EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X. 583 



some fellow beats you in part of the classes. You decide right there that 

 "he won't do it again." The next year you have your flock in better form 

 and have bought a show sheep or two. This time you did well and also 

 had good sales. Soon you will have quite a bunch of rams and perhaps 

 a few ewes to sell, and then you advertise in some of the papers. Soon 

 you have large numbers of sale sheep and are advertising more extensively. 

 Your name is becoming known among the breeders and you will soon be 

 selling to pure-bred breeders. In this business you can go on and on and 

 strive for higher ideals. 



The words just read will give you an idea of what success any indus- 

 trious farmer can attain. Fully that rapid advancement has been made 

 by many a young fellow, and that shows that it can be done. Or the 

 following up of grade breeding can be practiced with large returns. 



Now let us. view the feeding proposition. First of all, you must be a 

 good sheep judge before you are capable of purchasing a bunch of feeding 

 lambs. Lambs must be properly bought, fed and marketed, and the 

 time for it all is so short that it takes a veteran to make the success. The 

 right quality of lambs in proper condition must be purchased, and then 

 only experienced feeders can properly feed them for the greatest returns. 

 Knowing the market enables the veteran to get his lambs on the market 

 at the proper season. The farmer who has a little money and goes off to 

 the market and buys a bunch of lambs, brings them home and does not 

 properly care for them, and then markets them at a wrong season, will 

 usually come out "at the little end of the horn," as the old saying is. 



Feeding market lambs is a business by itself and should be done by 

 those who know how. It is true that not all make a success at it. But 

 any farmer who succeeds at anything will get along all right with a flock 

 of breeding sheep. Don't try to do it all, because there are other business 

 men in the world beside yourself. Put forth your extra energy in making 

 the breeding flock better and you will be well repaid for all your time. 

 It is a good thing not to be satisfied, but to be always working higher. 

 Make what you have better instead of trying to branch out too wide. 

 Get some of those old culls out of the flock and replace them with the 

 best that can be obtained. 



Breeding sheep and not feeding is the steady, profitable business for 

 all farmers. Be sure to get good ones when you are starting, and they 

 will yield the largest returns and will also afford you much pleasure and 

 encouragement. It is scrub sheep that make men "tired of them." The 

 good ones are welcomed anywhere, and the little breeding flock will yield 

 larger returns on the investment than in anything else. 



FOUNDING A PURE BRED FLOCK. 

 From the Ruralist. 



To become successful in the breeding of pure breds we must go to 

 work with all our energy and with an aim for the top of the ladder of 

 success. A successful shepherd always has a love for his sheep and is 

 always on the alert to know of any news or ways of improvement of the 



