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Show BEGINNING WITH THE SHEEP No Profit Can Reasonably Be Expected Until One Has Learned All the Little Details. "The love of money is the root of all evil." It lures men into things that prove disastrous. The greater the profits, the more certain that a large number will fall in the undertaking. Why? Because when profits are large men are 6ure to rush in on a big scale, says a writer in an exchange. Two hundred per cent profit on one sheep is big. Then why not get 600 or 1,000 sheep and get rich quickly! That's the argument that traps everybody who has a get-rich-quick bee in his hat. Remember this, that no man can succeed with sheep who has not first learned how. Big profits do not come Yearling Full-Blood Karakul Ewe. to greenhorns. There may be no profit pro-fit at all for a year or so. Sheep are the most helpless of all domestic animals. ani-mals. They "don't know enough to come in out of the rain." They don't know much of anything. Thay have been cared for so attentively for centuries cen-turies that they quit making any effort to care for themselves. The maa who is not willing to give them thin care is unfit to be a sheep man. It requires re-quires gentleness, for they are meek and helpless. Our advice is to go slow with sheep. By all means, raise sheep. They should be on every farm. But start with a few, one or two dozen at most, and learn how to care for them. They will multiply as fast as your skill in sheep raising will warrant. If you can't save the lambs, then you are unfit for a larger number. If you can save them you soon have the large number. A dozen sheep will show you all the holes in the fences as completely com-pletely as 500 will. Prices are alluring, but keep a level head. There is no telling anyway, because be-cause they benefit the farm whether prices are up or down. |