There
is no stock kept upon this ranch. Having
spent the night with Mr.. P. Saturday morn
ing we mounted our horse, faced to the East.
and seven miles over a road almost as level
as plank floor, brought us to what Messrs
Poindexter & Orr call their home ranch.
| Here the senior partner of the firm, Mr. Orr
gave us a hearty welcome. This place is
well improved. The residence is a kind Of
a frontier log cottage, squatting low to the
ground behind a row Of cottonwood and
willows. The barn is 5Ox7S, and is conven-
iently arranged, and substantially construct
ed. There is one sheep house here, con-
structed with walls about six feet high, and
close and we'll covered in with straw, and
also dairy and poultry buildings. Fences
are all good and pastures immense. A fence
six miles, running across the valley, con-
meets the steep rocky ranges on either side.
Five miles above this is another fence from
mountain to mountain, forming an inclos-
ure of thirty square miles, (or 19,200 acres)
Through this, there is a adividing fence along
the creek about midway the valley, this di-
viding the enclosure in two pastures of fif-
teen square miles, or (9,600 acres,) one for
summer the other for winter use. The one
used for winter, contains warm spring that
runs large head Of water. Besides these,
there are grain fields, staked-and-ridered
fences etc. Above this inclosure, is a vast
tract of country, to which they enjoy the
undisputed right, range that is SO hemmed
in that stock cannot get out in winter, and
seldom during the summer.\
Mr.. Orr had three Or fnnr good stations
brought out for our inspection, one OF which
is of French and Canadian pedigree, and
cost 81 500 in Canada. Their fine horned
stock were all upon their Jefferson ranch,
except LODU, tie monarch Of the herd, who
is a noble bull. The blooded sheep which
we were shown, were nothing lacking in
pureness of breed, but showed unmistaka-
BILE signs of mismanagement Their flock
is some fifteen miles further up the creek,
where they have large house under shingle
roof for their accommodation. The fatality
among their sheep this winter has been light,
but their experiment in coal oil, as a sheep
dip proved failure, and has caused great
loss in wool. These gentlemen intend to
move the greater portion of their stock to
the head of Red Rock, reserving their Black
Tail range for winter use. In the afternoon
we returned to Mr.. Poindexter's.
On the way we called upon CIV. Emereck.
stockman, started to Philip Lovels sheep
ranch, but wavered and turned back. Mr.. LIS
ranch is about four miles distant from Mr. P.
His sheep. 700 innumber, were once very scab-
by, butby dexterous management lie has
cured them sound and well, thus proving be-
yonda doubt that scab in sheep is the resultof
neglect. Not far from Mr.. L. is little
flock of about 300 Spanish Mennos, belong
ing to John III. Rourk of Argenta. These
sheep, except one years increase, We're inn
ported by Mr.. r. from Ohio, and cost $40
per head He intends to devote his attell-
ton entirely to the production of pure
blooded Spanish Merino bucks for market
among our wool-groWers.
Near Mr.. Poindexter, resides Mr.. R. A.
Reynolds, who is one of the representative
wool-growers of fBeaverhead. He has been .
number of years in the business, has beau
tiful flock of 400 head, in which scab has
never existed. He is breeding Cotswold
nd Jnso oe1n nxxyod