, 1906-01-25
UNIVERSITY LENDING ITS AID TO
THE BETTERMENT OF SHEEP
MEN, HoRsEMEN AND
CATTLEMEN.
One Of the Results of Short Course n
Farmers Meeting in Different
Parts of CommonweaIth-Gover-
nor Brooks Pays His Respects to
the Tax Dodgers and Asks Them
To Quit Their Meanness and Pull.
special to The Republican.

Special to The Republican.
Casper, Wyo., Jan. Ex-Governor
Brooks and President Tisdel are among
the most prominent speakers at the
ming Wool Growers association, and
the address delivered by each was a
jewel in its particular line of thought.
President Tisdel spoke on THE Rela-
ton of the Stockmen to the Univer-
sity," and said many happy things,
among them being the following OF
more than passing note:
But the university is prepared to
bring its scientific knowledge to the
ranchmen who car not come to the
university at all. The last legislature
appropriated $4,000 for two years for
short courses in agriculture through
out the state, and. wherever a company
of ranchmen can get together for two
or three days for the practical study
of breeding, stock judging, and the
like, experts from the university are
available without cost for this purpose.
/ wish that a ranchman's institute
could be held within the next w years
in every county in the state of Wyo-
ming. Institutes have already bee
given at Cody and plans are under way
for others at Buffalo, Sheridan, Basin
City, Lander, Wheatland and Evanston.
Can not this association interest more
ranchmen in this kind of work?
The advantage of breeding has been
demonstrated in southern Wyoming.
One of our range men by introducing
prize fine wool bucks from eastern
states has increased the wool clips
from at least a third of his flock to
more than fifteen pounds per head,
doubling the average production. If
scientific breeding could produce a
range sheep which would increase the
average clip Of wool II pound per
head, it would add to Wyoming's out
put alone three-fourths of a million dol
lars, and to the output Of The arid reg
ion five million"
The address Of Governor Brooks is
printed in full in this issue.
Governor Brooks Address.
1.-The growth of the wool industry in
Wyoming and how to foster same" is
an important subject, and one so broad
that l can but briefly call your atten-
ton to q few of its salient features.
The work accomplished by our state
board of sheep commissioners and the
United States bureau of animal indus
try in Graduating scab in Wyoming is
the most important and beneficial event
in the history of the wool business. The
state board recently submitted its sew
enth annual report setting forth In de-
tail the results of seven years warfare
against scab. The state OF wyoming
is deeply indebted to DR.. ]. M. Wilson,,
Timothy Kinney and Jacob Delfelder
for a great work manfully done; n
true value of which is little appreciat-
ed even by the people most directly IN
terested. A work which required pup
lie spirit, tact, patience, perseverance
pluck and brains.
Today the pre-eminent position or
Wyoming as a sheep growing state is
shown by the Annual Wool Review for
1905, issued by the National associa-
ton of wool manufactures, which
shows $500, 900 sheep in Wyoming.
This estimate is based upon the returns
sent in by the scab inspectors, from
sheep inspected at the shearing pens
in the spring Of 1905 and is considered
approximately correct.
This places Wyoming second in the
list of wool producing states, Montana
alone excelling US. We o have TWO
and one half times as many sheep as
the world renowned wool producing
state of Ohio, and last year produced
three times as many pounds OF ra"
wool. we've wyoming woods shrine
ss per cent against Ohio's 80, n
ouently we only had about double the
mount of secured wool, worth, Octo
Der list. 70 cents per pound, against
sixty-three cents for Ohio. The total
exports Of Wyoming WOO asst veal
amounted to nearly thirty-two million
pounds, averaging on q basis OF foul
and one half million sheep, seven an
two-thirds pounds per head and bring
ing to the Wyoming wool growers TN
magnificent sum Of $6,360.oao.
The value OF the mutton exported
nearly equaled the wool returns; civ
;n, yuvomino a GRANT total of Oyer $12