The Mena weekly star., 1911-10-26
Tbe 5torp of a Rtttlr 5brpbrro
 nf ArkanSa8
of Arkall8a8
(A. K. short in Farm and Ranch.l


 the smell of the tar prevented the | parent of the grub from depositing in the nostril.
 The second trouble soon showed | up by some of the older sheep be- ginning to shed. This was due to an impaired condition of the stom- ach. and after each was dfenched with one-quarter pound or epson saAs this trouble was allayed.
 Tim and his mother had uhen talked of going to the county fair and see some of the wonders that their neighbors had told them about. So after much persuasion the father finally decided to take the team and camping outfit and stay four days.
 The first day of the fair was de- voted to farmers institute work and one man lectured on sheep raising. The young shepherd, lis tened, but could not grasp all he said and meant, but two sentences were caught and burned into his brain. With your mountains and valleys covered with the most nu- tritious grasses and clovers in the worldssMlaxs dassLheAfapmers of Afra kansas lose millions of dollars an Inually by not raising sheep or by raising a class of sheep that will not shear over four pounds of wool? There is a herd on exhi- bition here now that with one cross from this herd on your native eve lambs 1st iiFs shears over six pounds. 's
 With his fathers aid, Tim was Ato1bhy enesaf 1Ihe lpurebred AaInbs.
 Tim was now, as he thought, a IfqH- -fedged. sheep ,bEeeders He cut |brush and made a nice pen and made a shed covered with weeds. FdaIhaged Hay dhd brush. This cost him two weeks hard labor, but was sthVi0eabie and Built without th6 |outlay of one cent.
 ! dnn the spring, EMhens -hissi lambs came, he was somewhat disappoint- |ed; he expected .tbems to be much larger and stronger than the native lapps, but, instead. they were not.
 
 sheep; also, two had died.
 ' His "ali t6 wise" nefgffbors cidfIf- ed and advised that his good luck was at; an end. Hes was greatly dig |couraged, until his lambs were .ahout cue month sold.s Then sl.adaMn-. ed upon him that they were almost twice as large as the native lambs twice their age. When fall arrived they were almost ass large as their mothers, sah they were 1aachs hat- ter covered with wool than the na- tive sheep.
 The next spring. sat shearing time, several of the neighbors who had tried and almost succeeded in dis couraging Tim in the improved sheep breeding, and old Jake Sims, tns staunch .friends gathered in to see the s,'neW, fapgled" sheep shear ed. The ram was Sheared first. Some said that he would likely clip about five pounds; others, saidi thatsI ''his woOl's no count nohow.n When .his.se lip, turned, the,ibeam at fl ll pounds, some of Tim's ill advisers remembered that they had to cut some wool that day; others thbugh1 they had better go after the mail; in factp they all found some excuse to go and leave Tim, his father and his friend Sims to finish the job. [ The clip of, the. lambs this, year average just little over six and a half bounds eaeh. ' i'e ''' ~ r Sims taught Tim how to osrolb and tie his fleece, and at the same time predicted that the wool from the grade, sheep would bring more money than the native wool. His predictioncame true; the wool from the purebred brought three cents more than the natives, and the wool from the half breeds, one cent moro per pound. .l t.,t. lI.;9 hood. He; has been selling, trading and buying sheep of late, and now has 9 head of grades purebred ram and $40 to his credit. He, states that just as soon as he is old enough hesexpeets to attend the State Ag- ricultNral Schpol, and when fin ished there expects to enter the Agricultural College. "'t' @' Some. day, not far distant, this young shepherd will be known through the South. oi The Little Shepherd of Coming ArkansaspI will be as we'll known as the Little Shepherds of, kingtfem Come.Ha