GETTING A START WITH SHEEP 



Don't Start With Too Many Keep One Breed Cull the 



Ewes Save Best Ewe Lambs 



With 



Better start with a few ewes and grow into the business, 

 good care sheep increase rapidly. 



In a few years a good-sized bunch of ewes can be grown from a 

 small start. 



Pure-Bred Ewes 



Sheep need not be pure-bred or registered to be profitable. 

 The average farmer will do better producing sheep and lamls 

 to sell for mutton than producing pure-bred sheep to sell for 

 breeding stock. 



Selling Breeding Stock 



The farmer who is a good judge of sheep, understands breeding 

 pure-breds, and is a good salesman, can make the breeding of 

 pure-bred sheep very profitable. 



Have Ewes All One Breed 



Whether the ewes are pure-bred or not it is best to have them 

 all of one breed. They look better, their fleeces will be more 

 alike, and their lambs more uniform than from a mixed bunch. 

 The breed is a matter of choice. All of the well established breeds 

 have good qualities. 



Kind of Ewes Sort out Delicate Ones 



Discard ewes with small bodies, narrow chests, and those that 

 are small around the heart; also the ones with crooked and club 

 feet that are apt to catch and hold filth between the toes. 



Ideal Type of Breeding Ewe. Note Short Neck, Straight Back 

 and Roomy Middle. Property of J. C. Andrew. 

 We.t Point, Ind. 



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