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best. But if the feeding season must be short, 

 if there is little clover or alfalfa, take the other 

 lot. 



And here is yet another sort. They must 

 have come from a terrible range where grief 

 has been their constant portion. They are 

 miserably thin and weak and were ill bred at 

 the beginning. Their one redeeming feature is 

 that they weigh little and will be sold for a 

 very small price per pound. Shall we venture to 

 buy them? That also depends upon the fur- 

 nishings at home. Many of them may die before 

 they gain enough strength to enable them to go 

 on and gain. They will require a long feeding 

 period. But when they are fat they will sell 

 for nearly as much as the best bred lambs in 

 the market. There is that peculiar side to the 

 lamb trade: the light lambs of part Mexican 

 type when rightly fed sell well. So if we have 

 the feed, the kindness and comforts at home, 

 we may venture to take even these weaklings. 

 But let us beware of them if we propose to 

 "rough them" or to try to hasten them along 

 by a short period of heavy feeding. 



Here is yet another opportunity. In these 

 smaller pens are a lot of thin Natives, from 

 some near-by state. They are big enough but 

 their lack-luster eyes and sunken wool and 

 general air of discouragement speak surely of 

 an internal revenue department held under the 

 rule of predatory parasitic worms. If these 

 lambs had been in health they would have been 

 fat, in nine cases out of ten, and the killers 

 would have swooped them in. Avoid them un- 



