Volume 27 Number 4 July/August, 2006 This issue’s cover photo is by Lori Creech, Alberta, Canada. (Learn more about it in the Photo Contest Winners section on page 8.)

Departments Scribblings 6 Photo Contest Winners 8 Meeting of Minds 10 Shearing Notes 38 Sheep May Safely Graze “>Dogs: An Ancient Answer to Predator Control 40 Vet Check 44 Price Reports 46 Wool-Gatherings 48 News Bleat 49 Book Review Trafficking In Sheep—A Memoir 59 Poor Will’s Almanack 60 Features Sheep Dairying: Just Right for 3-Corner Farm 26 Feds: “Outlaw Buying/Selling” Unless Beasts Receive Mark/Number 29 Heat Stress & Sheep 34 Hopping Acres 42