188 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



most profitable animals in the way of feeding for profit. 

 A careful study of the figures above given will help very much 

 in the choice of the stock the feeder thinks of expending his 

 fodder and grain upon. It is equally a matter for study by 

 the breeder, who works for the feeder, and of course must 

 supply him with such animals as will have the most profit 

 in them for him. The waste parts of an animal of course 

 go for nothing, but yet they consume as much food, pound 

 for pound of live weight, as the most valuable, and so it is 

 that the carcass which has the most weight of the most 

 valuable parts to the consumer, w r ill be the most profitable 

 to feed. In the sheep, we want the broad back with the 

 full loins, the full ribs and deep shoulders; but the short 

 neck and legs, which only give weight of the least useful 

 and valuable parts of a carcass. So too we want the least 

 possible offal inside. 



Thus the figure of the carcass of the lamb given before 

 will furnish excellent hints to the breeder for the production 

 of the right kind of a carcass needed by the feeders, and 

 these will learn from it how to choose those animals of 

 which they may make the most profit by feeding for valua- 

 ble meat, and not for mere bone and undesirable flesh. So, 

 too, the table following, in which is given the several 

 proportions of the meat and the offal of the carcass of each 

 of the breeds named, will furnish very profitable material 

 from the point of view mentioned, viz., the profit of the 

 feeder, and through him, that of the breeder, who must ^f or 

 his own advantage consult the interests of his clients the 

 purchasers. This separation of interests is unavoidable; 

 for there are two distinct purposes in pursuits; the one pro- 

 viding for the other; and beJng dependent upon him, and the 

 other looking to the breeder for the material which he needs 

 to make his own products more valuable. We think this separa- 

 tion in one sense, and union in another, of the two interests, 

 are best for both, giving a better opportunity for two heaxls 

 to work together, each devoting his special talents and op- 

 portunities to the single end in view. 



The butcher's block is the final test of all and is the 

 measure of value of the product of the skill of the breeder 

 and the feeder as well. The following figures afford mate- 

 rial for painstaking and intelligent study: 



