iv Sheep Management. 



deeply indebted to Messrs. F. B. Morrison and J. C. 

 Marquis for their assistance in the preparation of 

 this work, and also to the American Sheep Breeder 

 for furnishing some of the photographs of prize 

 winners at the International of 1910. 



In this work the author has given his many 

 years experience in sheep husbandry. From his 

 early boyhood in his native land of Bavaria, Ger- 

 many, he was in charge of the flock of Shropshires 

 on his father's farm. In America he has had 

 charge of the flock of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of the University of Wisconsin ever since 

 April, 1890. While at this Station he has carried 

 on many experiments with sheep which have fur- 

 nished him with a fund of valuable information 

 regarding many lines of sheep husbandry. From 

 all this experience, the writer feels free to state 

 that no one man knows everything concerning 

 sheep. Entirely new problems occasionally arise 

 which must be solved. However, one fact is always 

 true. This is that good judgment, energy, kindness, 

 and painstaking care are the keynotes to success 

 in sheep husbandry. No person who treats his 

 sheep like scavengers, giving them little or no at- 

 tention, not furnishing them half enough to eat, 

 and even depriving them of a drink of fresh water, 

 can ever expect to derive any pleasure or profit 

 from sheep husbandry. For such a man the sheep 



