. The winter lamb . any builder of green-houses. Doors permit the driving of teams clear through the building toclean out the manure and the over-hang of the roof protects the up-per doorway through which hay is taken. This building finishedwell 20x60 should cost about ^ 52 Dorsets for Crossing orv the RaLfige. While the down ram on the Dorset ewe gets fine lambs yet thereverse cross is as good, Dorset sire on Down ewe. The lambs ofthis cross grow very rapidly and fatten very easily and are usuallyhornless with white or gray faces. A neighbor who used one of ourDorset rams on pure-
. The winter lamb . any builder of green-houses. Doors permit the driving of teams clear through the building toclean out the manure and the over-hang of the roof protects the up-per doorway through which hay is taken. This building finishedwell 20x60 should cost about ^ 52 Dorsets for Crossing orv the RaLfige. While the down ram on the Dorset ewe gets fine lambs yet thereverse cross is as good, Dorset sire on Down ewe. The lambs ofthis cross grow very rapidly and fatten very easily and are usuallyhornless with white or gray faces. A neighbor who used one of ourDorset rams on pure-bred Shropshire ewes lambed in May, sold thelambs before Christmas at 115 pounds average weight, from grasswith a trifle of grain at the latter end of their feeding. On the range the Dorset is new yet but wherever tried thelambs, usually from grade Merino ewes, have been more than satis-factory. -In Colorado, L. E. Thompson, of Las Animas, reports thathis grade Dorset lambs are first to become fat and go to PRIZE WINNERS AT THE ROYAL. DORSET-SHROPSHIRE CROSS BREDS. They are in demand among Colorado lamb feeders, wherever theyhave become known. The Range Valley Cattle Co., of Woodside,Utah, has this season a lot of grade Dorset lambs, in comparisonwith lambs from Shropshire and Rambouillet sires. The Dorsetsare much the most blocky, smooth and heaviest, the best is need, however, of care in taking Dorset rams to the ranges,they ought to be young, they ought to be sent to the buck herdat least a month before needed to get accustomed to range life. Itwould even be better if they were grown on the range. There isno sheep such a rustler as the Dorset and this makes him pre-emi-nently suited to range conditions. The ranche that is marketingfeeders or fat lambs can not afford to overlook the Dorset.
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