Daily picayune., 1908-09-23

No form of live stock can turn teed into money 90 quickly as sheep. Yo0 own 6 bunch of ewes that cost you S4 per head. These ewes ArO bred tor early lambs. One the first of May you have a bunch of lambs ready 0u9 market at cost of not over dfty cents per head in pasture and hay. In three months your lambs aro oa the market at cents per pound At 75 pounds you get s+.50 per head foe your lambs, which Is about $3.6o eaaar money per head, for the heeceo on your ewes, If they are good ones. and the proceeds from the 10 per cent surplus of lambs win come clooe to paying for the winterinx Of the ewes, if you are not too particular in chare- ing up pasture which would other. wise go to waste in the fields. Yo0f A ewes have yielded over 10 per cont on the original investment, and under proper care you have not lost over 5 per cent of your eve flock, and ars ready for another years business.
 This is not a dream l can name several men in Virginia who have done better than this during tho past year. In what other way can you se- cure such profits? You can't oo 1t with corn, or wheat CT cotton. If farmers in Virginia can do 1t, why not farmers in Georgia? If farmesS in Kentucky can do it, why not farm CTS in Alabama? There may be Hear sons now, but let me say that If hero 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 hhe sheep Sheep choose the high, dRy places to lie on at night There they leave their droppings. that pound for pound is worth more than any pant food on earth. These very high places are the poorest, worst washed, barest places. Don't you see what a flock Of sheep will dor They viii during the day gather the grass in the valleys and hollows, where it grows luxuri- antly from whence 1t came. l was once walking over farm with . man who remarked that he never saw such a sod on hills as he saw on this farm. Kicking over a pile of sheep drop pings that lay in a clump of dark green blue grass, he said: Here is the secret" Nothing equal to sheep for retaining land. In England, have seen twenty sheep to the acrs grazing over sod that would put our bcs- Kentucky sods to shame. We want sheep to clean up these weeds that are crowding everything else out. Sheep were not made to live on weeds. but with every meal they will take . goodly supply as sort Of dessert. I watched a lamb one afternoon for one hour, and in that hour listed l6 different kinds of weeds that saw her bite of. The heads of ox-eye, rag-weed and carrot that she ate in this hour would certainly have run up close to 100.
 In the winterbound north expenr siye sheep barns must be constructed to protect the sheep from the rigors of the cold and wind The cold rains make it necessary to provide good shelter and the outlay is considerable. During the winter months the sheep can find nothing to eat In the fields for two or three months No grass food can endure the cold. Blue grass is dry and worthless, and the filling of the sheeps' stomachs with this un- nutritious stuff is simply cheating the poor animals out of living. In the balmy south there Is not much winter for sheep Tn fact, the sheep must feel that their overcoats are not need cd. Some form of green food can be kept in the fields nearly all winter.-- H. R. Arbuekle, fin Southern Planter.