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Show NOTES OF THE SHEEP FOLD Whether you own a vm.ill flock or count your sheep hy the hundreds, the importance of using good rams should not he lost sight of. He is tho very foundation of your breeding stock. Rieed straight and Improve your stock. Don't be led away by some cross-bre-tding that looks good to you. One cross may answer, but In the end cross-breeding becomes a very complicated afTalr an-d has ruined more than one flock of sheep. A short-sighted policy of using a scrub ram Is tho causo of the Inferiority Inferiori-ty of th? average flock on our farms. Will people never realize the fact that they cannot afford to grow scrub males? |