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course crops, like the grasses and clovers, are not treated in this way, 

 but are left to grow up again. 



The hurdling method aims not only at securing a maximum 

 growth for sheep from a given area of ground, but also at furnishing 

 almost a constant change of feeding ground. Sheep thoroughly 

 enjoy a new feeding place, a fact which English shepherds have 

 fully recognized as essentia] to successful flock husbandry. Anyone 

 who has seen the sheep of England within hurdles cannot question 



Fig. 12. — Meal time for western sheep fattening on a corn-belt farm. 



the efficiency of the hurdling method for bringing sheep as nearly as 

 possible to their perfection. Any type of movable fencing can be 

 used in the hurdling method (Fig. 11). 



Pure-Bred Flock Method. — Owners of pure-bred flocks have 

 for their principal object the selling of breeding stock. They sell to 

 the owners of commercial flocks who wish to use pure-bred rams but 

 who do not care to keep pure-bred females, and of course, they also 

 sell to each other. Since the object of the man who raises for breed- 

 ing purposes is so difEerent from that of the man who raises for the 

 open market, it is natural to call his method of sheep raising a dis- 



