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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

Still, it's quite an amusing suggestion to think that I could raise as 
many lambs on the neighboring places.  It quit raining here in 
mid-April, and except for two inches in early May, that was it.  Does 
that describe your summer?

I have no doubt that if I research the carrying capacity of places in 
the monsoon zone, I'll find them to be much higher.

L can be forgiven, for her ignorance if not for her attitude.  
Two-thirds of westerners have no idea that the tropical jet stream 
exists, and nearly all of us have hardly ever experienced a warm, rainy 
day, without visiting Georgia.

Bill
S. Oregon coast

SISU! wrote:

> Bill Jones wrote:
>
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> > So everything will be all right, and my productivity won't decline,
> > if only the _grasses_ turn brown and stop growing?
> >    
>
> Most pasture weeds will survive two months of drought.  Sometimes my
> pasture would be so brown I thought the sheep were eating rocks.  But
> there were weeds/forage plants out there that sustained them and I had
> healthy sheep without ever really tossing feed/grain to them.  I NEVER
> hayed them. They wouldn't really even eat what I tried to feed-only my
> ram knew what a feed bucket was, and that's because he was born on
> another farm.
> As for productivity, that's relative.  No, neither your productivity or
> mine would rival some lamb outfits in New Zealand, but for homestead
> purposes, I had good lambs and healthy ewes.  They may have had some
> lean times, but I suppose they had put on enough fat in the good times
> to see them through, as that's the way nature works.
>
> B
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