TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 475 



In the pure-bred business, a breeder's friends might nearly be termed 

 an asset. Friends are our mirrors and should be clearer than crystal. 



It is highly profitable to correct a mistake. If you resolve to do so, the 

 care you exei-cise in avoiding them will give you a less number to 

 correct. 



Large oaks from little acorns grow, and the big breeders have been 

 little some day. This is satisfaction to the beginner, because what has 

 been done can be done again. 



The business which is conducted on the basis of a hope for permanency 

 must give value received or it will die. 



Old sayings are the best or they would long ago have been forgotten, 

 so there must be great truth in that familiar one, "Blood will tell." The 

 scrub ram gives undesirable results which are a detriment to any flock 

 and lower the profits derived therefrom. 



"Opportunity knocks once at every man's door." When it comes to 

 you in the pure-bred sheep business, be sure you are awake to answer the 

 bell, because if you don't someone else will, and then gain the trade of 

 your vicinity. Successful breeders are "live-wires" all the time. 



Make your methods of breeding an object lesson for improvement to 

 all who may visit your flock. 



Success as a breeder is gained by many years of careful selection 

 and breeding for size, type, character, mutton conformation, and dense 

 fleeces. When purchases of breeding ewes or rams are made they are 

 selected from the most reputable flock within reach because individuals 

 from only such a flock will give the desired unvarying results. The "old 

 war horses" are those who have looked to the future and built for it. Do 

 not expect success in one or two years. 



Standards which determine economy in the purchase of breeding sheep 

 do not lie in dollars alone. Over against them must be considered the 

 really important measure, and that is value. An expenditure, no matter 

 how small, is extravagance if it brings no returns. If you purchase rams 

 or ewes simply because they are low-priced, and they give very little or 

 no returns, it is extravagance. It is no matter how high-priced a sheep 

 is, just so he is good value. 



GREEN FEEDS FOR SUMMER. 



Rape is the most universal green plant grown for summer use with 

 lambs and exhibition sheep. Perhaps this is due to the fact that it is 

 easily raised and grows an abundance of feed on a small area, as much 

 as fifteen tons having "been obtained from a single cutting per acre. 

 Dwarf Essex is the best variety and grows up very quickly, being large 

 enough to cut for use within seventy to ninety days after planting. The 

 seed is about the same in size as that of the turnip, and when sown broad- 

 cast it will require from four to six pounds per acre. It can be sown in 

 the spring as soon as warm weather comes, and when sown in drills it 

 will not require over three or four pounds per acre, yet it need not be 

 spared, because it only costs from five to eight cents per pound. Well 



