Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-12

yearling eve The picture is repro
duced from Wool Markets and Sheep.
Sheep For the Ranges.
The Hon. Robert Taylor. in an adj
dress before the Wyoming wool grow
ers, stated in substance that the best
sheep for the range. all things consid-
cred. was one not far away from the
merinO in it's essential chara cteristics.
But he favored Il merino form with
better mutton qualities than those pos
sessed by the straight American me-
rino. says the Farmer. In his opinion
the work of crossing and grading has
not been specific enough in the past,
and it has not accomplished all that
should be expected from it. There
had been too little of method about it
and too much of pure experiment.
This accords precisely with what we
have been advocating for some time
viz, that the time has come for intro
ducing breed OF sheep OH the ranges
adapted to range conditions. This
breed must of course be evolved, and
from the abundant materials now
found on the ranges. Years ago we
settled down to the conviction soon
after first visiting the range country,
and it is but strengthened with the
passing of the years. This everlasting
crossing back and forth ought to stop.
1t is not satisfying, and it never will
be.
Chicago as II Sheep Market.
Chicago is not only the best, but the
biggest, sheep market in the world, and
1t will be bigger, the Live Stock World
tells us. No other point existing could
have absorbed 10000 sheep in single
day, but that is the feat credited to
Chicago. Ten years ago the prediction
of the October run of 1902 would have
provoked ridicule. Any old prognosti-
cation seems justifiable now. A sheep
trader who is not addicted to the habit
OF rainbow painting declared recently
that before many years have elapsed
10000 daily runs of sheep at Chicago
will cause no comment. Chicago is in
a sheep growing territory now begin
ming its development. Michigan and
Wisconsin will a few years hence be
centers of ovine production, and in
both southern Illinois and Indiana will
the industry become paramount.
Worms In Sheep.
H. P. Miller in Ohio Farmer saws.
Lung and throat worms are not as
common in this country as in England
nor nearly so prevalent as stomach and
intestinal worms" Our several years.
experience as shepherd in both coun-
tries has been quite the reverse of this
Further on in the same article the doc
tor says, II want to repeat that if one
sheep in a flock is affected all are"
This does not fit in with our expert
ence, for we have slaughtered lunches
of lambs where some of the stomachs
of the poorer individuals would be lit
orally alive with stomach worms, while
in others of the same band not a trace
of worm could be detected.-Wool
Markets and Sheep.
Need of Export Mutton
There is great need of really good ex-
port muttons, especially for the Eng
lish market, and the marvel of the
thing is that with over 100000 Of
sheep in the United States it is impos-
sible to pick up a cargo of this kind of
stuff in any of our big markets even in
whole weeks time. Time was when
with less than 100000 sheep we
could spare the English and Scotch
markets well toward half million well
fed live muttons annually, but we are
unable to do half as we'll now-Ameri-
can Sheep Breeder.