Richard Griffith, son of Mr. and Mrs; Will Griffith

Richard Griffith, son of Mr. and Mrs; Will Griffith near Rock Mills was winner of the 1949*50 4-H Farm Flock contest. G. B. Allison, County Agent of Page, scored all the flock projects on such management practices as: Identifies-* tion tags, use of purebred ram, external and internal parasite eradication, lambs docked and altered, flock shorn by owner and fleece preparation, quarters, rations, record book, type-size-quality, and condition of ewe flock and lambs at shearing time. Richard scored a total of 87 points out of a possible 100 on the above practices and barely nosed out Kelly Updike, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Updike for first place by providing winter pasture.

Richard fed a ration to his ewe3 consisting of a mixture of: corn, oats, bran and bean meal. While all of his current lamb crop had not been marketed at the time Mr. Allison scored his project, it appeared his flock would certainly yield a profitable return.

In 1949 Richard’s six ewes netted him an average of $16.17 each after deducting feed cost, depreciation not to mention the misfortune of losing twin lambs born prematurely as a result of dogs. ‘ A 4-H member of Page county recently scored by your county •gent in return of the favor done -by. .Mil, Allison in scoring the Rappahannock flocks, had purchased" Western ewes out of the carload which included many of the ewes which came to Rappahannock at $22.50 each. It appeared this boy would gross about $135.00 on his first lamb crop and in addition $19.00 for his 38 ibs. of wool which averaged 7.6 lbs per ewe. This boy used a Southdown ram and all lambs certainly would grade blue circle or top grade.

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Cattle, especially those with horns, and more especially Angus, are the best natural protection to sheep against tramp dogs which usually are the sheep killers. Since cattle naake just as good gains whether run with sheep or not and in view of the above a good rule