. Productive sheep husbandry . Sheep. PURE-BRED FLOCK METHOD 25 course crops, like the grasses and clovers, are not treated in this way, but are left to grow up again. The hurdling method aims not only at securing a maximum growth for sheep from a given area of ground, but also at furnishing almost a constant change of feeding ground. Sheep thoroughly enjoy a new feeding place, a fact which English shepherds have fully recognized as essentia] to successful flock husbandry. Anyone who has seen the sheep of England within hurdles cannot question. Fig. 12.—Meal time for western sheep fattening on
. Productive sheep husbandry . Sheep. PURE-BRED FLOCK METHOD 25 course crops, like the grasses and clovers, are not treated in this way, but are left to grow up again. The hurdling method aims not only at securing a maximum growth for sheep from a given area of ground, but also at furnishing almost a constant change of feeding ground. Sheep thoroughly enjoy a new feeding place, a fact which English shepherds have fully recognized as essentia] to successful flock husbandry. Anyone who has seen the sheep of England within hurdles cannot question. Fig. 12.—Meal time for western sheep fattening on a corn-belt farm. the efficiency of the hurdling method for bringing sheep as nearly as possible to their perfection. Any type of movable fencing can be used in the hurdling method (Fig. 11). Pure-Bred Flock Method.—Owners of pure-bred flocks have for their principal object the selling of breeding stock. They sell to the owners of commercial flocks who wish to use pure-bred rams but who do not care to keep pure-bred females, and of course, they also sell to each other. Since the object of the man who raises for breed- ing purposes is so difEerent from that of the man who raises for the open market, it is natural to call his method of sheep raising a dis-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coffey, Walter Castella, 1877-. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
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