Show SELL UT III I 1 ron si 1 so 80 THE AV ER IGE M W E caudll animal husbandman utah agricultural experiment station fat pat lambs of proper weight sell for more money than thin light lambs the average utah lamb as he leaves the range is too light and too thin to top the market some of our lambs do reach the market with enough flesh and weight however the av utah lamb taking large and mail young and old and fat and thin N v ill probably pio plo bably not weigh over 60 pounds to grade choice they should be fat and weigh on the market 80 to 85 pounds this will mean a weight around 90 pounds in the feed lot in the past most of utah lambs have ben boen sent to states to have that extra 30 po ands of weight put on them this is not necessary how ever it if utah feeds and utah lambs are put together on utah farms it i lo 10 pi probable pio bable tl at utah will have in the neighborhood of lambs to market tl Is year thirty pounds added to the weight of each one would make a total increase of as pounds of lamb meat at average prices price the cost of teed feed to make thi gain in the feed lot would be app 1 A conser conservative vatne estimate of the increase ed value of the lambb due to this feeding on even lower prices than prevailed last year would be to 4 at the lowest fl figgie figuie uie this would mean a profit above cot of teed feed of 1 or in tn increase inci case ease of 1 80 a head in tl e selling price of the average utah lamb this profit is above cost of feed the operation would serve as a macket foi utah feeds at going pric es the man ire from the feeds could be returned to utah land to increase its productivity and approximately 1 would be made available for tl e farmers and lamb growers of the state tl TI e total be befits to the state seem to be well worth while it is for the individual farmer and sheep man to decide it if the profits involved are worth the effort of a little compera tion and forward planning A mil lion seven hundred fifty thousand dollars added to the present agrical tural income of the state should lighten materially the much adver i td d tax burdei of tl e farmers Is the money warth the getting 9 it costs too much to stay dirty let s clean up and save money |