Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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Sheep in the Starr feed lots, Centralia, Mo. 



If your sheep have a reputation of being fat and ''killing good," 

 the buyers will often offer five or ten cents more than for anything 

 else and will buy the sheep as soon as they come in, saving you the 

 shrink attendant to holding them all morning. It pays to play fair 

 with the buyers. If you have a bunch of lambs that you think 

 are not up to the standard, don't try to put one over on the buyers, 

 as they will remember and get you the next time you come. It 

 also puts your salesman in bad shape to help you on subsequent 

 bands. 



The water should always be fresh and clean; have plenty of 

 it in enough troughs so that the sheep can easily drink. To be on. 

 the safe side, clean out the troughs often. Be sure that the water 

 is in a well-lighted place, if you have it in a barn or shed. Sheep 

 like to see what they are drinking just as you do. In cold weather 

 keep the ice clear all day so that none will be turned away. If 

 some cannot get water one day, they are apt to drink too much 

 the next and get off of their feed because of that overabundance 

 of water in their stomachs. 



Enough troughs should be provided for the grain feeding, so 

 that all can. get all of the grain that they desire. With a small 

 bunch enough troughs can be placed so that all can eat at once. 

 With a bunch which numbers thousands this may be impossible, 

 but enough should be on hand to allow sufficient room so that each 



