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of scab. When large herds have to be dipped, a tank 

 ten feet square and two and a half feet deep, filled with 

 tobacco-dip, is put at the mouth of the corral, and the 

 sheep driven through it. A jump in and a jump out 

 is all they need for the year in order to ensure complete 

 health. If, however, I were going into sheep-growing 

 out West, I would not go so far north as the Laramie 

 Plains, but keep farther south, where the climate is 

 warmer. 



Dr. A. W. Bell, who lives at Colorado Springs, has 

 about 1500 sheep, which he keeps nine miles north of 

 that place. His average yield of wool was four and a 

 half pounds per head, and brought in Denver 35 cents 

 and 40 cents per pound. Off 1000 sheep he cut $2500 

 worth of wool, being about twice the cost of herding and 

 keeping. The increase of the flock was 50 per cent., 

 which, added to his sale of wool, gave him over expenses 

 an income of 60 to 65 per cent, on his investment. 

 Sheep are said to be most remarkably prolific in Colo- 

 rado, and more twins and triplets are born in that State 

 than anywhere else in the West. 



Mexican sheep are very cheap in Colorado, and have 

 been bought as low as 75 cents per head, but the recent 

 demand for stock-sheep in the northern part of the 

 State, and the increased facilities for shipping wool, have 

 sent the price up, and I doubt now if they can be bought 

 for a much less rate than $1.50 and $2 per head. Mexi- 

 can sheep crossed with merino are worth $2 and $2.50, 

 and good graded sheep bred up bring $5 and $6 each. 

 Blooded bucks are worth from $30 to $200 apiece. 



General Cameron, writing of the stock-grasses of 



