141) 



stock. The other stock do not object to eating the grass 

 iipon which the sheep have grazed. 

 Yours trulv. 



J. fc. KERNACIIAN, Florence, Ala. 



Alabama Experiment {Station. 

 Dear {Sirs: 



Jn January, 1904, when we bought our farm, the man of 

 Nvhum we bought it had a small flock of forty-eight head of 

 -sheep and was very anxious to leave them with us on 

 shares, but we had ahvays heard that sheep would ruin a 

 pasture, and so were unwilling for them to stay. But finally 

 we agreed to keep the sheep for him for eighteen months on 

 shares; we were to receive one-half of the wool and lambs 

 and bear the expense of pasture and the labor to look after 

 them. 



The first year we raised fifty-four lambs and divided up 

 about July first. As he intended to sell his part of the 

 lambs he took the bucks and left us twenty-seven ewe 

 lambs as our part of the first crop of lambs. Now, it is 

 strange, but it is a fact, that the next spring every one of 

 these tw<>n1y-sevi ! n ewes had lambs and some of them had 

 twins. When we divided up again the next year, about 

 July first, we had about seventy-five sheep, and besides had 



cHvrd sume money for our part of the wool. In the 

 meantime we had watched pretty closely and found that, 

 instead of injuring our pastures, the sheep had benefited 

 them by eating weeds and other things which our cattle 

 would not eat. 



So far, we were well pleased with onr experiment and de- 

 cided that, by breeding up our sheep, we could make some 

 money, so wo ordered two Southdown rams from Ken- 

 tucky. We decided on the Southdown because, after read- 

 ing and making inquiry, we thought tl>ov would suit ns 

 V'st as wo profor a dual purpose animal ono that would 

 produce both AVOO! and mnfton. \W Imvo lad no cause for 

 rerrrot in making- tin's selection, as thov have boon vorv 



