. Annual report. Agriculture. Annual Report, 1915 53 From the foregoing it will be seen that the percentage of calves ami females going to slaughter is not large, and that when market conditions ;ire right farmers will iint sacrifice animals of these the first pure-bred karakul lambs born in alberta. Sheep. Interest in this class of animal continues on the increase, one cause being the high prices paid for wool and mutton, another, the improved facilities for securing pasturage, growing out of the fact that in many municipalities in which pound by-laws have been adopted there arc lar
. Annual report. Agriculture. Annual Report, 1915 53 From the foregoing it will be seen that the percentage of calves ami females going to slaughter is not large, and that when market conditions ;ire right farmers will iint sacrifice animals of these the first pure-bred karakul lambs born in alberta. Sheep. Interest in this class of animal continues on the increase, one cause being the high prices paid for wool and mutton, another, the improved facilities for securing pasturage, growing out of the fact that in many municipalities in which pound by-laws have been adopted there arc large areas of unenclosed land held by speculators. As the jiound by-law jirohib- its animals from running at large, and as few stockmen think that it pays to herd horses or cattle, these disappear, and bands of sheep, which are always accompanied by a herder, take their places and derive the benefit of the pasturage thus made available. Wintering. Most bands were brought through the winter «( ]'.i] l-i:);i with a small loss. The percentage of lambs saved in the spring (pf l!il"> was not so good, and was considerably below that of the previous year. The rancher whose lamb crop numliered within 90 per cent, of the number of his ewe flock did well. Many fell below 80 ]icr ami a few below 70 per cent. It is doubtful if. nn ibc rniigc the himli crdii averaged more than 85 per cent, of the cues. On the farms a higher ]icrccntage of lanilis was sa\<'<l ihaii nn the range, owing to the greater individual attention given them and the better facilities for saving orphaned ones. But even among farm flocks fewer twins were oliservable than formerly, and it is d(nditful if the lambs numbered in the aggregate more than 100 per cent of the ewes. The Sheep Trailing Act appears to have given the fai'iners the protection they asked for against careless herdsmen who permitted their animals to enter grain ticlds and graze while being driven from one part of the Province
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