SHEEP PROFITABLE ON HIGH PRICED LAND 



Practical Experiences of Nearly Three Thousand Farmers 

 Prove Sheep Growing A Practical and Profitable Business 

 -■- Corn Belt States— Converts Waste Products Into 



Profit— Cleans Up the Weeds 

 Required — Enriches the Soil 



-Expensive Shelter Not 



SHEEP RAISING PAYS IN IOWA 



By E. L. Bitterman, Mason City, Iowa 



Nearly every farmer in the corn belt can keep a flock of 25 to 

 50 head of sheep on a 160-acre farm with very small cost. Sheep 

 can be pastured on oat fields and also many other fields in the 

 spring when cattle are too heavy. We graze our oat fields 

 every spring for ten days to two weeks, about the last of May 

 before the oats are large enough to shoot. After harvest they 

 are run on the stubble where rape has been sown in the 

 spring. Thus our sheep are not on the real pastures only a few 

 months in the year. I find many farmers Hke sheep. Sheep 

 have their ups and downs hke all classes of stock but on a high- 

 priced Iowa farm our sheep have always paid as well as any other 

 stock. 



(Photo from American Shropshire Registry Assn., La Fayette, Ind.) 

 Sheep in Rye Pasture 



