NATIVE AND WESTERN MARKET SHEEP 5 



NATIVE LAMBS 



Native lambs purchased by the packers. In speaking of 

 the native subclasses it may be said that the lambs that 

 reach the markets during May, June, and July, weighing 

 from sixty to ninety pounds, go as a rule direct to the 

 killers, and it is these lambs that make the most money for 

 their raisers. After July and for the next three months the 

 late and more unfortunate ones appear. Apparently it is 

 finishing that these lambs need, but the wise feeder passes 

 them by. 



Native lambs are classed as lambs on the market until 

 the following crop comes in ; but, when a lamb that was 

 dropped in the spring of 1906, for instance, comes to 

 market sheared in the spring of 1907, it is called a year- 

 ling, regardless of whether it is twelve months old or not. 



NATIVE YEARLINGS 



Native yearlings not the best feeders. A native yearling 

 is just what the name implies, a wether, as a rule, a year 

 old and under two. Native sheep that reach the markets 

 as yearlings are generally late lambs that were not heavy 

 enough to go with the lamb shipment the year before, and 

 hence were carried over the winter, sheared in the spring, 

 fattened, and shipped out with the next crop. This practice 

 is not widely followed, but those who do follow it should 

 remember that to carry lambs successfully over winter they 

 must be free from stomach worms; and it is well also to 

 remember that a ewe which will shear about as much wool 

 and drop a lamb besides can be kept on what it takes to 

 make a yearling marketable. 



