CHAPTER XV 
CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP 
SHEEP may be successfully grown on any general farm or where 
there is an opportunity for changes in grazing. When the farm 
has the equipment and is located convenient to a railroad lead- 
ing to one of our larger cities, winter-lamb production may be most 
profitable, whereas if the farm lacks equipment, and has much 
cheap grazing land, some other form of sheep production would 
doubtless yield the greater profit. Each farmer must make a care- 
ful study of his conditions, such as location, facilities for shipping, 
demands of his market, condition of the soil, and the like, then lay 
his plans accordingly. 
395. Plan of improvement. — A clearly defined plan should be 
outlined before the farmer makes an attempt at breeding sheep. 
The intending sheep breeder should make a careful study of success- 
ful sheep farms, noting the conditions wherein his differs, and the 
modifications that must be adopted. The farmer who rushes into 
sheep breeding blindly, because the price of wool or mutton seems 
to warrant it, is likely to pay dearly for his experience. 
396. Codéperative breeding. — The value of united effort can- 
not be overestimated in breeding sheep. This does not mean that 
the farmers should be partners from a financial point of view, but 
all should help to advance the interests of each other’s flock. Free 
conversation on all matters relating to the flock will prove of com- 
mon advantage; the owners will improve in sheep knowledge, 
and the flocks improve in excellency. There are many things 
that a few sheep breeders would be able to do that one alone would 
hardly undertake. Not least among these is the purchasing of 
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