252 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 



lambs on the market that day, more than sellers could dispose of, and 

 prices broke badly. There is a reason for everything, and there are 

 reasons why a market may have too many lambs and too few at the 

 same time. The scarcity of good fat lambs this year is due in part to 

 the season. Most of the lambs from eastern territory come off grass, 

 and the grass has not made them so fat as usual this time. * * * 

 The scarcity of feeder lambs on that market was due entirely to fail- 

 ure to dock and castrate. Most of the lambs were in feeder flesh but 

 unfit to go back to the country because they had not been docked and 

 castrated. Hence they had to sell at meat prices, and a light, thin 

 Iamb is worth about as little for meat as anything that stands on four 

 legs. There is certainly one lesson for producers here, possibly two. 

 Will we learn either of them?" 



Kk;. ^7. J'rimc western yearlings. 



The market report in the Breeder's Gazette for September 28, 

 1922, contained the following: "The profitable native lamb is the 

 product of a well-nurtured ewe and a purebred sire. It should be 

 trimmed in western style, in order to command maximum results, which 

 are impossible with coarse ram lambs, which are plentiful at the 

 markets, and are severely penalized. A trimmed lamb that does not 

 fatten by weaning time may be held on feed, thus distributing the crop 

 over a longer period; otherwise it must go to the butcher in common 

 with a mass of mediocrity and trash that represents uneconomical if 

 not wasteful production. Even if it is necessary to market a thin 

 trimmed native lamb, it is eligible to the feeder outlet under new condi- 

 tions; whereas a buck lamb must be sold for what it will bring, which 



