The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-09-06

IT,
Chicago (SpeciaD invitation to
the sheep raisers in the western
states, where millions OF acres of land
have been taken by settlers this year,
has been sent out by the National
Sheep and Wool Bureau for Great
Lakes Wool Convention, Sept. IL
12, in Chicago. The Bureau has been
fighting effectively the proposed leg
islation to prohibit the slaughter of
ewes, good, bad and Indifferent. hav-
ing provided better plan by which
the value of the shepherds flocks will
not be cut In two--as the legislators
proposed-by drastic ban upon the
marketing of ewes for slaughter. F.
s. King of Cheyenne is vice president
for the western states.
The convention will be held In the
Assembly Hall at the Union Stock
Yards. The Stock Yards Inn will be
the official headquarters, with loop
headquarters al Hotel Sherman
The invitation to the shepherds was
sent with the cooperation Of the I'LL
nois Council Of Defense and other
State Councils of Defense, and points
out the imperative need for increase
of wool production in the United
States. Curtailment of the wool in
civilian and military clothing is in
evitable unless steps are taken at
once to conserve the western flocks
and increase sheep and wool produc-
tion throughout the United States.
Special entertainment Of the sheep
men will be provided and opportuni-
ties in concrete form will be presented
to all fOckmasters who must either
sell their focks or move them to
grazing regions not cut up by settlers
homesteads. The states of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota are coop
Grating in the plan to set idle acres
In those states to profitable use in
sheep raising.
In spite of the efforts which have
been made In Congress to close the
markets entirely to female sheep the
National Sheep and Wool Bureau, un-
der whose auspices the convention will
be held, recently secured from the
meat packers an offer Of cooperation
by which the ewes and eve lambs suit
able for breeding, after purchase from
the sheepraisers, will be turned back
from the shambles for redistribution
by the Bureau to the farmers and
sheep ranchers in the central states,
thus putting cash into the pockets OF
the western sheepmen and at the same
time conserving the ewes for increase
of wool production in various parts Of
the country.
"Sheepmen whose focks are big or
little are cordially invited and urged
to attend the conference in Chicago,
August 21-22," President W. B. Tyrrell
of the Bureau said 1T is the great
opportunity for any enterprising
sheepman, troubled by the reduction Of
free range in the west, to find an
immediate solution Of his problem. In
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
there are 30,000,O00 acres of grazing
land suitable for sheep, most Of which
is now idle. This land must be put to
use for the armies of the United States
and her allies, all of which need warm
clothing quite as much as food. NO
clothing without wool can be proper
for soldier or civilian, and already
they are talking Of using as much as
40 per cent wood pulp in some cloth
ing
"The Great Lakes Wool Convention
ia an event in national history and
every sheepman who can leave home
for a week should be In his seat in
the Convention Hall at the Union
stock Yards when the meetings open
August 21. The speakers, moving pic
lures and exhibits will be a liberal
education to any sheepman, no matter
how much he may already know about
sheep and wool.
an preparation for the meeting the
state authorities of all states adjacent
to Chicago were urgently asked to
take immediate action for the pro-
lection of sheep If they were not al
ready adequately protected from the