Show lambs properly docked and trimmed are best the irbe practice of selling rpm ram lamba lamb and lambs that have not been docked would seem to be one of those customs that are common in other ether lines of business they are the results of ignorance or carelessness it belongs to the he same custom of putting good feed into scrub animals in wasting manure in burning straw stacks la int leaving high priced farm machinery out in the weather wea lher etc etc from all the evidence we carp cair gather the practice of trimming and docking lambs seems to be pretty well established as a moneymaking money making proposition says the farmer and breeder prices of sheep and lamba averaged 73 75 per cent higher in 1923 than in 1913 active consumer demand exists for choice quality lamb the problem of supplying this quality willbe solved it if buck lambs are made into and all lambs fire are docked properly finished and an marketed at the right ages and weights afons actions should be performed when lambs are eight to fifteen days old there is abundant proof that they are profitable for the individual sheep producer trimmed lainas iambs command higher prices and return larger profits conclusive evidence of 0 this Is fur cashed by the extension division of the college of agriculture of the university of kentucky which obtained records ot of lambs marketed last year this duta data shows that wether lambs returned more than 2 per hundred above the price pd tor for buck lambs |