Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-01-21

goods held shoddy, or cotton, or waste,
or trash of any sort, or stating If it
was really honest wool altogether,
that would help in the sale of good
wool, it seems to me. And can
see no reason why such law should
not be enacted. It could be enacted if
the American farmers and woolgrow-
ers would demand it and keep on de-
manding it till they got it.
So much for the tariff. There are
other ways in which law can help us.
Most states and territories have now
pretty good laws in regard to the err
adication Of sheep scab. Some states
have laws that are not effective, be-
cause they are too loosely drawn, or
not enforced. Sheep scab can now he
eradicatad absolutely from the United
States. It has been narrowed down
enough so that in year or two it
can be completely eradicated. That
should be thing worth millions to
the woolgrower. With scab eradica-
tion host of his troubles would be
over. An enormous drain of expense
would be stopped. An enormous loss of
thrift would be stopped. It can be SO
easily accomplished now, if each state
will do it's part, that | hope to see
the National Woolgrowers association
take this matter up and make a vigor
GUS fight for this cause. Let's cease to
fight scab, lets eradicate scab and have
done with it.
ssAnd then there is that little beast
the sheep tick. He harms the sheep
industry as much as wolves do. Once
the tick was rare in the west. Today
he is altogether too plentiful in many
western states. Lambs that used to
come to eastern feedlots free of ticks
now came pretty well inoculated with
them. That is because the scab is get
ting under control, getting eradicated
in this district, in that, and men are
getting careless, ceasing to dip. They
ought to eradicate the tick as we'll as
the scab. It can be done It is not even
difficult to do. Ticks don't work the
havoc that scab works, but they do
their share, and they are the cause OF
lambs not being very heavy or we'll
feeced.
.'Two dippings at intervals Of 10
days, will cure the tick trouble al
together. One won't have ticks again
till he buys or borroWs them.
1'Once | grew sheep in the noun
tains of Utah. Today I am growing
them amid the fields of Ohio. And /
am feeding the lambs that you western
men are growing. It is interesting to
me to see the sorts Of lambs that come
| to market each year. Better and
better is the average type. You
are breeding better than ever be-
fore. You are using better rams, and
the breeds seem better chosen. You
have learned the wonderful value OF
Rambouillet blood for the foundation
stock. You have learned Of the great
value of the Delaine type for found
alton stock. You breed good eve
focks. And you are learning to mate
/ them well for the making Of market
lambs. You send in excellent lambs o1
/ Shropshire breeding You send in
few topnochers from southdoWn rams
| 1T pleases me very much to see thai
you are learning, slowly, Of the ex.
cellence Of Southdown blood, not for
making ews to stay on the range-ths
soutbdoWn has too light a fleece, may
be for that-but for making neat
tidy. stylish. plump, heavy, little
lambs to top the market. And you ar'
learning to use more and more
Hampshire rams. There could hardl.
be d better cross than the Hampshire
on the range eve or Merino extraction
only there is need to consider one es-
sential thing, The Hampshire lamb
4 need good range, good feeding. Fee
has made the Hampshire what it is