212 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



bouillet and the larger, smoother Delaine type, 

 and the crossing of their produce with rams ol' 

 Lincoln, Cotswold and Leicester blood. 



Such cross-breeding needs, to be a success, 

 great study and attention and of course with 

 liner animals comes always need for better feed 

 and care, for provision of forage for winter and 

 cessation of long and fruitless joumeyings. 

 These things will come, the great plains and 

 grassy mesas and green forested mountains will 

 soon be covered with flocks of far better sheep 

 than they hold today, and by some sort of peace- 

 able division of the ranges each rancher will 

 know where he may graze and where he may 

 save grass with sure expectation of feeding it 

 himself in time of need. 



SHEEP ADVANCE — CATTLE RETEEAT. 



It is the opinion of the writer that the cattle 

 will steadily retreat before the peaceable ad- 

 vance of the sheep, since sheep are best fitted 

 for this region and bring far more profit. 

 There will always be room, however, for some 

 cattle and they will be found to thrive along- 

 side the sheep, when the day of intelligent graz- 

 ing and range management has been reached. 



WINTER FEEDING OF SIHEEP AND LAMBS. 



The writer does not think it worth while to 

 devote much space to describing the best meth- 

 ods of feeding native lambs in winter, for the 

 reason that natives (those born on Eastern 

 farms) ought to be fat and sold before winter 

 has set in. If they are not fat it may very like- 

 ly be because they are infected with some de- 



