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FATTENING LAMBS 



JAMES W. WILSON 



The live stock industry has been and is a prominent factor 

 in solving the problem of retaining and improving the fertility 

 of the soil. It has been demonstrated that raising crops year 

 after year on the same land and selling them in their natural 

 form, without the use of animals to produce manure, mate- 

 rially impairs the producing capacity of the soil. Commercial 

 fertilizers are used extensively farther east, which render the 

 cost of production comparatively expensive. 



Roberts, of the New York Experiment Station, found that 

 sheep manure was worth more per ton as a fertilizer than 

 that made by any other farm animal. 



To sheep belongs part of this credit as economical pro- 

 ducers, requiring less than the average number of pounds of 

 feed for the production of a pound of gain. In former years 

 many of the sheep raised in South Dakota were shipped to 

 eastern feed lots and fitted for market on rape pasture and a 

 small allowance of grain. After careful inquiry it is learned 

 that these feeders figure on a profit of not less than one dollar 

 per head. This profit is obtained by the increase in value of 

 the original weight and gain put on during the short feeding 

 period while on rape pasture. 



The sheep has no equal as a weed destroyer, eating nearly 

 all the numerous weeds and grasses found on every farm. 

 From all reports the sheep industry is increasing in the state, 

 although the days of raising sheep in large flocks for the 

 feeding market are slowly passing away. In the older settled 

 sections many flocks have been established recently, which 



