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great loss. It is a happy moment when after very 

 great trials and toil the flock reaches the high moun- 

 tain pastures, the snow is found to be gone and 

 green grass abounds. Then there is long rest be- 

 fore distant journeying must begin again. The 

 moves are of only a few miles each and camps may 

 remain for days and sometimes for weeks without 

 being moved. The weather upon these green moun- 



CLACK-FACED SHEEP IN THE HILLS. 



tain pastures is stimulating and delicious ; there are 

 lovely groves of aspens and cool pine woods inter- 

 spersed with flower-decked grassy glades. The 

 lambs are born here and start into vigorous life and 

 growth, far exceeding that of lambs born on lower 

 altitudes on the plains of New Mexico. 



From some of these mountain ranges come the 

 best and fattest lambs that reach the markets of 

 Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago, beginning in Au- 



