Show hl G PROFITS IN BE SHEEP SHIR secal 14 VOI ision oil 0 ont 1 11 it 1 I 1 S I 1 tuli tall I 1 and anti othar r mt tern state staten shuns 1 r a dollar and anti 1111 1 1011 one olle tilt 4 to ill on oil doery 1 1 gnau iri in awl july 29 does it pay to raise sheep Il 1 llam C burnes ot of the national for forestry ettry service sai sas it does and what nhat he bays says counts for barnes is making an official investigation ot of the sheep tn in dusto under orders ot of president tatt taft and the tariff board will not act until he reports submitting data collected on an extensive trip over ever the nest est barnes arrived here toda after having carefully investigated the sheep business in neu mexico 31 exico arizona california and nevada five other government representatives hai ha been collecting data and barne 4 sort of checks up on them and anti will mill make the final expert report the average coat cost of raising sheep Is 1 50 a head he s bays tys that includes grazing dipping shearing herding interest on mone In invested Nested winter losses and in tact fact every conceivable expense the aggregate of receipts run i to 3 31 the head bead delares barnes so the sheep men had a net profit of 1 I 1 81 A miser owning ten ton thousand head would mould realize a profit of the average clip of wool la is seven pounds to the head according to the data collected by darnes barnes and this averages thirteen cents a pound the average increase Inc Is 80 per cent and figuring lambs at three dollars this means nn an increase there of 2 40 it la is believed that when darnes barnes hands in hia his report about october icah or november 1st to the tariff board an investigation wll be made of cost of production and profits in other countries and the wool tariff will ill be accordingly barnes will study the tile conditions in utah idaho warning and montant |