150 



Jhardy here and proved to be the ideal sheep for Qiir needs. 

 very year we have put in new bucks, selected and kept 

 our best ewe lambs, and sold the buck lambs and the old 



investment in sheep has never paid us less than 

 hundred per cent, and many years has paid us even 

 ?auore than that. The higher we grade them up the better 

 Tthey pay us, notwithstanding the fact that the higher they 

 ;are graded up the greater price we place upon the breeding 

 rHock. As evidence of this fact, we have sheared from one 

 ^hundred and seven sheep six hundred and thirty-three 

 jpounds of wool in the grease, but free of burrs and dirt. 

 Although our lambs were unusually late this season, they 

 liave been dressed and shipped, having made an average 

 ^dressed weight of about forty pounds. Their quality has 

 l>een such as to tax our capacity for supplying them, and 

 we have received the best price we have ever obtained. 



The sheep we started with were scrubs justf the ordinary 

 *heep of the county. Our farm is no better than many 

 other farms of the State, yet our sheep have proven to be a 

 better investment 'to us than money at compound interest. 

 :8till it is a fact that some farmers contend that there is 

 BIO money in live stock on the farm, and that, here in 

 -Alabama, we canndt afford to have anything but scrub cat- 

 tle, sheep and hogs. If the farmer who thinks this will try 

 in but a small way to improve and build up his stock- 

 giving the business the same conservative thought and care 

 that brings success to other undertakings he will soon 

 "have a good balance to the credit of the live stock account, 

 l>esides having the satisfaction of owning useful and pretty 

 animals. 



We try to keep only about one hundred ewes, and carry 

 them in the pasture along with about one hundred and 

 "fifty cattle. The sheep benefit the pasture by keeping down 

 weeds. There is no objection to having the sheep and cattle 

 In the same pasture. We make our living from the farm, 

 consequently everything upon the farm must pay its own 



