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Show HARD LINES FOR SHEEP OWNERS. Occasionally there Is heard complaint fiom sheep nwniis in I tali, Idaho and M yomlng about Ilia drought short fc-ed, high prices for lucerne etc etc Hue h men should read of the troubles I hit ueeot the llmkmnaters In New - mth ales and then the inlermnun-i inlermnun-i lain country will appear it Uiltihlo I iiadlso oven In the worst of sett, ins I K j tine) correspondent w.lles to the Mm il an Sheep liieeder as follows c ituerolng sheep and diought Kin. ih i lit mill rub i Ills ill.iislr.ua n i. h i h Hal, j il m in i Ii i a, hi I M u ii i ii Ii 1 n m I! i ii i r f s r I rm i ii u l k Iin inure , rending ac ounts of tho srlou losses whl h our long suffering pastoraihts are f r rd to endure and Ihe worst feature f t Is that rh ulcl rnln now come It will lli I iivo with the remaining live stock, pin " tin winter is now on ut and the fr wis have sot In M hat tho s im total it tie lissei of the State will ultimately fttno int to I tejond powers of estimate our largest ehwn owner icports that n Mir agn his flocks itmountr-d to 12j0tyi0 slaep and to lay ho doubts very much whether he cnuf 1 minter 3'n ono Aniri el il failing has long since been reorted t an I ou ma Imagine what the mmlhlx filler Nil amounts to on a run which carries over t io 10 sheep One of our largest central dlvlnlon sheen runs la puving W720 er vw-ck for chart and grctn nnl even at that huxe outlay the) adi raflllv losing Bheep The owner of anoth r idatlnn h is i nnceutrnte I his ener-glea ener-glea In Ih effort tn save JO 000 choice or xllng !. nnl to do this be has I) expend jer month SU 4 Lucerne hay on the whnrf Is w rtli Ml SI ht ton Onls sft cents PT bil'li nnl no nn Win n long ratlwac rarrl iae and haulage bv teams Is added to these trices ou will e at whit i coet our abut pmt n are tr)-Ing tr)-Ing to save Ihe rick of their tlnck It Is tuifiirtunnlely only too certain that 1 largi number of the tcst citizen o the State will halo to go to the wall and nct nnlv iUi tht npily tn the large sheep owners, hut nlso to the numeious lass if small men whoso flocks amount to ;w) an 1 V no sheep |