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Alabama, can have permanent pastures for at least ten 

 months hi- the year by the use of bermuda and burr clover. 

 The remaining two months can be bridged over with tem- 

 porary winter pastures. The Northern farmer must be con- 

 tented with a grazing period of not more than six months. 

 Then again our climate is so mild the year through that the 

 lambs can be born in the mid-winter and suffer none from 

 the cold. This permits the Alabama farmer to get the 

 lambs upon the early spring market at the time when high 

 prices are realized. In the North when the lambs come in 

 December or January very expensive care must be given 

 them to keep them from freezing, as they must be kept in a 

 "hot house." In the South the ear.ly lamb is free to run at 

 will throughout those months, and can even have green 

 pastures to graze upon. 



.Still further, when the lamb is ready for the market 

 good prices can be realized upon him. Some there are who 

 /Jaini there are no markets for lambs. But there is a 

 ; -great demand for the early lamb. The farmer should realize 

 "tfhat a part of his business consists in finding a market for 

 what he produces. The business man lays in his stock of 

 goods and then looks for a market for it. The farmer must 

 .do the same thing. Many Southern cities offer as good a 

 market for early lambs as does the St. Louis market. A 

 following picture shows some spring lambs, that had noth- 

 ing but their mother's milk and pastures, which sold in 

 Birmingham for 10 cents a pound live weight on April iritli, 

 1908. Birmingham would use thousands of such lambs. 

 These w r ere good lambs, but no better than any other farmer 

 could produce. They were raised by J. S. Kernachan, of 

 "Florence,. Alabama. A good market can always be found 

 for good fat stuff. The local market may not furnish a 

 good sale for this class of stuff, but the cities are more than 

 -glad to receive it. ' The express charges do not prohibit 

 the lambs being sent a good ways from home. 



The Southern farmer depends too much upon one crop 

 for a living. He is like the man with all his eggs in one 



