The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15

old, results i'm their flesh retaining its
lamb qualities, tender, juicy and de-
licous. The quality of their food and
manner of treatment has much to do
with the delicate flavor of their meat
The lamb comes into the world gem
orally free from disease. 1T is deli
cate IN it's tastes and most suscepti-
BILE little creature and therefore sub
ject to disease, especially while on It's
mothers milk, but if the sanitary con-
ditions OF the pens, bed, water, arr,
hay and other food it uses, and being
careful that no disease germs are
lodged III them for the lamb, it is safe
to claim that its meat is the most
healthfH of any meat I claim that
its feed can be so clearly given ana
varied in taste that the tender lamb
flesh will assume a delicacy OF flaVor
to the human appetite that Is not 10
be imported to, or taken in by amy
other animal except the wild deer
kids of same age in their haunts In
tho wildwood.
OF course this requires a knowledge
of nutrition and a strict adherence to
scientific feeding and management, but
that is not hard to get, because, after
ALL true science is only natural law
clearly understood This is what the
best lamb feeders of the North nave
been aiming at and they nave sue
mand for their fed lamb far exceeds
the supply and the mutton market
is seeing a revolution from spring
lamb thre months old TO station fed
| lamb six to twelve months old. Mean.
| time there has been greatly increased
demand for fat sheep, or mutton OF inc
old kind and Chicago along with oth-
err big things has become the largest
mutton market in the world. Last
spring when the lamb mutton was be-
| ing marketed there was from ten
thousand to thirty thousand every day
| for months, came into the market at
Chicago. of them and other mutton,
which were partly consumed there
i and some bought and sent on to Buff
falO. New York, Boston, etc.
| If the sheep men continue more
and more to furnish the lambs and
the lamb-feeders continue to improve
| the quality of the lamb mutton, the
! United States will soon lead the world
| n producing the most wholesome ana
best lamb meat, in fact the best meat
Of any kind TO be found anywhere
! claim that at this point in the
| business. the coming Southern shep.
herd should take his stand and not So
much join the north and eastern shep-
herd in feeding "hot-housc" lambs,
and three and four year old muttoh.
but more fully join the western wool
grower in growing wool and producing
and feeding the "Station-fed lamb,
for they are aiming at the highest ex-
cellence. together with the most pro
lftable sheep busbandry in the world.
Those Middle and Western States are
coming to be leaders i'm thought and
work and in no business is this more
pcrceptible than in wool-growing and
mutton production.
| Why, then, should the South, THAI
| = Just waking up to the Importance
Of stock-raising business and especial
/ ~ i'm sheep husbandry, commence 10
found hockS only on the old woods
breed. or coarse wool coarse grained
| big muttons in harmony with old Eng
Ilish. Scotch and Eastern Yankee
ideas? Let us listen, putting our ear
to the phone OF Progress that needs
no wire connection, and raising our
eyes a little higher we shall be intel
| Iigently able to grasp the situation
! and see the great bulk of fine wool
and medium fine wool and stall fed
lambs" coming from the Great West
Our sheep advantages and condI-
lions in the South can most readily
be adjusted in harmony with theirs
and therein and Herewith will We be
/ able to develop the earliest and most
brilliant progress of successful sheep
| husbandry.
SAMUEL, ARCHER.