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"I don't know her plans," he said "She hasn't shown up yet, but at any rate she'll be swi later We'll meet her then"

Grahahat his wrist-watch to ascertain how far away five o'clock h home field after home field he rode with his host, now one and now the other dislorious Shropshire and Ramboullet-Merino ewes so hopelessly the product of et off, of themselves, from their own broad backs, once they were doith their four legs helplessly sky-aspiring

"I've really worked to ive it the developed leg, the strong back, the well-sprung rib, and the stamina The old-country breed lacked the stamina It was toothings," Graha rams to Idaho! That speaks for itself"

Dick Forrest's eyes were sparkling, as he replied: "Better than Idaho Incredible as it reat flocks to-day of Michigan and Ohio can trace back to my California-bred Rao I sold three ra squatter After he took them back and demonstrated them he sold them for as many thousand each and ordered a shiploadbeen Down there they say that lucerne, artesian wells, refrigerator ships, and Forrest's rams have tripled the wool and mutton production"

Quite by chance, on the way back, er, they were deflected by him to a wide pasture, broken by wooded canyons and studded with oaks, to look over a herd of yearling Shires that was to be dispatched nextsheds of the Mirah-coated, beginning to shed, large-boned and large for their age

"We don't exactly crowd them," Dick Forrest explained, "but Mr Mendenhall sees to it that they never lack full nutrition from the tioing, they'll balance their grass with grain Thisplaces and enables the feeders to keep track of them with a minimum of effort I've shipped fifty stallions, two-year- olds, every year for the past five years, to Oregon alone They're sort of standardized, you know The people up there knohat they're getting They know ht and unseen"