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would be no stomach worms in these regions if sheep 

 watered at clean drinking places, or at least the 

 number would be greatly restricted. 



MEXICAN LAMBS AS FEEDEKS. 



Mexican lambs have been favorites among Colo- 

 rado feeders ever since they commenced their feed- 

 ing operations in that region. They have found their 

 death losses comparatively low from the Mexican 

 lambs, and that with a given amount of feed they 

 make good gains. When fat they sell well because 

 they dress well, and their small, light carcasses are 

 in favor with local retailers of mutton. They are 

 doubtless often palmed off on eastern buyers as 

 "spring lambs. " Brought to Ohio the writer did 

 not find them as profitable feeders as lambs from 

 Utah, Wyoming or Montana, making much smaller 

 gains and shearing very light fleeces. 



Some of these Mexican ewe lambs (having one 

 cross of Merino blood) were kept on an Ohio farm 

 and bred to lamb. They did not by their perform- 

 ance indicate that they were desirable stock for 

 eastern conditions. The writer thinks the sooner 

 the half wild " Mexican " blood is bred out of these 

 sheep the better, save for very hard conditions of 

 drouth and thinly-grassed ranges. 



THE WANDERING HERDS. 



In Utah, Nevada and parts of Colorado and in 

 Idaho (with also a part of Arizona and California) 

 a peculiar system of sheep ranching prevails. It 



