Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-21
WoOlgrowers Get Together
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Hampshire are ideal. They grow big,
they fatten we'll, they weigh heavy,
they sell we'll.
E'And SO Of the Oxfords, with this
difference, one can well afford to keep
on his range the half blood Oxford
ewes. They shear we'll. They suckle
well. They are grand sheep, a little
large for some markets, but glorious
sheep where they fit.
E'And then there are the Longwools,
your Cotswold rams are working their
wonders in Utah and the adjoining
territory, your Lincolns are doing
wonders in their own special fields,
and their lambs are also grand, though
often too large for the feed-lot. You
know we'll enough the immense value
of these bloods wisely mingled with
good Merino foundation stock.
But there are breeds that you use,
as yet, very little indeed, and L
sometimes wonder why. There is the
Suffolk. They have very black heads
and legs, they mark their lambs finely,
they fatten with great ease on grass
alone, with no grain. In England no
sheep has done better than the Suffolk.
F"There are other breeds, too, that
have thus far seen neglect at your
hands and that really have great
merit for cross breeding on the range.
Hardly any other sheep is better
grazer than the Cheviot. They are
active sheep, finding all the grass
there is. They will climb the highest
hills and go wherever there is grass.
They fatten readily on grass alone.
They cross breed exceedingly we'll
with your Merino ewes and with your
grade or mixed ewes. They make adj
mirable lambs, plump, heavy, pretty,
stylish. There are good many Cheviot
rams that could be gathered up in the
eastern states, notably in Indiana an(.
New York. Some rancher ought to
take out a lot Of them and make de-
monstration. Cheviots are the range
sheep Of Great Britain-true, they d.
vide honors with Welsh mountain
sheep, Blackface Highland sheep and
and Border Leicesters. Yet with the
single exception Of Border-Leicesters
the Cheviots are the most adapted to
our range conditions of all the hill
sheep of great Britain. The Black
faced Highland sheep assuredly should
have their field in the higher, rugged
err mountains of Montana, Idaho and
Wyoming. For the plains 1t will be
urged against them that they are too
small, their feeces too coarse, their
nature bit wild, and yet when gently
handled the Black-faced sheep of
Scotland are as gentle as a man could
wish. They have habit Of straying
rather wild, however, unless watched
we'll.
Robert Taylor has demonstrated
the great worth of the Border-L eices-
ter for cross breeding on the range
1t is truly a grand sheep, uniting
massive size with grand form and
splendid fleece. Then, too, there is
hardly any other sheep that takes on
fat easier than the Border-Leisces-
ter.
II have thus rapidly run over the
list Of principal breeds found in Amer
lea purposely leaving the one like |
best of all to the last. The Dorset, or
as it is called in England, the Dorset
Hornis, sheep with peculiar value
and usefulness to some western range |
men. The we'll bred Dorset is a mas
sive sheep, easily fattened with a |
hardy and rugged constitution. The
distinguishing feature of the Dorset
is the grand maternal characteristics
of the eve. She is one of the best
mothers Of all the sheep kingdom,
She is very sure and if desired
very early breeder. She gives birth to
very strong, vigorous. lambs. She
suckles them unusually well. The Dor
set eve is doubtless the best mixer
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