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verting pasture land over to tms mixture and then watch your operation grow. I.tf takes more fences, more sheep driving from field to field, to prevent overgrazing, and the fertility level of the farm will have to be higher, but it all makes a profit so it’s more than worth the trouble.
Information as well as inspiration can be had from a visit to Spotswood Farms at Spotswood, over in Augusta county. Sam McClure keeps several times the number of sheep that we’ve thought should be kept. We were raised on the rule of keeping one ewe per cow or steer, but Sam can take his ladino clover pastures and keep four sheep to one cow. He reasons this way, that any beef cow he’d have would cost $200.00. He’s doing pretty good to get a $100.00 calf per year which means two years to pay back the original investment. He can buy western ewes for $26.50 each and sell about $25.00 worthy of lamb per ewe. Counting $3.50 or $4.00 worth of wool he has his ewe on the dear the second year. His plan of keeping
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