Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — To Promote Sheep Raising. [ARTICLE]

To Promote Sheep Raising.

That is a most interesting experiment in sbeep raising in Pennsylvania which the department of agriculture at Harrisburg is arranging to conduct. Business men and bankers are to provide 5,000 thrifty ewes. Charles E. Patton, secretary of agriculture, has issued circulars to the farmers in all the counties of Pennsylvania offering to let each applicant have ten of these ewes for breeding purposes. It is planned that the farmer shall receive all the wool produced by the ewes and that half the number of lambs when ready for market will belong to the farmer and the other half to the s owners of the original stock. Details have been outlined on an equitable basis whereby in cases where lambs died from disease or were worried by sheep the farmer is to be guaranteed against loss.'