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Show SEPMEI PRAYING FOR ADDITIONAL RAM Lack of Moisture Has Injured Ranges, but Improvement Is Hoped For. Rains, which have been general throughout the etato, have raised the prlco of shoep to a very noticeable extent, ex-tent, according to C. B. Stewart, secretary secre-tary of ,tho Utah Woolgrowers association. associa-tion. Mr, Stewart sayo the exceedingly dry summer has been hard on the winter ranges of the sheep and tho outlook to dato Is ihat the greater part of the sheep of the stato will have to be fed hay and grain during tho winter. The only bopti the sheepmen have is heavy rains within tho next few weeks. If there aro no rains, sheep will have a hard winter, but If thero Is plenty of rrln the range grass will uprout nnd tho forage will becomo moro plentiful. At present It Is said that the range grass could not be In a. worse condition. However, it lias been raining In many parts of the slate and this has mado the outlook more encouraging. Still, tho sheepmen aro praying for moro rain. "With the bad outlook for winter, the sheepmen, or many of them, at least, have become frightened and, as a result, thousands of sheep have been placed on the marlcets. Tho ownera have decided to get out of tho sheep business altogether alto-gether rather than face the hnrd winter. The desire of owners to sell their flocks, or part of thorn, at least, and the lack of deslro of other sheep owners to assume as-sume tho responsibility of hnvlng more sheep to food, have reduced tho prlco of range sheep materially. The recent rains encouraged tho situation, and it would not be posslblo now to buy sheop at the samo rato at which they could bo purchased a week ago. It Is said, |