314 MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



other way. It is Hot safe to predict what future investigations will be 

 like because it is difficult to determine the form and the extent of 

 our future sheep husbandry in the various parts of the country. 

 The range is being encroached upon by small land holders and as 

 vet we cannot tell whether or not the extensive range operations' are 

 going to cease. At the present time the Central and Eastern states 

 do not know whether they will take to growing a greater number of 

 sheep regularly and, if we were assured that they will, we do not 

 know how intensive this growing will be. Whatever direction fu- 

 ture operations may take, I feel that it will be the mission of the 

 experiment station to aid in the working out of the best methods 

 for the systems practiced. That the experiments of our stations 

 may aid in establishing certain systems of sheep farming is a pos- 

 sibility." 



It is not the author's intention to attempt to chronicle in this 

 volume the work done along experimental lines with sheep by our 

 experiment stations, but to mention a few of those connected with 

 them who have done and are still doing good work in their par- 

 ticular field. The merest allusion to sheep experiments causes the 

 writer's mind to revert to the great work Professor Wrightson, the 

 famous English experimenter, has done along this line, and cer- 

 tainly the world at large owes much for what he has done, especial- 

 ly when it is considered that his experiments have been carried out 

 from pure love of such work and at his own expense. Were all 

 of his experiments and those made in this and other countries in- 

 corporated in a single work what a valuable addition to the pastor- 

 alist's library such would make. 



Among those who have done, and in most cases are still doing 

 good work in the field of which we are treating, might be men- 

 tioned Professor Curtiss of the Iowa Experiment Station, Professor 

 Plumb of the University of Ohio, Professor Dalrymple of the Louis- 

 iana Experiment Station, Professor Coffey of the University of 

 hnois, Professor Craig of the Texas Experiment Station, Professor 

 fckmner of the Indiana Experiment Station, Professor Humphrey 

 ol Wisconsin, who is ably assisted by one of the strongest men in 

 | line of the day (Instructor Frank Kleinheintz) ; Professor Car- 

 isle of the Colorado Experiment Station, Professor Skinner of the 

 South Dakota Experiment Station, a self-made man, who rose 

 "from the ranks" to his present honorable position by sheer hard 

 work. Professor Mumford did good work when at the Michi- 

 gan Experiment Station, but since taking charge of the livestock 

 department of the University of Illinois he has given more atten- 

 tion to cattle and left the sheep department to the care of Professor 

 Coffey, who, by the way, is undoubtedly one of the most practical 

 men to be found at any of our experiment stations, as previous to 

 his entering his present field of work he was in charge of one of 



