Volume 27 Number 1 January/February, 2006 This issue’s cover photo is by Pam MacKenzie, Brookfield, NS Canada. (Learn more about it in the Photo Contest Winners section on page 8.)

Departments Scribblings The Invisible Hand: Remaking The Old American Sheep Industry 6 January/February Photo Contest Winners 8 Meeting of Minds 10 Vet Check 30 Sheep May Safely Graze Mechanical Lethal Controls: Trapping & Snaring 42 Shearing Notes 46 Wool-Gatherings 47 News Bleat 48 Price Reports 56 Poor Will’s Almanack 58 Features Wise Flock Marketing: Products Bring Top Prices 25 Money In Wool! Sell Shrink-Proof Fibers Now 27 Clip-On Mulesing: Flystrike Preventive 31 Colostrum Help Saves Lambs 32 Nat’l Animal ID System: Threat to Personal Privacy 34 eWoodTM Fences: Office Machines Into Corrals 40