MILK lambs: how to get, grow and market 255 



The factors that develop consumption are: The pro- 

 duction of the lambs, the knowledge that they are being 

 produced, and in proximity or reasonable proximity to a 

 center of wealth. Winter lambs, therefore, will find a 

 market in small centers of population at the rate of, say, 

 $8 to $10 for a lamb that weighs from 35 to 45 pounds. 

 But it should be possible to grow lambs in winter so as 

 to put them on the market at prices considerably lower 

 than those named. Should that be done, the market for 

 them would be unlimited. 



Of course, the growing of summer lambs will always 

 have an important place, but under certain conditions it 

 may prove more profitable to grow winter lambs, even 

 though sold at not more than $4 to $5 per animal. The 

 following are among the advantages that may accrue 

 from growing them: (i) The work is done at a season 

 when field work is not pressing. (2) The lambs being 

 grown in winter are but little subject to parasitic dis- 

 eases, that so frequently prey upon lambs in summer. 

 (3) The price obtained is much more per pound than that 

 given for summer lambs. In the southern states lambs 

 should grow better in winter than in summer, as they 

 are not exposed to the prolonged heat of the summer 

 season. 



