4 Sheep Management. 



THE SCRUB RAM UNPROFITABLE. 



Flockmasters should avoid the practice of using 

 the grade or scrub ram, for wherever such a nun 

 is used no improvement in the offspring can be 

 expected. Indeed, in many cases the vitality, con- 

 formation, and strength of a flock is reduced by 

 using an inferior grade or scrub ram for breed- 

 ing. Therefore, the scrub ram, like the scrub stal- 

 lion, must be driven out of the country, and more 

 scientific and intelligent breeding must be followed 

 if present conditions are to be improved. 



It is shameful that there are so many flocks of 

 inferior breeding and quality throughout nearly 

 all parts of our country. Flocks of this type de- 

 mand more feed and care than flocks of good 

 breeding. Moreover, does not rearing good stock 

 afford the farmer much greater pleasure and more 

 encouragement than raising the inferior class com- 

 monly called "scrubs"? Does he not also know 

 that high grade animals will return far greater 

 profit than scrubs? The writer has spent many of 

 the happiest hours in his life in taking care of high 

 class animals, but he would have found no pleas- 

 ure in caring for inferior ones. 



It is thus evident that flockmaslers should in all 

 cases use a pure-bred ram. Not every one of these, 

 however, is a good individual, although he may 

 have a pedigree to his credit. Some registered 



