erican Agriculturist, February 16, 1924 
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KENTUCKY 
The Sheep Small Flock— 
A Profitable Sideline 
Mark J. Smith 
Note:—We are surely riding on the some¬ 
what extended crest of a not excessive wave 
of good prices in the sheep industry—the 
best thought in the industry is that as the 
range production declines—the industry 
will be less erratic. We know what is on 
either side of a wave—regardless of the 
nature of the wave .— M. J. S. 
\A7 ESTERN sheepmen are somewhat 
r * concerned for fear farm flocks of 
sheep will be increased until over-produc¬ 
tion of market lambs causes the price 
levels to decline. S. W. McClure, of 
Idaho, former Secretary of the National 
Wool Growers Association, writing in the 
National Wool Grower , says: “It is very 
easy to overdo this sheep business and we 
should proceed with caution/’ J. E. 
Poole, market authority of Chicago, 
writing in the same issue of the National 
Wool Growers publication, points out 
that the Western run of lambs for 1923 
was 4,981,000. compared with 3,908,000 
for 1922. He states that “A decrease of 
approximately 500,000 head in so-called 
native lambs was the saving so far as 
values were concerned. 
Boomers Have’Nothing Invested 
In view of the fact that the United 
States can consume only about so much 
lamb, it is the height of shallowness for 
a producer of market lambs to go out of 
his way to promote the increased produc- 
I ft -. vU.Uv, O ELI 
“If we are going to have a small flock, let 
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is a type that every shepherd may well 
bear in mind when he is selecting the 
head of the flock.” 
tion of Iambs. As Mr. McClure points 
out, the boomers are generally men who 
have nothing invested in the industry to 
lose when prices decline as an effect of 
increased production. 
I know that the American Agricul¬ 
turist stands for consistent, constructive, 
profitable farm flock husbandry and con¬ 
ducted on a quality basis. As time goes 
on. a greater proportion of market lambs 
will be produced under farm conditions 
rather than on the Western ranges. The 
small farm flocks of the East properly 
kept can compete with any. anywhere, 
and there is a logical place for more of 
them to profitably graze over our hillsides 
and consume our roughage. 
Small Flocks More Profitable 
Small flocks are usually, if not always, 
more profitable than large ones. I have 
seen records of small flocks that nearly 
equaled farm poultry records. A flock 
kept under farm conditions as a side line 
is that of R. F. Hildwein, of Sandusky 
County, Ohio. Mr. Hildwein keeps 24 
ewes and a ram—Shropshire grades with 
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noble, roomy ewes with capacity for pro¬ 
ducing and raising rugged, four-cornered 
market lambs and shearing a ten-pound 
average fleece of good quarter-blood wool. 
During the season of 1922 the 24 ewes 
raised 30 lambs that sold in September for 
$360; the wool brought $92.50, making 
a total income of $452.50, nearly $19 
a head, to say nothing about the manure 
and, as an old sheepman said—“They 
make the farm look so slick.”—M. J. S. 
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