Show culling breeding ewes Is very good practice even though prices for lambs continue at satisfactory levels and the wool market shows more activity and strength it will be advisable for every sheep ralser raiser to cull his flock before the breeding season starts suggests W 0 kammlade assistant chief of sheep husbandry at the illinois college of agriculture quality of product Is as important and often more so BO than quantity i ichen hen figuring profits this Is shown at the present time when poor grades of lambs are selling for 5 to 7 a hundred less than top lambs it if growers insist on retaining every available ewe to produce lambs the time of excess supply and lower prices will be brought nearer in this connection a statement from a concern interested in the sheep bu business Is of interest this concern pointed out that conservative expansion on the part of experienced men may prove warranted but rapid increases tend to destroy the high prices which originally encouraged such expansion pan sion slon |