20 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA 



terror that devastated eastern flocks, has been nearly 

 solved, and the author has had the pleasure of pre- 

 senting in this second edition a plan of flock man- 

 agement that will surely avoid the disasters that 

 follow in the trail of the insidious foe and insure 

 keeping a flock in beautiful health and vigor. 



Of a life somewhat filled with work and thought, 

 the writer feels this is his chief fruit and it cheers 

 him to think that perhaps he may be able to cause 

 fine, healthy, happy flocks to grow where none grow 

 now, or, worse, where sickly and unhappy sheep are. 



Of a multitude of friends the writer feels that the 

 ones nearest his heart are the grave and careful 

 shepherds who, loving their flocks better than their 

 ease, make little lambs to grow and play, unafraid, 

 who lead their sheep safely and feed them wisely, 

 and who themselves are led by their life of solicitous 

 care nearer the good Shepherd of us all. 



INTRODUCTION TO THIRD EDITION. 



I sit to write this on the good ship Verdi, bound for 

 South America, a land of many sheep. Several years 

 have elapsed since the second edition was put before 

 the reader, and in that time I have learned some 

 things new and have had old beliefs more strong- 

 ly confirmed. The past winter (1911) has been spent 

 in journeying from farm to farm among the sheep 

 breeders of Michigan, Ohio and the Virginias. I 

 have been impressed very strongly with the fact that 

 the art of keeping sheep is a simple art that almost 

 anyone can master; that the profit of the flock de- 



