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Sheep like a Variety of Feeds 93 



A Carload of Lambs which were purchased for Six Dollars 

 and Forty Cents and sold for Six Dollars and Thirty-Five 



Cents per Hundredweight 95 



Boys and Lambs a Good Combination 97 



Ideals for the Feeder 102 



A Bunch of Fat Yearlings just before being loaded to be 



shipped to Market . 105 



The First Lesson 110 



Soon the Lambs learn the Advantages of the Little Extras 

 and eagerly seek the Warm Contents of the Bottle the 



Wise Shepherd carries ... . Ill 



The Ram is Half the Flock .'..'.. 113 



The Results of One Cross with a Pure-Bred Shropshire Ram 



on a Western Ewe 114 



Just a Few Hours old and weighs Twelve Pounds . . . . 115 

 Month-Old Lambs out of Western Ewes by a Pure-Bred 



Shropshire Ram, raised under Field Conditions . . . . 116 

 Successful Sheep Raising does not demand Expensive Build- 

 ings 117 



Runway in Sheep Barn 119 



Lambing Pens for Ewes 121 



