Show KEEPING OF SHEEP IS GOOD PRACTICE advocated as most profitable by arizona station keep the rams separate the keeping of a few sheep on the farm Is a practice advocated ns as most profitable by the animal husbandry department of the arizona agricultural experiment station IV S cunningham of the department says that it has been found that on the average about twenty ewes and their lambs lamba can be maintained ang and fattened on the ditches and waste feed of each 40 acres of land each ewe should produce a fleece worth and her lamb at weaning time should be worth 8 since the fencing Is paid far by the saving of 0 expense in ditch cleaning and the sheep are fed on otherwise worthless feed they should show a splendid profit sir mr cunningham also says that it Is belleca belle ed cd that johnson grass may be eradicated from fields by pasturing with sheep and the station Is now carrying on experiments along this line hue the rams should bo be kept hept from the ewes except during the breeding season |