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Show SHEEPMEN DO NOT WORK TOGETHER Sheepmen fail to unite for co-operative benefits in time of loss by bad weather. That is, with a few exceptions. Over in Nevada, flocks totaling a hundred thousand head of sheep and worth a million dollars were moved together at the approach of the present sub-zero weather. Sheepmen Sheep-men pool together and buy hay and corn for the animals at reduced cost per individual because of quantity purchasing. pur-chasing. They also lower materially the cost of transporting trans-porting feed and cut down the cost of hiring herders. Such practices could be well used in southern Utah, where we understand hundreds of sheep have frozen and many starved- Starvation has driven sheep to eating wool ' off each others back.-,, and stripping horses clean of hair. We heard th other day that a group of sheepmen putting up at Milford were pooling together to buy feed and have it h.iuM to flocks that are ranging close together. It la a good id'-a ;ud such co-operation should be employed em-ployed whenever pivelicablc. Sheepmen cannot profit a whole lot under unfavorable conditions unless they do get together in some way. |