Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-11

mere arc no IcASOuS why Snccp
cannot be raised on the farm to a
success as well as on the range.
Comparing the two, l would
speak in favor of the farm tor the
following reasons: First-Being on
good feed continuously and not hav-
ing to experience periods of starva-
ton, they would grow larger and
be more valuable, also the wool
would be of a much better quality
as it would be clean and free from
breaks, which are caused by lack of
food, which range sheep invariably
experience. Another heavy loss to
the range sheep industry is the
waste of wool on the brush, to say
nothing of thousands of animals
that stray away from the flocks
and are devoured by wild animals.
One w ,uld not have this trouble on
the farm.
When reducing the expense of
camp moving, grain for horses pro-
visions, hauling, ETC., that range
men have to contend with, it
seems as though there is no aues-
tion but what farm sheep raising
/ is profitable.
Knowing that eight tons of hay
/ per acre can be grown on the Twin
Falls tract, it would be pleasing to
have sheep growing into money,
realizing that when oil feed on the
range. was covered with snow one
had plenty of good hay to feed them
comfortably, for cold weather does
not harm sheep when they are fat.
Looking at the matter from a
Twin Falls farmers point Ct view,
it would be financial distress to
wait for the coming of canning
and sugar factories, or even for
orchards to bear, as most of us
cannot afford it, so why not get the
sheep? Returns come quick, with
wool selling at from 20 to IS cents
per pound, and each sheep produc-
ing from six to ten pounds; also an
increase each year of from 100 tc
4 $50 per cent. Can we get more
profitable animal? As for myself,
have had some little experience il
pasturing and feeding sheep on the
tract, and found it to be profit.
able. We were not troubled by the
animals eating too much of The
green alfalfa and clover as IS 81
often spoken Of. BY irrigatipg The
stubble land at harvest time one car
produce a pasture together with tn,
alfalfa and clover that cannot be ex
celled anywhere in America for fat
tening sheep.
We fattened and shipped two cal
loads of mutton from our farm las
fell. We had some trouble will
sheep smothering in the cars, du,
to their being so fat, and even aftei
being detained upon the read some
eight days they overweighed by IA
even an experts guess.
My choice for farm breed o
sheep would be the Lincoln, al
they are a large and good muttor
producer, also having a heavy fleece
of good wool
Sheep are fond of a variety o
foods. They eat the weeds an,
sunflowers and most all of tn
noxious plants which are detri
merit to the farm. Our able super
.intendent was always a defender O
the dairy COW and the hen, but 70
myself l will never 60 back on til
sheep and swine. For turning re
fuse and waste matter into none,
you cannot beat them.
A lot of our most prominen
western citizens have made fortune
in the sheep businesses when the
had the entire country with goo
feed to Craze on, but on account {
the range being eaten out by cattle
sheep and thousands of WORTHLESS
cayuse horses, the sheep industr
is coming to the farm more an
more every year. A great advar
tage which lies in the farm is be
ing able to market the fat lamb
early, also putting off the mutto
at ii es when the range is burne
and dried out. hope that With
a short period the fields on tn
Twin Falls tract will be ootte
with the woody herds. Don
Bryan, in Twin Falls News.