Volume 25 Number 4 July/August, 2004 Cover photo is 4-year-old Leah Harrington of Hammond, Montana, and her lamb, Pampers. (See Photo Contest on page 8.)

Departments Scribblings 6 Photo Contest Winners 8 Meeting of Minds 9 Newsbleat Price Tables 39 Sheep May Safely Graze Predator Snaring Miscellany & Trouble Shooting 41 Wool-Gathering 45 Make It Yourself A Round-Bale Feeder (That Works!) 46 Poor Will’s Almanac 58 Vet Check 53 Shearing Notes 57 Book Review Livestock Protection Dogs 60 Features www.Wool Marketing 13 Young Katahdins — Grown Up Profits 16 Shepherd’s Parse Cheeses 18 Basic Vaccinology: Part 2 52 Continuing the Shepherd’s Education: Cruels 54 Naming Sheep 61