Excerpt from Whetting Uncle Sam's Appetite for Lamb flock clipping sufficient wool for the Nation's needs. As has been pointed out there is in the present ecomy of the sheep business, small space for wethers, comparatively little of their meat being used, consequently breeding ewes must continue to furnish the major portion of our wool clip. By buying lamb you are t only supplying your table with the most delicious meat at a reasonable price, but you are showing your patriotism by helping an industry of national importance. America will never grow the 600,000,000 pounds of wool she uses each year; just twice that produced, unless the lamb eating populace is doubled. Selling The Public On Lamb Among all our meat producing animals, there is ne cleaner than the lamb. It feeds daintily, here a nibble and there ather, picking out the choicest herbage. Compare it-, contrast it in this respect-with other meat producing animals. Most Healthful Of Meats The lamb stands alone he emblem of purity; consequently, its meat is t excluded from the dietary of any large group of people upon religious grounds. And it produces a meat in keeping with its best traditions too, fewer lambs are condemned under Government inspection than any other class of meat animals. In fact, the loss is so small as to be negligible. When you consider that sheep are susceptible to communicable disease, more light is thrown upon the subject of the healthfulness, of the meat. Furthermore, lamb contains less of those substances kwn as purins, which have a tendency to produce gout and rheumatism, than other meats. High In Food Values Analysis tell us that sheep meat is higher in energy value than beef, representative figure being 1645 and 1500 calories per pound and that lamb is practically equal to beef. Lamb contains less water, more fat, an essentially equal amount of digestible protein and but slightly more refuse than beef. The following composition table is given as being typical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.