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Show BETTER SHEEP CARE PAYS FLOCK OWNERS Results Given of Demonstrations Held in Missouri Animals Given Highest-Priced Feed Returned Biggest Net Return on Investment, Most Important Point to Raiser. (Piepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Seven farm sheep demonstrations were held last year In Missouri flock owners co-operating with sheep specialists spe-cialists of the United States department of agriculture and the state agricultural agricul-tural college the results of which, among other things, showed that It pays well to give sheep proper care. In two of the demonstrations, where grade animals were kept, one flock produced 108 per cent of lambs, which means that some of the ewes had twin lambs, while the other flock produced only fi9 per cent of lambs, which means that a large number of the ewes did not produce any or that the lambs were too weak at birth to be saved. The wool from the first flock was sold at GO cents a pound, while the wool from the second flock brought 64 cents a pound. The cost of feed of the first flock amounted to $7.05 for each animal, ani-mal, while the sheep of the second flock were fed at a cost of $1.34 each. The total cost, in the first flock amounted to $8.30 an animal, as compared com-pared to $2.57 for the second flock. But the net profit a head the point which is most important to all sheep raisers was $5.74 in the first flock as compared to $2.22 in the second Jlock, and the net return on the investment amounted to 21.77 per cent In the first flock as compared to 1,23 per cent iu the second flo;. |
