SELECTION AND 



more crops sell the ewes and get a fresh start. 

 Thus treated these westerns are almost sure to re- 

 turn good profits. 



It is unwise to select ewes shearing too heavy 

 fleeces. A moderately heavy fleece betokens the 

 stronger sheep with greater feeding capacity. Se- 

 lect that sort. Choose the short-legged ewes, with 

 good backs, and as thick as you can find them. 



The best time of the year to stock a farm with 

 sheep is in the early fall. Getting the ewes home 

 then, you have time to make their acquaintance 

 while work is not crowding on the farm. Then you 

 can see to the mating, and during the first winter 

 things will go as you plan, and you are certain of 

 one good lamb crop. Your troubles will not begin 

 for six or eight months. They need not begin at 

 all if you will observe carefully some rules for 

 avoidance of parasites, to be laid down later. 



GETTIXG HOME WITH THE FLOCK. 



The writer remembers with delight the day when 

 he drove to Woodland Farm his first flock of ewes. 

 It was a fine sunny day in November. The sheep 

 were well selected and round and plump, all young 

 ewes. They traveled willingly along the country 

 road through a quiet neighborhood where great oaks 

 overarched the way and stopping now and then to 

 browse the green grass among the purpling wild 

 asters. 



The writer was but a boy then, newly wedded, 

 filled with high hopes and dreaming brave dreams 



