FLOCK HUSBANDRY IN WESTERN STATES. 197 

 HAPPY FUTUEE OF THE REGION. 



This whole region is destined to be, the 

 author believes, one vast pastoral expanse, 

 dotted with sheep herds, and given over very 

 nearly, to the exclusion of other animals, to the 

 sheep. It is the one part of the United States 

 having abundant grass, admirable climate and 

 soil capable of growing almost any breed of 

 sheep in perfection and with little loss from 

 parasitic infection. 



There is, too, the advantage of an intelli- 

 gent and progressive people embarked in the 

 sheep industry and they have already shown 

 by their work in suppressing scab over large 

 ])arts of this region what they can and wili 

 accomplish. 



These plains do not produce as early or as 

 fat lambs as the mountains southwest of them, 

 but very superior feeding lambs come from 

 their ranges. 



There was once small preparation made for 

 winter feeding in this region. There is to- 

 day a great deal of hay being put up, both of 

 native and alfalfa sorts. When snow is deep 

 "snow plows" are used, which make bare 

 strips along which the flocks feed. Sometimes 

 com is fed scattered on the ground. In some 

 parts of this country the summer and winter 

 ranges are distinct, the flocks climbing into 

 the mountains during the heated season and 

 relieving the range of their presence; in other 

 parts the mountains are too remote and the 

 sheep use near by parts pf the range for both 

 summer and winter grazing. 



