114 Circular No. 18. 



Spring Lambs in Demand. 



Kentucky spring lambs, because of their quality and early 

 entrance on the market, are always in demand and bring fancy 

 prices on these eastern and northern markets. 



Obstacles to Success. 



The Kentucky sheep industry has been on the decline for 

 the past fifteen years, a circumstance for which there must be 

 some very logical cause. Ask the general farming public, and 

 without a doubt they would give the same answer, ''the cur 

 dog pest." Probably, in recent years, this one factor has done 

 more not only to keep hundreds of men out of the sheep busi- 

 ness, but also to cause many others to sell out for good. While 

 this problem is, undoubtedly, a very real one, yet, on the other 

 hand, it is the easiest and quickest to remedy and to control. 



The solution of the "'cur dog problem" rests directly with 

 the farmers themselves. Let them co-operate by communities 

 and by counties and rid their sections of worthless curs; let 

 them elect only men to office who will enforce the laws already 

 on the statute books and require all dogs not taxed to be 

 killed, and the "dog pest" will cease to be. There was a time, 

 in frontier days, when the dog was a necessity upon every 

 farm. Then he had a place in hunting wild game and animals 

 and protecting his master. At the present time there is a very 

 limited use for the dog, and many very successful stock farm- 

 ers have done away with him altogether. While it is not nec- 

 essary to get rid of all the dogs, yet only those for which a 

 legitimate tax is paid should be allowed to exist. It hardly 

 seems fair that the sheep industry in this and other states 

 should be limited for the greatest part, by the number of 

 worthless curs. 



Other obstacles that tend to limit sheep raising are such 

 parasitic diseases as nodular disease and stomach worms. 

 While these often wreak havoc on infected flocks, yet by means 

 of rotation of pastures, use of forage crops and the feeding of 

 succulent winter rations, these diseases can be largely pre- 



