Show THE SHEEP INDUSTRY the reports of the chicago live stock block market should furnish some pointers for utah sheep owners the announcement of september 3 that a lot of utah mixed brought the highest price of the day may be gratifying as ai suggestive ol of the quality that can tie be catiel here at the some same time the general reports of abe market bo id suggest to utah sheep men that an undue haste baste io in getting rid of if their lambs lamba and one and two year olds even at a comparatively high price in ia not exactly the wisest kind or a business Pro proposition except with wit ti thone thole who have no other enoice it portends a diminution dimio ution in the number of stock sheep two or three years hence bence that may be regarded as disastrous in considering an industry which heretofore has baa held bold and yet is entitled to a leading place owing t ti the general business dg de pre press aBlon ioD the past three years yeara has baa witnessed pu jin enormous reduction in the number 1 of sheep in this bla country and consequently in the wool producing oa capacity kapity thin reduction has haa been the cause of the improved condition of the wool market slid aud its ita effect doubtless doubt leaa will continue in that lioe line for ame mme time to come As aa matters mattera stand at present pree ent the west weak may have in its hands the business of mainly ing the domestic dom eatlo market in both wool and mutton in the east it Is ia shown that the sheep have reduced in numbers in some of the states fifty per cent bace 1892 and the bulk that now DOW goes to the chicago market is ia from abs tbs west the reports show abow that the western sheep owners are now more eager iv in selling belling than even their eastern asso associate clater august aukusti 1894 was waa known as virtually a panic mouth month so great was the rush of sheep into the chicago market yet the report lor for august 1895 shown an increase of head bead over that of the corresponding month the preceding year while so ao excess of for the first week in ia september indicates that the haste to sell is still an uppermost feature jader these conditions many western sheep men have sold out ong almost every one two or three year old sheep in kneir flocks so that bat now their took stock is in at the point of certain deterioration 1 N according to the be prop proportion orAton of utah men in the he lost last named close is the he unfortunate state of the outlook ilk id the face of what the future must bring speaking to the point it may be sold that the sheep abeel owner who has baa his hi flock in good condition never had a better prospect than at present while the man who holds only an old stock Is S in the situation either to got get out of the business busl nesa quickly or lose jose considerably in re stocking with the reduced number of sheep in the country there is ia little room for doubt that in the next few years yeara the industry will be as a profitable as agoan can be desired and utah sheep owners ought to have and keep their heir flocks in a condition to vantage of circumstances that maybe made to accrue to their benefit dont get rid of the lambs lamba and young sheep that make a hardy and productive flock |