PROGRESSIVE SHEEP RAISING 



no equal as a fiber for the manufacture of clothing. Ade- 

 quate substitutes may yet be found for leather and other 

 by-products of meat animals, but there is little likelihood 

 of our ever finding a suitable substitute for wool. 



, The Army had to be clothed as well 



Increased as fed Wool was the best if not the 



Importance only material out of which suitable 



of Sheep clothing could be made, and it required 



the wool of twenty sheep to outfit 

 each soldier. This combination of circumstances has 

 created a world-wide interest in the sheep industry, 

 marking, as we say above, a new era in the American 

 industry and giving impetus to the backward swing of the 

 sheep population from the free ranges of our far west to 

 the thousands of mid-west and eastern farms from which 

 they had formerly disappeared. 



Those who think of entering the 

 The Oppor- business of sheep breeding naturally 



tunity ask themselves, what are the chances 



for a permanent sheep and wool 

 market? Such a question is fully justified. The following 

 news item is quoted from the United States Food Admin- 

 istration in February, 1918: 



"It is probable that Europe for many years after the war 

 will look to a great extent to America for its meat supply. 



"Europe's herds are dwindling under war's demands 

 faster than they can be replenished. 



"When the German armies retired from occupied por- 

 tions of France and Belgium approximately 1,800,000 

 head of cattle were appropriated. This addition virtually 

 safeguarded Germany from the cattle shortage other 

 nations now suffer." 



While sheep are not specifically mentioned in this 

 report, yet the decline in all kinds of livestock has a 

 direct bearing on any branch of the industry. Besides 

 there is a world shortage of sheep amounting to many 

 million head. 



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