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similar to that of raising spring lambs. The essential 
difference is in the time and manner of marketing. The 
lambs have to be held over until the fall, and sometimes 
are past a year before they are placed on the market. 
When sold, they go largely for breeding purposes. 
The raising of hot house or winter lambs is the raising of 
baby mutton to be marketed in December, January, or 
February. Such lambs are raised in small lots in certain 
parts of the West. This phase of the sheep industry is 
of but minor importance and could be easily over-done. 
In any discussion of sheep raising of the West, it is 
absolutely necessary to keep these different phases dis- 
tinctly in mind, for facts which apply to one branch of the 
industry may have no application to another. 
