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Show EARLY LAMBS SHOW BIG PROFITS Raising early lambs Is a profitable buslnoss on any Eastern farm.. The lambs are finished and marketed early and the ewes are sheared during dur-ing April. jVt that season the fleece is In -first class condition and will command a good prlco in tho wool market. The wool helps to pay for the cost of feed. And the manure is rich fertilizer that Is worth all the straw and roughage used to make it. It costs 'about two cents a day "I' consider it costs me about two cents a day to feed, a sheep, because be-cause I raise all the rations and the' roughage on the farm. Under my system of raising sheep, I buy the ewes at the stockyard In July, 'and the same animals are condition- ed for market and sold the following follow-ing March or April. The cost of maintenance for about 276 days Is $6. This year the wool averaged $2 an animal. The manure ma-nure Is a profit Each lamb brought $10. The fattened ewes always average aver-age a profit of $1.60 a head. Therefore There-fore I get a profit of $7 a ewe for the 275 days On the farm and the manure. Farm and Fireside. . ' |