Maryland free press., 1862-10-31
from the Cultivator.l
n OW TO kAIs h sBEl r PkOFITABY

Well as wool is up and great many Inquiries
are made as to how to make the most wool and
mutton. will say that my plan would be to put
from three to FIVE good Cotswold bucks with one
hundred ewes and let them run with the ewes all
the time Let them have good blue grass, timo.
thy, clover, or any other kind of grass let them
have plenty of good water and well sa'ted. ln
addition would cay, about the last of Nov. or
hrst of Dec, early every morning would give
them half an ear corn each, the ears broke in two
and scattered about on the grass so that they all
can get TO it, as they will pick every grain up ex.
oept muddy or rainy mornings. / would continue
the feeding until spring. You will find that it
will pay, both in wool and mutton. At the be
ginning Of winter l would have shelter of some
kind near my house, so that the weak lambs could
be cared for. IL there should be any weak ewes
with twin lambs, have a lot of early rye or W eat
and turn them into 1t, and give them corn and
shelter as the Others have. The lots should be of
blue grass or timothy so that they would be dry
and comfortable for them to sleep on during the
night except it should be raining showing. then
put them under sbelts r. During very cold dry
windy weather, give plenty hay and oats in the
straw. II you have no hay, oats, &C., good
wheat straw, or rye, or oat straw will do very
well, IS they will eat it in cold dry weather, but
in wet rainy weather they will not touch it. Be
sure that in cold dry days they have water every
day.
The sheep should be turned out of the lots they
stay in of nights, into an adj ininr blue grass
pasture, and brought up every night. BY hav-
ing few bells on them they will soon learn to
come up themselves to their lots.
My plan for shelters would be to have . plank
fence or post and rail, on the north side of the
lots they stay in of nights. Then would set up
sommon rails ten or twelve feet long, one end on
the ground and the other extending to the iop of
tie fence; then take cornstalk fodder, commence
at the bottom and 20 up like the roof of house !;
make 1t three or four feet thick, and it will keep
as we'll as shocks in the field, and will do to feed
out in spring to cattle.
would say this plan fully carried out, would
bring two litters of lambs every year, and would
be as good as one litter cath year. and think you
would have more twin ambs every time and be
as apt to raise them and your sheep better from
the care in keeping. Try it. r-.
Mover my experience for few years back
Since have been keeping two or three bucks,
funnd some of my ewes bad two litters a year,
and they increase more every year, and last year
the most OF my a ,ck had their two ltters, and
they appear to do as well and grow as we'll as
when they had but one litter a year. II am
correct, this will be fast, way of getting along
With sheep. would say that to commence,
would as soon have one half good healthy noun
tain ewes, as find they have the earliest lambs.
| think the Cotswold would be more likely to
bring this result than any other, as l. think they
are hardy race of sheep, producing more wool
and mutton than any other that know of, and
think more prolific. / notice my thrifty ewes
very often take the buck from to 10 DAYS after
dropping their lambs, and the lambs are coming
at all seasons of the year.
KENTUCKY FARMER