The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-11
THE sHEzpFo1D.

Old sheep should always be kept
culled out of the flock, as young
sheep clip heavier feeces, require
less attention, and are more profita-
BILE.
No animal RECEIVERS so slowly
from low condition, nor is so apt
not to recover at all, as the sheep.
Consequently it is the part of wis
dom never to allow sheep to become
reduced.
Sheep are especially suited to
the small farmer and to the farmer
of limited means, on account of the
amount of capital and limited
range necessary to provide for a
small flock of sheep.
Don't forget that only the best
sheep will yield a profit, and the
poor ones are burden on the bal
ance of the flock, which often leads
the farmer to believe that sheep
don't pay. If such men would Gull
out all sheep that clip fleece this
spring below a certain average. and
then care for the rest better, they
might find that sheep were not SO
Improbable after all.
Ewes that are now nursing their
lamba, ii we'll fed and kept in good
flesh, may soon be fattened in the
fallsafter their lambs are weaned
and turned over to the butcher.
The lambs will also hS better for
the extra iced. This is about the
best way to get rid of the OLD and
poorly wooded ewes, and those
which have no teeth, as such sheep
will, if made fat, usually bring
more for mutton than stockers.
An exchange says: One of the
arguments in favor of mutton
sheep over COWS and beef cattle
is the small AMOUNT of cattle re-
CURED to start in this branch of
husbandry, the, comparatively small
amount of care in its conduct, and
the quick returns it makes. They
multiply so rapidly that a score
will soon become a hundred, and
this with a little care except at
lambing time, With q little pains
q small aock can be cheaply bought
in the autumn which in the spring
will make return Of wool and
lambs sthat will often pay for the
first cost and not little of the win
ter's keeping.
An old farmer writes to an ex-
change and says: "You will be
doing good service to your sub
scribers if you submit to them the
ACCESSIBILITY of cutting all sheep
6ocks down until it Is known that
every sheep in the flock will pay
for it's feed and all It's expenses
from one end of the year to the
other in wool, so as to leave the in
crease of the flock as profit. Then
the advantage of sheep raising will
be apparent, as the sheep raiser
has his mutton clear, while the cat
tie raiser must pay expenses out OF
the crop Of beef. The trouble is
that you people run tso many to-
gether, and your sheep suffer WIN
ter and summer alike from a short
age of feed. Your large focks
must have careful! ne in charge or
the chances are against them"
Who can doubt that he is correct
in his views to quite large extent.
Place no confidence in any
scheme which seems to promise to
make the sheep business profitable
without insisting On the highest
improvement of the stock, for it can
not be done. The sheep must attain
q high average in. quality of both
fleece and carcass. All profit
ableness begins and ends in the ex-
cellence or low grade Of the sheep,
and the wise shepherd will recog-
nize this and make the improve
ment of his sheep his constant
study and labor. Protection of
course is a great help, and one
which all sheepmen most earnestly
desire, but it caA only be regarded
as an incidental assistance, and ev-
cry sheep owner owes:it to himself
and to the interest at large to bring
his stock up to such a degree
of excellence that this help
will be less needed to make the
focks profitable.