Show Produce Superior Lambs for Market Breeding Feeding Castration Castration Castra- Castra tion and Docking Among Important Factors Prepared by bT the United d State Statu Department or of Agriculture Producing desirable lambs for the market Is s dependable to a large extent on the three following principles of management namely good breeding proper feeding and castration and docking of the lambs ot Of these three factors the latter Is probably more abused than any of the others especially espe- espe when It Is considered that dockIng docking dock dock- Ing and nd castrating are easily done and add much to the desirability and ond value of the lamb carcass The most desirable desirable desir- desir able and thus the most profitable lamb iamb carcass cannot be produced from lambs which have not been docked and castrated S says S 'S the United States Department Department De- De of Agriculture Hinge Hine Real Profits The farmer does not market his bull c calves IlS as bulls nor his boar pigs as boars says the department Why therefore should he market his male F pit M y I I Docked Lambs Look Better and Sell at Higher Prices lambs ambs as ram lambs rather than as The correction of this neglect neg- neg lect by castrating and docking the lambs ambs Is vital and upon a more general genral gen gen- ral eral observance of the practice In the farm tarm flocks hinge the real profits and more nore general success It Is ely estimated that SO per cent ot of the he native those lambs marketed Prom from farm which flocks reach the markets come unlocked and uncas- uncas rated and that the the the- percentage of rm ram 1 lambs ambs among the offering during the thelast last ast year ear has been as large as ever before Universal In Range Flocks On the other hand the custom of locking docking all lambs and castrating the males ashes Is almost universal In the range locks and to this hits practice In n a large measure neasure may be attributed the fact I that hat lambs produced on our western ranges outsell native or raised farm lambs ambs at the market on the average a ot of from 1 to per poun 1 These operations have been found profitable and that Is the big reason that the they have haye become FO o commonly on the western range They ire are likewise applicable to the farm lock flock and just as necessary for the production pro pro- pro pro- luction of at the best lambS and consequently conse- conse the most profit proUt |