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1 do not kuow of an investintnt that will make money 

 faeter tiian will sheep — with proper cai-e and attention. We 

 think an investment is doing wonderfully well if the origi- 

 nal capital doubles itself in ten years. But see what the 

 sheep did; if they had increased to twelve only witliin the 

 ten years they would have doubled the investment. But 

 they did much more than simply double. ^Vithin the ten 

 years the ewe part of the flock — that part retained upon 

 the farm — doubled about five times, to say nothing of the 

 number of ewe and male lambs that have been sold from 

 tl e farm within the ten years. I have realized, in the 

 fifteen years, about one thousand dollars for lambs, while 

 the wool has paid for the keep of the flock every year. 



I have never been bothered by dogs. I have always kept 

 the sheep upon my own lands, never allowing them to run 

 r.pon the commons. 



The animals have been perfectly kealthy all the time. I, 

 byve ne^'er lost a sheep except from old age. They run upon 

 pasture about nine months of the year without any other 

 feed in addition. The pasture keeps them in fine condition. 

 During the lambing time the ewes need some extra feed, so I 

 Ifcen give them some cotton seed — about three bushels to 

 each one hundred ewes — and any good hay that I happen to 

 h.ave on hand. 



The lands upon which the sheep have been running will 

 carry twice as many head of stock now as it would ten 

 years ago. The sheep is called the "golden hoofed" animal 

 and I think they are entitled to the name; they have not 

 (mly brought in the money, but have improved the land. 

 The manure spreader is said to be a paying investment, but 

 sheep are a decided improvement on any manure spreader, 

 as they manufacture and spread the manure too. T liave 

 never had trouble arise from running other kinds of stock 

 with the slieep. T keep hors^^s. cattle and slieep in the same 

 pa-'<ture nil through the grazing season, except when the 

 lamb's are vounj?-. when T keen them awar from nil other 



