20 Practical Sheep Husbandry 



and some one would say that such food was not the thing for me to eat, 

 I would cut it out, and get some good, nutritious food, and let Nature 

 do the rest. 



So I said to him : "Why shoot any more poison into them, when they 

 are full of it now? Put them on a good, tame pasture, bring them to the 

 house at night, give j^our ewes and lambs a little grain and they will 

 come out of this in a hurry." But, suffice it to say, he did not take my 

 advice, as he could see only the result before him, a diseased sheep, 

 because the doctor had so informed him. He shipped them to market, 

 I mean the ones he hadn't finished killing. The lambs weighed about 

 thirty-five to forty pounds, were thin as rails, and sold at a low price. 

 His ewes also brought ruinous prices, because they were thin and looked 

 bad. 



These men started with the same kind of sheep, practically the same 

 sheep, but one of them could only see the result and a way of doctoring 

 it, while the other reasoned from cause to effect. The first man un- 

 doubtedly said at the beginning: "I have a fine, healthy lot of ewes, 

 and there is a right result or answer to this problem I have before 

 me. If I obtain the right result I will want credit for it, and if I make 

 a mistake and get the wrong answer, I will accept the blame also." He 

 watched his sheep closely and the minute one of them started going 

 wrong, he knew it and set to work to find the cause and to remove it. 

 The results show that he was successful. If the cause is removed, 

 "Doc Nature" will be right there on the job to attend to the health end 

 of it, for that is one of the best things he does, if not interfered with 

 by man. 



Must Give Value Received 



Every day, somewhere on the market, may be found the man, who 

 though honest enough, has fooled himself, because he did not have 

 uppermost in his mind the desire to give good value. His stuff is not 

 good, and he knows it, and yet he hopes to receive just as good a price 

 as the fellow who has produced the goods. The good feeder always has 

 him beat. He gets a much bigger gain for the feed consumed, and 

 of course gets paid for a great many more pounds. It has been noticed 

 that the good feeder who is just as anxious for his stuff to dress out 

 well as the buyer, is always the prosperous feeder. He knows that if 

 he slips by once he will get caught the next time. 



Problem of Reconstruction 



It is the duty of every man to carefully weigh any situation, and 

 enter no new field blindly. The question of reconstruction is being 

 given thought, and every man is asking himself what part he will play 

 in the readjustment. In answering this query for the sheep producer, 

 I think I can safely say that it will be a very great one. Better clothes 

 will be demanded by a more prosperous world, and more wool can be 

 the only answer to this demand. 



The producer can expect greater demands for his products, as the 

 people of the world still have to eat and wear clothes, and there is 

 nothing that will surpass either mutton or lamb for food, or wool for 



