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but, by paying $15 extra, the railroads allow sheep or cattle to be' 
shipped from Clayton to Fort Collins, unloaded and fed for 
any length of time, reloaded, and shipped to Chicago. The freight 
from Rawlins, Wyoming, to Chicago is $105 per car and the railroad 
charges $30 for hauling the car from La Salle to Fort Collins and 
return. From Soda Springs, Idaho, the rate is $110 per car plus the 
$30. These rates are for standard cars thirty feet long. Ten 
per cent, additional is charged for 36-foot cars. As the larger 
car will hold about fifty more than the smaller, it is always- 
used when it can be obtained. A 36-foot car will hold about 300i 
small southern lambs. 
When driven on foot a band of sheep will travel about eight miles; 
per day and feed on the road enough to keep up their condition.. 
This seems slow as compared with railroad transportation, but in 
large bands it is much the cheaper method. From either Rawlins or 
Casper, the drive to Fort Collins would occupy about a month. Three' 
herders will drive a band of from four to seven thousand, and their- 
entire expenses, including horses, wagon, cook, food, wages, etc., will 
not exceed two hundred dollars. This makes a cost of four to five 
cents per head as compared with twenty cents by rail. This saving 
amounted to over a thousand dollars on a single band trailed to Fort 
Collins last fall. 
A still cheaper way, if one has his plans made long enough before¬ 
hand, is to buy the sheep in June at the shearing sheds. They can then 
be purchased at from forty to seventy-five cents less per head than the 
owners would want for them the first of November. During the 
summer they can be herded on the range, gradually moving them 
toward the place where they are to be fattened. A four months drive- 
will cost less than twenty cents per head and deliver them at the- 
feeding sheds in the fall, not only transportation free, but with some- 
additional saving. 
It is not advisable to trail lambs, as they ought to remain with 
the ewes until at least the middle of September, and a few weeks, 
longer is still better. Still, one small bunch of lambs was driven 
from Casper, Wyoming, to Fort Collins last fall with no apparent bad 
results. The lambs from New Mexico have always been brought 
here by rail. 
SHEEP MARKETS. 
The Colorado sheep feeder has open to him several markets for 
his well-fattened product. The Chicago market is the one generally 
considered the best, but is, by no means, the only one used. 
The people of Colorado consume a great deal of mutton which 
is all supplied from within the State. Most of this is inferior 
mutton. There is a small trade in Denver, Pueblo, and Colorado- 
Springs that is willing to pay a first-class price fora first-class article, 
but the great bulk of the well-fattened sheep of the State go to the- 
