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Show SHEEPHERDERS TO THE GENERAL proposition that wages of sheepherders must be reduced to conform more ! nearly to the reduced or vanished incomes of j the sheepmen, there is no answer perhaps. But the wise sheepman will think more of weeding out in- . competent herders than of cutting down the pay of j the tried and skilled man. ' One of the great items in the sheepman's ex- pensc bill is loss of sheep- Coyotes and cats get their I toll. A few lost here and a few there. A bunch is ' crowded into a wash. Some are lamed by clogging j and finally drag out. Herds mix and time and ex-j ex-j pense arc charged to the sheepman. And so it goes. Just how much of this there will be, depends to a great extent on the herder. His experience, judgment, judg-ment, energy and honesty, or his lack of these can mean the saving or losing in a day of enough sheep to pay his wages for months- His way of grazing the sheep may keep them fat and contented or it' may drag them down poor. So in cutting down wages the sheepmen will be wise in devising a way that will weed out the incompetent rather than drive the good men to more pleasant and better-paid jobs.. |