White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-05-02
for tie farmsr.
lh.ep ia cou.eetion with Wheat Grow.

sheep in Connection with Wheat Grow.
ing.
In recent number Of the journal of the
New York Agricultural Society,"" General
Rawson Harmon, Of whestland. N. T.. gives
she following account Of his practice with sheep
IN connection with clover and wheat growing,
which We recommend to the attention Of oar
wheat growing farmers who have soil and sit
ustion adapted 70 clover and wheat:
For many years We have kept two sheep to
sAs acre Of wheat land; say for $50 acres. 800
sheep may be kept, and the regular rotation of
the wheat and clover kept up on the $50 acres,
% Of which should be kept in wheat each year
and ten In corn and roots. Clover seed should
be sewn in March or April, six quarts to the
acre, and a. soon IS the ground il dry in the
spring, one bushel Of plaster should be sown to
she acre. Barley or oats should follow that OF
corn and roots, and seeded - above; 90 We have
City acres seeded with clover each year, ten
acres in corn and roots, leaving ninety acres
for pssturing and moving. A team IL to be
kept for the work on the farm, and three or four
should be kept, except hogs, for the family use.
and they should be limited, for mutton 10 cheap
or and more wholesome meat than pork. The
above ,gor the use of The family;is all the stock
that should be kept on . wheat growing farm
except sheep; and with the above amount Of
land three hundred sheep may be kept and well
cared for. They should be keptat the barn till
the frst of May, when they should be turned on
TO the fields which the corn and root crops are
70 occupy, and where the wheat 10 to DO sown,
renaing till the clover in the pastures 10 half
grown; then give the sheep . chance in that,
which will keep them till clover commences
heading out where the wheat and barley has
been harvested. One great cause of failure in
sheep husbandry is letting the sheep run on the
pasture long after the clover 10 done growing and
In the spring before it commences growing. when
there is no tallow in the clover, and it is gnaw.
Cd into the ground and much Of is destroyed
For winter management most farmers fail ia
giving the sheep to much run. Where they are
stabbed or kept in close sheds and not afforded
to run at large, from November to May. one.
fourth Of the food can be saved, the flock kept
In better condition, giving one fourth more wool
and making twice the amount of the most val
liable manure on the farm. From fifty to one
hundred are to be kept in q flock. Sheep oil
about the same weight should be kept together
where lambs or yearlings are suffered to run
with full grown sheep they will not do 20 we'll
Lambs should be taken from the ewes about
the 10th of August, If dropped in the month oil
May. and few yearlings put with them. and
they will be the more easily controlled, and
BY the 10th of September they should be fed
moderately with oats or bran and little salt
every day. 80 that BY the time they come to the
barn they are tame and in good condition foI
wintering. The first clover in the barley field
would be favorable field for lambs The corn,
roots and barley should be wholly fed out on
the farm, and, with the straw, corn stalks and
hay, all may well be supplied from November
TO May, except the team, which 1t may be well
TO keep in the stable when not at work. All
the manure made each year should be applied
to the corn and root fields. Wethers hree
years and past, and ewes that begin to loose
their teeth should be put in one yard, and grain
ed through the winter, and then they will be
1T for the butcher, and will pay for the fosd
they have consumed; and they must be disposed
Of 30 as to give place for the increase. No
sheep should be sold from the farm till they
have come to full maturity. The selling of
lambs to butchers is ruinous to flock. Old
sheep Is well as lambs should have some grain
or roots every day while at the barn. Sheep
will pay much better for the grain they eat than
the man you sell to will. No animal kept on
the farm will give better increase, with their
fleece and meat, give better return for what
they consume than any stock kept on . grain
farm