Big Deal in Lambs
A large livestock sale in Idaho, in which Swift & Co. reportedly purchased some 85,000 lambs from the Wood Livestock company at a top price, offers a glimpse of the era's booming sheep trade.
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Fergus County Argus · September 12, 1905 · Page 1
1 min readIt is reported on good authority that Swift & Co. have purchased the Wood Livestock company lambs. The sale includes about 85,000 lambs, both ewes and wethers, to be delivered on board cars in Idaho from their mothers at 5 months of age, at $3.07½ per head.
These are big lambs, Lincoln and Hampshire breeds, but the price is regarded a top one. When ranchmen can realize such prices for lambs taken from their mothers there is not much inclination to hold back the ewe lambs for breeding. The Wood company of Idaho makes a practice of selling its ewe lambs and buying young ewes to keep up the flocks. They run about 100,000 ewes.
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