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the Rocky Mountain and Plains regions has pushed 

 the price of land to a level with that of the East, or 

 as near it, certainly, as its productive value warrants. 

 There is no longer a West in the sense in which Horace 

 Greeley used it in his famous advice, "Go West, 

 young man, go West." 



World conditions as regards the sheep industry 

 now promise as much profit from the keeping of sheep 

 on the farms in the corn belt as from the keeping of 

 hogs or beef cattle, if not even dairy cattle. Upon 

 practically every farm that is fenced with woven wire, 

 a small flock could be kept with a large per cent of 

 profit. Small flocks remain healthy and' live largely 

 upon herbage rejected by other classes of stock. And 

 small flocks on the same pasture with other stock, 

 even cattle, are no detriment to them, as many 

 farmers suppose. 



The reputation Canada has made as a sheep 

 country has been due to its small flocks — ten to 

 twenty on almost every farm. Very rarely indeed 

 are as many as forty breeding ewes found on one farm. 



American farmers' inclination to vacillate and go 

 to extremes has been greatly to their disadvantage. 

 At times they have scrambled over each other to buy 

 sheep, often getting more than they were prepared 

 to keep well, and again as frantically trying to dis- 

 pose of all. 



Another notion that has militated against the 

 stability of the sheep industry is that it will not do 



