SHEEP RAISING 



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SHEEP 



^"T>HE United States will soon be the greatest wool producing country 



in the world. 



-^- She already grows more than 300,000,000 pounds a year, fleece and 



pulled; and imports about as much again for her own use. 



300,000,000 pounds! And yet not enough. Twenty years ago we 

 thought 70,000,000 pounds something to brag of. 



She exports a little, but lets other countries supply the great world 

 market. Why does she do it? 



WHO WEARS Did you ever stop to think that after all, of all the people 

 CLOTHES? in this world, only one-third are fully clothed? And of 



that one-third which we speak of as civilized and fully 

 clothed, there are varying classes, but chiefly two classes: one class which 

 has all it needs, and another class, which we. called the "other half," which 

 doesn't have all it needs. Have you all 'you need, say in the matter of 

 clothes? Could you use more wool at present? Do you think the sheep 

 industry can keep up with the world's needed supply? 



WHAT Wool, wool, wool! We must have it more of it and more 



WE NEED grades and varieties of it. Bigger flocks! Better care of 

 sheep and fleece! More intelligent breeding! Who knows 

 but we may develop before long with this easily modeled animal entirely 

 new breeds for new and special purposes? 



THE WORLD'S Why look to Europe and Australia for the world's big 

 MARKET wool supply? Why look to England for the lustrous 



Leicester wool our manufacturers of dress goods are 

 needing? Why pay high prices to France for French Merino? Why let 

 the old world, with the highest priced land in existence, give us object 

 lessons in profitable sheep raising? 



