East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-03

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the time that they receive little nour
Lshment from their mothers and exist
upon the forage your lambs become
I what Is termed In the stockyard Ian
7 guage dried out And there Is
& great discrimination made by the
/ packers between this dried out lamb
and the lamb that is fresh from its
mother, being what they term as full
Of Juice and sappy
During the past season this dis
! crfmination has varied from a few
cents per hundred weight TO as much
a. two dollars per hundred. And IL
does not matter how good your pas
turrs may be. when the natural time
comes for the lamb TO leave its
mother II loses in weight. and while
u may be of larger frame in the sea-
son It Is quite liable that Il will not
weigh as much as II did when Il first
began leaving Its mothers milk.
To those Of you whose ranges are
50 far distant from the railroad as 20
make IL impracticable TO market your
lambs at the proper time. would
Ike TO suggest and advise that you
conflne your attention TO the raising
OF breeding ewes. or rather such
lambs as will develop into a suitable
breeding eve, and / believe that you
will find the market equally remun
erative as that OF the man who Is IA
vorably located and raises the NUT
ton lamb. Already there has been
vide search made by the sheepmen
for suitable eve stock TO make up
the shrinkage In. their flocks. II isl
apparent to you all that the man who
stays In the sheep business must eth.
er raise some eve lambs or he musl
buy from another producer.
hope that at this meeting we will
have much discussion on better prep
aration OF our woods for the market
The best results can only be obtain
ed by concerted action. In the past
Few years, through the efforts OF the
National Wool Warehouse company
Of Chicago, much has been done in /
encouraging and educating the wool
growers in this matter. The sooner
We can equal the quality Of the pro-
duct Of Australia. New Zealand and
south America. the nearer we can
compete with them. with the high 1
cost Of production due 10 the large
land investments that are now neces-
SLATED by the passing OF the free
range. II is necessary that we shall
acquire the greatest efficiency and
practice the most rigid economy II
our industry is to flourish and pros
per.
President stanfield here read from
an address by F. J. Hagenbarth, pres
ident OF the National Woolgrowers'
association. some interesting observa-
tions. Some Of the salient plnts were
as follows.
The shortage in the worlds wool
supply in 1913 was equal TO the to-
tai American clip, the shortage be-
ing caused by drought in Australia.
declines in South America, destruc-
ton OF sheep in southeastern Europe
and a loss OF numbers in the United
States.
Great changes In the character Of
the wool is shown. The Merino Is de-
clining and the crossbred Increasing
owing to the increased demand for
meat Last year 50 per cent OF the
wool sold in London was crossbred
in 1895 but s1.7 was cross
bred
A few years ago wool was grown
one year and used the next. The
has now caught up with
the supply. There has been no old
wool carried over in Boston since
1912.
Never before have all OF the wool
producing countries save one been in
voled in war. During war men con-
sumo five times as much wool as dur
ng peace.
It is predicted that the Australian
Zip for 1915 will be $4,000 900
short and that there will be
4 considerable shortage in this coun-
Try.
Germany has 5000, 900 sheep.
France 100000, England 27.OOO.-
700. Russia As 900, 900. Austria Hun
gary 100000. Portugal 100000
servia 100000, and Montenegro and
Belgium 500 900. All OF these coun-
ries are involved by the war. Sheep
ire being driven behind the armies
or food and in a short time fully