Show I I Mutton Sheep a Source of Profit I Blessed Blesse is the man that has a good flock of autumn sheep and knows how to take care of them They are sure money makers just as sure a as government government govern govern- ment bonds or first-class first railroad bonds and paying paying- t three ree or four four times the interest The farmer armer who through evil report and good report has ba held heldon on to the sheep not becoming sc scared red at any temporary depression or threat t of tariff removal or anything else lse has made good money mone- right along and will make more money than ever in the future His farm is comparatively fn free o fro from w weeds e s wherever t the e sheep can graze and and his hI's land md is constantly growing richer Why do we prophesy better returns in the future Because first there has been a wonderful decrease in the Australian flocks from whence has come our main supply of fine wool in years past Second because there has beep and will continue to b be a decrease in the available area for sheep grazing on the ranges partly because of the appropriation appropriation appropriation ap ap- of large tracts of territory for government reservations and and for irrigation purposes partly because the sheep eat but the native grasses which cannot be readily restored and partly because of the innovation of the nester nest- nest er or homesteader and the out out out- and I out purchase of railroad lands for cattle cattle cat cat- I ItIe tle tIe growing purposes Third because there has been a decided increase in the demand for mutton which h in turn has bas been the result of the introduction of the mutton mutton mutton mut mut- ton sheep It is popular to eat mutton now It was not a few years ago This condition too is permanent In addition to all aU this there has been beena a g decrease in the sheep population of Great Britain and also the continent so that in tine time to come America ca must muse be depended upon to furnish a still larger amount of the prime mutton to the mutton eaters of the old world The feeding of sheep has been very profitable in the years ye rs past so that I there has been a demand for immense numbers of at lambs from New Mexico and other mutton growing districts The farmers of the corn belt are beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning to learn how to feed sheep and inasmuch as this feeding has brought them good money they will not go out of f their way to to kick a a. a sheep as h heretofore The decrease in the acreage that can be devoted to to to sheep husbandry will shorten very greatly the supply of feeders and the time will come and that soon when O the the- Iowa and Nebraska Ne Ne Nebraska braska feeder will have av to eit either er grow his own lambs Iambs or purchase them from neighbors who d do grow them for this reason that the great advance in the price of wool and the eager inquiry and offers to contract for next years year's clip and the rapid advance of fine wool the world over over will ca cause se and and Is causing causing caus caus- ing many many ranchmen to resort to fine wool bucks in order to improve the Ithe quality of th their lr wool This will atthe atthe at atthe the same time decrease the mutton quality so that it will not be possible when this movement is fully under underway w war way Y and its effects ar are are clearly visible to o. o buy she sheep p of the mutton type for feeders feeders in the corn and and- grass states We therefore urge urge our readers who have mutt mutton n flocks to hold on to them and to Increase them up to head headon on each ach quarter section of Jand land Do Donot Donot Donot not get the Tine lIne wool craze The Rambouillet however are not objectIonable objectionable objectionable In fact there there is one strong point in their favor that they are not so affected with the stomach worms Use in your flocks either Southdown Cotswold Hampshire or Oxford Tams rams Keep your flock In in good shape and ond you will make money by It We have for n nearly ady twenty years been urging farmers to fence their farms farma tight sheep ight and begin with a flock of at twenty five head of ewes thus cleaning up what would I otherwise go goto goto goto to waste making mutton out of ot weeds and enriching their farms It would seem to us that all these years we have been talking to deaf ears W W. WI have regarded this as the soundest ki kind d of agricultural teaching an have bave wondered why it has bas produced bu tv little effect The rhe time wll wil come and is coming when farmers will realize the soundness of this advice profit by it and wonder ond r why they did not profit by it a long iong time ago The causes that have led to the present strong demand for mutton and wool are are for the most part part perma perm a- a nent We earn earnestly urge every farmer farm farm- farm farmer er who can afford t to to put up the right kind of fences offences and shows any Indication indication indica indica- i tion of ot sheep sense to invest as as soon as possible hi in a flock of ot tw twenty five five nty-five good mutton ewes mate them with a aI abuck abuck I buck of oJ t the e breeds above m mentioned I and make some som good money If It the farmer will not do doit It let the boy it up The boy can make money on sheep even if the old man cannot Wallaces Wallace's s 's Farmer |