Paris District High School - Yearbook (Paris, Ontario Canada)

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I5 Y 5 A PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK, I943 This will never do! thought Os- wald. I can't allow' so beautiful a dream to flee away like this, I must speak to her. So in his most entic- ing' manner he began: Pardon me, but are you Miss Tabitha? I have been looking all' over for you to- night. l'm sorry I could not. meet you before. With a disdainful shrug of one Ii- thesome shoulder she told him quite politely that her name was not Ta- bitha and that she' was looking for nobody. However, if he would be so kind as! to accompany her until' she- found something to eat- Would he! Nothing' could make him happier. And so, as together they proceed- ed down the street, Oswald listened happily to her soft' purrings and now and thuen interjected a low meow of his owng for you see Oswald and his dream girl. were both Persian cats, i.-im......i.i al Sadkatclzewan Sheep Ranch By John Nesbitt 0 ften. people, when asked how large a flock they have seen, reply, ron, I have seen quite a large flock?', and then proceed to give an estimate. Usually the number var- ies from 50 to occasionally 200. On most sheep ranches the number will vary from 1000 to 3000, or perhaps more. Another factor easternsrs find 'hard to visualize is the vastness of a wes- tern ranch. It is not uncommon for a ranch to have a total area of 36 square miles. Our particular ranch has, in round Hgures, over 4000 ac- res of grazing land. On this area we feed from 1200 to 1500 sheep, 20 head of cattle, and 18 horses. I im- agine a block of land that size in the East! The herder really has quite an easy time. He has only to watch out for coyotes, keep the flock from spreading out too much, and keep them under control in a storm. Gen- erally, herding consists of taking the sheep to the better grazing areas, and seeeing that they get plenty of water. The sheep dogs save the herder thousands of steps a day. The herd- er, standing on a hill top, signals to the dogs, often half a mile away. These dogs acre usually a very intel- ligent border collies. Contests are held annually at the Moose Jaw Breeder Show, to try the dogs one against. the other in ability to hand- le sheep. Perhaps you have heard cf, or even seen, Martin and his fa- mous sheep dogs. The lambing season, coming in May, is the busiest time of the year, It is still pretty cold, but it is sur- prising the amount of cold the lambs can stand. Most of the lambs are born around the home corral. Those born in the hills are brought in in a wagon. When the lambs are two to three days old, their mothers will do all the looking after them. By this time the 'bad actors' are picked out and put in pens 3' x 3 until they like their offspring better. For this reason We try to keep each day's lambs in a separate bunch for at least two days. Then they are put in with another bunch Csmall flockb, and so on until they are finally put into the largest bunch.

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