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Live Stock and Dairy 
BUILDING UP A NEIGHBORHOOD 
INDUSTRY. 
We have been always fairly success¬ 
ful in our neighborhood in growing 
lambs. Quite a number of our farmers 
keep sheep, selling the lambs on the late 
market for about $5 apiece after pastur¬ 
ing them all Summer. A few years ago 
one of our growers had his lambs come 
early, so that they were ready for the 
January market, which requires a lamb 
weighing only 40 pounds and brings .$8 
after eight weeks from birth. That was 
rather better than the Spring lamb 
proposition, even if it did require loss 
of sleep and heavy grain feeding in the 
Winter. Two or three more found the 
specialty a profitable one to go into. 
Every once in awhile another one was 
added to the number of growers, or 
dropped out for the reason the lambs 
did not always come when wanted, 
or they found their accommoda¬ 
tions insufficient. The Washington mar¬ 
ket was always good, the main trouble 
being to get the lambs early enough. 
A couple of years ago the lambs on 
one farm where Dorsets were kept were 
all dropped in November, the ewes hav¬ 
ing fattened largely on Fall pasturage. 
When the lambs were born, the ewes 
were in prime condition, requiring little 
THE RU RAL RE W-YORKER 
one year, instead of settling down to 
feed them all Winter and through the 
Summer, he began to study up what other 
people did when lambs came early. The 
result was that he w^nt off to Philadel¬ 
phia to hunt up a hotel trade for out-of- 
season lamb meat. He found it. The 
hardest condition to meet was keeping 
up a constant supply. When his own 
few lambs were sold he had no more in 
view. Anyway he went ahead. 
Finally he had to tell his hotel buyer 
that he was sold out. That is where 
more than one new promising business 
stops. Too often the farmer has extra 
good stuff by snatches, but either hasn’t 
the energy or the knowledge to follow 
his success up and make it lasting. When 
he was shipping his last lamb an order 
came from his buyer asking him to try to 
get more at any price, and to arrange to 
send him more than one or two at a time. 
So llenry Palmer started into the lamb 
business in earnest. He scoured the coun¬ 
try for early lambs, getting one here and 
another, there, often miles apart. Another 
year he had introduced more Dorset blood 
into his flock and had persuaded two or 
three of his neighbors to give a good deal 
of their time to helping him build up a 
supply of lambs that would last through 
the season. Improved methods of feed¬ 
ing and handling that he discovered he 
shared with them. When he found that 
a Tunis ram crossed on his Dorset 
A TROTTER IN WOOL. 
grain feeding to bring the lambs to mar¬ 
ket size. The price received for 17 
lambs was $187, or $11 apiece without 
the heavy expense of Winter grain feed¬ 
ing. The worry of caring for the lambs 
in cold weather was got rid of; all the 
ewes had to be fed was roughage to keep 
them in shape; everything was lovely. 
It looked like a gold mine. 
The next year the lambs never came 
until the usual time, the last of Decem¬ 
ber and into January, so it was a taste of 
chance, not a steady thing. I concluded 
that if it could be done once, it might be 
done again if we could get the right con¬ 
ditions. I began to inquire about sheep 
everywhere I went, or whenever I met 
anyone likely to know. At last I heard 
of a neighborhood just over into Ches¬ 
ter County where they raised lambs for 
the Christmas market. That sounded 
like business. By and by I found time 
to take a little trip up there and visit 
friends. I had struck the right place. 
There were several farms that were grow¬ 
ing Christmas lambs. At that time, the 
last of November, they were bringing 
$10 apiece alive. The ewes had been 
off the pasture only a little while. The 
grain feeding was not heavy, and would 
soon be done. IIow did they manage it? 
That I am not prepared to say. There 
were a .number of things the growers did. 
Any one of them might have been the 
cause of their success. Until I can work 
some of them out in my own locality, the 
money the earlier lambs may bring is 
locked up as tight as ever. What I did 
find quite as interesting was how this 
industry had been worked up in the West 
Grove neighborhood. 
My first visit was to the farm of Henry 
Palmer, who grew the first Winter lambs 
in his neighborhood, and found a market 
for them. He was typical of the progres¬ 
sive farmer of any generation. When he 
saw an opening, he followed it up. When 
he had a bunch of his lambs come early 
grades consistently gave earlier and bet¬ 
ter finished lambs, he persuaded them to 
take up the practice also. He had de¬ 
veloped a new industry for the neighbor- 
hood. Whether or not they took ad¬ 
vantage of the object lesson lay with 
them. 
Well, what happened? Here and there, 
a farmer more ambitious than the rest 
or more interested in sheep, joined in. 
Others were dairying or in some line of 
business they couldn’t or wouldn’t get 
out of, so they benefited only indirectly 
from the new business. In time Mr. 
Palmer, growing older, gave up the 
proposition of handling the neighborhood 
trade, and now contents himself with his 
own small flock. What is the status of 
it now? A few more growers than 
formerly have taken up the trade- An¬ 
other farmer who can butcher gives up 
a large part of his time to handling the 
trade. He was paying for lambs on foot 
$10, which he dressed and supplied to 
the Philadelphia hotel trade. Although 
this neighborhood has * most prosperous 
look, and is one over which I could get 
easily enthusiastic as a livestock coun¬ 
try, it has its troubles. Here as else¬ 
where, some farmers are doing poorly. 
Here too, we find the old folks with farms 
on their hands and no one to take their 
places. New elements are coming u 
that may or may not suit the 
or two established lines or specialty farm¬ 
ing would make a name for the whole 
countryside. Yet instead of several 
farmers close together raising Winter 
lambs and pooling their interests, each 
goes his own way. One marketer, instead 
of having all the lambs needed for his 
trade raised within four or five miles, 
travels the whole countryside to find 
lambs enough, and to get growers with 
enough patience and energy to supply a 
wonderfully well-paid business. 
What is to prevent West Grove neigh¬ 
borhood from being noted as an early 
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Galls 
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Galls 
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