THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



the industry which the Eastern farmer, with 

 his restricted acreage, has had to concede to 

 the Western ranchman, whose vast holdings 

 of cheap pasture permit his making a profit 

 at prices quite beyond our Eastern competi- 

 tion. Even the farm papers had little reliable 

 information on the subject eleven years ago, 

 but a short account in an English agricultural 

 magazine mentioned the fact that a Mr. Some- 

 body, who was making a specialty of raising 

 lambs for the Christmas market, considered a 

 flock of Dorset grade ewes, headed by a pure- 

 bred Dorset ram, insured the best lambs. As 

 Baa-Baa's father was a splendid gentleman 

 of that ilk, we did not worry about tracing 

 the family history of the first five sheep of ex- 

 perimental days, only being careful to select 

 healthy-looking animals of approved shape, 

 which an authority describes, as nearly as I 

 can remember, as follows: 



" Ewes should be a good average size, well 

 proportioned and symmetrical. A feminine 

 head, clean-cut nostrils, bright eyes, small 



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