Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — FOR THE SHEEP RAISER. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE SHEEP RAISER.

One of the reasons not usually given for the selling off of the sheep by a large number of fanners, last year, is that the drought lessened the supply of pasturage. Sheep will pay a profit to any farmer who will produce early lambs and fat wethers. Wool is only a product of the sheep, and farmers who overlook the large mutton breeds iu order to keep sheep for wool only are depriving themselves of two sources of profit foi only one. In England sheep are made to pay on high priced land and it can lie done just as easily in this country. Beets, carrots and parsnips should be seeded early after the frost is oul of the ground. Flow the land as soon as it can be done, and harrou jit down until very fine. Seeds ol | carrots or parsnips will not germs j nate if the land is full of clods oi i lumps. A fine soil is important.