The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-08-03
SHEEP IN THE SOUTH.
NO Animal On Earth Can Reclaim
WORKOUT Lands Like Sheep.

No form of live stock can turn reed
into money so quickly as sheep. You
own q bunch of ewes that cost you
"a pei. head. These ewes are bred
for early lambs. One the first OF May
Won have a bunch of lambs ready Tor
market at a cost of not over fifty
cents per head in pasture and nay.
In three months your lambs are on
the market at 6 cents per pound. AT
rs pounds you get $3.50 per head TOT
YOUR lambs, which is about $3.50 clear
money per head, for the ieeces on
your ewes, If they are good ones, and
the proceeds from the 10 per cent
surplus of lambs will come close 10
paving for the wintering of the ewes,
If you are not too particular in charg-
ing up pasture which would other.
wise go to waste in the fields. Your
"a ewes have yielded over rs per cent
On the original investment, and under
proper care you have not lost over
per cent of your eve flock. and are
ready for another years business.
This is not a dream. l can name
several men in Virginia who have
done better than this during the past
year. In what other way can you Sc
cure such profits? You can't DO II
with corn. or wheat or cotton. II
farmers in Virginia can do 1t, why
not farmers in Georgia? If farmers
in Kentucky can do it, why not farm
ers in Alabama? There may be rea'
sons now, but let me say that II there
are reasons in the future the whole
fault may be yours. We want sheep
in the south because no animal on
earth can reclaim worn-out lands ike
sheep. Sheep choose the high, Or,
places to lie on at night. There they
leave their droppings, that pound Iol
hound is worth more than any plan
food on earth. These very high places
are the poorest, worst washed, oares
places. Don't you see what flock O
sheep will do? They will during TN
day gather the grass in the valley
and hollows, where 1t grows iuxurl
antly from whence 1t came. l wa
once walking over farm with ma
who remarked that he never saw sue
a sod on hills as he saw on this farm
kicking over a pile Of sheep droI
pings that lay in a clump OF dar
l green blue grass, he said: Here
the secret" Nothing equal to shee
4 for reclaiming land. In England,
have seen twenty sheep to the acl
' grazing over a sod that would put on
$ best Kentucky sods to shame. w
e want sheep to clean up these weec
n that are crowding everything else GU
n Sheen were not made to live on weed
e but with every meal they Will take
h goodly supply as sort OF dessei
s I watched a lamb one afternoon 4
# one hour, and in that hour | lists
n 16 different kinds of weeds that sa
e her bite of. The heads OF ox-ey
= rag-weed and carrot that she ate
A. this hour would certainly have 81
4 up close to 100.
In the winter-bound north expe
e. sive sheep barns must be CONSTRUCT
Of to protect the sheep from the rigo
e of the cold and wind. The cold raj
make it necessary to provide go
70 shelter and the outlay is consfderaD
I. During the winter months the she
20 can find nothing to eat In the mel
~ for two or three months. No gra
n food can endure the cold. Blue era
:. is dry and worthless. and the MIL
~ of the sleeps stomachs with this
~ nutritious stuff is simply cheating I
: poor animals out of living. In t
is balmy south there is not much whit
IN for sheep. In fact, the sheep mi
"a feel that their overcoats are not me-
:. ed. Some form of green food can
4 kept in the fields nearly all winter
a. H. B. Arbuckle, in Southern Pant
Tomato Culture.