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Show May New lambing complex prevents sheep loss individual lamb cribs for a long time but just got it built this winter. He always winters his sheep in pens on his own place and trails them up Fairview Canyon to range on the Manti during the summers, where the Olsens do their own herding. Feeding the 1,050 sheep in their herd through the winter keeps the Olsens busy farming during the The herd summer. consumes approximately 250 to 300 tons of alfalfa per year plus about 27 tons of pellets made of corn and barley and laced Hans Peter Olsen, sheep. His son Lawrence Peter Olsen carried on the sheep business. Now, carry Jay and his sons on the operation, incorporating new ideas as they feel they will improve the methods of caring for die herds and increasing the number of lambs brought to sale condition each year. Modern methods are being applied to a business almost as old as man that of raising and Fountain with vitamins. Each sheep animal is fed about a half Green sheepman Jay pound per day and as all Olsen and sons David and sheepmen know, feed Steven are some of those consumption increases to who are implementing almost double after the those modern ideas to the ewes have their lambs. betterment of the Straw utilized livestock industry. The Olsens utilize straw from grain they grow to cover the ground in the He that hath pity upon cribs covered pen area.' the poor lendeth unto the Die whole operation is d kept clean and the odor of sheep is Blessed is he that ixidetectable. The whole considered the poor. operation is set up to run Pslams XLI I smoothly with extra good I am as poor as Job, my care given to the animals and dficient use of time lord, but not so patient. and manpower in caring Shakespeare for them. As you talk with the It is life near the bone, Olsens you can tell they where it is sweetest. arent in the sheep Thoreau By Thomas A. Reeve communities and initiate where a face-liftin- g Sanpete County Agent Are you interested in natural beauty is marred helping to make your by peoples neglect. Those interested in community and state more beautiful? The 1980 obtaining an entry blank Civic Beautification and further information Awards Program may be should contact their local in Office just what you are looking Extension for. Entries Manti. enThis program may be made at any time courages neighborhood and will be accepted until and community clean up, July 30. as well as giving enThe Utah Association of to in- Nurserymen award trees couragement dividuals to beautify. valued at about $500 to Businesses, churches and communities with the all other groups in- most entires under 3000 terested in beautification population, and above may take part in this 3000 population. The program. community showing the Civic most improvement in the The annual Beautification Program past year also receives aims to encourage ap- this award. preciation of well-kebusiness, homes, and Beautification program is several covered lambing cribs, an idea Jay has had for many years. Die Olsens come from a pioneer sheep ranching family in that part of Sanpete. By Betty Ramsey Pyramid Staff Writer FOUNTAIN GREEN -Even though he has been working with sheep all his life and is a third more newborn lambs than when lambing takes place on the range. All winter the Olsens worked on constructing a of number partially-covere- d PRECISION BUILT HOMES FROM WILLIAMS & SMITH MANTI LUMBER FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME WE HAVE SEVERAL UNITS OF LOANS AVAILADLE TO QUALIFIED BUYERS CALL INTEREST. TO 9 AT 0 US TODAY Steep cr Coyotes? 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GBaitralk EpIhiGdinin) UTAH 75 YEARS OF SERVICE WOOL TO SANPETE COUNTY GROWERS gen- Leigh Hunt K lambing ewes, placing newborns and their mothers into the cribs, checking on those already confined, and releasing those who are seen to have a good start in life back into a pen with other mothers and their young. FYom that pen they are later moved as the lambs grow stronger, so that in each pen ewes and lambs are progressing at about the same rate. 30years in business Jay Olsen said he has been shed lambing for some 25 to 30 years and has had the idea for the and OUR LARGE VARIETY OF PLANTS ARE AND NATIVES GROWN INCELL-PACOF SANPETE ELIMINATE THE MIDDLE MAN AND BUY AT Fmmmcmg MmkesA pens and a long Jay Olsen and his son, David, inspect one of the lambs confined in a lambing crib along with its mother. Die Olsens recently completed a new lambing complex at their Fountain Green operation, and say they are saving many new lambs over numbers lost by range lambing. Patience tleness is power. er line of 50 small pens or cribs. As lambing time began, the Olsens placed the ewes in one of the three pens bordering on the cribs. Immediately after the lambs are born the mother and her new baby or babies are moved into one of the individual cribs and held for from 12 to 24 hours. Checked every two hours During this time they are checked every two hours to see that they are progressing satisfactorily and about six hours before they are due to be moved out, they are marked so the Olsens will know which ones are about ready to return to the larger pen with other ewes and lambs. In the crib, the new mother and her offspring are in a place of quiet, undisturbed by other sheep, and the Olsens say this saves a lot of lambs which otherwise might be lost. It also proves effective in cutting down on the number of lambs their by rejected mothers. During lambing time the Olsens make the two hour inspections of the The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Emerson BEDDING AND VEGETABLE PLANTS ARE NOW READY DIRECT FROM GROWER TO YOU d complex which enables the men to save approximately 30 percent Colton MORONI GREENHOUSE Give me a lever long before them. They really enough and a prop strong generation sheep man love the work they do and enough, I can single-handehimself, Jay Olsen of have a great concern for move the world. Fountain Green is not their livestock. Archimedes content to do things in the Olsens are The same old way and is descendants of a pioneer Iron hand in a velvet Charles V constantly trying to Sanpete family. Jay says glove. improve on his operation. his He and his son David, who works full time with his father, and another son, Steven, who works part time, recently completed a lambing Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. Civic The business just because their ancestors were great-grandfath- Page N i neteen sponsored by the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah State University Extension, the Utah Associated Garden Clubs and the Utah Association of (835-215- easily-identifie- David Olson and his father, Jay, stand in one of the lambing pens on their Fountain Green ranch. Die pair and another son, Steven, recently completed The Pyramid 1980 Beautification awards program open to all Sr. came from Denmark, settled in Fountain Green, and started raising 1, lotdOOOO |