East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-06-01
BEDDING OUT" PLAN
ADVISED FOR SHEEP
FORESTRY PEOPLE SAY NEW
WAY BENEFITS SHEEP AND
GRASS.
Under Plan Suggested Herder Camps
Wherever sheep May Be; No Per-
Iuanent Camp Ground for Use at
Night.

AS a result of experiments during
the past few years the department Of
agriCu',uTe is now advocating the use
% tee bedding-opt system of herling
81 ecp tn open Iarg, s, instead Of Tile
cid closc-herding system which nas
heretofore been in use.
This system got its name from the
fact that the herder who attends the
band camps and beds his flocks wher.
ever the sheep find themselves at
nightfsn. Under the old plan he as-
tablished fixed camp and bed
ground and drove the sheep back 10
/ the same place each night.
Through experience on the nation
al forest ranges last year the depart
ment states that lambs from 1edded-
cut bands were five pounds heavier
on an average at the end of the sea-
sen than those which were trailed to
| and from established backgrounds,
and that the range can carry from 10
l to 25 per cent more sheep than when
so much is trampled out in travelling
back and forth. The disadvantages
1 of the old system, according to the
1 department, were two-fold, those to
the forage and those to the sheep.
I The forage suffered by being trampled
badly, and being actually destroyed
: at and near the backgrounds; the
) sheep lost weight in going to and
5 from the camps, and in dry weather
suffered not little from dust and
e from crowding.
s Moreover, under the old system the
e sheep were kept pretty well punched;
5 under the new play they Craze at will
e it scattered, open flocks. During the
day the herder moves about in wide
circuit around his charges, lookins
y for tracks to see that none of c
: sheep have strayed beyond his circle
: The sheep are constantly moving
: through new feed instead of travelling
over areas already fed over.
sherman County Crops = Jerr!
Stone, prominent Athena farmer, wa
here Saturday en- route home from 4;
trip to Sherman county. He says tn,
/ crop outlook there is very good bu
that farmers have been slow witt
their work compared with the farm
T ing methods in this county Their
are some former Umatilla county far
mers living there and they get goo
results by farming as it is done i
this county.
Holdman Wheat Good Wheat
= : now well headed out in the Holimal
y district and it is said harvesting i
. that section may start before the firs
of July this year Hay cutting wi
be underway in about two weeks. TIL
= crop is good throughout that sectio
:, though further rains will still be vel
N coined.
- Buyers to Shaniko i'm Private Car
RI To attend the wool sale at Shank
l. today, the woolbuye1s who have bee
q making Pendleton their headquarter:
left last night in a private car fo
the Wasco county sheep town.
Crops Look Poor i'm sherman
Z That the crops in Sherman count
locked poor to him is the statemer
u made by Marion Jack. we'll know
local farmer who has just returne
= from fishing trip up the Dcschute
a Much of the grain hooks it was badl
= burnt, he says, while the Jim Hi
\ mustard has literally taken sectio
a after session.
Weather Not Coed for Grain-Tt
q hot, sultry weather of yesterday an
a today is not at all pleasing to loc;
q farmers although they do not belieN
a any damage has been done to ii
a grain yet Such weather. howeve
a however, arouses m them fear ,
a the hot winds that sometimes CO
a them thousands of dollars.
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