Bingham Bulletin | 1918-05-17 | Page 2 | Government Urges Sheep for the Farm

GOVERNMENT URGES . 8HEEP FOR THE FARM Recently the government conducted a farm survey of this county, and advised ad-vised the farmers to get more live 6tock on their places, see Bulletin No. M2. A bunch of sheep should be on every farm in this county. They will convert farm and orchard weeds into mortgage mort-gage lifting profits, fence and enrich the farm, feed and clothe the family. Here's what ten head of old ewes did ttor a San Pete County farmer. Tuy paid for themselves the first year. By the middle of the third year he had fattened his old ewes and cashed them In; this, together with the returns from wool clips and marketed mar-keted wether lambs pld the original investment with Interest, and all costs of feed and keep, and left him with a bunch of young ewea with which to build up a big business on a small farm. 'In addition to all this, the farm had been enriched and the weed crop greatly diminished. So get a bunch of sheep on your farms. I'rovo affords a good market for both wool and mutton.