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RAPP - GHATS
By: W. H. Lyse ,
County Agent
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Twenty-five Rapphannock sheepmen have said they will put a total of 711 Iambs in the spring lamb sales to be held in May, June and July at Front oyal Livestock market. While lambs are very ununiform in .size brought about by wide variation in lambing dates as an indirect result of the drought enthusiasm is keen. The idea of organized spring lamb ssales was first concerned and bom here in Rappahannock County. The idea has now grown to the extent that sheepmen, from Clark, Fauquier and Page have joined in with Rappahannock and Warren Counties in this efort to improve prices through improved packaging^ and marketing._
It is said that-we- need to “dean our own back yard first.” Sheepmen have become careless of late when it comes to producing a nice attractive product in their lambs. Recent farm fock inspections revealed between 40 and 50% of our lambs have not been docked or castrated. The reason for this is that there has been no variation in price grade between docked and castrated lambs and those that have not been. While the price for a blue circle ram lamb and the price for a blue circle whether lamb may be the same keep foremost in mind that about 40% more of our male lambs wil grade higher when castrated at the proper time than will be the case if this job is neglected. Other reasons or castrating t ram lambs is that they usually dress out a higher percentage of meat and produce more saleable carcasses. . _
If our orgaanized lamb sales are to be a success we must satisfy and hold buyers. Then too, the later in the season the more advantage castrated lambs have. Buck lambs are more
removal the existing price supports for basic crops more progress should be made toward a permanent solution of our agricultural production problem. I
That solution, in my opinion, must depend upon expanded markets because in the long run rigid price supports and the restrictions on production which they will entail can only mean stabilized poverty for our small farmers
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