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istence. The nice juicy lamb chop is in just as 

 great demand at the present time as baby beef. 

 The American people desire the youngest and 

 juiciest kind of meat for consumption, and they 

 find the lamb better than the yearling. It may be 

 said right here that only an extra good lamb should 

 be carried over to be fitted as a yearling. Unless 

 one can foresee that the lamb will be a prize win- 

 ner as a j'earling there is no use feeding it an- 

 other year, since the lamb will sell for about as 

 much as the yearling, and one year's feed is saved. 



BEST CLASS TO FIT. 



If the writer had a choice in selecting yearlings 

 to be fitted from a lot which contained some that 

 had been fitted and shown as lambs and others 

 that had not been fitted previously, both lots being 

 equally good in general make-up, he would imme- 

 diately decide upon those that had not been fitted 

 and shown as lambs. He would do this because it 

 is very difficult to make a prize winning lamb a 

 prize winning yearling. Yet in one instance the 

 writer was very fortunate in taking first, champion- 

 ship, and grand championship prizes at the Inter- 

 national Live Stock Show at Chicago on a year- 

 ling which the previous year, as a lamb, had won 

 first prize. However, this was a very exceptional 



