Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-03

very seldom loses any Sheep. DurlnS
the dry summer season, the camp is
stationed fiy or six miles radius from
the ranch in order that the sheep may |
go for salt and water every third day. |
The water is raised by mills to re-
serve tanks and then let into troughs |
for sheep. The salt is obtained from
the salt lakes In this valley at one |
dollar per wagon load.
The Landing season usually begins
from the list to the 10th of May. and |
as this time approaches. the large
corral at the ranches is required. This
is constructed by placing boards close
together SO as to keep out cold winds.
There are also two small corrals
made OF panels so as to hold about
severity-five ewes and lambs. These
eorrals are placed one on each side of
the ranch, out a mile or so where
there is good grazing. There are al
ways eight-er ten men and boys hired
for Landing season and they are on
duty the day the lambs begin to drop.
From the camp comes the herd of
200 ewes and they are corralled in the
largest pen, the small pens of this
corral being kept for the ewes win
young lambs. Each morning the herd
is let out, leaving the lambs and their
mothers in the corrals. This herd is
taken out by two men and grazed
near one of the small corrals out from
the ranch until night. The ewes and
young lambs are left in corral Until
al lambs find their mothers and then
they are taken out and watered and
herded near by until lambs are strong
enough TO travel farther out. The
dinner is carried by a third man to
the herders with the dropping herd.
He remains with them until evening
and then returns to the ranch with
the flock. The two herders, in the
| meantime, gather up the lambs which
were dropped during the day in the
large herd and they are placed with
their mothers in the corral until morn
ing and then taken to the ranch to
be herded near there. The sheen
are herded' in small flocks until the
young lambs know their mothers well
and then they are earinarked and
placed in larger flocks until this
flock is large enough tot go out in
| camp. have seen as high as seventy
five lambs dropped in one night out
of a herd of 1000 ewes, and some
times in one nights dropping there
may be seen twenty-five or thirty
dead ones. Occasionally ewes won't
claim their lambs, and in such cases
| the eve is placed in a small box pen
not large enough for her to turn in
and the lamb is placed with her and
some one sees for few days that the
/ eye1= &c In
| she will learn to claim the lamb
Often there is an orphan lamb AID 3
| mother must be found for him This
is done by finding a eve with heI
dead lamb and removing the dead
lambs skin and placing it on the
| orphan lamb. The eve will immedi
ately claim the lamb, and il a few
| days this false coat is removed and
she still claims the lamb. Landing
season is over in a month and .her
| begins the shearing This is done By
hand and the natives are very good
shearing well and as high as one
hundred per day They receive from
three TO five cents head, depending
on tAe wool! There is generally Z
large shed built for shearing under
and storing the wool. Here are boy;
to gather and tie the wool If this
rsnchman requires it tied. TIE WOO
IL tramped into sacks which hole
from 200 to go pounds. These Mer
! inc bred ewes sheared on an average
last/spring of seven pounds. Tht
general price for this wool was thir
teen cents, last spring being two
cents lower than the spring before
The wool i5 hauled to railroads ant
shipped by .trainloads to securing
mills OF this territory and then ON u
the wooden mills. When the lamb:
are thirty days old the tail of every
lamb is cut off. The wethers are cas-
trated in the old Scotch way, the op
orator using his teeth. AS high a!
! 5000 lambs can be treated this way
in one day. Then comes the govern
! ment inspectors and If any sheep are
found infested with scab, they ar,
dipped twice, ten days between dips
They are dipped In tobacco extrac
and sulphur. Corrals are then dis
infected so as to leave no infection OF
;, the ranches. This is being done al
over New Mexico, in order to rid th'
country of that dreded infection o
scab, which mas caused so much harm
! here. All sheep are in good condi
ton when they are shipped from New
Mexico, as they are inspected first
. Lambs have been selling from Sz.lD u
$3.50 per head. There are still SOM
good ewes and wether lambs here 70
sale. Good ewes, two, three and fou
years old, are selling from 1919 Il
$3.50; yearling ewes from $500 t
$500; old ewes-go at $500 to $2.75
These New Mexico sheep are tn
kind Oklahoma farmers should have
as they are freed from scab and ar
not infested with hose internal dis
!, ca Sos. az the ca staarn sheen are