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Show Banner Shipment Goes Out Tuesday Sixteen carloads of fat lambs and feeder lambs, the banner stock shipment ship-ment from the Gunnison Valley district dis-trict for the season, went out Tuesday Tues-day evening. The stock comprised the cleanup of the 15,000 head of sheep that was fed in the valley during dur-ing the past two months for the Del-mue Del-mue Livestock company. The sheep, consisting of six cairs of fat lambs and ten cars of feeders, will be distributed; dis-tributed; at the Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago markets. Generally speaking the experiment of feeding in the valley has been a j splendid success and the major portion por-tion of the feeders made a good profit. prof-it. The drop in prices, however, cut profits down for the late shippers. But not to any material degree for the reason that most of the stock was being fed under contract. The initial cost of providing feed boxes and arranging for the starting of the industry in the valley, is now established estab-lished and the predictions are that the coming fall will see the valley one of the largest feeding centers in the western countries. "We perhaps did not make the profits we had anticipated, but the coming years will prove more profitable, profit-able, I am sure," said a prominent stockman and feeder- yesterday. "The experiment, generally speaking, was a suecess, and if followed consistently consistent-ly and conservatively and carried out on a large scale, it will prove a big asset to the farmers. The climatic conditions and the abundance of feed makes this valley one of the best for the feeding industry and it will mean an extra payroll." It is announced that some 50,000 feeder lambs and ewes will be purchased pur-chased during the summer and that the enterprise will be tested out on a large scale this coming fall. |