STUFF You MIGHT Want to KNOW:

Advertising rates and procedures

CLASSIFIED: As always, email is best. Send your ad copy to rock_house@compuserve.com. Put "ST Classified" in the subject line.
Send hard copy and fee to Short Tales, Rock House Farm, 8391 Langhorne Road, Scottsville VA 24590.
For e-mail submissions use rock_house@Compuserve.com Counting Words:
Phone numbers count as one word. Each number and two letter initial count as one word. For example "H. O. Koenig" is two words, and "P. O. Box 145" is three words. Hyphenated words, (e.g.: Jones-Smythe) count as separate words.

**Rates Per Issue:**
Classified per word: members $.10 nonmembers $.15	Display: Business card (approx.. 2" by 3.5" — we'll work with you) members $5.00 nonmembers $7.50
¼ Page: (approx. 3.5" by 5") members $10.00 nonmembers $15.00	½ Page: (approx. 3.5" by 10" or 7" by 5") members $20.00 nonmembers $30.00
Full Page (approx. 7" by 10") members $40.00 nonmembers $60.00	Camera-ready art becomes the property of the FBA and will not be returned. No ad will be printed without advance payment. We will try to check classified copy with you but we are not responsible for errors.

Digitized art can be sent to our email address, rock_house@compuserve.com. 300+ pixels per inch will give the most satisfactory results. We can handle most file formats but we prefer .gif, jpeg, or .tif files.

Coming in Short Tales

Topics for the Coming Issues

Breeder and Sales Ethics

What is the right way, the honest way to sell brood stock?
How can we protect our reputations as breeders?
What kinds of disclosure do we owe our buyers?
What simple and clear method can be developed to carry out these ideas?
What remedies are there for unethical dealings?

Are these questions we should be considering? What do you think?

Tightening the Breed Standard.
Should we require that rams born in the Spring be triplets and that Fall born rams be twins?
Which is better, a sextuplet from a ewe that raises three lambs or a quad from a ewe that raised all four unassisted?
Do we want Finns to be thought of as mothers of many lambs or as sheep that can bring all their lambs from birth to weaning without supplementation? There are good arguments for both views.
How can the breed standard be improved? Or is it fine as it is?

Deadline for Ads and Articles

Okay, I've learned my lesson. I THOUGHT a deadline was that point in time BEFORE WHICH articles were supposed to come in. I've learned that it's the day about a week AFTER WHICH articles start coming in. ;-)

So let's leave it like this: We'd like to send out the next newsletter around May 14 or so. If you could get your stuff to us around May 1, it has a much higher chance of getting included. Send hard copy to Rock House Farm, 8391 Langhorne Road, Scottsville VA 24590. All submisisons become our property unless other arrangements are made in advance. We much prefer e-mail copy, MUCH! send it to rock_house@Compuserve.com

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