Show Si EP ARK ARE GOODMONEY GOOD nOOD MONEY IO E MAKERS The hC following figures ures published b bv by v county agriculturist at Davenport Vash lash are arc interesting and equally to mn many y sections of th the vest A local farmer near Davenport after fter keeping a flock of sheep fo for everal eral years Is thoroughly convinced con t If f Its profits from two sources Their Thel alue in wool and mutton is easily in dollars and cents but bu here Is a great return in the destroy destroy- ng of weeds and as fertilizer that cannot be reckoned The farmers reporting shows an in In- estment of for tor grade grado Lin Lin- oln lambs as their foundation herd nd 2100 2100 for tor 11 miles of ot woven wire fence once ence including 11 iron gates Their expenses were 2 8 3 for tor alfalfa my 85 SG for a n hired man at nt lambing ime one ono pound of at grain per pel head per pei perlay perlay lay after acter February 1 until marketed or or market sheep and one pound ofrain of ot rain crain per head per day from Decem Decem- er ter 15 16 1 for the ewes Their returns from the sheep the first year rear were 2 G 0 for wool anc and 1268 for lambs second year rom wool and 1100 from lambs the hird hard year from wool and 1040 rom roan lambs In addition In a total of ot 4 lambs were killed in the three years for tor home use |