PROGRESSIVE SHEEP RAISING 



This impression, however, is a mistaken one. The 

 English eat more lamb and less mutton than is generally 

 supposed, most of their lamb being imported from Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand and Argentina. 



Great Britain still consumes a smaller proportion of 

 lamb than the United States, but the proportion of 

 lambs to aged stock was steadily growing up to the time 

 of the war. 



Statistics show that both Australia and New Zealand, 

 up to August, IQ 14, were greatly increasing their lamb ship- 

 ments to Great Britain at the expense of "aged" mutton, 

 and it is our belief that in the future, lamb shipments will 

 develop a still greater predominance. 



Furthermore, there are economic considerations which 

 justify the farmer or rancher in sending lambs to market, 

 rather than endeavoring to save all of them for mature 

 weight and one or more shearings of wool before killing. 



. , , The average sheep raiser must find 



A Lamo a market f or \^ i am bs, keeping back 



Market only enough ewe lambs to replenish 



Necessary his breeding flock. This is on account 



of the cost of feeding them through 

 the winter. He would, of course, get a shearing of wool 

 off lambs carried over, which would fully compensate 

 him for the cost of the feed. And there would be a gain 

 in the weight of each animal so held. But when he took 

 them to market he would have "aged sheep" and not 

 "lambs" and the falling off in price per pound would 

 more than offset the gain in number of pounds. 



, . , ~, This has all been figured out by 



Should Encour- breeders again and again, and they find 

 age Lamb it more profitable and therefore best for 



Consumption the perpetuity of the sheep raising in- 

 dustry, that surplus lambs be sent to 

 market and that the public taste for lamb be catered to 

 rather than discouraged as being unpatriotic and wasteful. 



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