PROGRESSIVE SHEEP RAISING 



Breeds and Breeding 



MANY farmers wish to go into the sheep industry to 

 a limited extent, but do not know where to secure 

 breeding stock. We would suggest that a flock of 

 twenty-five to fifty ewes be purchased from any good reliable 

 breeder or from the market places, and a registered ram 

 be put with them. Lambs should not be bred under an 

 age of about eighteen months. Only the best flocks should 

 be patronized in securing these rams, and 

 Secure Breed- the advice of experts should be sought. 

 ing Stock Usually the best breeders advertise in 



The American Sheep Breeder, The 

 National Wool Grower and other good livestock journals 

 and reference can be had here for breeders. The sheep 

 breeder will do well to subscribe for one or more good live- 

 stock journals. It would be well to write to the Secretary 

 of the national association of the breed you wish, who will 

 always gladly give information. A list of such secretaries 

 is given at the end of this booklet. 



Many times it will be found econom- 

 B reeding ical and profitable to buy these ewe 



Ewes lambs in the open market. This is 



frequently done and with success. 



It does not pay, however, except when they are bought 

 in car lots (about 125 animals to make a single-deck car), 

 and shipped out of the Yards immediately. Several farm- 

 ers can jointly take a car and have them properly selected 

 by commission men who will, for a small commission, see 

 that they are forwarded as soon as the order can be filled. 



In some cases a number of farmers have sent a repre- 

 sentative to the Stock Yards to select sheep. When this is 

 done, the services and suggestions of the commission men 

 can be secured just the same. 



It will be found that everybody around the Stock Yards 

 is interested and ready to co-operate in placing suitable 



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