Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-07-12
from their production foots up to- tS215,l 42,,
$50, while the last cotton crop was WORTH
only $4,000 GOO. 94 ssa ~4i .%s.
III I OK.
T. HusgANDRY.


Jr., on sheep husbandry:
Our improved grade Merino 1locks will
average five pounds Of washed wool per
head take the average price for thirty-five
wears before the war, 1913 cents per pound,
we have $2.l4 to the fleece, which Would
piy for the cost Of keeping and leave the
owner q small profit in money. The in
crease OF lambs will average 50 per cent. at
q low estimate. Then the manure, besides,
which is a very great item, is, 10 be added to
the profits. Summer and winter manure OF
the sheep is far more valuable than that
OF the horse or COW. On the rich lands
of the west and southwest, manure is not
reckoned as profit, and the cost OF trans
porting wool to market is from one to w
cents per pound. Then the western wool
grower gets his lamb and about two-tllirds
his fleece as profit on each Sheep
Good grade Merino sheep have averaged
about 50 per head in the fall for store sheep,
and when fat have averaged. ;s$3.97The in
creasing demand for mutton is steadily in
creasing the price. t@', .'i t'ih'> ''' s'.
Yhe lamb and manure will about equal
the fleece, or the increase and MANURE will
pay the keeping, leaving the fleece for ac-
tual profit. Judging the future by the past,
we need fear nothing We have not pro-
ducedl near the demand Of wool ut home,
and the prices realized exceed the cost OF
production. 4 ~ f s. vf-L ID .Buio3 4~
Although the increase in numbers of
sheep since 1860 up to 1876 amounts to 49,
So, 1925, seemingly a large number, but it
we stop to consider the increased popula-
ton in that time, and the improved facilities
to manufacture goods, you will see we have
not reached the desired point nor are we
any nearer producing wool enough for
home consumption than we We're sixteen.
years ago. II we could have 20, 0 900 more
sheep than we now hayo, wo would olily
supply ourselves but when we consider the
time it will take to increase Il number to
those figures, and tho. still increasing popu-
lation in this time, you will see at Il glance
we will not have an over production in our
time,cor this generation ~ .ae a*eaf9i
Growing wool is peculiarly adapted to
UllC iJCLi1llltlly lllCtttlS dilu ultS SlI SlAiioUSllCGS
of a large proportion of our farming popu-
lation. Their capital: is mostly on land.
Hired help is.costly, and good help is hard
to- get. Sheep husbardry renders all these
clear lands profitable at u less annual eN-
penditure for labor than any other branch
of farming. Sheep increase rapidly, giving
q great facility to promptly improve inferior
ones and stocking 1.-THE farm more eXpedi-
tiously, with far less. outlay than any other
stock. f8ssfsaa Has@ ~ 3~54ft@a a.sa= ot " at.
The mode. and manner of handling sheep
with quite good success,is readily acquired.
In no other domestic animal is the hazard
of loss by death so small. 14t4.*0 ls - p
Taken as Il whole, I'VE of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, can compete; with any State or
territory in the Union growing wool and
mutton. paying the producer a profit over
cost OF production. But to be thoroughly
successful, we should raise nothing but the
best stock. 1t costs nj more to keep u No.
| animal than 1t does an inferior one. AS it
iswith the improved cattle for beet, so it is
with the improved sheep for wool. The
different kinds of sheep,sor the best or most
profitable kind to keep, is a theme / cannot
ut all discuss ; suffice it to say, any variety
pays il hept i'll the right place and manner.
tE,hle demand is for all of them. and we cain
not,do very we'll without the different kinds.
Iale grade Merinoui is the most sought Tor
and enters into the most general use. both
the staple for wearing apparel and the mutt
ton for consumption. They are the staple
and standard sheep of our countrys .L5b3oy