Show SMALL FLOCK IS profitable costs practically nothing to keep few sheep on farms animals eat weeds and enrich soil for the ot of tho the farmer who thinks jieping lic sheep would bo be a fine thing it if he could carra can on an exten sli e business as is done on the big Ni western estern ranches a lelaa wool buyer sais it N would be a great thing tor for the country it if every farmer orned a small flock of sheep I 1 buy a groat great deal of stool ool at points where there are arc no ranches near tho the produce being grown by tanners who ho keep small email flocks 1 I haie hae been often told by suh farmers that it costs practically noth ing to keep sheep on oil farms they re quire very little teed feed they eat the weeds eccle in the fields and at the same time enrich the land 1 I find that the owners of small flocks as a rule keep a better grade ot of sheep and tho the animals are health ler than are those of the large ranch man the wools from the farms always classing higher than ranch woold L 1 al B |