PART V. 



THE RAISING OF HOTHOUSE OR SPRING LAMB. 



Spring, Easter or Christmas lamb is a much sought delicacy 

 of very limited supply, consequently the profits from raising same 

 are large where the business can be carried on under proper con- 

 ditions. Unless one ^is well equipped with the right class of 

 ewes and proper housing facilities, he had better keep out of the 

 business. It is easy to see that where as much as $10 or $15 

 per head is realized for lambs of, say, ten weeks old, weighing 

 around 50 or 60 pounds alive, or in the neighborhood of 20 

 pounds dressed, that there must be money in this branch of the 

 sheep industry. 



An Ohio Early Lamb-Raising Barn. 



It has always been a wonder to the writer that the early 

 lamb business has not made more headway in the Virginias, the 

 Carolinas, Maryland and Pennsylvania since the climate of those 

 states augurs well for the success of such an undertaking, not to 

 mention the nearness of the markets of Philadelphia and New 

 York, where top prices for this class of product are realized. 



There seems to 'be market for spring lamb almost everywhere. 

 Only very recently $13 per hundred pounds, live weight, was paid 

 in Chicago for this toothsome article. Sometimes we hear the cry 

 that the early lamb raising business is overdone, but facts do not 

 prove this to be the case. 



