| Show U au fe AI report REPORT ONI sherini SHEEP sweed 1 piti I 1 repert of the committee on sheep haes Hars raising fiig presented to the cob coi committee attee of the th parent society for the importation of stock march 27 1871 editor news As I 1 have been requested by the committee on sheep 2 I 1 wish to offer a few suggestions upon economy in sheep raising As there has been but little said upon this sub jeet in these meetings it may bead be advantageous vant ageous to some persons to do so to commence wit with in my opinion sheep raising is Js the least understood sad of any business in this territory and the losses in this branch of business for the last twenty years yeara will demonstrate stra talt it at the same time we have got one of the best countries for sheep raising in the united states and we can keep them the year brouna round without anything but what they thes can get themselves the high mountains where there is but bat little brush bruah is the pace for the summer range for sheep and those large valleys where there is plenty of white sage C and other small al arb are vve the places for w inter winter range ranks the large bunch grass alone is not suitable for cheep sms they like ilke variety of food more than any other animal the bucks should hould be taken from theeres the ewes so that they will not have lambs before the middle middie of april unless a person has i a bea hea hed bed for them and plenty of foots 1 an and ii fegi feed until grass comes the e ewes should be separated from the rest of or the flock it la a bad policy to put puh uit tit buck lambs to eweg ewes to breed from b until they are one and a half hulf years yarb old hiso kiso to breed froin from be wo years old and both ewes and bucks should hould be strong adia and hel hew healley allay when 1 they bey are put together to breed from and ad th the aei dei if possible should nave good feed two or three weeks before lambing ani bing hing a as it k makes snakes the lambs strong and nd heal healthy hearby thy thi the herdsman should not use hla hia dog loo freely when the sheep be NY feeding if he ggs d gs them together it lt lakes them some time to spread out ag again ain sin to get feed and that time tame la Is worse th than an lost the sheep should not know that th at they aie ale are herded f 4 and thao that hafi ean can be done one by the shepherd walking around to the side ilde opposite where he wants them to giand go and feed the greatest difficulty that we have to contend with in our qun flocks of sheep la Is the scab which destroys hundreds of sheep and thousands of pounds of wool wooi yearly in this territory and we still keep inexperienced men with our sheep arnd irro they do du not know that the heep sheep have got the scab until they ahey ana ane ara are incurable neu rable rabie and they are abandoned to t their oun own fate and ana whenever this takes akes place there is i a loss of from wenty alvi to td fifty nifty per cent of that lock look of sheep this m may sy appear a very avy loss to bome some but it Is arde when his this them in ift winter sa cupi P pose thene there la joba jobs ipsa of the hundred noted 11 a nd those principally ewes or last ye years ars ans lambs we will win say five of them thea might have had theather ninety have had haj had fifty lambs lambe but they I 1 lose iose arld and abandon ten pf af them through A ihla thia disease dibease which la is avery ayery hyry light bosio under tinder those circumstances makings aw loss in all of about twenty dap uve to the i hundred and they will lose from top tov three pounds of wool to the head t the question qu cation might be asked ia there 11 t 40 rio remedy for this disease I 1 will teu 1 dwer there is bishop maughan of gebe cache valley made a statement before this association some wees weeds since bince that he should like to see thes thep the alving waiving of ai 1 sheep tried ia ja thia this territory I 1 will say that I 1 have tried it yeses age and I 1 know that it will answer well rbt boti I 1 should put a mercurial ini the grease instead of the tar of which he spoke because the Pint ment menh will i kill the the tan tat will stain the wooi wool pa po that it will not talethe tadej dyestuff dye aye stuff a applied to thea then ai i sheep bya man wan that thai understands the bubi busi fless would cost per head it would engrof increase ite the growth and quai quai j ity of the woo wool wooi and it would avean aveau thel the josso caused by the thee scab cab some gome persons persona will say that poverty br brings ingari ri the scab but I 1 will say that the theio scab allitto all ail the time brings po poverty virt eini have seen some gome of the best and fatte fattest quit il flocks flooks ot of sheep in ju this the commenced seab upon abern them hut but iw it soon reduced red lice ilce them to poverty pov erty eity onea onet put in a thousand any i time in tho winter month months will joel joei b i smear the whole fl flock flook 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