27 
RAISING EARLY LAMBS. 
There are 21 lambs credited to the Shropshires. One more 
lamb was dropped but so late in the season that it could not 
be sold with the others in the spring and was carried over 
until the next season. It is counted in the summary as 
worth $2.00, though of course we actually received more 
than that for it at the time of sale. 
The record for the spring of 1897 is as follows. 
Record for the Spring of 1 897. 
DAM. 
No. of Lambs Sold 
Average Date of 
Birth. 
Average Date of 
Sale. 
Age at Date of 
Sale, Days. 
Live Weight, Lbs. 
Dressed Weight, 
Lbs. 
Selling Price. 
Shropshire. 
21 
27 
Jan. 15 
Jan. 12 
March 27 
April 2 
71 
80 
54 
56 
27 
26 
$4.05’ 
3.90 
Dorset. 
Total and Average. 
48 
Jan. 13 
March 30 
76 
55 
26.5 
$3.97' 
Again for the third year the same experiment was re¬ 
peated. The ewes were all served by Shropshire bucks, but 
were getting so old that several did not lamb the spring of 
1898. 
Instead of selling the lambs for slaughter they were all 
sold April 13 at $3.50 per head for breeding purposes. This 
was about the price they would have brought if they had 
been fed a little more grain and sold for meat. 
The following is the record for the spring of 1898: 
Record for the Spring of 1 898. 
DAM. 
No. of Lambs Sold 
Average Date of 
Birth, 
1 
Date of Sale. 
Age at Date of 
Sale, Days. 
Live Weight. 
Selling Price 
Shropshire. 
17 
23 
Jan. 1 
Dec. 25 
April 13 
April 13 
102 
109 
61 
59 
$3.60 
3.40 
Dorset. 
Total and Average .. 
40 
Dec. 28 
April 13 
106 
60 
$3.50 
