The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-27
Sheep Notes.

Sheep Notes.
The Colorado Liue Stock Record says:
We have it upon good authority That's
20, 200 sheep have, up to the present
date, gone from the southern counties
of Colorado to Kansas to feed for NUT
ton.
A Kansas farmer, who had nine head
of sheep, put the money that came to
him from the sale of mutton and wool
into more sheep. n mime years he had
seventeen hundred sheep, worth 49,
600.
A good shepherd dog is a great con-
venience for q lazy herder, and, as the
dog costs nothing but a bone, he is
also q great saving to a penurious pro-
prietor, who will keep one man with
his focks where he should keep two.
Mutton sheep require much more
care and attention than the Merinos,
but especially the mutton breeds can
not be herded in great tlocks as car
the Merinos. Yet. Where excellent at
tention a be paid, IS on w%ell-cultis
waited farms, the profits are large.
The Importation of wool from Aus
tralia this year has exceeded any prior
year by about four hundred bales.
The American buyers outdid the Eng
lish buyers for the article they wanted
and got it. The demand was princi-
pally for long staple Merino in tho
grease, and extra light in condition.
Teras Farm and Rauch.
The statistical account of the pro.
duction of wool throughout the civil
lied world shows that in the year 1880
it was S20, 600, 900, in 1871 it was neal
1000, 900, 900 pounds, while in 1888, in
the United States alone, the produce
ton of wool was 800, 0O0, 900 pounds, or
as much as was produced in the whole
world in 1S30.-Er.
One of the most prominent charac.
teristics of the Shropshires is their fe-
cundity. This quality was developed
by selection during the period of the
development of the breed itself-onlv
twins being used for breeding pur-
poses. Twin lambs are not desirable
unless the ewes are able to properly
nourish them; but the Shropshire
dams are good nurses and give Il lib
eral supply of milk especially if well
fed and properly treated.
All other breeds in this country are
outnumbered by the Merino. The
great popularity of this breed, evil
denced by its numbers, is due more to
the superior foraging qualities of tho
Merino than to anything else. In fact,
it may be said that the Merino is al
mosta necessity upon the free W estern
ranges. But for our farms other breeds
are rapidly becoming more popular;
and, as the conditions of sheep raising
on the ranges approach those of the
sheep industry on ourfarms, the Mer-
inc must lose ground as compared
with other breeds, especially if the
tariff on wool remains at the present
relatively low tigure.-TeraS Farm and
Ranch.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says: ''Sheep will thrive in
pastures and get fat where cattle would
almost starve. They also scatter their
droppings yer the field, and never
fail to enrich lands where they are
kept. On poor farms they are most
emphatically the best factors for in
creasing fertility. On rich land the
same rule holds good. as they will
make them richer. By the simple
LuCduo d POithDlc Sllcu, WHICH CHI
be moved about the field and under
which the sheep will readily congre-
gate, the poorest spot may be made
fertile, and the whole field, by fire.
quent and regular changes of the flock.
may be.tharoughly enriched" This
Is a well-known characteristic of the
sheep, and by such management as
mentioned above the thinnest farms
n ,,,y,1 o n ;1rH o,r,oLn1 o~J .,,J, e.
tile.
In speaking of the breeding and
rearing OF sheep, the Kansas Farmer
says: The first thing necessary is the
farm. For it is not every farm that is
suitable for sheep, although but few
are wholly unsuitable. Rolling and
even billy land is the most desirable
surface, and limestone gravel that is
dry and tree from swamps or low wet
places is the best soil. Clear running
water that is wholly-free from marshy
banks or borders, or well water, which
is preferable, is indispensable, be-
cause wherever there are low wet
places, there the much to be dreaded
liver huke and the lung worm are to
be found, with lung disorders and foot
rot, and these are more troublesome
than all other complaints of sheep put
together. The great needs of sheep
are dry footing, good grass, or other
heritage, rather short and sweet than
rich and luxuriant; pure water, pure
air and plenty of it, and shelter from
rains and SHOWS. With these needed
comforts, and close watching to avoid
accidents and dogs, sheep will always
belle the old Virginia adage that
''they are an unhappy flock" and
will pay their way better than other
farm stock.
Negroes IS Sailors.
"Darkies beat tho world as Sailors"
said Capt. Tom Mason. of the harl