FARM SHEEP RAISING FOR BEGINNERS. 
CONTENTS. 
The outlook for sheep raising 3 
Sectional prospects for sheep production 4 
Requirements for sheep raising 5 
Returns from sheep raising 7 
Starting the flock 8 
Size of flock 10 
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Management at breeding time 11 
The flock in w inter 12 
The lambing season 14 
The flock in summer 17 
Preparing lambs for market 22 
THE OUTLOOK FOR SHEEP RAISING. 
AN IMPOKTANT change in the extent and character of the 
- American farm sheep industry began in 1915. Higher prices 
for himbs and wool in that year and the years following attracted 
wide attention to this branch of animal husbandry. Agricultural de- 
velopments of former years, with their cheaper grains and loAver 
values of meat animals, had not shown the economical advantages 
of the mutton and wool sheep as a quick source of income, produced 
mainl}^ from pasture, forage crops, or roughages, and with a very 
low labor requirement. 
Fig. 1. — Such pasturage as is shoAvn in this illustration is excellent for sheep. The 
grazing of sheep on such land yields a good income and improves the pasturage for 
larger stock. 
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