The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-11-27
SHEEPMAN PRAISES
LIVESTOCK SHOW
Alex Lindsay of lone Says Great Ex.
position Forward Step In Promot-
ing Industry In Northwest
Thinks Portland Fine City.

IL would De useless for me to at
tempt to tell you. Mr.. Editor, of all
that | saw at the Pacific International
Livestock Exposition out at the new
pavilion at the North Portland stock
yards" said Alex Lindsay, former
Morrow county sheepman who now
makes his home in the Rose City.
Fine stock and new methods were
much in evidence. OF course the
milking machine is nothing new, but
1 had very interesting time watch
ing two COWS being MIXED by ma
chine. These cows had never been
MIXED in such a manner before and
l expected to see some kicking, but
actually they just stood and chewed
their 'cud and seemed to enjoy it..
This happened to be a Sharpless ma
chine, operated by man who knew
his business. He MIXED three and a
half gallons in about as many min
utes. Another very interesting ma
chine was one to fill milk bottles,
demonstrated by the Simpless Com
pany. All the man did was to set the
bottle on the machine and it was
ready for the customer when taken
of, the cap put on air tight | be-
lieve this machine can be improved
upon by another year. l suggested
he put an endless chain to it with the
house number so the milk could be
delivered direct to the consumer in
one operation.
"The greatest milk COW | ever saw
was Holstein from Hollywood, Nm,
giving l9 gallons in "a hours. Per-
haps there were better to be seen, but
as lam not much Of a COW man, |
thought this was good enough for
me. The display of Shorthorns and
Herefords was very good, but what
am itching to tell you about, Mr.. Edl-
tor, is the sheep division, and the
wool exhibit. 1t would be mere folly
to try to tell you what saw among
the woolies, it all seems like dream
The display of English breeds took
me back to the days of my youth, and
altho | didn't get half through, cut
turnips with machine / hadn't seen
for thirty years and now over forty
years since cut turnips with a ma
chine like it in Scotland, when wp
were fitting up show sheep for the
great animal sales at Perth, of thor
oughbred Rams. OF course we ar
all Americans on this side of the pond
but often wonder why it took so
long before sheep was worth ten
dollars in Oregon and not a sign Of
shipbuilding yard in Portland. 1t
took Kaiser Bill to wake up the world
and now since the awakening in Ore
gon suggest that we have an annual
show and sale OF rams every year.
"At the show the English breeds
seemed to be better represented than
the fine wool breeds, although J L.
Smith had fine bunch of Delaines.
Rambouillettes made a very good
show, in fact some Of the finest sheep
of this kind | ever saw, were on
display. Lincolns were mostly from
the Valley, from Monmouth. The
sheep that | couldn't but take great
interest in were the Romneys, a
beautiful sheep of the English white
face type, and | think will be fine
leading sheep for crossing as he is
blocky fellow and built on the ground.
Another sheep of the same build is
the Corriedale, only much heavier.
The black faced English sheeep would
have, in himself, made a great show.
Hampshires took the lead in number
and as the black faces are mostly
dyed yellow, it seemed to catch the
eye as people in Oregon are not much
used to this way Of fixing up for show
stuff.
1--WE never get too old to learn and
believe l learned more about wool
in four days than l would have learn
ed in twenty years running the lone
demonstration weeder, that is If had
not come to the stock show. The
average farmer is always busy, too
busy to come to Portland unless he
has business here, but the boy in
Eastern Oregon that has ten sheep,
| would rather meet in the stock
show than the man that has ten
thousand.
81 am sure that collection Of wool
that was on exhibit by the Column
bia Basin Wool Warehouse was a
great education to anyone Interest
ed. The stock show made 1t posi-
BILE to bring the best of the sheep to-
gether, either for mutton or wool.
The Columbia Wool Warehouse made
1t possible by just stepping across
the aisle to know whether you were
increasing the value of your wool or
decreasing 1t by breeding, as they
had wool on exhibition from the
uttermost part of the earth and all
Of the states of the Union. But
Oregon has got to get in and do bet
ter in the line of fine woods IL she
is going to lead the world in that
line.
Enough said, Mr.. Editor, and al
though | never contributed to the
erecting of such fine building, the
men that shared in the Pacific Inter
national Livestock Exposition are to
be congratulated for just as sure as
President Wilson said in one Of his
late addresses that the men who are
not looking forward today are of no