East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-10-05
SUPERIOR LONG WOOLED
SHEEP FROM OREGON

For so years they have been pro-
ducing in western oregon and Wash
ingtOn long .wooled sheep of excep-
treated by the farmers of the far
west as incidental To their field ag-
riculture. During all of this time
they never have apparently appre-
c.ated the fact that they were partic-
ularly favored i'm the way of climatic
conditions for the production of a
quality of sheep of the Cotswold, Lin
coin and Leicester breeds that is so
much i'm demand in Ohio. New York
and other states further east.
During all of this time the sheep
fanciers of the eastern states have
been making annual tours to England
and importing from there sheep Of
these breeds to make up their show
flocks and to introduce new blood
into their flocks.
Last fall Mr.. A. T.. Chamberlain,
development commissioner of the
Great Northern Railway, stranger
to all of the western breeders who
was visiting the Oregon state fair
noticed the superior quality of the
Oregon sheep of these breeds and in
duced one of the breeders, Mr.. f. A.
Koser of Rickreal, to bring small
flock to the international Live Stock
exposition at Chicago. Mr.. Koser
was novice in the showing of sheep
and found himself in competition with
the best that could be bought in Eng
land or Canada or were produced in
the United States. And they were
dressed for the show while his We're
from the pasture.
Notwithstanding this handicap he
succeeded in winning his full share
of the prizes. Mr.. Frank Harding of
Waukesha, Wisconsin. noticed the
quality of these sheep and this year
instead of importing he went to Ore
gon for his show flocks. He has just
concluded round of the state fair
circuits and has certainly won his
full share of the prizes. There is no
use of a farmer raising high priced
quality live stock unless he let's those
who want to purchase that class of
stuff know that he has it. Judicious
advertising is as necessary to the sue
cess of the breeder as ii Is that he
have the stuff to sell.
The best advertising n breeder can
get is by taking stuff where other
breeders are and showing them what
he has.
Mr.. Koser did this. The result will
be a development of large trade be-
tween the eastern states and the west
ern slopes of Oregon and Washington
in sheep of these breeds.
And Mr.. Chamberlain tells us that
they are breeding on these same
slopes dairy cattle of a superior quail
ity, as they are their long wooled
sheep. why don't they bring some
of them over the mountains and let
the eastern breeders see what they
have?
But why shouldn't they have su-
perior quality of dairy cattle? They
have the climate and conditions un-
der which the dairy breeds of cattle
and the different breeds of long
wooled sheep were developed. They
have green feed or grazing for their
stock the year around, and 1t was
just such environment that contrib
uted to and made possible the devel-
opment of these different breeds to
their highest type of perfection.
With such conditions as they have
in western Washington and Oregon
there is no necessity Of our having
to import long wooled sheep or dairy
cattle from Europe. II the farmers
of that part of this country who are
favored with such excellent condi-
tions will produce the stuff, the east
ern man will certainly buy it. and
at very profitable prices