For a number of years, other markets, including the constructors of the government and Tri-state canals, have made a demand on the hay crop. An old sheep feeder's advice is. "If you have never fed sheep, try old ewes first for a year or two ; then if you succeed you can rest assured that you will make good money at lamb feeding." Lamb feeding, like chicken raising, is something that all will not succeed at. but some of our feeders make good money at it. while spending most

of their time in Omaha and hiring all of the work done. Alfalfa hay and speltz make a good lamb fattening ration. It is a high grade line of thoroughbred sheep to be found here. A half dozen sheep worth $500 to $1,000 can be found on more than one sheep ranch.

Hog Raising and Poultry Not many people, as yet, have engaged in this occupation. This was a hog raising rather than a hog fattening country; it paid better at first to grow the hogs here and then ship them to the corn belt to fatten. This is an ideal country for the bacon type of hog. Hogs will live from early spring to late in the fall upon the alfalfa pasture, and brood sows have been wintered on the alfalfa hay with good results. Pigs farrowed in early spring can be turned off in the fall weighing one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, with little expense, by raising on alfalfa pasture and supplementing this in the early fall with sugar beets, and possibly a little grain. Hog raising here is not hampered with the risks common to many localities. In the last few years several have engaged in the business of raising pedigreed breeding stock and it bids fair to be a better paying business than raising hogs for the feeding market.