The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-07
HUNDREDS ARE RUINED
BUYING ORCHARD BONDS
COFFIN PLAN is APPROVED
Experiment Made by Local Man
With Lincoln Sheep Has
Found Favor Elsewhere

H. Stanley Coffin of this city, who
| is breeder of pure bred Lincoln
sheep and who has sold here a large
number of Lincoln bucks TO be cross
| ed on the strains already owned here,
| it being his idea that the Lincoln
cross was the best possible for this
valley, has had his judgment confirm
ed. Joseph r. Wing of Washington,
ID. c.. member of the United States
tariff board, has been making a spec
| ial study of the wool and mutton bus
| mess. In South America he found
conditions very similar to those UNI
der which the woolmen OF this coun-
try are working. With regard to
stock range, markets and such things
| they are solving the same problem as
are being worked out here Writing
to the National Wool Grower, Mr.
| Wing shows that the Lincoln cross is
the best South American sheep and
gives reasons which apply here.
Mr. Coffin Well Pleased
Mr.. Coffin is naturally we'll pleased
with the conclusions Mr.. Wing an
nounces. 1t is confirmation in a sec
ond important respect, of conclusions
he had arrived at as a result of his
own observation and experiment. Ii
will be remembered that recently
The Herald called attention to the
fact that the federal government is
now admitting the value of sheep as
a protection to the national forests,
particularly from the forest fire point
of view. This was matter which
Mr.. Coffin had all along contended in
behalf of the sheep but ne was slow
in attaining recognition. His con-
| tention has now been officially adj
mitted and also, from South America,
comes his justification for his belief
in the Lincolns Mr.. Wing, among
other things, says in his article in
| The National Wool Grower, the fol
| lowing:
Lincoln Is Most Seen
"After the Rambouillets came the
| Lincolns and the Romneys. Lincolns
| overspread these northern provinces
and today are the most seen of any
sheep. Argentina has been a great
| buyer of Lincoln rams in England.
At the same time, Argentina has
| been great breeder of Lincoln sheep.
There are stud flocks with as many
| as 10000 pure bred Lincoln ewes.
There are also similar cabanas or stud
| farms where there are immense num-
bers of splendidly bred Rambouillets.
The Ram bouillet is fast going out in
South America, and is being super
seeded by the Lincoln and the Rom
ney.
| Get a Better Wool
] u Ia, o.
with Lincoln and Romney rams is
what has given Argentina such good
woods and such good mutton. Ar
gentina woods are lighter than our
woods; they make more secured
pounds than our woods, and yet |
think that the. sheep of Argentina
shear quite as much per head, per-
haps more, than do our sheep. Their
woods bring good prices. | found
men getting from 16 cents to 21 cents
per pound for their woods last season.
That is because they are desirable
woods to the manufacturers. strong
and fairly clean and of rather light
shrinkage.
| 81 wish you to think of this thing
we will come back to it again. The
Argentine flock owners get for their
woods nearly what we get for ours,
| more than our western brothers get
| for theirs and the reason is that their
woods are more desirable in being
| clean.
More Care Is Shown
| Then they are more carefully put
up. Quite often they are assorted be-
fore they are baled; they are not
skirted, as are Australian woods, but
| they are careful to put in a fleece no
dirty tag locks and to put in a bale
| only f1eeces of a certain character.
Then the bale is marked telling what
it contains and the wager knows that
it is of uniform quality and will need
| little farther asserting in his hands.
There are not a large number of diff
| ferent crosses on one estancla or in
one neighborhood. The South AM
orleans have gone through the expe-
rience of testing out the breeds. They
! have tested nearly all the sorts that
are bred in Europe and have discard
ed practically everything but the three
! breeds named, the Rambouillet the
. Lincoln and the Romney. To the
Downs. one and all. they object that
! they hurt the wool and make it too
light"
| SrCARN6TJON CASE WITH IIrRX