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course leads to the end desired. By a series of actual experiments it 

 has been demonstrated that one acre of rape will sustain twelve lambs 

 two months. 



Jacob Zeiglar, who grows sheep on high priced land, says that his 

 lambs and wool pay for the sheep, so that the money received for the 

 sheep is clear profit. He reckons that the manure pays tor the labor. 

 Twenty-four scrub sheep were bought at $4.20 each, which, after being 

 pastured and fed on corn and oats, were sold for $8.69 each. Feeding 

 sheep on wheat land for five years in succession will double the yield 

 of wheat. 



In another instance fifty-four grade ewes, costing $167, dropped 

 sixty-one Iambs and the original ewes sold for $654, showing that money 

 can be easily made on high grade ewes when properly handled. There 

 is more money in thoroughbreds, but grades are good. There is, of 

 course, much more profit in breeding or feeding the best quality. The 

 best money always is made by full feeding, but many men try to get a- 

 long on the minimum amount of feed. It is a mistake. Good sheep 

 pay the best. After the right quality is obtained, then liberal feeding 

 of the right sort does the finishing. 



In sheep raising dogs are the greatest nuisance. There are more 

 mongrel dogs in America than in any other part of the world. It is a 

 peculiar thing that American farmers either can not or will not, or thay 

 are too indifferent to grapple with this subject and find a satisfactory 

 solution. The American farmers may be trusted to adjust all matters 

 affecting his interest except that of cur dog, and this has proved too 

 many for him. If mongrel dogs were killed the sheep business would 

 be much more attractive and interesting than it is. In my travels in 

 Europe I have noticed a great many sheep of different countries and in 

 dinereht sections of England. I have visited some wild, desolate look- 

 ing places where the houses were very poor, few and far between, but 

 the country was overrun with sheep. I saw sheep everywhere, and I 

 failed to find any damage inflicted by dogs. At the same time they keep 

 dogs and numbers of dogs, but they are thoroughbreds and apparently 

 intelligent enough to know that sheep should not be killed. It is my 

 experience that thoroughbred dogs do not, as a rule, kill sheep." 



CONSERVATISM IN SHEEP FEEDING. 



BY HOX. PETEB JAXSEN, BEFOEE SOUTH DAKOTA SHEEP BREEDEBS. 



"I have entitled my paper 'Conservatism in Sheep Feeding" believing 

 as I do that at this time of high prices for sheep and wool we should 

 carry on the business on conservative lines. I need not tell you that I 

 am one of your adopted fellow citizens, although I claim to be as loyal 



