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Show Shear Sheep Before Turning To Grass It is the wise flockmaster who shears and trims his sheep before pasturing them upon new and succulent succu-lent spring grass. Inexperienced shepherds are often, deluded into turning their charges out to pasture in late April or early May without first trimming their feet and shearing off the winters growth of wool. They do this because someone has told them that more yolk will form in the fleece, making it heavier and better. According to Frank Kleinheinz, shepherd of the flocks at the college of agriculture, University of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, the sheep lose far more in weight during the first warm spring days in pasture than the slight increase in yolk in the wool amounts to. Then too, the fresh grass acts as a laxitive which results in dirty fleece making shearing unpleasant. On the whole it will be found good economy to shear the sheep early in the season and thus obtain cleaner wool and put the flock in better shape for summer. The importance of trimming the feet of sheep at this period must not be overlooked, as crooked hoofs, broken down pasterns, and foot-rot are liable to occur if proper attention is not given to the sheep before allowing them to run upon damp spring grass. August Hakensen and Loren Pock of Salt Lake City who are representing represent-ing the Idaho State Life Insurance Company, dropped into Mt. Pleasant last Tuesday in their new 1914 Maxwell. The two gentlemen are here in the interest of (he insurance business. Born to the wife of Austin M onsen, on-sen, a fine baby boy. Austin Morley returned Monday from Price where he has been working work-ing the iast few months. He returned return-ed home on account of his eyes being bad again and will remain indellnlt- iy. J. W. McGaifn was a business visitor visi-tor at Price Monday and Tuesday of this week. |