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sheep, what is the additional cost to fence a square 10-acre 

 field for sheep? 



4. Mention some of the advantages, aside from the 

 money income, in having sheep upon your farm? 



5. A farmer buys 80 sheep at $6.25 each. What was 

 the total cost? , 



6. At shearing time they average 7^/4 lbs. of wool each. 

 How much is the total amount of wool worth at 22 cents 

 per pound? 



7. From the eighty sheep the farmer raises 75 lambs 

 worth $5 each. What is the total income from the herd 

 for lambs and wool? 



8. Study the sheep raising industry of your neighbor- 

 hood as follows: (a) How many sheep on each farm on 

 the average? (b) What breed? (c) Are they raised 

 chiefly for wool or for mutton? 



9. Compare the labor and profit of caring for five 

 dairy cows with that for thirty head of sheep. 



10. Debate: Resolved: That it would be profitable to 

 extend the sheep raising industry of this community. 



11. Collect a number of woolen fabrics for a contest 

 in judging how many are all wool. Test by burning with 

 a match threads of the warp and woof separately. 

 Woolen threads fry and show grease oozing out while 

 cotton threads blaze up brightly. 



12. Show how to keep an account of a flock of sheep 

 giving cost of food and care and also income. 



Write to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for the following farmers* bulletins: Raising 

 Sheep for Mutton, No. 96 ; Sheep Feeding, No. 49 ; Angora 

 Goats, No. 137 ; Scab in Sheep, No. 159. 



