Show SHEEP SHOW V GOOD PROFIT IN N COUN COUNTY Fifteen farmers of Duche Duchesne me county coon coun ty ly have a grand ran total of ot 1043 0 4 3 far faro I sheep that is sheep cared care for tor primarily pd manly madly on the farmstead accordIng accord accord- Ing to County Agent ent Leroy C. C Funk who has Just completed d a survey o othis oj of this industry in Duchesne county 1 The Phe size of the flocks states Mr I Funk range in number from 13 to ItO As near as these farmers could I estimate they received a no total Ct of from their farm sheep enterprise en en- a J for o the The Too past ye year r. r ex ex- expense I pense penso during the same saine same period was leaving a nel net 4 t profit profi above expenses of of at That Is 13 this 62 Is the return abo above mane money 7 paid out and does not include Inventories inventories I tories t feed e raised on on the farm or orthe orthe the tobe farmers labor The The average fiat Cor oT each o of the 15 farmers farmers' was above expense expense se The average size ot of 01 the farm tarm flock lock Is nearly 70 head this simply means that the tar farmer er 1 had for living e expenses general farm a expense to pa pay interest or mortgage mortgage mort mort- gage taxes etc from his sheep enterprise In this connection it would be well to study the agriculture outlook as published by the Bureau Dureau Agricultural al Economics January January 29 1928 Supplies of ot lambs for far marketing In the first halt half of air 1929 are slightly lightly larger than a year earlier an and d Indications foil Indi t t. t axe aTe that a larger of western fed ted lambs will be marketed market- market ed after Mar March h 1 than last year Sheep numbers continued to In Increase increase tn- tn crease creased during ri g 1 1928 1925 and the lamb t crop this year may show sh-ow some in increase increase increase in- in i 5 crease above last year production in the United States and in the important t foreign j producing countries during the 1928 29 season will apparently be about 6 per cent larger than for or the v 28 1927 seasons slightly reduced 6 supplies and active foreign demand demaud this season have strengthened ned prices graces es for fOT lower grade grode wools This season seasons s larger world l wool Oil supplies and the declining kl lIning tendency in foreign torel prices t i I have not been reflected by a decline t tIn i In do prices of or wool in this country t i Active business conditions will I r 1 i continue to help support sup the lamb Iamb lamb and wool market well through h 1929 1929 with possible slackening in late lato 1929 or 1930 Although increased increased numbers of ot sh In this sheep ep country have not as yet affected the mark markets markets eta Y f caution should he be used In production v t plans since present lamb prices can can- 1 6 or ori not nolt be maintained if it expansion is continued too rapidly It would seem then that while taI farm I 1 sheep seem soom to be a profitable enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise on the Duchesne county farm i IS that undue e expansion is Is- Isto to be bo cautioned cautioned cau cau- caus s against and now is the time timer J 1 when the farmers sh shall ll increase t the 5 quality of his sheep rather rathor thau tho t quantity a 1 I i I V j The mho average wool clip in fn J county according to the census census' of of he United States Is 8 83 poi vie per per t. t sh sheep ev I mention this as one sug sus- SU suggested that might I Improvement we make mako during this time We might look also tea t-o the mutton value of our 1 sheep |