FINE FLOCK.—There is a man 
living and working HO miles away 
wlio has as many sheep as some of 
the old patriarchs had in Bible his¬ 
tory. lie has had confidence in sheep 
from boyhood, and now will realize 
on it. Contrary to the idea that poor land is the only 
place for sheep, he has none, and little is to he found 
in I'nion County: but he has them on his own land, 
let out on shares and on rented pasture almost every¬ 
where about him. The specialty at "Oaklauds" is 
Delaine ewes, and he buys and sells tens of thou¬ 
sands. while using a couple of thousands for hot- 
acquaintance with plainsmen, as well as dealers all 
over the East, he is buying and selling in carlots at 
all times. Ewes and Western Iambs and Eastern 
half-bloods come and go almost daily. Mrs. Wilber 
told us that one day when all were gone or busy she 
took a box and unloaded two cars of ewes and two 
of Western lambs. The latter did not know skirts, 
so she had to crawl into the double decks to get the 
lambs down the chute. In addition, many cars are 
handled by grade, weight and price guarantee that 
he never sees. 
L<)X<; DISTANCE TRADE.—Some buyers run 
there in machines, but most of the business is done 
sheep will. In my section he r e fully 20 substantial 
farm owners have temporarily abandoned' their farm 
work to earn $5 a day on the roads. They grow 
corn and wheat, but must earn money for taxes and 
upkeep of their places. They will get the tax money 
for public improvements, and then must pay their 
share of it back for more taxes.' There must be a 
change from surplus "blades" to wool, mutton and 
other deficits. This is positively essential for profit 
and for an adequate contribution to the circulation. 
At present the principal part of it is from the taxes 
when it should be from the farms. 
A RISING MARKET. — These road-working 
S/ier/i Turning Pasture into Wool and Mutton 
house lambs anu tor half-bloods for sale under one 
year, lie dresses and ships at nearly all times to 
New York and Chicago. It is almost a daily occur¬ 
rence for a dozen or a score to be dressed out of the 
present 350, and there are 400 ewes nearly readj 
for that barn. 
EASTERN POSSIBILITIES.—George M. Wilber 
was a ranchman who saw the possibilities of the 
East. Faith in mutton and wool, rlie only standard 
American industry that had a chance for permanent 
profit, lias made him a useful man for the public 
welfare, lie not only inspired faith in others all 
these years, but took his time to influence candidates 
for ottiee, and was a full hand to fight substitutes for 
wool at Washington and stay there to help get a duty 
on wool. Every sheepman is indebted to him. By liis 
by mail, wire or long distance phone. 1 gave him 
a letter from a Maryland man wanting 200 fine 
lambs, and it will l>e only a matter of price. On 
his 600 acres he cannot grow forage and grain for 
such swarms of sheep, lie cannot pasture half of 
them, so he is making a home market for hay and 
grain aud making good pasture with yields that 
would be shipped. He is saving all that fertility 
for his own laud. It was such a thought the writer 
gave in a September issue after seeing the expanse 
of Alfalfa about Caledonia. N. Y„ and east of there. 
TWO GREAT NEEDS.—The two greatest needs 
of this country are balanced production and a home 
market. Next to this iathe production of condensed 
packages, so transportation charges will not kill the 
price for the grower. .Nothing will help all these as 
farmers would have scorned to work for anyone in 
the past, and it is a startling evidence of how this 
land is eating its own financial heart out. Some of 
these men. in fact, all who can, are turning to sheep. 
Ewes are wild at auction sales. They have bin as 
high as $20 a head for good common Delaine cues, 
aud the buyers will get out. A turning over to the 
deficits will make a change. Listen to the Boston 
Wool Bureau: “Rarely has such a situation existed 
at the beginning of Winter as today. It is cer¬ 
tain that all predictions of the low price of wool or 
an inundation of foreign wool have proved inac¬ 
curate." Then listen to Mr. Wilber on sheep: 
SHORT SUPPLY.—“There are about one-half the 
number of sheep in America we had some years 
ago. The high wartime price sent both ewes and 
