Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-10-31
Don't Get ''Stung'
IN Buying Stock

nd Louisville live stock mar
show that over 1000 decks OF
40 were received at these two
800 markets alone from the states
y kentucky and Tennessee during
i. min of 1918, the present year.
~. summer Tennessee breeders sent
Lar to Idaho for a car OF Big,
s.,.bv Hampshire rams to help make
noxt wears lamb crop better than
sr Ewes by the double deck are
Zinc brought into both states, and it
nvadicted that the lamb run from
- two states win be heavier next
ling than ever before. Drought
..ar puch of the range country OF
- west caused such run that lamb
~srters broke nearly 50 recently and
I. ! reuorted that fewer ewes will
entered in the West than for sew
raj wears. This means that the farm
sacks must make up for the decrease
ri Tennessee is going in for a large
hare Of TIE advantage. With sheep
more evenly distributed over the
country and more lambs coming early
4 the season, such runs as the one
4hat recently broke the market may
IL averted and a more uniformly high
mice realized by the growers. It
Iooks as if no state could get lamb
ready for market earlier in the spring
than Louisiana, and that this state
oueht to be warming up the market
with shipments Of fat lambs before
tennessee and Kentucky. It is said
that Louisiana has 100000 sheep
nov.
G. P. Williams, in charge of sheep
and goat extension at Louisiana State
University, is sending out warning
to farmers intending to buy pure bred
sheep BY mail, asking them to specify
standard quality in the letter Of pur-
chase, and then, if the quality is not
up to standard, to report full par
ticulars to his office without delay.
Il breeders are paid good money for
stock on mails orders, then let's have
the goodsl Don't allow yourself to
Sc cheated in buying breeding stock
rom a distance; If the stock turns
10 at your express office scrubby,
sat Of condition and not up to stand
ia described in the letter Of pur-
chase, advise this office at Baton
Rouge without delay. Louisiana
farmers cannot improve the sheep Of
Bis state if they allow themselves to
BE- imposed upon in the matter Of
buving inferior stock on somebody's
Misrepresentation. Don't swallow
sour dissatisfaction, but report it at
once to the extension office at Baton
Rouge. Stock raisers who have in
ferior bred stuff are advised not to
endeavor to unload it on Louisiana.
The best paying feature of the
sheep industry is the quick sale Of
fat lambs, says G. p Williams, sheep
and goat specialist at Louisiana State
University. Lambs early develop an
appetite for grass and grain, and at
no subsequent time in life will the
lamb gain flesh so easily and rapidly.
Healthy lambs make use Of every
ounce Of feed that goes into them and
while they are young is the time to
plan and feed for early marketing.
louisiana lambs should not be al
lowed to see their six-months' birth
day, says Dir. Williams, but before
that time should have been sent TO
Aiarket as prime fat lambs. During
Nay the market is keen for lamb.
Carrying lambs through the hot
summer months will never get the
louisiana grower anywhere in sheep
progress. The lambs should be
cropped as early as possible in De-
eember and January, and the last of
Nay should find them all gone to
market and the money in the farm
ers home bank. The Louisiana farm
e. should set out to produce the 100
day fat lamb and have them all gone
g market by June. The ewes thus
reed from sucking SO early go
through the summer in much better
condition, come to the breeding sea-
sen earlier and in better flesh, and
saey are sure to shear heavier fleece
q wool. Velvet bean forage in corn
nelds should be relied on for winter
Feed for ewes.