OCR Text |
Show Sprjng Lambs Pay Best, Says Stock Specialist Early lambs sell highest. Fat lambs sold three cents higher last June than they did in August. E'rlces were still higher In May, says E. T. Robbins, live stock specialist spe-cialist at the University of Illinois. This plan of lamb raising reduces chances of loss due to stomach worms and the lambs also escape the hot weather which slows up their gains. They bring In cash much easier, too, as well as bringing bring-ing more of It. Warren Moffett cf Macoupin county sold 11 early lambs last spring for $35 a hundred, hun-dred, sending them to the St. Louis market. They averaged GO pounds each, bringing him $21 a head. Moffett Mof-fett puts his ewes on rich pasture a month before mating them and starts feeding grain two weeks before. |