The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-02-02
WOOLGROWERS HOLD
PROFITABLE MEETING
Price of Shearing Fixed at 10
Gents and Board. - Coyote
Hunting Indorsed.- Sheep
men Urged to Attend Meet
ing at Pendleton.

ing at Pendleton.
The annual meeting of the Nor
row County Wool Growers associa-
ton was held in this city on last Sat
urday at |. o. o. F. hall, and was
participated in by a goodly represen-
tation of the flockmasters and those
interested in the sheep industry, in
cluding a number Of prominent out
siders.
One question which every sheep
man was interested in was the price
to be paid for shearing this year. Hat
Pearson and Frank Turner, local men
who operate shearing plants, and
John McLennan, president Of the
Sheepshearers Union Of Butte, Mon
tana, were present to speak for the
local shearers. After some discus
SIGN it was decided that ten cents and
board, or its equivalent, would be
paid for shearing and FIVE cents mar
| gin allowed for plant operators.
The meeting endorsed the continu-
ance of the coyote hunting and trap
| ping work one-fourth of which is sup
ported by the Wool Growers associa-
tin of the county.
Max Hoke, secretary Of the State
Wool Growers association, pointed
out very clearly considerable work
of importance that will be attended
to at the annual meeting Of the Ore
gon Wool Growers association to be
held in Pendleton on February l0-ll,
and he also reviewed some of the &C
tivities of the association during the
past year. II was decided that every
sheepman that could possibly get
away should make arrangements and
attend this convention at Pendleton.
Below we give an outline of the pro-
gram of the coming convention.
Fred Herren, president of the Pa
cific Cooperative Wool Growers as
lsociation, which is the farmers CO.
operative wool marketing association
of Oregon, delivered splendid ad-
dress. He stated that the associa-
ton had made a splendid record, SELL
ing their wool from two to eight cents
above what the farmer on the outside
of the association has been able to OBJ
tain. The association is in a posi-
ton to take in members from the
range sections and is already receiv-
ing such applications. He asks that
the farmers investigate the market
ing association thoroughly, that they
may be prepared to act before mar
keting their wool this year.
John Kilkenny, president of the
Morrow County association, earnest
Ily requests that all sheepmen ar
range to be at the Pendleton meet
ing, since a dozen very prominent
speakers will be there to assist in
the deliberations of the convention,
and no man can afford to miss it.
STATE Wool GROWERS AT PENDLE-
TON, FEBRUARY 10 AND II.
The twenty-third annual conven-
ton of the Woolgrowers will be held
in Pendleton on Feb. 10 and IL.
Both days will be crowded full with
good things pertaining to the inter-
ests and advancement of the sheep
Industry. The following authorities
on the problems connected with the
industry will be heard:
F, B. Marshall, secretary of Ma
tional Woolgrowers association; DR..
! W. S. Mcclure, former secretary Ma
tional Woolgrowers, manager Gun
ningham Sheep Co.; A. j. Knollin,
manager WoolgrowerS Commission
Co.; E. F. Benson, manager Depart
ment of immigration and Industry,
! n. P. R. r., formerly Commissioner
of Agriculture, State Of Washington;
+. A, Ward, manager Oregon Coop
erative Woolgrowers; Jay H. Dobbin,
president Oregon Woolgrowers;
Robert Withycombe, superintendent
Eastern Oregon Experiment Station;
Paul V. MariS, Director of Exten-
sion, o. A. c.; Stanley Jewett, in
charge of predatory animal work, U.
IS Biological Survey; E. N. Kavan-
augh, District Forest Supervisor, and
others.
A banquet will be held Friday
night and the Pendleton Commercial
club is holding a smoker for the
woolgrowerS, Saturday night. The
executive committee is looking for
ward to the best attended session
ever held.
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