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.voii will liud lli.it it is not the l;irjj;i'st carciiss thai l)riii;,'s ilw most money. 

 It is the slioit. hlocUy. nice 8(5 to 00 pound lainl) that brinjjs the highest 

 price. Yon jjfet a lainl) to 1(Nt or IL'.") iioiinds and it does not command 

 the hi.irliest i)fice in tlie Kastefii niafkets. and llicy ai-e tlie markets we 

 liave to cater to. Yon will find that tlie crossinjj; of pure-bred rams upon 

 Shropshire ewes will !)rinj,^ the best results; from them we get the blocky 

 lambs that we sell at three different periods. If you have the object in 

 view of makin;:: money out of your shee]). the j^rade land>s are just as 

 good as the pure-bred. Kut don't go to using that grade hunb to produce 

 more hunbs to feed, because if you do your flock will begin to deteriorate 

 immediately. But if you go to following up the pure-bred through and 

 through you can not make enough money out of them unless you sell 

 them for breeding pmposes. 1 am in favor of improving the stock and 

 getting out of it all the money I can. 



Mr. Strange: Has there l)een a single example of a carload of pure- 

 bred lambs going into the market from that section of the State? 



Mr. Mills: If they go in for the block they will not bring any more 

 than the grades; l)Ut they do wlien they are sold to make our grades better. 

 1 have a neighbor who breeds pure-bred Shropshii*es. In the last ten 

 years I think he has not sold his lambs for any more money than I have 

 mine, except those he sells for breeding purposes. "Wlien they are sold 

 by the pound they go for the same money. His are pure-bred Shropshire 

 and mine are grades. 



Mr. 1. M. Miller: When do you shut yoiu" lambs up? 



Mr. Mills: After I put them on dry feed in the fall they should not 

 be allowed out on green feed again, or allowed too much of a range. Some 

 • of the people up there use self-feeders. They use them for three or four 

 weeks before tliey put tlie lamj)s on full feed. Some use racks and bars 

 set up on a platform with slats through which the corn sifts and the 

 lambs can go there and eat whenever they want to. We always have 

 I)ure water for them to drink. I always feed morning and evening at 

 regular times. Be sure that no grain is left in the feeding troughs after 

 feeding time, but sweep it out nice and clean, for the lambs are very 

 dainty. 



A member: I understood you to say you would not use the grade 

 lambs to l)reed again. 



Mr. Mills: Not the grade male lambs. I use the grade ewes and pure- 

 bfed rams. 



Mr. I. M. Miller, of Upland, Grant County, read the following paper: 



