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Sheep Good Insurance
'For Cattle Business
Expand your cattle business— with sheep. ■ V > - Sheep are insurance for a meat producing farm, says George Litton, associate animal husbandman at VPI.
"You’ll never see lambs and wool and cattle all lose money the same yeafi” he says.
Sheep and cattle together make better use of pasture, - Litton points out. In an area (where a _ farmer "cant pasture another cow; ' he can keep six sheep, because sheep eat SO per cent of the natural weeds at some stage, of growth, while cattle will eat only; 10 per cent. Then, too, cattle will ' graze grasses sheep will leave, so » pastures are better , off with both sheep and cattle. .. v ,
Litton warns, however, against stocking too heavy. A good rule t of thumb, he says, is one sheeps per cow, or one sheep for every 1,000 pounds of beef. Or let sheep b„e responsible for 20 per cent of your livestock receipts, r* ^
Six yearling ewes, which arc 4 rated as being equal to one conr, will cost $222 and .will produce a lamb .each which Will br'ng between 125* and $30. TT > total lamb check should be at least *? 1150, and the wool another - $50 :im
• making $$00 gross on the f®*$ investment the first year.
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