The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-24
VISITS HEROERSIN
SOUTHERN UTAH
l. D. Burch Discusses Sheep
Industry in This State.
ADVOCATES SMALL HERDS
SAYS DISEASE AMONG FLoCKS
AL1IOS4 ERADICATED.
SMALL HERDS
Especial to The Herald)

Ogden, July "a. D. Burch Of Chi
Cago. Ill, editor of the Sheep Breeder,
the largest and most extensively cir
culated magazine in the world devoted
70 sheep interests, was in ogden TO-DAY
returning from a visit TO southern Utah
Clocks.
Colonel Burch is recognized the world
over as an expert on sheep, and can
talk on the subject with enthusiasm
and ability, making his remarks inter
esting in the extreme. His present Visit
10 the west is for the purpose of max
ing personal observations and collect
sng. by actual personal work, data for
future articles an his magazine
Speaks of Utah Industries.
He first visited Utah three years ago
at the time OF the national convention
OF stock growers. His article written
at that time attained wide popularity
sn Utah and aroused some controversy
tn the east because Of the very friendly
manner in which ne discussed Utah
people and its industries
There are two general features In
the progress OF the sheep industry in
Utah and the intermOuntain country
generally" he said. zone of these fea-
lures is the attention paid to the rails
ing Of spring lambs for mutton pur-
poses. This is being found more and
more profitable and the breeding is be
ing largely directed toward the prOduc-
zion Of large, quiCk-maturing lambs for
early market Last year western firm
shipped 10000 early spring lambs to
Chicago, unloading them little way
out from the city and feeding them up
TO prime condition. They shipped a
certain number in each day, timing
them so as TO practically top the mar
ket. The venture was very profitable,
IS II deserved to be, and was the trade
sensation Of the season. This is one
conspicuous example Of this feature
that Is attracting general attention
HmonSst all OF the sheep growers.
Cross-Breeds For Wool
The other feature of the trend in
breeding is the production of cross
breeds for wool purposes. The great
demand for this class CT wool and the
high price it brings, together with the
fact that crosses Of long wool and close
. wool breeds may be obtained which viii
also produce excellent stock for baby
mutton, is responsible for this deveI-
ppmenJ
The sheep farmers in Utah are going
through the transition stage from large
10 small hocks. On account Of the
Withdrawal of range lands for forest
reserve, and because OF demands for
better grades OF stock the flock owner
has been obliged TO cut down the num-
Der OF sheep and he IS making Up for
- Dy closer attention to the breeding
and care OF those he has
Advantage Of Small F1ocks.
.gThe same IDEA applied to famingf
s. causing men to cease trying TO TIL
farms of 100 acres and so in for plots
OF ten acres or less, and making more
money than those owning large farms
The breed Of Utah sheep is advanc-
tifg rapidly i'm quality Sheepmen are
no longer satisfied with cheap stock,
but have been buying the very best and
have been of late producing some eX~
ceptionally good sheep.
The largest herd of pure-b breed Cots
w0lds in the world is located about fifty
miles south of here at Draper. II be-
longs to j. r. Allen < Bros. The larg-
est herd of RambOuillets belongs 10
Dir Hanson at Collinstou, about sixty
miles north of Ogden.
Few Cases Of Sheep Scab.
THE flock owners Of Utah are coop
Grating splendidly with the government
ia Graduating sheep scab. At the big
dipping pens near Mt Pleasant
learned on my trip south, there have
been recently dipped $4,000 head of
sheep, and in all the lot there was not
one case Of sheep scab. This is a rec
ord almost unparalleled in a range
country"
In Ogden Colonel Burch was the
guest of G. c. Richards. Tomorrow he
goes north 10 COllinst0n to look at some
OF the herds there. and viii thence 20
over TO the Malad country From there
he goes northwest by easy stages. in
Vestigating the conditions and prepar-
tng copy for his paper. After visiting
Oregon and California he viii return by
way or Utah. and IN September viii
probably visit the Monte Cristo range
east of Ogden, as he is very DESTROYS
OF looking over the famous RambouiI-
Jet flock of Richards & West. and of
getting data for an article as TO their
Hdaptability for this and other Iocaii-
ties