Herrling, Arnold, Brock Farm, The Dalles
Submitted by Franklin Herrling

2008 Sesquicentennial Award Family

“He raised wheat and each winter he returned to Stayton and would tell everyone after that he proofed up on the homestead they would not see him in this “God Forsaken Country”. His 3^rd year at the homestead he hit a big wheat crop and stayed there 42 years.”

My Dad, Ed Herrling, was born December 4, 1891 in Stayton, Oregon.  My Grandfather, Franklin Herrling, who I was named after, had a sawmill in Stayton.  When Dad was growing up he had to grub the stumps out to clear the fields for farming.  In 1910 Dad wanted to leave home so he took up a homestead near Shaniko, Oregon.  He picked the place because there “wasn’t any trees or stumps to grub”.  He raised wheat and each winter he returned to Stayton and would tell everyone that after he proofed up on the homestead they would not see him in this “God Forsaken Country”. His 3^rd year at the homestead he hit a big wheat crop and stayed there 42 years.

In 1952 Dad and his brother had 13,000 acres and raised wheat hay and had 2 bands of sheep and a few head of cattle.  They sold the ranch in 1952.  In 1954, Dad and Mom bought out Mom’s brothers’ and sisters’ part of her folks farm in Shedd, Oregon, the Sesquicentennial Farm. We farmed the place for a few years raising Rye Grass Seed.

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