Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-10-31
From the Country Gentleman.
WINTER MANAGE EN- NT or HlS EED.
ING A. " rs.

MEssRs EDlToRs-C with that
breed that is best adapted to your locait,
and wants-hrst, every fall weed your foeh
x by throwing out the poorest ewes, and tat
them, replacing them with selections from
your eve lambs in SO doing you viii ann,l-
ally raise the value of your flock to q very
e great per cent. and, unless You cen resist
tempting prices for your best breeders, you
81 will not succeed in year vocation. - @+
Mo Breeding ewes should I've kept in open
-, sheds facing the sonth sad east, aud ct she
same time be protected from TIA searching
winds from the north and vest. u TssEf@E
Separate them into YARDS Of rs each of
coarse woos-35 Of middle or SO Of fine
S1wool 5f.9 @f7@3f%IG 80 =
pY2 Feed not less thu, three times day
~ twice day with hsy, and onca with grain :;
in straw, or roots, according to your facili-
{tties 3FE%G fs3 .g2E : ~ .IsrEtss
r. ! feed my ewes twice Jay with geod hay,
and once with uEthrashed csts--(the straw
r@after being picked over in racks goes for
: bedding the shesp) 2. tho rats Of sn average
Of one pint per day through The winter, com
mencing with gill or ha!fpint, and gradual
ly increasing it As tia ewes near their time
Of lambinE, at which tiK1e it should rcach
pint or more sccerding to the SIZE, age snd
condition of the ewes rv.~s..
less to grind oats for sheep, anless it be for
few days in spring, when first turned t.
grass. e -1~.-,
Twice a week omit the oats, and in its
room feed roots, (but in excessively cold
weather feed their usual oats,) thereby pre-
venting the stretches, which disease is com
paratively unknown in England, on account
Of turnip feeding. s,
Formerly lost from one to three per cent
of my sheep every winter with This disease,
A2-by reason Of combining them on dry feed, but
latterly have not had case. u !. d. o.sss.s.g .
Oats is the best graia for breeding ewes,
as it develops the framework of the lamb, or
in other words is a bone and much muscle
growing feed, while corn or oil meal is best
to fat sheep; and such food would grow in
the undsveloped lamb an undue amount Of
fat, in proportion to the frame work or bone
and muscle Oh the lamb. -
~ lambs frem ewes excessively fed on fat
growing food. will be deficient in bone and
80 muscle, and literally loaded with fat at the
expense OF bone, muscle and wool, and not
possessed of sufficient strength to ever stand
The complaint of oats fed to breeding ewes,
u Is injurious toJhoir lambs, is /" more cry
than WOOL"
On Az acqdaintance feeds bnshel of oats per
day through the winter to 81 ewes with
good success This spring he raised from 30
OF them, 32 lambs. If he had fed the same
amount mot of measure, but amount of Ena-
u tsimant,) in oil meal, would venture to say
not one of the lambs would ever have got up,
O they would have been SO loaded with fat,
with weak boisc. and comparatively no wsol
Sheep will habituate themselves to stay
where they are fed, SO feed in dry weather
in the yard, where they can get exercise,
pure air, and. the SUM- The latter is as ne
- eessafy for the health of 81 animal as it is
for plant In stormy weather feed in racks
EITHER stationary around the ends and back
se Of the sheds, Or movable ones in the
centre. !
Salt should be constantly kept before the
sheep. in box nailed to one corner of inner
side of the sheep shed, and if your sheep are
~ ticky. mix phur at the proportion OF one
third, to two7thirds salt, but good feeding Is
Il 1 sure preventative. Ticks will not thrive
.oufat shsep.gg 2rME ge<gEZ la
Keep your breeding ewes well beddsd with
straw, and by all means remove the manure
from the sheds as often as there is thaw in
= the winter. as the ammonia from sheep, and
especially of horse manure, is positively in
,iurisus to them, and though disease may
q net appear in the ewes, yet il will count on
~6theif lambs. E@tS II t#Gg rug /
We would earnestly recommend feedin.
at regular intervals Order and regularity
; IL as beneficial to the lower animals as 20 man.
80: Especially feed the ewes well while the
ram Is serving, so as to starts vigorous germ,
). ard keep up that feed, or the growing germ,
:, instead Of growing with their growth and
strengthening with their strength, will when
dropped. though possessed Of good size, be
deficient in yigor and vitality. /
as5a Use none but strong and healthy rams of
GOOD age. avoiding, if practicable. ram ramb
Or an AGED rss; and feed him literally on
nourisfiiilg aud bone and muscle producing
feed, but not excessively on fat-Prsdocing|
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