. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 ®hi? gveefrev cmfc Qpaxistncm [.December 20, 1902 A Model Sheep Ranch. In the Corrumpaw, in Union county, X. there ia a large model sheep ranch the conduct of which may prove of interest to those readers who do not know how such an establishment is run. This is Wight ranch, and the watered claims, comprising 3000 acres, are so located as to give grazing privileges over the whole country. There are 15,000 sheep, which range over a strip ten mdes wide and thirty miles long, according to Field and Form. The entire flock right through requires one man to eac
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 ®hi? gveefrev cmfc Qpaxistncm [.December 20, 1902 A Model Sheep Ranch. In the Corrumpaw, in Union county, X. there ia a large model sheep ranch the conduct of which may prove of interest to those readers who do not know how such an establishment is run. This is Wight ranch, and the watered claims, comprising 3000 acres, are so located as to give grazing privileges over the whole country. There are 15,000 sheep, which range over a strip ten mdes wide and thirty miles long, according to Field and Form. The entire flock right through requires one man to each 1,000 sheep, besides a foreman and a helper at the ranch. During the greater part of the year the ewes are run in bands of from 2500 to 3000, the wethers and yearling ewes in slightly larger bands. The lamb- ing herd is usually less than 2000, and the rams are of course run in a buck herd. It requires about five men to the thou- sand sheep during lambing, and ordina- rily the result are from 80 to 90 per cent. Lambing generally commences May 5, and the greater part of the lambs drop in the succeeding twenty days. The average cost of help is $18 a month. Shearing commences July 1 and usually lasts ten or twenty days. About 3 cents a head is paid, although there is a tendency on the part of the Bhearers to increase the price. The probabilities are that there will be a maching shearing plant put in soon. The wether flock shears on an average about ten pounds for the second and third fleeceB. Owing to the introduction of English mutton sires to increase the size of the sheep the last year's lambs will not shear this amount. The ewe flock averages eight poundB of wool to the head. The average cost of running the sheep is 55 cents a head, leaving a nice margin of profit in the wool alone when sold at 12M cents, the contract price for the season. This profit of 45 to 50 cents a head does not include the sale of 2000 or 3000 wethers at $2 or better in the fall. It requires twenty-fi
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