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the feeder of mature sheep must have in order to 

 make a profit. Certainly it depends much upon the 

 selling price; if that is high there is less need of 

 margin than if it is low. In general there should 

 be a rise of a dollar per hundred to make feeding 

 of mature sheep profitable. This also depends 

 much upon the price of wool. When wool sells as 



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high as 25 to 30 cents per pound the profit of feed- 

 ing mature sheep is naturally much greater than 

 when wool is low. Then also one can afford to feed 

 the heavy shearing types, which do not naturally 

 make so good gains in weight as do the more open 

 wooled and light shearing sorts. 



In feeding sheep there is need in the ration for 

 much less protein than when lambs are fed. 



