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Show SBHEEPfQRDWmu. XWtrsre TThey Can .'Be .Raise -le 8est Advantage. 'From 'tho theoretical standpoint sheep can bo successfully raised in every stato of tho American nnlon and 'especially In the south. As a matter Of fact, however, sheep are ralseU in i flocks of thousands prlncl pally In tho seml-nrld states of the west, while most of the sheep kept In tho humid states are in small (locks. The writer of this was talking talk-ing with in sheep rancher from the west Who mudh wanted to move his sheep 'breeding operations to tho "sunny "sun-ny south." nut after Investigation he came to tho conclusion that the plains of tho west were better adapted to sheep raising than the south, on ac count of the smaller rainfall. Where tho rainfall Is considerable the slieop have to be provided with shelter and looked after nioro carefully than else-whoro. else-whoro. iln 'the west the sheep can 'be allowed 'to stay out the year around. In 'tho summer tho rain Is not constant enough to Injure them, and ln the winter tho snow Is not deep enough to cover the grass on which they Teed. This gives the advantage to the ranges, so far as the raising of large flocks of sheep is concerned; that Ih the raising of sheop by tho thousands But iln other parts of the country sheep 'can still be raised to great ad vantage, especially In the rougher sco tlons of tho country. In a recent trip through New Kngland I noticed that In much of that country tho pasture have grown up to brush to such an extent that they now produce less grass than they used to. I could not help thinking how admirably these pastures wero adapted to sheep and how the sheep would havo kept down the shrubs and brush. I expect to see the time when those hillsides, now growing up to arboreal growths, will bo covered with flocks of grazlnfl sheep. I do not expect to see sheep ever largely on tho farms where the soil Is a rich prairie loam and all cultivable, cul-tivable, says u writer In Farmers' Ro vlow. Such land Is adapted to more IntenBlvo farming than Is Indicated by tho grazing of sheep. Dut tho wild wastes that aro increasing In some parts of tho country can bo mads into rich sheep pastures by tho sowing sow-ing on them of grasses adapted to shoep pasture. |