POOR SHEEP AT STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 501, 7 May 1909, Page 8

POOR SHEEP AT STOCK SALES.

~A PRACTICAL MAN'S ..VIEW. ■ A . well-known ' practical _ sheep-farmer opened up an.interesting subject the other day with a Dominion representative, when ho stated that ho wondered why itwas that thero wore so many, poor shcop for sajo' in tho public stock yards:;.Ho said that it'is simply inexplicable, to a- logical .mind. It has. been said timo and again that a bad dairy cow costs more to keep: than a good one. Tho same thing applies to sheep. By keeping, bad sheep tho. farmor loses every way, in wool and carcass, and tho flock gen-' orally loses also, ■ whereas .by "breeding from good animals, severe culling, and no overstocking, ho will very spon increaso tho worth of his output 25 per cent. •■ "Last year," ho said, "I increased my wool clip by over 200 bales from fewer sheep than in tho preceding year.. I attribute tho result to culling and not over-stocking. Tho opinions which I have expressed aro borne out by nearly ovory stock auctioneer, and I feel quit© sure that if many of'our farmers

would tako.only a little more ■ caro in . the science of sheep-breeding and sheep-raising, tho results would bo most beneficial to themselves and.tho country- generally.