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Extension Bulletin No. 184 May, 1932 SHEEP CLUB MANUAL Clair Gilbert of Steuben County and his flock of Shropshire sheep. This flock has wen for Clair a national reputation in breeding, producing, and exhibiting. There are three methods of establishing a farm flock of sheep: (1) Purchase a few ewe lambs after they are weaned from their mothers and grow them into breeding ewes. When 15 to 18 months of age and they weigh 120 or more pounds they are usually mature enough to breed for producing lambs. (2) Select and purchase a small number of healthy mature ewes from one to four years of age which may be used in producing lambs. The size of the flock may be gradually increased by keeping the best ewe lambs produced each year. (3) Another method of establishing a farm flock is to purchase outright the number of ewes to be maintained on the farm. Thus, an individual may buy 10, 20, 40, 60, or even 100 ewes. They may be uniform in type, age, and thrift or they may be of all types, all ages and varying in thriftiness. For the beginner this method of establishing a farm flock may be expensive and discouraging because management, production, and disease problems may arise which the owner cannot solve. Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Extension J. H. Skinner, Director, Lafayette, Ind. Co-operative Agricultural Extension Work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914
Object Description
Title | Extension Bulletin, no. 184 (May 1932) |
Purdue Identification Number | UA-14-13-bulletin184 |
Title of Issue | Sheep Club Manual |
Author of Issue | Harper, Claude, 1891- |
Date of Original | 1932 |
Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
ISSN | 2372-4641 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Sheep Clubs |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Bulletin (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage |
United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | Eng |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries, Karnes Archives and Special Collections |
Date Digitized | 11/06/2014 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
URI | UA-14-13-bulletin184.tif |
Description
Title | Extension Bulletin, no. 184 (May 1932) |
Purdue Identification Number | UA-14-13-bulletin184 |
Title of Issue | Sheep Club Manual |
Author of Issue | Harper, Claude, 1891- |
Date of Original | 1932 |
Publisher | Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service |
ISSN | 2372-4641 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Sheep Clubs |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Bulletin (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States – Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | Eng |
Transcript | Extension Bulletin No. 184 May, 1932 SHEEP CLUB MANUAL Clair Gilbert of Steuben County and his flock of Shropshire sheep. This flock has wen for Clair a national reputation in breeding, producing, and exhibiting. There are three methods of establishing a farm flock of sheep: (1) Purchase a few ewe lambs after they are weaned from their mothers and grow them into breeding ewes. When 15 to 18 months of age and they weigh 120 or more pounds they are usually mature enough to breed for producing lambs. (2) Select and purchase a small number of healthy mature ewes from one to four years of age which may be used in producing lambs. The size of the flock may be gradually increased by keeping the best ewe lambs produced each year. (3) Another method of establishing a farm flock is to purchase outright the number of ewes to be maintained on the farm. Thus, an individual may buy 10, 20, 40, 60, or even 100 ewes. They may be uniform in type, age, and thrift or they may be of all types, all ages and varying in thriftiness. For the beginner this method of establishing a farm flock may be expensive and discouraging because management, production, and disease problems may arise which the owner cannot solve. Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Extension J. H. Skinner, Director, Lafayette, Ind. Co-operative Agricultural Extension Work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914 |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries, Karnes Archives and Special Collections |
Date Digitized | 11/06/2014 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
URI | UA-14-13-bulletin184.tif |
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