230 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



the great raaiges. It must be remembered, how- 

 ever, that in most of this region food is so 

 abimdant, both of grass and grain, that almost 

 any sheep in healthy will be fat when it goes to 

 the market, and therefore snapped up eagerly 

 by the killers, except those that are parasitic 

 and therefore difficult to make fat. He hopes 

 and believes that the day will come when this 

 condition will be overcome and sheep will be 

 found as healthy on farms as on ranges, but 

 even then they will go fat to market instead of 

 going to swell the supply of feeders. 



FEEDING OF LAMBS. 



Ijet us now take up in detail the work of 

 lamb feeding, having by this time purchased 

 our supply of feeders, or having grown them 

 ourselves. Methods of lamb feeding vary wide- 

 ly according to the district where they are fed. 

 We will consider the several ways in detail. 



